Federal prosecutors announced Friday, Aug. 1, that a 34-year-old Bronx man, Estherlyn Frias, a/k/a “Platinum,” a/k/a “Silver,” was charged with drug dealing resulting in death in connection with the “overdose” of a victim in Greenwich, Connecticut last month. Prosecutors allege the man ran the drug operation out of his partner’s home where a young child slept in close proximity to deadly narcotics.

The case brings to mind the tragic death of one-year-old Nicholas Feliz Dominici who died of an accidental fentanyl overdose on Sept. 15, 2023 in the Kingsbridge Heights section of The Bronx at El Divino Nino daycare center, where a drug operation was being run and was later uncovered. Several people, including Grei Mendez, the female daycare operator, were subsequently convicted of various

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