As News4 told you  – Winnipeg Police and paramedics responded to a home on Aikins Street on October 18, 2016 for reports of a child in medical distress.  The child was taken to hospital in critical condition. 

While in the residence officers noticed a white powdered substance that they believed was the drug fentanyl. Police notified medical personnel and the child was treated appropriately. Soon after the child’s condition improved.

Police brought in the Child Abuse Unit, who executed a search warrant and the Clandestine Lab Unit who have specialized equipment and training to deal with potentially hazardous materials.

Police seized a number of items including the suspected fentanyl.

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Investigators had the substance tested and the result showed that the powder was not fentanyl. However testing on other seized items showed that the drug Carfentanil was present and it is that drug that is believed to be a contributing factor in the child’s medical distress.

Police have already charged both parents with failure to provide the necessities of life, cause bodily harm by criminal negligence and possession of a scheduled substance for the purpose of trafficking.

-News4 Staff-