After Carlos Rivera left Chloe Ricard, 13, at Lawrence General Hospital’s emergency room, he walked over to a “water drainage sewer,” just feet away from his vehicle and threw something away, according to a newly released police report.
Rivera “then got down on both of his knees and made certain those items went down the sewer. Investigators recovered two white straws that were cut, an orange cigarette filter, and a plastic twisty with a white powdery substance believed to be illegal narcotics,” wrote Lawrence Detective Timothy Yerian in the report.
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Rivera, 47, of 59 Bellevue St., was indicted last week on numerous criminal charges including distribution of fentanyl, a deadly, man-made opioid, rape and indecent assault and battery.
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The Essex County grand jury last week handed down seven indictments against Rivera, who was previously arraigned and held without bail in Lawrence District Court.
The indictments included distribution of fentanyl, aggravated rape of a child with force (10-year age difference), three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under age 14 and two counts of illegal distribution of cocaine to a minor, according to court paperwork.
The indictments say Rivera unlawfully distributed fentanyl on May 20, the same day Ricard died.