A woman was arrested on suspicion of attempting to bring fentanyl into a Los Angeles youth facility while visiting her child, according to a release from the Los Angeles County Probation Department. <\/p>\n
Jeny Morenoparra, 42, was initially arrested in 2023 during a visit to the Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar after a supervising deputy probation officer found her in possession of more than 30 pills that contained fentanyl, according to an additional release<\/a> from the Los Angeles County district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n Soon after the arrest, she was released while authorities reviewed the case, the department said. In May, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said in a statement that he reopened the case and filed an arrest warrant for Morenoparra. <\/p>\n \u201cFentanyl is too dangerous a threat \u2014 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine \u2014 to not treat its lethality with the seriousness and immediacy it requires,\u201d Hochman said.<\/p>\n Morenoparra was taken into custody on July 11 by the Probation Department\u2019s Special Enforcement Operations team, the statement said. <\/p>\n She will appear Friday in the San Fernando Courthouse, where she faces felony counts of bringing an illegal substance into a jail facility, employment of a minor to sell or carry a narcotic and possession for sale of a controlled substance. <\/p>\n \u201cIntroducing drugs into a secure facility endangers public safety and lives, and undermines rehabilitation,\u201d Chief Probation Officer Guillermo Viera Rosa said in a news release. \u201cWe appreciate the District Attorney\u2019s focus on accountability and public safety.\u201d <\/p>\n Earlier this month, The Times reported that the same juvenile hall was deemed \u201cunsuitable\u201d<\/a> for holding youths by the Board of State and Community Corrections. In an inspection <\/a>report, the board reported that staff members of the facility were inadequately trained, inattentive to juveniles during safety checks and unfairly confined youth to their rooms.<\/p>\n The case remains under investigation, authorities said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was arrested on suspicion of attempting to bring fentanyl into a Los Angeles youth facility while…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[12424,3387,1582,276,6517,4471,3040,24094,69603,69600,69604,2961,224,5337,27173,24759,5292,69602,6620,69601],"class_list":["post-109141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-arrest","tag-board","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-case","tag-child","tag-department","tag-fentanyl","tag-illegal-substance","tag-jeny-morenoparra","tag-l-a-county-dist","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-nathan-hochman","tag-possession","tag-public-safety","tag-suspicion","tag-time","tag-youth-facility"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114951212542471098","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}