it s going to end up being clean anyway. i don t see anything i couldn t support as a tradeoff. sources are telling nbc news that four people have been arrested in a drug ring. now they re investigating whether they were connected to the drugs that actor phillfilpi seymour hoffman took. the times reports the bags did not have the same ace of spades or ace of hearts markings as the bags that were found in hoffman s apartment. the actor made six atm withdrawals totaling $1200 near his home on saturday night. sources telling nbc he was talking to two men wearing messenger bags. the money was not recovered. that night he had spoken on the phone to mimi o donnell. she told authorities he sounded high in that call. hours later he was found dead.
so there is a drive to indict and identify the person who gave or sold the drugs to mr. hoffman to be indicted. again, because he s high profile media person. right. this is going to take in the first place informants on the street. i understand there s video of mr. hoffman. so i can assure you they re out in the area banging on informants, trying to find out who in that area is selling this. there s no mess enger services though in new york. it sounds to me as the report i heard earlier they saw somebody with messenger bags. there s delivery service for these things today. so just because you get somebody who put the drug in his hand doesn t i mean, technically that s the dealer. but that s just the messenger boy. that is going to serve the public interest to bag the messenger boy? i don t think so. it s the beginning of the investigation. one of the areas of my exper
so there is a drive to indict and identify the person who gave or sold the drugs to mr. hoffman to be indicted. again, because he s high profile media person. right. this is going to take in the first place informants on the street. i understand there s video of mr. hoffman. so i can assure you they re out in the area banging on informants, trying to find out who in that area is selling this. there s no mess enger services though in new york. it sounds to me as the report i heard earlier they saw somebody with messenger bags. there s delivery service for these things today. so just because you get somebody who put the drug in his hand doesn t i mean, technically that s the dealer. but that s just the messenger boy. that is going to serve the public interest to bag the messenger boy? i don t think so. it s the beginning of the investigation. one of the areas of my exper tees is what they call blind mule defense.
messenger bags, pretty low level dealing. that s a very interesting question. because there are a couple of tangenti tangential investigations going on here. we re trying to determine if the district attorney is now going to charge them with complicity in his death. so they ve made an arrest. the next part of the equation is are they now going to make a determination that they should prosecution them not just for drug possession ordealing, but were they complicit in this man s death. sad none theless. thank you so much. meantime, philip seymour hoffman will be remembered tonight on the great white wave.
reports. last week they had over $8 million worth of heroin seized in a raid up in the bronx. so i m sure they re saying okay, did that have anything to do with maybe a distribution point in the west village. but while he was at the atm withdrawing $1,200 over six different transactions, there were two guys with him with messenger bags. so know that they re trying to find out who they are. in that west village area, i know that area very well, there s a lot of businesses with cameras and a lot of nypd cameras in that area. so they re going to go back, take a look, see what his movements were, try to identify these two and maybe anybody else who he may have met up along the way. in all your years in law enforcement, i was talking to a former addict social worker on the streets where heroin is bought and sold and he was telling me that generally addicts, when they hear of overdoses, especially since we re talking about national news about this philip seymour hoffman case, they want to