By Travis Uresk
2/5/25
| Roosevelt, Ut. | January 26th, 2025 |
On Sunday, January 26, 2025, Detective Sgt. Hunter was dispatched to the Uintah Basin Medical Center to assist with an unresponsive and not breathing infant who was brought into the hospital by a family member.
The 1-year-old infant was given several rounds of Narcan, and with each dose, he showed improvement. When the dose began to wear off, he would lapse into his previous state. It was decided by medical staff to put the infant on a Narcan drip and was life-flighted to Primary Children's Hospital.
Before being transported to Primary Children's, the infant was given two different urinalysis tests to determine what illegal narcotic the baby had been exposed to. Both tests returned a negative result.
On the morning of 1/27/25, the detective spoke to the infant's treating physician, who informed him that the type of urinalysis test used by the UBMC didn't test for synthetic opioids. They were in the process of giving the baby a more in-depth urinalysis test that would show if the infant had some type of synthetic drug in his system.
The detective was informed a short time later that the tests returned positive for Fentanyl and showed the infant had 6.7 ng/ml. A high dose of Fentanyl is considered to be 3 ng/ml.
On this same day, a DCSF caseworker arrived at Primary Children's to speak with the infant's mother, 29-year-old Isabell Capri Montes, aka Crystal Montes.
Isabell told the caseworker she had dropped the baby off with her family in Neola and then went to the Salt Lake area to enroll in a 4-day rehabilitation program for drug use.
Isabell stated that she had been using meth and heroin for the past two months and had been staying with an aunt in the Salt Lake area for a while. The caseworker told her he had a court order to place the infant in the state's custody.
By this time, the baby was showing a steady improvement since being placed on the Narcan drip.
On 1/28/25, the caseworker returned to Primary Children's to have Isabell perform a drug test, but she refused and disclosed she had left the hospital the night before to go to a friend's house. She also stated she had smoked a blue pill with a "30" stamped on it. That description is consistent with a fentanyl pill.
On 2/3/25, a court hearing in the 8th District Juvenile Court in Duchesne, Utah, was set to address the case. Isabell was present on WebEx. The caseworker had been trying to contact Isabell since they spoke on January 28, 2025, with no luck. He was also trying to obtain an address for Isabell's aunt, whom she said she had been staying within the Salt Lake area.
After the court hearing, the caseworker spoke to Isabell, and she provided her aunt's address. During this same conversation, she told the caseworker that she hadn't been staying with her aunt as she had previously stated. Isabell said she had been staying at the residence in Neola when she left her baby with family to attend the four-day rehab.
Isabell stated she had been staying in the Neola residence a couple of weeks before her father, Marcelino Montes, went to jail on January 9, 2025.
During the search of the residence, deputies found several pieces of drug paraphernalia throughout the house, as well as meth, psilocybin mushrooms, and marijuana.
Due to Isabell telling the caseworker she had been living in the home since mid-December, it was suspected that the infant had been exposed to illegal drugs during that time frame.
The Duchesne County Sheriff's Office has also had several tips that the Montes family has been dealing Fentanyl brought into the area from Salt Lake for quite some time. The family also has a long history of drug use and distribution of drugs.
Isabell had a scheduled visit with her 1-year-old child on the afternoon of February 3, 2025, but she failed to show up.
The detective has been unable to verify if Isabell is indeed at her aunt's house and hasn't been able to reach her by phone. It is unknown where Isabel is currently staying.
Detective Sgt. Hunter is requesting an arrest warrant for Isabell Montes for the charge of child endangerment, a 2nd-degree felony.
If anyone knows the whereabouts of Isabell Montes, please call the Secret Witness/Tip Line at 435-789-8888.
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