Porterville father arrested after son hospitalized for fentanyl exposure, deputies say

PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KFSN) -- A begetter was arrested aft his lad was hospitalized for fentanyl vulnerability successful Porterville.

His begetter called 911 Monday afternoon, reporting the kid was unconscious, deprived of truthful overmuch oxygen helium was turning blue.

The parents had indicated that they believed the kid had perchance choked connected chips oregon fell dormant with chips successful their mouth," said Tulare County Sheriff's Lt. Bryan Clower.

Paramedics instantly began CPR, and the toddler was flown to Valley Children's Hospital successful Madera.

"We received a telephone from Valley Children's advising that the kid had tested affirmative for fentanyl," Clower explained.

Deputies executed a hunt warrant astatine the location wherever the incidental happened and recovered grounds of narcotic use.

The father, 25-year-old Gary Stewart, past told the detective astatine the infirmary that helium was smoking fentanyl successful the beingness of his son.

He's been booked into the Tulare County Jail and is facing kid endangerment and cause charges.

"Doing drugs with your kids contiguous is not thing anyone should beryllium doing. They request to person a small much respect for those kids and enactment their information first," Clower said.

This is simply a Child Welfare Services case, truthful they volition find wherever the kid volition spell erstwhile released from the hospital.

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