Baby exposed to fentanyl; Tigard grandmother arrested
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Tigard grandmother faces five separate charges after allegedly passing out inside a running Jeep and exposing her 10-month-old granddaughter to fentanyl.
Julia Apostello was arrested late on May 3 after an officer spotted the “unlicensed Jeep” in the Tigard Plaza Shopping Center, police said. The officer looked inside the “parked and running” Jeep and saw Apostello passed out behind the wheel and a baby in a car seat in the back. The officer also saw drug paraphernalia in plain view, officials said.
The baby’s mother, contacted by police, was inside a business with her 4-year-old daughter and said she’d been gone for about 30 minutes.
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The baby was taken to a hospital to be examined and tested positive for fentanyl, authorities said. A powdered substance found in the Jeep also was found to be fentanyl.
Apostello was booked at the Washington County Jail for two counts of criminal mistreatment, child neglect, endangering the welfare of a minor and reckless endangerment.
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