GREEN BAY, Wisc. (WLUK) -- A 21-year-old woman was convicted of selling fentanyl pills at a Wisconsin daycare center.
Tatiana Quinones was convicted Tuesday after she sold fentanyl pills to an undercover informant at the daycare center in Green Bay.
Quinones pleaded no contest to two counts of fentanyl delivery at a youth center and possession with intent to deliver.
Quinones worked at Green Bay Academy. According to the criminal complaint, an undercover informant arranged the purchase of 50 fentanyl pills for $350. Quinones met the informant in the parking lot on January 3 and completed the drug deal. Quinones was arrested the next day.
Police believed Quinones stored the drugs inside the bathroom of the "1-year-old room" of the facility after they reviewed surveillance video from inside the daycare center.
"Based on my training and experience, QUINONES put multiple children's lives, whose care she was entrusted with, at risk by storing the fentanyl pills in the daycare. If QUINONES were to drop even one of the small pills, a child could have easily picked it up off the ground and swallowed it, causing them to overdose and possibly die," the complaint states.
The state Department of Children and Families revoked the center's license, citing several violations, including staff-to-child rations, group-sized, mixed-age groups, and Quinones' actions.
Two weeks after Quinones' arrest, Green Bay Academy parents received a letter from the center's director.
In that letter, the director said no trace of drugs were found within the facility and the employee was terminated immediately.