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Philip Seymour Hoffman (Photo by Justin Hoch)

Following actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's suspected drug overdose, four people were arrested for drug possession. One of them had Hoffman's cellphone number, officials said. Attorneys in the case denied their clients had any role in the star's death and suggested they were being used as scapegoats.

By Jake Pearson
At least one of four people arrested during an investigation of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's suspected fatal heroin overdose had the actor's cellphone number, two law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

Investigators zeroed in on the four after a tipster, responding to publicity about Hoffman's death, told police he had seen Hoffman at the lower Manhattan apartment building where they were arrested on Tuesday and he believed that's where Hoffman got the heroin, the officials said. In searches of two apartments in the building, police found hundreds of packets of heroin in one of them, according to a criminal complaint.

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