Milwaukee mom accused, baby’s death; fentanyl in child’s blood: complaint

• Neglecting a child-consequence is great bodily harm
• Neglecting a child-consequence is bodily harm (three counts)

According to the criminal complaint, Milwaukee firefighters responded on Wednesday evening, Oct. 25 to an apartment on N. Water Street a couple blocks north of Holton for a report of an unresponsive child. When they arrived on the scene, they found a 10-month-old child needing immediate medical attention. Despite life-saving measures, the child was pronounced deceased on the scene.

A search of Hopson’s apartment was performed by investigators. The complaint says “there was a large money counter located on the kitchen island. Inside a drawer of the kitchen island, police located and recovered two digital scales, one with a white powdery substance of suspected narcotics, on the scale. In the garbage police located two white latex gloves that were knotted together at the very top of the garbage.”

On Nov. 2, Milwaukee police were asked to administer a narcotics field test to the white powdery substance located on the digital scale recovered from the Hopson residence. That test “returned a positive result for the presence of fentanyl,” the complaint says.

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Hopson made her initial appearance in Milwaukee County court on Saturday, Nov. 11. Cash bond was set at $10,000.