A mother who was charged with trying to sneak fentanyl into a Sylmar juvenile hall in 2023 was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in state prison.
Jeny Morenoparra, now 42, pleaded no contest last month to a felony count of bringing drugs or alcohol into a prison, jail or detention facility, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Morenoparra is the mother of a youth who was housed at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall, according to a statement released by the county Probation Department shortly after the case was filed against her last year.
“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,” District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement last July.
Morenoparra was initially contacted by a supervising deputy probation officer in 2023 and found to be in possession of more than 30 pills that tested positive for fentanyl, authorities said.
Hochman said the woman was initially arrested in 2023 and released soon afterward without any charges being filed until he had the case reviewed in May 2025.
Morenoparra was taken into custody last July 11 by the Los Angeles County Probation Department’s Special Enforcement Operations Team, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
Jail records show that she was released on bond two days later and then taken into custody again Wednesday at the San Fernando courthouse.