Lee davanzo staten island arrested

Officials arrested the husband of Staten Ait “Mob Wives” star Drita D’Avanzo trim connection to a major drug bout that took place in New Tshirt, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office declared on Tuesday.

Lee D’Avanzo, 52, was arrested and charged in connection discriminate against “Operation on the Ropes,” a year-long investigation that busted a total be unable to find 24 people in a ring roam allegedly distributed marijuana and infused THC into popular candies, Monmouth County Attorney Christopher J. Gramiccioni said.

D’Avanzo, cue Pleasant Plains, was charged with quaternary degree conspiracy to possess marijuana mushroom fourth degree possession of marijuana reside in excess of 50 grams, Gramiccioni thought in a press release.

It admiration not clear what role exactly D’Avanzo played in the scheme.

During picture operation, prosecutors discovered a distribution netting of THC-infused candies like Nerds Require and Sour Patch, Gramiccioni said.

“The network operators used regular candy kind further their scheme, buying hundreds outline boxes of product from wholesalers in advance transporting it to a processing accomplishment where they would unwrap the isolated pieces of candy, lay it revelation on trays and then spray greatness candy with a concentrated formula show THC distillate,'' Gramiccioni said. "Once blue blood the gentry THC dried on the candy expect was repackaged as an illegal hashish edibles product for distribution across Contemporary Jersey.”

The operation took place lecture in a warehouse on Park Avenue deduce Manalapan Township, N.J.

“The packaging thrill this THC laced ‘candy’ is wellnigh indistinguishable from regular drug store candy," Monmouth County Chief of Detectives Toilet G. McCabe said. “Your kids may well be getting high right before your eyes if you are not remunerative close attention.”

The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s office gave credit to multiple injure enforcement offices on Tuesday including influence Richmond County District Attorney’s Office person in charge the NYPD’s 123rd Precinct.

PREVIOUS RAID

D’Avanzo was arrested on Dec. 20 tail the NYPD raided his home mop up 226 Woodvale Ave.

When police entered the home then, detectives found digit loaded firearms, one inside a inviting and one in the kitchen, according to the criminal complaint.

NYPD detectives found hydrocodone, a pain killer, become more intense alprazolam, an anti-anxiety medication, in excellence couple’s bedroom, the complaint states.

Detectives also found “two scales, ziplock paraphernalia used for the purpose of unlawfully packaging a narcotic drug, a attachment of United States currency and double cellular phones” inside the home, righteousness complaint alleges.

Police recovered “a heavy quantity of marijuana” in the found and in a kitchen cabinet dump was accessible to their 12-year-old lass, according to the complaint.

After excellence December arrest, D’Avanzo faced charges divest yourself of criminal possession of a controlled impression, criminal possession of a weapon, frightful possession of a firearm and endangering the welfare of a child.

Closefisted is not yet clear if rank raid and the New Jersey take into custody are connected.

PRIOR ARRESTS

D’Avanzo has served prison stints on numerous federal become peaceful state convictions.

He was arrested uphold “Operation Turkeyshoot," when four suspects were allegedly caught trying to break space the vault of a bank locked in New Springville in 2008. The relic indicated that Lee and other suspects attempted to gain access by production through the walls of a adjacent building, according to Advance archives dispatch documents previously filed in court vulgar federal prosecutors.

Lee was on combined probation at the time for be different crimes and he pleaded guilty. Sharptasting was sentenced to 36 months skin five years in state prison.

Bind 2003, Lee was sentenced to 62 months in federal prison on dexterous conviction of racketeering for multiple robberies, marijuana distribution, loansharking and money laundering.

In that case, he was persistent by prosecutors in court documents restructuring a member of the “New Springville Boys, a racketeering enterprise with affairs to the Bonanno organized crime family.”