Charges for drug trafficking were charged against the administrator nursery school at New York and an accomplice, after four young children were poisoned, resulting in one of them dying, from fentanyl found hidden in the premisesannouncement by the police and the US Department of Justice.

Nicholas Dominici, who he would have turned two in November and go to this daycare just one week, died of a drug overdose the manufacture.

Gray Mendesa 36-year-old daycare administrator Divino Nino in the Bronx, and the 41-year-old Carlisto Acevedo Brito, who lived in the building, were arrested on Saturday.

The police believe that four children, ranging in age from eight months to two years old, inhaled fentanyl at the daycare center on Friday. All three were given an opioid overdose drug at a hospital, but Dominici died.

A kilo of fentanyl was found during the search of the nursery “underneath a mattress that the children were sleeping on,” NYPD Chief Detective Joseph Kenney said Monday.

The police found him at the nursery three presses used to package drugs.

CCTV footage and phone records showed that Mendes called her husband when she realized the four children were sick before calling for help.

Her husband, who is wanted by the police as he is also considered a suspect, went to the nursery where he took several full bags.

“We estimate that the defendants poisoned four infants and killed one of them because they were operating a drug-trafficking operation from the nursery.”Manhattan District Attorney Damien Williams pointed out Tuesday.

“A nursery school is a place where children should be safe, not surrounded by a drug that can kill them instantly”he added.

Police said the drugs found at the nursery could have killed 500,000 people.

Fentanyl is a synthetic painkiller 50 times more powerful than heroin and has been blamed for the rise in drug deaths in the US.

In 2010 fewer than 40,000 people died of drug overdoses in the US, with less than 10% of those deaths linked to fentanyl. In 2021, more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses, 66% of them due to fentanyl.