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VOL. 108, NO. 52 JULY 27 — AUGUST 2, 2017
STREET WAVE
Parents OD
in front of kid
in their apt.
BY ANTHONY GIUDICE
AGIUDICE@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@A_GIUDICEREPORT
The parents of a 2-year-old girl
have been locked up aft er allegedly
overdosing in front of
the toddler at their home near the
Ridgewood/Bushwick border this
past weekend, cops said.
According to police, officers from the
83rd Precinct were called to a home on
Grove Street near Wyckoff Avenue at
approximately 10:30 a.m. on Saturday,
July 22, where they found 28-year-old
Andrea Ortiz passed out in the street
from an apparent drug overdose.
The Daily News reported that medics
administered Naloxone — a medication
used to block the effects of opioid use,
especially overdoses — to Ortiz and
transported her to an area hospital.
At the hospital Ortiz alerted police
that her daughter was missing.
Upon further investigation, police
found the 2-year-old girl at Ortiz’s
apartment where they found the
child’s father, 46-year-old Saturino
Arriaga-Ramirez, also unresponsive
due to an apparent overdoes. He was
also given Naloxone and revived, law
enforcement agents said.
The child was found unharmed.
Police arrested both Ortiz and Arriaga
Ramirez and charged them with
endangering the welfare of a child.
The city’s Administration of Child
Services (ACS) has been notifi ed of
the incident and are conducting an
investigation, police added.
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