A young woman accused of selling the fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills that killed Robert De Niro’s teenage grandson warned an undercover cop not to take “more than one at a time” before her arrest because, she said, her friend had “just died,” authorities revealed after she appeared in court Friday.
Wearing a black t-shirt and white sneakers with the laces taken out, Sofia Haley Marks, 20, of Manhattan, was held without bail at Manhattan federal court a day after her arrest on charges alleging she dispensed the pills that caused Leandro De Niro Rodriguez’s overdose death.
The petite Marks combed her hair with her fingers as U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang read aloud the charges. She faces one count of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl and alprazolam and two counts of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, each carrying 20 years of prison time.
The 19-year-old De Niro Rodriguez, an actor like his grandfather and mother, Drena De Niro, was discovered dead inside a Financial District apartment on July 2, where authorities found cocaine and prescription pills. He’d appeared in three films in his short career, including 2018′s “A Star Is Born” led by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.
Marks was arrested Thursday after selling fentanyl-laced pills to an undercover cop, in possession of 156 counterfeit oxycodone pills and approximately $1,500 in cash, according to the complaint. She sold the undercover 50 pills between July 9 and the night of her arrest.
“[P]lease be careful with these,” Marks told the cop, according to the complaint. “[D]on’t do more than one at a time … my friend just died.”
According to court papers, authorities believe Marks was referring to another 19-year-old who died on June 14. She told the undercover she was present for his overdose and that they had snorted pills together off her phone before falling asleep. When she woke up, the young man was non-responsive.
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