Overview
- A Bronx jury found Grei Mendez and her husband, Felix Herrera-Garcia, guilty of second-degree murder after four days of deliberations.
- Mendez was also convicted of first-degree assault following a trial that stretched roughly two to three months.
- Prosecutors said the pair ran a fentanyl packaging operation inside the Divino Niño Daycare and hid drugs under a trapdoor where children napped.
- The Sept. 15, 2023 exposure killed 22-month-old Nicholas Dominici and sickened three other children, one of whom was revived with Narcan.
- Both defendants had already received 45-year federal sentences for narcotics offenses resulting in death, and in the state case they face up to life in prison with a Dec. 8 court date to set sentencing.