{"id":22606,"date":"2025-10-30T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22606\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:16:36","slug":"5-new-arrests-in-overdose-deaths-of-de-niros-grandson-and-chris-steins-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22606\/","title":{"rendered":"5 new arrests in overdose deaths of De Niro&#8217;s grandson and Chris Stein&#8217;s daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK &#8212; Five people have been arrested Thursday on charges stemming from the 2023 overdose death of Robert De Niro&#8217;s grandson, Leandro, and the daughter of Chris Stein, co-founder of Blondie with Debbie Harry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sofia Marks, known as the Percocet Princess, was <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/robert-de-niro-grandson-leandro-rodriguez-cause-of-death-released-accidental-drug-overdose\/13621186\/?userab=kfsn_web_player-447*variant_a_kfsn_control-1860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">charged in 2023<\/a> with selling the drugs that caused the death of Leandro De Niro-Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The five new defendants &#8211; Grant McIver, Bruce Epperson, Eddie Barreto, John Nicolas and Roy Nicolas &#8211; were members of a criminal network that distributed thousands of counterfeit prescription opioid pills laced with fentanyl, among other drugs, to teenagers and young adults living in New York City, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the indictment, the fentanyl pills distributed by the defendants caused the deaths of three 19-year-olds, including Leandro De Niro-Rodriguez and Akira Stein. The indictment does not name the victims but law enforcement sources confirmed the names to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The DEA and the U.S. Attorney will announce the new arrests at a 3 p.m. news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Five people have been arrested Thursday on charges stemming from the 2023 overdose death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[14974,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-22606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-14974","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}