NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls for ‘national assault’ on fentanyl epidemic following death of child at day care
The operator of a day care and her tenant have been held without bail, with a judge noting they were flight risks in the "reckless, depraved" death of a 1-year-old boy. An emotional New York City Mayor Eric Adams Monday denounced the suspects accused of the alleged opioid exposure in a Bronx day care last week, which left one toddler dead and sent three others to the hospital, and called for a "national assault" on the epidemic. Day care operator Grei Mendez and tenant Carlisto Acevedo Brito were arrested on charges including murder, manslaughter and assault and ordered to be held without bail following the "reckless, depraved" death of Nicholas Dominici, 1, last week prosecutors said. The three other victims were hospitalized, treated with Narcan, and recovering following the Friday incident, police said. Carlisto Acevedo-Brito, a suspect in the day care death of 1-year-old Nicholas Dominici, was taken from the NYPD 52nd Precinct in the Bronx on Sept. 17,...