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Belmont: Four Arrested in One of NYC’s “Largest Ever” Fentanyl Raids Steps from 2nd Bronx Daycare Center

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) raided a family home at 2337 Beaumont Avenue in the Belmont section of The Bronx on Thursday, Oct. 5, and four people were taken into custody. The raid was carried out steps away from the back of a fenced off area where children played at Belmont Community Day Care Center, located at 2340 Cambreleng Avenue.

UPDATE Bronx Daycare Provider, Husband & his Cousin Charged with Murder in Fentanyl Poisoning of Baby Nicholas Dominici

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Thursday, Oct. 5, that the operator of Divino Niño Daycare Center in Kingsbridge Heights where one-year-old Nicholas Dominici was fatally poisoned, her husband and his cousin, were charged with murder “under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human life, assault, and other charges for allegedly exposing Nicholas and three other surivivng babies to fentanyl which was stored in the daycare.  As reported, they also face additional federal charges.