Police made an unexpected discovery while investigating an alleged fentanyl packaging operation hidden in a Williamsbridge apartment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Officers say they disrupted the active drug mill inside a first-floor apartment at 755 East 216th Street.<\/p>\n
Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan says the search quickly became a \u201crescue mission\u201d as officers spotted Ariendy Jiminez-Hidalgo and her 2-year-old child inside a bedroom at the scene.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors believe that five other children under the age of 15 lived inside the apartment as well, according to a press release.<\/p>\n
Officials say the residence is also located near a public middle school, just across the street from a daycare center and playground.<\/p>\n
The search recovered around four pounds of fentanyl mixtures with a street value over half a million dollars, along with tens of thousands of individual dose glassine envelopes.<\/p>\n
Investigators also seized equipment such as grinders, cutting agents, masks and heat lamps.<\/p>\n
Jiminez-Hidalgo, Jose Cordero-Concepcion and Erik Jesus Reynoso-Burgos were taken into police custody.<\/p>\n
The charges against them include criminal possession of a controlled substance, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal use of drug paraphernalia, criminal facilitation and unlawfully dealing with a child.<\/p>\n
Bail was set at $150,000 cash or bond for Concepcion and $50,000 cash or bond for Burgos. Hidalgo was ordered released on her own recognizance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police made an unexpected discovery while investigating an alleged fentanyl packaging operation hidden in a Williamsbridge apartment on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-380950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380950","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=380950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}