Source: 4 arrested in connection with drugs in Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment

[BainsBane]

Source: CNN

New York (CNN) -- Four people thought to be connected to the drugs found in late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment were arrested Tuesday night, a law enforcement official told CNN.

During the raid that yielded the arrest of the three men and one woman, police recovered 350 glassine bags, the official said.

No additional information was released.
. . .

Preliminary tests Tuesday showed the heroin recovered from the apartment does not contain fentanyl, a law enforcement official told CNN.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/05/showbiz/philip-seymour-hoffman-death/index.html

[NYC_SKP]

1. I'm so saddened by the news of his passing, and his addiction, and the whole mess.

I've just known too much of this sort of thing to not be really impacted by it.

Thank you for the update, but it's sad that there are no winners in any of this.

[truthisfreedom]

2. Can't bring him back. Stop searching for a perp.

He put the needle in his own arm. Dammit.

[Cha]

3. Hello.. these people are selling to other addicts

too. You don't just hold no one responsible for the product because he put it in his own arm.

[exboyfil]

4. Agree but they should put the same amount of effort

into any death - not just the death of someone famous. Hoffman should not count more than anyone else.

[Cha]

5. Of course not!

[Control-Z]

6. Actually, they put out an

alert (of some kind) for tainted heroin the week before he died because there had been a number of deaths from overdoses in the weeks prior.

They believed the heroin that killed Hoffman may have been from the same batch.

[BainsBane]

8. Actually preliminary testing shows no fentanyl. nt

[whathehell]

10. Thank you....n/t

[raindaddy]

11. Agreed... But,

We're spending billions on the so-called war on drugs.. Catching a few street dealers isn't going to change the big picture. Ever wonder why they never follow the $$$ to the source? We also spent billions in Afghanistan, some things never change.

[alittlelark]

7. Incarcerate them.... NEW JOBS !!!?

Yeah, our ludicrous supply/demand system is working 'oh so well'.........

Addiction remains constant.... DEA is 5x constant addiction level in $$$$$$

[Iwillnevergiveup]

9. Gov. Peter Shumlin

from Vermont, of course:

http://governor.vermont.gov/newsroom-state-of-state-speech-2013

Cross posted in "Good Reads"

[nilesobek]

12. I'd bet the perps

are racing to see who can flop over for the prosecution fastest. No one wants a murder rap. The cops have this one already figured out.