14-Month-Old May Have Died of a Drug Overdose
A Holbrook couple were indicted for possessing narcotics and weapons inside their house after their young child was found unresponsive as the result of a fatal drug overdose.
On the morning of January 3, 2024, Suffolk County police responded to a 911 call reporting an unresponsive child at a residence in Holbrook. When they arrived, law enforcement found Wilkens Adonis and Daryllee Leibrock, both aged 38, and their unresponsive toddler, Joseph Adonis, who was 14 months old at the time, in the couple’s bedroom. The toddler was taken via ambulance to Stony Brook University Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Suffolk County Homicide Squad detectives responded to the home to investigate and found narcotics in the bedroom where the child was found unresponsive. As a result, detectives from the Suffolk County Narcotics Section were called to assist with the investigation. A search warrant of the couple’s apartment was executed, and law enforcement allegedly found over one-eighth of an ounce of a mixture of heroin and fentanyl, over one-eighth of an ounce of cocaine, alprazolam, drug packaging materials, two digital scales used to weigh drugs, an electronic stun gun, a loaded shotgun, and a rifle, all of which were allegedly unsecured and easily accessible to the couple’s children.
In addition, at the time of this incident, Leibrock was allegedly subject to Suffolk County Family Court orders of protection that prohibited her from being around either child, as well as from possessing illegal drugs that created an unreasonable risk to the health, safety, or welfare of either child.
While the death of the toddler remains under investigation, preliminary toxicology results showed a presence of multiple substances in the child’s blood, including cocaine, fentanyl, morphine, 4-anpp (a precursor to fentanyl), norfentanyl (a metabolite of fentanyl), and benzoylecgonine (A metabolite of cocaine).
At the time of their arrests in this case, Adonis and Leibrock each had open warrants for failure to appear in Suffolk County First District Court on misdemeanor charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Adonis was indicted for:
- two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (intent to sell), both Class B felonies
- two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree (weight over one-eighth of an ounce), both Class C felonies
- one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a Class D felony
- one count of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a Class A misdemeanor
- two counts of criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree, both Class A misdemeanors
- two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, both Class A misdemeanors
- two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, both Class A misdemeanors
- two counts of failure to safely store rifles, shotguns, and firearms in the first degree, both Class A misdemeanors
Leibrock was indicted for:
- two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (intent to sell), both Class B felonies
- two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree (weight over one-eighth of an ounce), both Class C felonies
- one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a Class A misdemeanor
- One count of Criminal Possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a Class A misdemeanor
- two counts of criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree, both Class A misdemeanors
- two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, both Class A misdemeanors
- four counts of criminal contempt in the second degree, both Class A misdemeanors
- two counts of failure to safely store rifles, shotguns, and firearms in the first degree, both Class A misdemeanors
On January 25, 2024, Adonis and Leibrock were arraigned on the indictment before Acting Supreme Court Judge Philip Goglas. Under current New York State law, the offenses for which the defendants were indicted are considered non-bail eligible, except for Leibrock’s criminal contempt charges. Goglas ordered Leibrock to be held on $250,000 cash, $500,000 bond, or $2.5 million partially secured bond during the pendency of the case. Goglas ordered $1 nominal bail be set on Adonis and placed him on supervised release during the pendency of the case. However, Adonis remains held in jail for his prior open criminal possession of a controlled substance case.
Leibrock and Adonis are due back in court on February 29, 2024.
“The death of a toddler from a suspected overdose of poisonous drugs is an unfortunate but not unexpected next step in the opioid overdose crisis, and should be a wakeup call to our Albany
legislators that decisive action must happen now. Children are dying,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney. “I urge every New Yorker to contact your legislators and demand that they address this crisis.”