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5 Arrested for grandchild OD demise case
Revealed October 30, 2025 at 10:07am PDT
Two years after the demise of Robert De Niro’s 19-year-old grandson Leandro Anthony De Niro-Rodriguez, the household remains to be on the lookout for solutions…and now authorities have arrested 5 extra folks within the case, TMZ has discovered.
Leandro was discovered useless on July 2, 2023, reportedly from an unintended drug overdose. Based on Folks, Drug Enforcement Administration officers mentioned the suspects taken into custody in New York are being charged with drug gross sales leading to demise.
The 5 folks have been charged with conspiracy to distribute a managed substance inflicting demise, NBC 4 New York reported.
The sixth lady, recognized as Sophia H. Marks, was arrested simply weeks after her tragic demise and was charged with promoting medicine to a younger man.
On the time, we reported that Leandro had been noticed by a buddy who hadn’t heard from him in a number of days and was checking on him.
His mom, Dorena De Niro, confirmed the demise of her solely son on Instagram.
“My lovely and sort angel,” she wrote. “From the second I felt you in my stomach, I beloved you past phrases and explanations. You have been the enjoyment of my coronary heart and all the pieces that had ever been pure and actual in my life. I want I might have been with you proper now. I do not understand how I might reside with out you. Effectively, I wish to go on and unfold the love and light-weight that you just made me really feel by being your mother. You have been so deeply beloved and appreciated, and I want love was sufficient to avoid wasting you. 😞 Relaxation in peace and everlasting paradise, my darling boy.”

Leandro appeared within the 2018 movie A Star Is Born. He performed the son of George “Noodles” Stone, performed by Dave Chappelle, the perfect buddy of Bradley Cooper’s character. Leandro additionally appeared in “Cabaret Maxim” in 2018.
he was 19 years previous.
RIP


