Overview
- Medical evaluations during a joint Lakeside Police Department and Texas DFPS inquiry found fentanyl in four children under age 10, officials said.
- Lakeside police identified Auston Patrick Green and Cindy Cristina Chevez Batres as suspects and sought public tips before arresting them late on Sunday, Aug. 9.
- Both were booked into the Tarrant County Jail on four counts of abandoning or endangering a child and held on separate bonds listed in booking records.
- Texas Penal Code §22.041 creates a legal presumption of child endangerment when a child’s blood, urine or other specimen tests positive for a Penalty Group 1-B substance such as fentanyl, which can affect charging and prosecution.
- Authorities are withholding the children’s exact ages, medical conditions and the exposure details while child-welfare assessments and the criminal investigation continue and the public is asked to report tips to local dispatch or the Texas Abuse Hotline.