A 41-year-old woman has been charged with attempting to smuggle fentanyl pills into an Los Angeles County juvenile detention facility where her child was a resident, officials announced Thursday.

The attempt to bring narcotics into the Barry J. Nidorf Youth Facility, located at 1635 Filbert Street in Sylmar, unfolded in 2023, according to a news release from the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors allege that Jeny Morenoparra was contacted at the facility by a supervising deputy probation officer who more than 30 pills in her possession that later tested positive for the powerful opioid drug.

After her arrest in 2023, while former L.A. County DA George Gascón was in office, Morenoparra was released without charges.

Nathan Hochman, the current L.A. County DA, had the cas

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