The daddy of a 22-month-old Brighton woman who died after ingesting 10 instances the deadly dose of fentanyl was discovered responsible of kid abuse leading to demise, racketeering and different costs by an Adams County jury on Monday.
Alonzo Ray Montoya, 33, was discovered responsible on all costs, together with baby abuse leading to demise, two counts of kid abuse by realizing publicity to managed substance manufacturing and baby abuse leading to no damage.
He was additionally discovered responsible of a sample of racketeering and conspiracy to commit a sample of racketeering underneath the Colorado Organized Crime Management Act.
His daughter, Aviyana Ramone Montoya, was discovered unresponsive in her crib the afternoon of Jan. 2, 2022, almost 14 hours after she was positioned there by her mother and father.
Alonzo Ray Montoya was accused of working a drug-dealing operation out of the house, with house surveillance video exhibiting medication being offered and used earlier than, throughout and after Aviyana’s demise, in line with the seventeenth Judicial District Lawyer’s Workplace.
Aviyana’s mom, Nicole Danielle Casias, faces the identical costs and is ready for a jury trial on March 11.
Surveillance movies from the house confirmed Aviyana enjoying on the mattress in the main bedroom the place folks have been utilizing medication, in line with the district lawyer’s workplace.
She was teething and was seen putting gadgets in and round her mouth, and after she was positioned in her crib round midnight, cried and struggled to breathe earlier than her demise, in line with the district lawyer’s workplace.
Nobody checked on her for 14 hours till she was discovered unresponsive and never respiration on the afternoon of Jan. 2. After paramedics arrived and tried to resuscitate her, she was pronounced useless.
The coroner decided Aviyana had 10 instances the quantity of fentanyl in her system wanted to kill “an illiberal grownup person,” in line with the district lawyer’s workplace. She additionally had extended publicity to amphetamines and different narcotics.
In a press release, District Lawyer Brian Mason known as it “one of the vital outrageous circumstances” he’s ever seen.
“My coronary heart breaks for this little woman, who actually by no means had an opportunity,” Mason mentioned. “…I thank the jury for sitting by the troublesome information on this case and delivering a simply verdict on behalf of Aviyana.”
Alonzo Ray Montoya is ready to be sentenced on April 4.
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