The fugitive husband of the Bronx day care owner charged in the fentanyl-poisoning death of a baby was hunted down in Mexico Tuesday after about 10 days at the lam, legislation enforcement assets advised The Post.
Felix Herrera – who was captured on surveillance video sneaking out the again of the drug-peddling Kingsbridge childcare heart mins earlier than first responders found 1-year-old Nicholas Feliz Dominici demise from the drug – was nabbed on a bus headed to Sinaloa on Tuesday.
The US Marshal Service tracked Herrera to Texas, the place they were given a tip that he was once holing up south of the border, consistent with the sources.
Mexican government captured the fugitive, operating with agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration and the Marshals Service, the assets stated.
Herrera, 34, is expected to stand extradition to america and transform the fourth suspect charged in the heart-breaking case.
His wife, Grei Mendez De Ventura, 36, who owns Divino Niño Daycare, and his cousin, Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, had been charged with murder, assault and kid endangerment by means of Bronx prosecutors the day after little Nicholas died and 3 other toddlers have been sickened by fentanyl at the childcare facility Sept. 15.
The pair and a 3rd alleged accomplice Renny Antonio Parra Paredes, 38, additionally face federal drug charges of conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death.
Authorities mentioned they ran a narcotics mill out of the basement day care middle – where medicine and paraphernalia have been found stashed on top of kids’s play mats and in two lure doorways beneath the place the children ate, played and slept, in line with police.
Law enforcement assets have mentioned Herrera used to be believed to be the “major participant” in the alleged drug operation.
Prosecutors stated Mendez discovered the kids unresponsive shortly earlier than 2:39 p.m. on Sept. 15 and made three calls earlier than calling the law enforcement officials – one to a coworker and two to her husband.
She didn’t name 911 until 2:52 p.m., allegedly giving her husband sufficient time to hurry to the daycare from the couple’s apartment next door and to make off with baggage believed to be filled with medicine, as captured in the surveillance pictures, court docket papers state.
Authorities were searching for him since – with the search expanding outdoor the rustic, to his native Dominican Republic, sources stated Monday.
Mendez, who along with Brito and Paredes, is being held behind bars without bail allegedly additionally deleted greater than 21,000 messages along with her husband before police arrived, federal prosecutors said.
Sources said Mendez’s personal 2-year-old son was himself uncovered to drugs ultimate 12 months and handled without police being summoned.
Her lawyer has claimed that she didn’t know concerning the medication hidden at the day care.
The legal professional, Andres Manuel Aranda, did not go back calls from The Post looking for remark.
Additional reporting via Tina Moore
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