A total of four people have been arrested on federal drug charges in the case, including the owner of the day care.
Nicholas Dominici's cause of death was acute fentanyl intoxication, the New York City medical examiner's office announced Friday. His manner of death was deemed a homicide.On the afternoon Sept. 15, Dominici and three other children at the day care were rushed to a hospital after being reported unresponsive. Three of the children were administered Narcan, federal prosecutors said.
NYPD investigators later determined that the children had been exposed to fentanyl, and said the day care was being used as a fentanyl mill. Prosecutors said a kilogram of fentanyl, along with multiple fentanyl presses used to process the drugs, were found in a closet of the day care. Officers executing a search warrant later also
with a secret compartment that contained more than five kilograms of fentanyl and other drugs, police said.
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