Parents arrested after 4-year-old boy overdoses on fentanyl on his birthday



The Ohio parents of a four-year-old boy who overdosed on fentanyl on his birthday have been arrested, according to authorities.

A 4-year-old boy was thought to be napping in his bedroom at the father's home in Gold Manor, Ohio. However, the boy was found gasping for air on Nov. 25. According to court documents obtained by Fox19 Now, the young child suffered from "agonal breathing."

WebMD defines agonal breathing as: "Agonal breathing is when someone who is not getting enough oxygen is gasping for air. It is usually due to cardiac arrest or stroke. It's not true breathing. It's a natural reflex that happens when your brain is not getting the oxygen it needs to survive. Agonal breathing is a sign that a person is near death."

The boy was rushed to Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Doctors determined that the 4 year old was overdosing on fentanyl and was a victim of child abuse, according to court docs.

The mother of the boy – 34-year-old Alexis Scarborough – was visiting the father's home to celebrate the child's birthday on the day he allegedly overdosed.

Scarborough was reportedly arrested on Monday.

The father of the child – 39-year-old Denard Bishop – had remained at large before being taken into custody by police on Thursday.

Scarborough was charged with one count of endangering children.

Bishop is also facing a criminal charge of endangering children. Court documents said the father "did neglect to show a duty of care and safety" for the boy.

Scarborough pleaded not guilty to the child endangerment charge during a hearing on Wednesday.

The judge rejected a request from the mother's lawyers to release her on her own recognizance so she could return to her job as a hotel housekeeper.

Scarborough's bond was set at $10,000. The judge ordered her not to have any contact with her children unless she received permission from child services.

Scarborough's children are currently in the care of Hamilton County Job & Family Services, according to her attorneys.

Bishop appeared in court for the first time on Friday.

The boy is expected to recover from the fentanyl overdose.

"Fortunately, hopefully, this child will be okay," said Hamilton County Addiction Response Coalition co-chair chief Tom Synan.

"Luckily, they got medical attention," Synan stated. "It is something that in some cases you can reverse."

"And hopefully, there's no further impact, and the child and everyone in this incident learns from it and is able to take those safeguards and get the help and the resources they need so that they're not using drugs anymore," Synan added.

According to the Ohio Department of Health, there were 4,915 unintentional drug overdose deaths in 2022 in the state – a 5% decrease from 2021. Of the drug overdose fatalities, 81% involved fentanyl.

Ohio Department of Health director Bruce Vanderhoff said, "While the numbers headed in the right direction last year, they are no cause for celebration. Tragically, thousands of Ohioans are still dying from substance use disorders. I urge Ohioans to do what they can to prevent these deaths, from learning how to use naloxone to knowing where to turn for help for you or a loved one in need."

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DeSantis doubles down on vow to whack the cartels and drug manufacturers responsible for the fentanyl crisis



Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis does not simply want to secure the U.S.-Mexico border — he wants to flatten the criminal elements on the other side whose illegal drugs helped kill at least 109,000 Americans last year alone.

During Wednesday's Republican presidential debate, DeSantis reiterated that he would send U.S. special forces to go down to Mexico blasting.

"Yes, I will do it from day one," he said. "When these drug pushers are bringing fentanyl across the border, that is going to be the last thing they do. We are going to use force and leave them stone-cold dead."

That force would be applied to crush fentanyl labs, disrupt cartel operations, and stem the flow of the drug into the U.S., reported Bloomberg.

Such an attack would hardly be unprovoked. After all, in 2021, synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl manufactured with the help of the communist Chinese, killed over 70,601 Americans, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

President Joe Biden’s Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram has called fentanyl the "singled deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered."

DeSantis, who is not alien to the course proposed, having previously deployed to Iraq in support of the SEAL mission in Al Anbar province, added, "The president of the United States has got to use all available powers as commander-in-chief to protect our country and to protect our people. So when they're coming across, yes, we're going to use lethal force."

The Republican governor's remarks Wednesday echoed his suggestion to Tucker Carlson last month that on his first day in office, he would "declare a national emergency, mobilize all resources, including the military, [to] stop the invasion."

Extra to building the wall, he said more important would be the authorization of the border patrol and military "to deal with the cartels. If they’re breaking into our country bringing product, if I’m in charge, that’s going to be the last thing they do because they’re going to end up stone-cold dead."

