I figured this news is too serious for the locker room and not quite film room material but important enough to post in HL.
RIP Leandro.
Natalie O'Neill
July 14, 2023
The so-called “Percocet Princess” drug dealer busted in connection to the suspected overdose death of Robert de Niro’s grandson has allegedly sold pills to children as young as 15, police said Friday.
Sophia Haley Marks, 20 — who allegedly sold to 19-year-old Leandro De Niro Rodriguez before he was found dead in his Financial District apartment on July 2 — is notorious for her crop of under-aged clients, a police source said.
“She sells to kids. She is well known in the drug dealing world,’” the source said, adding she has sold to kids who are barely high school-aged.
“The feds got involved. They had another buy last night. So they were like, ‘Scoop her up now,” the source said.
Marks was arrested in an undercover sting operation conducted by the NYPD, Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Security at around 6 p.m. Thursday, law enforcement sources said.
She was charged federally with the distribution of narcotics, and was expected to appear in Manhattan federal court Friday afternoon.
Sophia Haley Marks reportedly sold drugs to children as young as 15.Jane Rosenberg
RIP Leandro.
‘Percocet Princess’ busted in death of Robert de Niro’s grandson has sold to kids as young as 15 years old: cops
By Tina Moore andNatalie O'Neill
July 14, 2023
The so-called “Percocet Princess” drug dealer busted in connection to the suspected overdose death of Robert de Niro’s grandson has allegedly sold pills to children as young as 15, police said Friday.
Sophia Haley Marks, 20 — who allegedly sold to 19-year-old Leandro De Niro Rodriguez before he was found dead in his Financial District apartment on July 2 — is notorious for her crop of under-aged clients, a police source said.
“She sells to kids. She is well known in the drug dealing world,’” the source said, adding she has sold to kids who are barely high school-aged.
“The feds got involved. They had another buy last night. So they were like, ‘Scoop her up now,” the source said.
Marks was arrested in an undercover sting operation conducted by the NYPD, Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Security at around 6 p.m. Thursday, law enforcement sources said.
She was charged federally with the distribution of narcotics, and was expected to appear in Manhattan federal court Friday afternoon.
Sophia Haley Marks reportedly sold drugs to children as young as 15.Jane Rosenberg