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July 31, 2025: Woman Charged with Attempting to Sneak Fentanyl into a Youth Facility
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The woman was the mother of a youth at the facility
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Probation Department today announced the arrest of a woman who in 2023, attempted to bring narcotics into the Barry J. Nidorf Youth Facility.
“Introducing drugs into a secure facility endangers public safety and lives, and undermines rehabilitation,” Chief Probation Officer Guillermo Viera Rosa. “We appreciate the District Attorney’s focus on accountability and public safety.”
“The defendant, a mother of one of the facility’s residents, is accused of attempting to introduce fentanyl, an incredibly dangerous drug, endangering the very child she came to visit as well as potentially many of the other juveniles in the facility,” said District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman. “She was initially arrested two years ago in 2023 and soon released with no charges filed until I had the case reviewed. Fentanyl is too dangerous a threat — 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine — to not treat its lethality with the seriousness and immediacy it requires. Once the case was reviewed, in May 2025, we filed it for warrant.”
Jeny Morenoparra (dob 10/24/83) faces one felony count each of bringing an illegal substance in a jail facility, employment of a minor to sell or carry a narcotic, fentanyl, and possession for sale of a controlled substance, fentanyl.
Arraignment for case 25SFCF01075 is scheduled on Aug. 1 in Department S of the San Fernando Courthouse.
Morenoparra, was originally contacted by a Supervising Deputy Probation Officer in 2023 and found to be in possession of more than 30 pills that later tested positive for fentanyl. On July 11, 2025, she was taken into custody without incident by the Los Angeles County Probation Department’s Special Enforcement Operations (SEO) Team.
The case remains under investigation and is being handled by the San Fernando Branch of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The charges filed in this case are allegations. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
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