The liberal media has balked at the suggestion that a potential president might eliminate the threat that yearly contributes to the slaughter of over 33 times more Americans than had died on September 11, 2001.

The New York Times characterized DeSantis' comments as "fringe" and suggested they contributed to a "steady drumbeat of menace."

MSNBC's Steve Benen, producer of "The Rachel Maddow Show," picked up where his Russia-hoaxer star left off in the way of criticizing DeSantis, suggesting the governor's talk of deep-sixing America's enemies was rhetoric for the benefit of "GOP audiences [who] respond favorably to the idea of lethal violence at the border."

While this a proposal he has locked into, DeSantis is not an outlier in wanting the cartels dead.

Various other Republican lawmakers in Washington have discussed ways to do what Mexico is incapable or unwilling to do.

TheBlaze previously reported that Reps. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) introduced a resolution on Jan. 12 to "authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for trafficking fentanyl or a fentanyl-related substance into the United States or carrying out other related activities that cause regional destabilization in the Western Hemisphere."

The resolution went nowhere, but that didn't kill the dream.

"We need to start thinking about these groups more like ISIS than we do the mafia," said Waltz, a former Green Beret.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) indicated in March he would support a military intervention in Mexico to deal with its drug lords, even if that meant doing so without the nation's permission.

Sen. J. D. Vance (R-Ohio) similarly said he wants to see "the president of the United States, whether that's a Democrat or a Republican, ... use the power of the U.S. military to go after these drug cartels."

Even DeSantis' rival — former President Donald Trump, who leads him by over 40 points in the polls — has humored the idea of using missiles to atomize drug labs and the cartels.

Mark Esper, Trump's former secretary of defense, noted in his memoir that Trump twice asked whether the military could "shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs," adding that "they don't have control of their own country," reported the New York Times.

While Esper appears to have shrugged off the suggestion that Mexico was descending into a state of anarchy that directly threatened Americans' well-being, even the Biden administration recently pointed out that it is "fair to say" various regions of Mexico are controlled by the terroristic gangs.

Bloomberg noted that Mexico might get its dander up over such unilateral American military operations, regarding kinetic actions on its soil by an ally a violation of its sovereignty.

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'I almost died': Chilling video shows moment deputy collapses from fentanyl exposure



Shocking video shows the moment that a California deputy nearly died from a drug overdose just by being "too close" to fentanyl. If not for the quick actions of a fellow police officer, the deputy "would've died in that parking lot," according to the officer's partner.

The San Diego County Sheriff's Department shared bodycam video of one of their rookie officers nearly dying during a drug bust on July 3. San Diego Sheriff's Office Deputy David Faiivae was exposed to the powerful opioid while processing drugs at the scene of an arrest.

Faiivae's field training officer, Corporal Scott Crane, said they found a white substance in a vehicle, which tested positive for fentanyl.

"That stuff's no joke, super dangerous," Crane cautioned Faiivae. "Hey dude, too close, you can't get that close to it."

"A couple seconds later he took some steps back and he collapsed," Crane says in the video. "I ran over to him. And I grabbed him. He was OD'ing."

Faiivae said, "I remember just not feeling right and then I fall back. I don't remember anything after that."

"It was an instant. It's as though my lungs locked up. I couldn't breathe," Faiivae said as he fought back tears, remembering his near-death experience. "I was trying to gasp for breath, but I couldn't breathe at all."

The quick-witted Crane rushed to the police vehicle to retrieve Naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, which is a nasal spray used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Crane sprayed the Narcan into his partner's nostrils.

"I got you, OK? I'm not gonna let you die," Crane tells Faiivae.

Another San Diego Sheriff's Office Deputy arrives on the scene and Crane yells, "I need Narcan!" The fellow police officer administers more Narcan to Faiivae.

"Fire department got there, put him on the gurney, his eyes rolled back in his head, and he started to OD again," Crane remembered as they rushed his partner to the hospital. "He was OD'ing the whole way to the hospital."

"It's an invisible killer," Crane warned of fentanyl. "He would've died in that parking lot."

"I don't think people realize the severity of how deadly it really is," said Deputy Faiivae, who survived the accidental exposure. "I almost died of a fentanyl overdose."

San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore urged people to share the video, "It might save the life of your son, daughter, friend or loved one."

Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine but is 80 to 100 times more potent, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency. "Two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal depending on a person's body size, tolerance and past usage," the DEA states.