A woman has been arrested in connection with the death of Robert De Niro’s grandson, Leandro De Niro Rodriguez.
Sophia Haley Marks, 20, allegedly sold Rodriguez, 19, drugs before he was found dead July 2 in his Manhattan apartment, according to a law enforcement source.
Marks appeared Friday in Manhattan federal court on three counts of narcotics distribution.
After her initial post announcing her son Leandro’s death, Drena de Niro later said in the comments section of the post,
Someone sold him fentanyl laced pills that they knew were laced yet still sold them to him so for all these people still fucking around selling and buying this shit, my son is gone forever.”
According to a recent report from the CDC, nearly 70,000 people in the US died of drug overdoses involving fentanyl in 2021, almost a fourfold increase over five years,
The Southern District of New York has taken over the case.
A 20-year-old woman was arrested in connection to the overdose death of actor Robert De Niro's grandson Leandro Anthony De Niro-Rodriguez, law enforcement sources say. https://t.co/O9CE7HBlak
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 14, 2023
(via CNN)
