NEW YORK – NYPD announced the arrest of the father of a Manhattan boy who was found dead with fentanyl and cocaine in his system last June.
Anthony Rosa, 51-year-old father of baby Charles Rosa-Velloso, was charged with reckless murder. Information about a lawyer for him was not immediately clear.
Authorities said Rosa-Velloso was found unconscious, face down on a bed in her Baruch Place apartment, when officers responded to a 911 call shortly after 4 a.m. on June 17. They took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Rosa-Velloso’s death came more than two years after a 1-year-old boy in the Bronx died of similar drug-induced causes. In that December 2018 case, investigators found that baby Darwin González-Santana had ingested fentanyl and heroin.
He was found dead in a taxi two days after Christmas that year. His mother was later charged with murder.
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