Sentenced: 6MO Boy Found Dead With Heroin Bag In His Mouth At Uncle's Drug House

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“By the time we got there, he was already deceased, he was already moved,” Ashley Williams, the grandmother of six-month-old Denny Robinson, said. She says in the care of others, a nightmare happened, and now she wants answers.

According to Williams, Denny was taken to a house with drug users and, possibly, left to his own devices.

“(Denny) was found with a heroin bag in his mouth,” Williams said. “More than likely this will be a fentanyl overdose. He was only 6 months.”

The official cause of death of Denny Robinson is still being determined by the medical examiner’s office. According to RPD, the formal results could take months to receive.

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As of late 2022, several individuals were arrested and charged as part of a federal drug trafficking investigation that was linked to the death of 6-month-old
Denny Robinson Jr.

Federal court paperwork named seven individuals involved in what investigators are calling the McDaniels Drug Trafficking Organization.

It names Wayne McDaniels as the ringleader, with Travis Harris, Willie Spirles and Ronnie Spirles, Darren Lofton and two redacted names as part of the organization. All seven are accused of combining, conspiring and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine.

Court paperwork listed several addresses as drug houses run by the organization, including two on Otis Street, another on Lorimer Street, and several others in the city.

Investigators even put a surveillance camera, that once sat on a pole outside the Jay Street home, to capture numerous drug deals between the accused offenders.

Infant's fatal heroin overdose connected to Rochester drug ring

755 Jay Street is boarded up now, but it was once part of a major drug trafficking operation where a 6-month-old boy died with a heroin bag in his mouth.

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Wayne McDaniels, 42, was sentenced to 144 months (12 years) in prison. He was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 10 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue, and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

In November 2022, a search warrant was executed at McDaniels’ apartment, where investigators say they seized over 400 individually packed bags of fentanyl, large quantities of bulk fentanyl and cocaine, loaded guns, and drug paraphernalia.

The search warrant was part of a larger investigation into a group of drug dealers that prosecutors say McDaniels was the leader of. Prosecutors say the group had been selling fentanyl and crack cocaine from various drug houses in Rochester.

In one of the houses on Jay Street, McDaniels’ six-month-old nephew died from a fentanyl overdose on Aug. 1, 2022.

Rochester man sentenced after infant's deadly overdose in 2022 led to drug trafficking ring bust

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Rochester man is headed to prison after an infant’s deadly drug overdose in 2022 led to a drug trafficking ring bust.Wayne McDaniels, 42, was sentenced to 144 months in prison. He was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 10 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue...

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Name: DARREN LOFTON
Register Number: 32064-510
Age: 33
Race: Black
Sex: Male
Release Date: 12/03/2026
Located At: FCI Fort Dix