Nearly a half-dozen people have been arrested in connection with selling the drugs that led to the 2023 overdose death of actor Robert De Niro’s grandson, according to court documents.

Five men are charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances resulting in death in the July 2023 death of Leandro Anthony De Niro-Rodriguez, the only child of De Niro’s oldest daughter, Drena, and others.

The NYPD has said officers found De Niro-Rodriguez unconscious when responding to a 911 call to Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. The recently turned 19-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.

Prosecutors say the victim had just moved to New York for a theater internship on Broadway, not long after graduating from high school in Aspen, Colorado. He was found dead two days after taking the ap

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