http://nypost.com/2025/10/30/us-news/five-busted-in-od-death-of-de-niros-grandson-accused-of-supplying-thousands-of-pills-to/
By Ben Kochman
New York Post
Published Oct. 30, 2025
Five people were arrested Thursday for allegedly supplying the fentanyl-laced opioid pills that caused the 2023 overdose death of Robert De Niro’s grandson, sources told The Post.
Grant McIver, Bruce Epperson, Eddie Barreto, John Nicolas and Roy Nicolas were part of a criminal network that sold thousands of counterfeit prescription pills to teens and young adults across New York City, court papers allege.
De Niro’s grandson Leandro overdosed and died in 2023. | @robertdeniro_world/Instagram
The five men allegedly supplied the drugs responsible for the July 2023 overdose death of the legendary actor’s grandson, Leandro De Niro Rodriguez — and also sold drugs that killed 19-year-old Akira Stein, who was the daughter of Chris Stein, the lead guitarist in Blondie, law enforcement sources said.
Sophia Haley Marks, 20, an alleged drug dealer known as the “Percocet Princess,” has been separately charged with being the person who sold De Niro Rodriguez the pills he overdosed on.
You'd think that De Niro wouldn't be such an insane, woketard douchebag about Trump, who has made much progress in curbing the flow of Fentanyl into this country, since his grandson died from Fentanyl under Biden's incompetent, negligent watch.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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