A Dominican national has been charged with allegedly dealing hundreds of pills, according to the feds who say a 2-year-old overdosed at his Bay State home.

Meanwhile, another Dominican national has been indicted by a Boston federal grand jury for allegedly distributing 1,000 fentanyl pills while on federal supervised release for a prior drug trafficking conviction.

The first case involves 41-year-old Jose Radhame Sanchez, who was charged by the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office with: conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.

Sanchez allegedly sold 600 suspected fentanyl pills to a cooperating source last month.

On April 9 in Lawrence, Sanchez allegedly distributed about 200 suspected fentanyl pills pressed to resemble 30 milligram oxycodone pills. He allegedly had a minor child with him in the car during the drug deal.

Then on April 17, Sanchez allegedly dealt 400 counterfeit oxycodone pills suspected to contain fentanyl at a restaurant in Methuen.

Also last year, two suspected overdose victims were found in Sanchez’s Haverhill residence. Last February, police found a female who had overdosed at the residence. The female victim survived.

Although Sanchez told police at the time that he had found the victim “on the side of the road in his neighborhood and allowed her into his home” and “denied having knowledge that the female was a drug user,” recent phone records allegedly revealed that Sanchez had contacted the victim 171 times in less than a week this March.

And in another incident last year, a 2-year-old child was found unresponsive and not breathing at Sanchez’s residence. According to court documents, the child later tested positive for fentanyl and cocaine. Sanchez also allegedly tested positive for cocaine at the time. The child survived.

The grand jury case involves Wagner Ismael Mejia Sanchez, a/k/a “Jose F. Rosario,” a/k/a “Jose Majimbe,” 39, who was indicted on one count of distribution of and possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl.

In 2012, Mejia Sanchez was among 10 individuals charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in connection with a cocaine and heroin trafficking conspiracy. He pleaded guilty to his role in the conspiracy and, in 2015 he was sentenced to 39 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release.

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Then earlier this year during an investigation into a drug trafficking organization, Mejia Sanchez was allegedly identified as a drug supplier who provided fentanyl pills to a distributor. He was also allegedly seen engaging in suspected hand-to-hand drug transactions.

Law enforcement then allegedly arranged for a purchase from Mejia Sanchez on Feb. 19 in Lawrence, during which he allegedly dealt 1,000 fentanyl pills while on federal supervised release.