A Miami-Dade mother was arrested after officials found that her 18-month-old son died from ingesting fentanyl and cocaine, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE). <\/p>\n
Authorities said Miami police and fire rescue responded on Sunday, Jan. 3 at around 3:50 a.m. to an unresponsive male infant. <\/p>\n
The toddler was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital, but did not survive. <\/p>\n
“The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner\u2019s Department conducted an autopsy, which revealed the presence of fentanyl and a trace amount of cocaine in the victim\u2019s blood,” a statement from FDLE reads. <\/p>\n
Officials said an investigation revealed that narcotics were left in an unlocked room in the residence where the child was found. <\/p>\n
“Investigators determined the victim accidentally ingested a small amount of the drugs that were in that room,” FLDE stated.<\/p>\n
Authorities on Thursday arrested the boy’s mother, 29-year-old Pearlanderia Elzashania Boujolly, in his overdose death. They said she was not inside the residence when her son consumed the drugs. <\/p>\n
The arrest was made by Miami police and agents with the South Florida branch of the State Assistance for Fentanyl Eradication (SAFE) program. <\/p>\n
Boujolly will be taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Detention Center and faces one count of aggravated manslaughter of a child under 18 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami-Dade mother was arrested after officials found that her 18-month-old son died from ingesting fentanyl and cocaine,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,1064],"class_list":["post-377464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}