Pro Boxer Edgar Santana Busted As Part Of Alleged Major Cocaine Ring
By Teri Thompson, Michael O’Keeffe And Nathaniel Vinton
Daily News Sports Writers
Updated Friday, July 18th 2008, 4:58 PM
(Originally published on July 18 at 10:12 a.m.)
Edgar Santana, the junior welterweight boxer often billed as “The Pride of Spanish Harlem,” was arrested Friday as part of an alleged international cocaine distribution ring busted by the New York Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor and the New York Office of the DEA.
Santana, 29, was picked up at his home at the George Washington Carver Houses on 102nd St. in Spanish Harlem in the early morning hours Friday. Friends and acquaintances were stunned.
“Everybody has been blindsided by this whole thing because it’s just not something that you would think Edgar could be involved in,” said Ernesto Dallas, Santana’s manager for the last six years.
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Two Arrested In Drugs And Guns Scheme
By Christopher Flaherty
Special to The Sun – March 22, 2007
City Law Enforcement Officials arrested two men charged with running a criminal network that used drug profits to purchase and sell guns on the streets on New York.
In the scheme, three suspects, Peguy Desir, 27, Joshua Pierre, 30, and a man yet to be apprehended who is knows as “Big Man” purchased drugs in the city and sold them for large profits in the South, the officials said. They would then purchase guns in Southern states and resell them for higher prices in New York, the Manhattan District Attorney, Robert Morganthau, said at a press conference yesterday.
Some of the guns were bought at pawnshops in Virginia, the police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, said.
Mr. Morgenthau said the suspects were arrested on Tuesday evening at 182 South St. after a sting operation conducted by a joint task force from the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the police department’s Firearm Investigation Unit.
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Lift Foxy’s Ear-Bling In Catfight
BY TONY SCLAFANI
Tuesday, September 14th 2004, 6:48AM
A $250,000 DIAMOND-encrusted earring was snatched from the lovely ear of rapper Foxy Brown when she was attacked inside a rest room at a swanky Manhattan club, cops said.
The raunchy R&B star was knocked around at Show Nightclub in Times Square early Sunday after an argument with a woman cops identified as Tanya Manderson got physical, police sources told the Daily News.
She slugged the 25-year-old Brooklyn-bred diva in the right ear about 12:45 a.m., then yanked off the gaudy earring, the sources said.
Manderson allegedly took the earring and Brown’s purse and ran out of the W. 41st St. club with security guards close behind, the sources said.
She disappeared into a subway station at 42nd St. and Sixth Ave. before hurling the purse onto the tracks and giving the guards the slip. The purse was recovered, but not the earring.
Someone at the club knew Manderson, and cops hauled her into the Midtown South Precinct about 4:30 p.m.
Manderson, 35, of Fort Greene, was charged with robbery, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
MSG Result: Tanya Manderson’s case dismissed by the grand jury.
Attorney for the defense: Matthew D. Myers
