Official: Heroin in packets in Hoffman’s apartment

February 3, 2014 at 6:24p.m.

NEW YORK (AP) — A law enforcement official says tests have confirmed there was heroin in at least some of the dozens of plastic packets in a New York City apartment where Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead. Officials are working to determine whether the drug was mixed or tainted with anything else. An autopsy was being conducted today. Police have been investigating Hoffman’s death as an apparent overdose. Law enforcement officials said he was found with a needle in his arm.