Police arrested four alleged heroin dealers in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday while investigating the death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Police Led To Four Alleged Heroin Dealers

Search warrants granted law enforcement agents access into three apartments on Mott Street. Musician Robert Aaron Vineberg, 57, Thomas Kushman, 48, Max Rosenblum, 22, and Juliana Luchkiw, 22, were arrested after hundreds of bags of heroin were discovered, reported the New York Post. None of the bags had the “Ace of Spades”that was found on the majority of the heroin found in Seymour’s West Village apartment on Sunday.

The dealers that were targeted in the raid came to investigators attention by a New York City heroin user, who claimed to have used the same dealers as Hoffman, according to TMZ. The user further alleged that when the dealer ran out of his higher quality product, Hoffman – who he’d frequently spot in the dealer’s apartment – would buy the cheaper, more dangerous heroin.

Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death

When Hoffman failed to show up to pick up his three children from his estranged partner Mimi O’Donnell, his friend David Katz was sent over to his place to check in on him. When Katz got inside Hoffman’s apartment, he found the actor dead in the bathroom with a heroin-filled syringe in his left arm. A total of 72 bags of heroin – full and empty – were found in the apartment.

Investigators initially considered the possibility that the batch of heroin that killed Hoffman contained the opiate fentanyl. On Tuesday, preliminary tests indicated that fentanyl was not present in the heroin, reported The New York Times.

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