Overview
- A senior law enforcement official said five people have been charged over drugs allegedly sold before the July 2023 death of 19-year-old Leandro Anthony De Niro-Rodriguez.
- Authorities announced the arrests on October 30, marking the first public charging development in the case.
- NYPD officers found De Niro-Rodriguez unconscious on Wall Street after a 911 call, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
- The New York City medical examiner ruled the death accidental due to the toxic effects of multiple substances, including fentanyl, bromazolam, alprazolam, 7-aminoclonazepam, ketamine and cocaine.
- His mother, Drena De Niro, has said he died after being sold pills she believed were fentanyl-laced, and Robert De Niro previously asked for privacy as the family grieved.