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One shown here, are facing drug-related charges tonight. jason carroll has details. >> reporter: a night-time drug raid on a west village apartment building not far from where philip seymour hoffman lived. a tip that someone here sold drugs to hoffman leads police to search three apartments in the building. according to law enforcement, inside they find 350 bags of heroin and other drugs. the heroin called the black list and red bull not the same labels found on heroin found in hoffman's apartment which were called ace of spades and ace of hearts. four was initially arrested. these pictures sh...

Gained ground with four arrests. three men and a woman, all but one shown here, are facing drug-related charges tonight. jason carroll has details. >> reporter: a night-time drug raid on a west village apartment building not far from where philip seymour hoffman lived. a tip that someone here sold drugs to hoffman leads police to search three apartments in the building. according to law enforcement, inside they find 350 bags of heroin and other drugs. the heroin called the black list and red bull not the same labels found on heroin found in hoffman's apartment which were called ace of spades a...

Played with y club john on his facebook page. a number of people coming out and supporting him saying he's being used as a scapegoat for police wanting to find someone to arrest for this crime as soon as they could. one of his neighbors who we got a chance to speak to earlier today also coming to his defense. >> he's honestly one of the nicest people i've ever met. smart. yeah. goes out of his way to be nice. knows everything about film, music, art, literature. great guy honestly. >> reporter: but here in this neighborhood the focus is not on those arrested, the focus honestly is around the co...

Olympics coverage begins tonight at 8:00 eastern on nbc. all right. here's a look at some of the stories topping the news now. there will be no jail time for this texas teen who used affluenza as his defense in a drunk driving crash that actually kid four people. in addition to ten years' probation the judge did send 16-year-old ethan couch to a rehab facility that this parents will be paying for. a doctor treating the castaway who was adrift at sea for more than a year says his health is deteriorating. jose salvador alvarenga thanked the officials from the marshall islands where his boat ...

And cnn has learned vineberg's cell phone had hoffman's phone number stored in it. >> he's honestly one of the nicest people i've ever met. smart, yeah. he goes out of his way to be nice. >> reporter: vineberg is a jazz musician, well-known in the downtown club scene. he uses the stage name robert aaron and has appeared with the rapper wyclef jean. supporters posting comments on his facebook page such as "thinking of you". investigators still trying to determine if vineberg or any of the suspects sold drugs to hoffman. still unclear what led hoffman who had struggled with addiction to relapse....