- Student Juliana Luchkiw pleads not guilty to misdemeanor charge
- Max Rosenblum, 22, was to appear in court later Thursday
- Determination of cause and manner of actor's death is pending further study
- Police source: Apartments where four arrests made are part of probe into death
New York (CNN) -- A 22-year-old fine arts student arrested in connection with the drugs found in actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment was released on her own recognizance Thursday.
Juliana Luchkiw was among four people arrested in a raid Tuesday night in which police recovered 350 small plastic bags of what is believed to be heroin, law enforcement officials told CNN. The bags of alleged heroin were branded "black list" and "red bull" -- not the same brands found in Hoffman's apartment, the officials said.
A police source said the Manhattan apartments where the four were picked up are part of the investigation into Hoffman's death.
The four under investigation in connection with drugs sold to Academy Award-winning actor were identified as Luchkiw; Max Rosenblum, 22; Robert Vineberg, 57; and Thomas Cushman, 48.
The Manhattan district attorney's office Wednesday declined to prosecute Cushman because there was no evidence he had any control over the drugs.
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George Clooney: Hoffman was a friend Luchkiw, who pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance, appeared Thursday before Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Edward McLaughlin on Thursday.
Luchkiw's attorney, Stephen Turano, told the court his client has no criminal record. He said her father, who was present in court, is a lawyer and her mother a doctor.
The prosecution asked for Luchkiw's bail to be set at $1,500, but McLaughlin ordered her released on her own recognizance, saying it was a misdemeanor case and it was "illogical" to assume she would fail show for her February 14 court date.
Luchkiw walked out of court with her father.
Attorney: 'Wrong place at (the) wrong time'
Rosenblum was to appear in court later Thursday. His attorney, Daniel Hochheiser, said his client had an outstanding warrant for a 2010 misdemeanor drug charge but that the warrant was vacated.
Vineberg, who faces a felony charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance, is set to appear in court February 14.
Vineberg was found to have the actor's phone number stored in his cell phone, a law enforcement official told CNN. Police discovered the largest amount of what is believed to be heroin in his apartment, the source said.
A former neighbor described Vineberg as a talented musician who used the stage name Robert Aaron and once toured with Wyclef Jean. Vineberg had a wife and daughter, said the neighbor, who lived in the building years ago.
"He used to practice at night," said the ex-neighbor, recalling that Vineberg played keyboards. "Honestly, he seemed like a nice guy, always playing music. Nothing sinister."
Vineberg's attorney, Edward Kratt, said he hopes prosecutors will not use his client as a scapegoat.
"These charges have absolutely nothing to do with Philip Seymour Hoffman's unfortunate death," Kratt said.
Turano, Luchkiw's attorney, similarly said his client had no connection to Hoffman, other than seeing his movies, and that Luchkiw was simply in the "wrong place at (the) wrong time."
A spokeswoman for the New York medical examiner's office said Wednesday a determination of the cause and manner of Hoffman's death is pending further study, including toxicology reports.
When police were called to Hoffman's fourth-floor Manhattan apartment Sunday, they found the actor lying on the bathroom floor with a syringe in his left arm. He was wearing shorts and a T-shirt, his eyeglasses still resting on his head, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the inquiry.
Investigators discovered close to 50 envelopes of what they believed was heroin in the apartment, the law enforcement sources said. They also found used syringes, prescription drugs and empty plastic bags of a type commonly used to hold drugs, the sources said.
Also found in Hoffman's apartment was his personal journal, resting on a living room TV stand, two law enforcement sources said.
No fentanyl found
Preliminary tests Tuesday showed the heroin recovered from Hoffman's apartment did not contain fentanyl, a law enforcement official told CNN. More testing will be done.
Fentanyl is a powerful narcotic used to treat cancer patients' pain.
Last week, Maryland officials said heroin tainted with fentanyl had claimed at least 37 lives since September. And last month, at least 22 people in western Pennsylvania died after using heroin mixed with fentanyl.
While results of an autopsy will definitively reveal how Hoffman, 46, died, the role that heroin may or may not have played is a key part of the investigation.
Final hours
Police are trying to piece together the actor's movements last weekend as they look for anyone who might be linked to the drugs that apparently killed him.
A law enforcement source told CNN that the night before Hoffman died, he withdrew $1,200 from a grocery store ATM near his apartment.
Hoffman got the money in six transactions Saturday night, according to the source.
A witness told investigators he saw the actor talking to two men wearing messenger bags about 8 p.m.
Police are also reviewing surveillance video, including that of a restaurant where Hoffman had brunch Saturday morning with two people.
Past struggles with drugs
In a 2011 interview with "60 Minutes," Hoffman discussed his past struggles with drug and alcohol addiction.
"Anything I could get my hands on, I liked it all," he said.
Fear, Hoffman said, made him sober up.
"You get panicked. ... I was 22 and I got panicked for my life. It really was, it was just that," he said. "And I always think, 'God, I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden are beautiful and famous and rich.' I'm like, 'Oh my God. I'd be dead.' "
But last year, Hoffman said he'd fallen off the wagon, started taking prescription pills and slipped into snorting heroin, according to TMZ.
Magazine writer John Arundel said he met the actor at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah two weeks before his death.
"I said, 'What do you do?' And at that point, he took off his hat and he said, 'I'm a heroin addict,' " Arundel said.
"Didn't look like he was (joking). Seemed like he was having one of those 'coming to God' moments -- where it just struck him as, 'This is the revelatory moment.' "
But actor George Clooney said he had dinner with Hoffman a few months ago, and he seemed fine.
"I have to say he seemed in pretty good shape," Clooney said. "I mean, there's no way to explain it."
Filmmaker Chris Barrett interviewed Hoffman January 17 at Sundance. "He didn't look well at Sundance. His skin color was very pale, but he wasn't disheveled, as some media was reporting," Barrett told CNN.
Broadway dims lights
Family and close friends of the actor will hold a private funeral service in New York. Plans are also under way for a memorial service later this month. No information on the dates was available.
On Wednesday night, theaters in the famed Broadway district dimmed their marquee lights for one minute at 7:45 in Hoffman's memory.
He appeared on Broadway three times.
Hoffman stayed active on stage even as his star rose in Hollywood. He starred in a Broadway production of "Death of a Salesman" in 2012 and was co-artistic director of the Labyrinth Theater Company in New York.
That company hosted a candlelight vigil Wednesday night.
"I just was really profoundly affected by his death and felt like it was important for me to be here," said Leslie Kritzer, a fellow actor. "I also just think it's important to be here to remind people to have compassion and love for people that are struggling with the disease of addiction."
Kritzer said she had long admired Hoffman from afar.
"He could do the movies, and he did them brilliantly -- better than anyone else -- but he always came back to his roots, and he was a hero for all of us that could only dream of doing what he accomplished," she said.
CNN's Jason Carroll, Brian Vitagliano, Adam Reiss, Faith Karimi and Nischelle Turner contributed to this report.
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