Fentanyl Found Near Nap Mats at Day Care Where Boy Died, Police Say

Fentanyl was found near mats that children used for napping at a Bronx day care where one toddler died and three other children were hospitalized last week, the police said on Monday night. “It was laid underneath a mat where the children had been sleeping earlier,” Joseph Kenny, the Police Department’s chief of detectives, said at a news conference Monday evening. Officials had previously said that in a search of the center, officers found a kilogram of the synthetic opioid, a painkiller that can be deadly even in minute quantities....