This came after investigators said Sklar\u2019s 4-year-old son, Aaron, died on March 4, 2025. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor lack of a better term, [it\u2019s] poor parenting, completely recklessness behavior,\u201d said Christopher Roberts, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA\u2019s New York Task Force Division. <\/p>\n
Roberts said the child was found having a medical emergency, then taken to two different hospitals, where he was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnytime a child dies, it\u2019s completely tragic because a child is completely innocent,\u201d said Roberts. \u201c[The boy] didn\u2019t purposely ingest any of the narcotics. He had no chance. He has no chance ever again in life.\u201d <\/p>\n
Roberts said Sklar and the child\u2019s mother, 26-year-old Miriam Elkayam, were arrested on state charges shortly after the incident. <\/p>\n
He added that the boy\u2019s parents were released from custody but still face the state charges; all while Sklar allegedly returned to dealing drugs. <\/p>\n
\u201c[Sklar] continued to deal drugs up until his arrest [this week],\u201d said Roberts. <\/p>\n
As for Katzin, Roberts said the 33-year-old is the alleged drug supplier. <\/p>\n
If convicted, Katzin and Sklar could face a mandatory minimum of 20 years to life in prison. <\/p>\n
The NYC Department of Social Services spokesperson released the following statement: \u201c<\/p>\n
This was an incredibly heart-breaking and shocking tragedy, and we offer our deepest condolences to all those who have been impacted.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This came after investigators said Sklar\u2019s 4-year-old son, Aaron, died on March 4, 2025. \u201cFor lack of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,53912,12398,6277,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-123527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-drug-poisoning","tag-east-flatbush","tag-fentanyl","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}