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Silva Banuelos allegedly put her eight and 10-year-old sons on a flight from Albuquerque to Texas’s Dallas Love Field Airport on May 31 to visit their father, who she had an on-and-off relationship with, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. The father met the boys, looked through their luggage and went to the airport’s restroom, where he overdosed and died in a stall just minutes later.

Investigators later found a makeup container with more than one gram of fentanyl inside, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. Two milligrams of fentanyl can amount to a deadly dose, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Authorities recovered text messages between Silva Banuelos and her sons’ father, suggesting she knew of his plans to take the fentanyl and was aware of its lethality, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. She was later accused of using “her minor children to mule drugs.” …

Silva Banuelos could face a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years and up to life in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.