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UPDATE: Two U of R Rams among five arrested in $1.5M drug bust
Regina Police say 75K doses of fentanyl were seized, raising concerns about drug use in the city.
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I hope they like PA.980CJME has a story. Drugs & Guns.
UPDATE: Two U of R Rams among five arrested in $1.5M drug bust
Regina Police say 75K doses of fentanyl were seized, raising concerns about drug use in the city.
Stuck in PA and not being able to buy a fishing license? The inhumanity of it.
Owner of NYC day care where toddler fatally ingested fentanyl gets 45 years in prison
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Larry Neumeister
Published Mar 03, 2025 • 2 minute read
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who owned a New York City day care center where a toddler died after ingesting fentanyl has been sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal drug charges.
Grei Mendez, 37, dropped her head into her crossed arms in anguish as Judge Jed S. Rakoff announced the sentence that triggered sobs among Mendez’s family and the mother whose 22-month-old child, Nicholas Feliz-Dominici, died in September 2023.
Rakoff had previously given the same sentence to Mendez’s husband, Felix Herrera-Garcia, after he pleaded guilty to drug charges and causing bodily harm related to the death. The couple each faced a mandatory minimum of 20 years in prison and a maximum of life for their crimes.
Mendez, 37, had pleaded guilty to drug charges including conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death.
Before the sentence was imposed, she apologized to the families of children who attended the Divino Nino day care that she operated out of a Bronx apartment where the couple stored and packaged narcotics.
“I do want all to know it was an accident,” she said through an interpreter. “I am very sorry. I hope that someday I may be forgiven.”
When the poisoning occurred on Sept. 15, 2023, Feliz-Dominici was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he died. Three other children exposed to the fentanyl at the day care survived after medics administered the overdose-reversing drug Narcan.
Police found a brick of fentanyl stored on top of playmats for the children, along with equipment often used to package drugs, as well as packages of fentanyl beneath a trap door in a play area.
Both of Feliz-Dominici’s parents spoke at the sentencing, with the child’s mother saying it was not possible to forgive Mendez and the father describing the lasting pain, saying: “We’re living, but we’re not alive.”
Rakoff cited the emotions he once felt when his older brother “was murdered in cold blood,” but he added that the “glory of the law is not to ignore emotions but to put them in broader perspective.”
He said Mendez had chosen to put the welfare of her own children and her husband above the welfare of the families and their children that became customers of her day care business.
In a presentence brief, a defense attorney submitted proof that Mendez had suffered trauma herself as a child. Prosecutors urged a lengthy sentence, saying she ignored “clear warning signs” that the babies were becoming seriously ill and took no action to call for lifesaving medical intervention.
“And after tragedy struck, she lied to law enforcement and destroyed evidence in an effort to protect herself and her co-conspirators from their culpability in the death of one baby and poisoning of three others,” they wrote.
In a release, Acting U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky said Mendez put babies as young as 8 months old “in harm’s way as they slept, played and ate in a room where over 11 kilograms of fentanyl was hidden underneath their feet.”
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Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Larry Neumeister
Published Mar 03, 2025 • 2 minute read
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who owned a New York City day care center where a toddler died after ingesting fentanyl has been sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal drug charges.
Grei Mendez, 37, dropped her head into her crossed arms in anguish as Judge Jed S. Rakoff announced the sentence that triggered sobs among Mendez’s family and the mother whose 22-month-old child, Nicholas Feliz-Dominici, died in September 2023.
Rakoff had previously given the same sentence to Mendez’s husband, Felix Herrera-Garcia, after he pleaded guilty to drug charges and causing bodily harm related to the death. The couple each faced a mandatory minimum of 20 years in prison and a maximum of life for their crimes.
Mendez, 37, had pleaded guilty to drug charges including conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death.
Before the sentence was imposed, she apologized to the families of children who attended the Divino Nino day care that she operated out of a Bronx apartment where the couple stored and packaged narcotics.
“I do want all to know it was an accident,” she said through an interpreter. “I am very sorry. I hope that someday I may be forgiven.”
When the poisoning occurred on Sept. 15, 2023, Feliz-Dominici was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he died. Three other children exposed to the fentanyl at the day care survived after medics administered the overdose-reversing drug Narcan.
Police found a brick of fentanyl stored on top of playmats for the children, along with equipment often used to package drugs, as well as packages of fentanyl beneath a trap door in a play area.
Both of Feliz-Dominici’s parents spoke at the sentencing, with the child’s mother saying it was not possible to forgive Mendez and the father describing the lasting pain, saying: “We’re living, but we’re not alive.”
Rakoff cited the emotions he once felt when his older brother “was murdered in cold blood,” but he added that the “glory of the law is not to ignore emotions but to put them in broader perspective.”
He said Mendez had chosen to put the welfare of her own children and her husband above the welfare of the families and their children that became customers of her day care business.
In a presentence brief, a defense attorney submitted proof that Mendez had suffered trauma herself as a child. Prosecutors urged a lengthy sentence, saying she ignored “clear warning signs” that the babies were becoming seriously ill and took no action to call for lifesaving medical intervention.
“And after tragedy struck, she lied to law enforcement and destroyed evidence in an effort to protect herself and her co-conspirators from their culpability in the death of one baby and poisoning of three others,” they wrote.
In a release, Acting U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky said Mendez put babies as young as 8 months old “in harm’s way as they slept, played and ate in a room where over 11 kilograms of fentanyl was hidden underneath their feet.”
