About Grand Jury
A grand jury is a jury – a group of citizens – empowered by law to conduct legal proceedings and investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought. A grand jury may subpoena physical evidence or a person to testify.
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New York Police find drugs in trapdoor at fentanyl daycare
Police have found a " large quantity" of fentanyl, other narcotics, and drug paraphernalia hidden in a trapdoor at a New York City daycare where a boy died from fentanyl exposure.
Photos released by New York City Police Department show More Than a dozen plastic bags filled with brown and white powders.
The Investigation is ongoing, police said.
A one-year-old died of a suspected drug overdose at the daycare Last Friday .
Nicholas Dominici had been at the Divino Niño nursery for just a week.
Fentanyl had been hidden in The Nap room under a mat as he slept, police said.
Three other children were admitted to hospital after being exposed to the powerful narcotic at the centre in The Bronx .
The nursery's owner, Grei Mendez, 36, and her tenant, Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, are facing federal charges of narcotics possession " with intent to distribute resulting In Death , and conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting In Death " according to federal prosecutors.
" We allege The Defendants poisoned four babies, and killed one of them, because they were running a drug operation from a daycare centre, " Manhattan US Attorney Damien Williams said This Week .
Both Ms Mendez and Mr Brito were indicted by a Grand Jury earlier on Thursday.
A lawyer for Ms Mendez said his client denied the charges and was unaware that drugs were being kept in the nursery.
Police said the drugs recovered could have killed 500,000 people. Investigators also allegedly discovered three presses used to package kilos of drugs.
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