http://nyp.st/1bVHrAl NYPD hunting for Philip Seymour Hoffman’s heroin dealerBy
Jamie SchramFebruary 3, 2014 | 11:46am
Seymour Hoffman walks around Chelsea in October. Photo: INFphoto MORE ON:
Philip Seymour Hoffman5 great Philip Seymour Hoffman performancesPhilip Seymour Hoffman led brilliant, varied careerHoffman 'disheveled and pasty' at SundanceThe life and legacy of Philip Seymour Hoffman, dead at 46 The NYPD on Monday launched an intensive citywide search to identify the drug dealer who sold heroin to troubled Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died of an OD Sunday in his Greenwich Village pad.
“An internal email went out to all supervisors asking if anyone has had any experience with those brand names of drugs,” a law enforcement source told The Post. “They’re going to try to find the source.”
Timothy Bugge, the new commanding officer of narcotics enforcement for the Manhattan South precinct, emailed the alert to supervisors asking if they had dealt with heroin labeled “Ace of Spades,” or “Ace of Hearts.”
Cops found 44 glassine envelopes of heroin with those markings in Hoffman’s $10,000-a-month Bethune Street apartment.
The law enforcement source said that a process called “a nitro dump” could be key to cracking the case.
“Basically what that is, is any time we make a narcotics arrest we include the brand name on the arrest report and store it in our system so our investigators can see where those brands are being sold,” the source explained.
Once they determine a location, they can zero in on the dealer or dealers selling that particular brand.
Hoffman was found dead with a hypodermic needle stuck in his arm.Filed under
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