Four arrested over Philip Seymour Hoffman's death

Four men who were suspected of selling Philip Seymour heroin were arrested in New York City’s Chinatown district.

07:51 06 February 2014

Philip Seymour’s death has led to the arrest of four men who are suspected of selling the 46-year-old bags of heroin. 

 

It has emerged that the award winning actor withdrew $1,200 from a cash machine the night before he died and met with two men afterwards. 

 

Police sources say that he was seen with them right after obtaining the cash in a supermarket near his Manhattan home. 

 

Four men are now being suspected of supplying the actor with the lethal drug. They were arrested during a late-night raid in New York City’s Chinatown district. 

 

It is now thought that police officers are searching the surveillance footage from the supermarket where the actor withdrew cash at around 8pm. 

 

Hoffman was found dead on Sunday morning by his personal assistant and friend David Katz who checked on him after he failed to pick up his children from his former partner’s home.  

 

A post-mortem examination was carried out yesterday. 

 

Meanwhile, Mimi O’Donnel, the mother of Hoffman’s three children, has made arrangements for a private memorial service.