Owner of NYC day care where toddler fatally ingested fentanyl gets 45 years in prison
Grei Mendez, 37, dropped her head into her crossed arms in anguish as Judge Jed S. Rakoff announced the sentence.
Trump and his team have struggled at times to explain why, exactly, the White House seems so eager to launch a trade conflict — or in Hassett’s words, a “trade war” — with our Canadian neighbors. At times, the president and his cohorts have complained about the trade deficit. At other times, they’ve pointed to illegal border crossings. Recently, however, they’ve settled on a talking point about fentanyl.
Let’s go back a few steps, I guess. In public, the relationship between Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is awful. In private, by some accounts, it’s worse.
The New York Times reported last week, for example, on recent interactions between the two leaders, including a phone meeting in which the American president “laid out a long list of grievances,” even adding that he “did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid.” That was soon followed by another conversation in which, according to an NBC News report, the Republican’s tone turned “abusive.”
Ya don’t say…?
This does not mean, however, that conditions can’t get worse.
On ABC News’ “This Week,” guest host Jonathan Karl spoke to Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, about the administration’s tariffs plans. After Hassett raised concerns about fentanyl reaching American soil through the northern border, Karl reminded his guest, “I don’t think that’s happening. I mean, 1% of fentanyl is being smuggled across the border, 1%. I mean, Canada is not a major source at all of fentanyl in the United States, are they?” Hassett replied:
“Well, yes they are a major source. And I can tell you that in the Situation Room, I’ve seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone. Canada’s got a big drug problem.” What the Shit? Huh???
“The excuse that he’s giving for these tariffs today of fentanyl is completely bogus, completely unjustified, completely false,” Still Canadian PM Trudeau recently declared. “What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that’ll make it easier to annex us.”
That was an extraordinary comment for a variety of reasons, but the eventually outgoing prime minister’s assessment about fentanyl rang true. In fact, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, only 43 pounds of fentanyl (& even this number is inflated but
) were found crossing the northern border in 2024 — as opposed to 21,100 pounds seized at the southern border…but any amount is bad, just like the amount of drugs and guns and so on and so forth being smuggled into Canada from the US.
It’s obviously silly to think a country would launch a trade war over fentanyl that could fit in a single suitcase. It’s against this backdrop that one of Trump’s top aides on economic policy appeared on national television and suggested that officials in Canada have covered up covert “labs.” ???
Even if we put aside Hassett’s deeply unfortunate track record — remember his “econometric model“ in response to Covid? — it’s unsettling when Republican White Houses claim to have secret evidence of foreign chemical labs.
As best as I can tell, Canadian officials haven’t yet responded to these new allegations, though given the circumstances, I’m not even sure why they’d bother.
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Let’s go back a few steps, I guess. In public, the relationship between Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is awful. In private, by some accounts, it’s worse.
The New York Times reported last week, for example, on recent interactions between the two leaders, including a phone meeting in which the American president “laid out a long list of grievances,” even adding that he “did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid.” That was soon followed by another conversation in which, according to an NBC News report, the Republican’s tone turned “abusive.”
Ya don’t say…?This does not mean, however, that conditions can’t get worse.
On ABC News’ “This Week,” guest host Jonathan Karl spoke to Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, about the administration’s tariffs plans. After Hassett raised concerns about fentanyl reaching American soil through the northern border, Karl reminded his guest, “I don’t think that’s happening. I mean, 1% of fentanyl is being smuggled across the border, 1%. I mean, Canada is not a major source at all of fentanyl in the United States, are they?” Hassett replied:
“Well, yes they are a major source. And I can tell you that in the Situation Room, I’ve seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone. Canada’s got a big drug problem.” What the Shit? Huh???
“The excuse that he’s giving for these tariffs today of fentanyl is completely bogus, completely unjustified, completely false,” Still Canadian PM Trudeau recently declared. “What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that’ll make it easier to annex us.”
That was an extraordinary comment for a variety of reasons, but the eventually outgoing prime minister’s assessment about fentanyl rang true. In fact, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, only 43 pounds of fentanyl (& even this number is inflated but
) were found crossing the northern border in 2024 — as opposed to 21,100 pounds seized at the southern border…but any amount is bad, just like the amount of drugs and guns and so on and so forth being smuggled into Canada from the US. It’s obviously silly to think a country would launch a trade war over fentanyl that could fit in a single suitcase. It’s against this backdrop that one of Trump’s top aides on economic policy appeared on national television and suggested that officials in Canada have covered up covert “labs.” ???
Even if we put aside Hassett’s deeply unfortunate track record — remember his “econometric model“ in response to Covid? — it’s unsettling when Republican White Houses claim to have secret evidence of foreign chemical labs.
As best as I can tell, Canadian officials haven’t yet responded to these new allegations, though given the circumstances, I’m not even sure why they’d bother.
The White House line on Canada and fentanyl takes a bizarre turn — MSNBC
As a rule, it’s unsettling when Republican White Houses claim to have secret evidence of foreign chemical labs.
And yet, Trump is the greatest thing to happen to the liberals in the last at least half a decade!! Without Trump, the liberals might be facing party obscurity similar to the numbers the NDP is seeing now, & they only have Trump to thank for their recent new found fortune.
We only seized 43 pounds (20 kg) of fentanyl at the northern border last year!
Y'all gotta step up production!
Lazy-ass Canucks.
Y'all gotta step up production!
Lazy-ass Canucks.