A 2-year-old girl was found in a Bronx apartment that doubled as a packaging mill for fentanyl during a recent raid that authorities on Friday called a  rescue mission. 

The child was not harmed but was taken into custody by the city's Administration for Children's Services, officials said. Four other children who lived in the apartment - ages 5, 11, 13 and 14 - were in school at the time, authorities said.

Three adults found inside the apartment were arrested,  dealing a major blow to an illegal drug operation,  the city's Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said in a statement Friday.

 More importantly, it was a rescue mission,  Brennan added.  Grinding chunks of fentanyl and filling thousands of tiny bags with the deadly powder in the same apartment with a 2-year-old child reveals shocking disregard for human life. 

The raid and arrests happened in the Olinville section of the Bronx on Tuesday afternoon at a three-bedroom apartment on E. 216th St. near Barnes Ave. - across the street from a daycare center.

Authorities said they found two kilograms of fentanyl mixtures with a street value of more than $500,000, plus tens of thousands of single-dose glassine envelopes, some stamped with an image of a goat and the brand name  G.O.A.T. Greatest of All Time. 

Investigators also allegedly seized a bag of drug-filled glassine envelopes from alleged ringleader Jose Cordero-Concepcion, 37, who was just leaving the apartment when authorities executed their warrant.

A sample of the drugs tested revealed fentanyl mixed with medetomidine, a potent addictive veterinary tranquilizer.

Also seized from the apartment was $30,000 cash and various paraphernalia consistent with a drug operation, including grinders, masks and heat lamps. No guns were recovered, but a box of bullets was found.

The investigation involved a federal task force of federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents, NYPD officers and state police.

The 2-year-old girl and her mother, Ariendy Jiminez-Hidalgo, 42, were found in a front bedroom, officials said. The mother was charged with drug possession and endangerin
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