Posted on 03/23/2021 11:04:55 AM PDT by rktman
A Staten Island woman accused of trafficking guns, including a pistol used in the murder of a pregnant woman, broke down and cried when her lawyer told her she was being released on bond.
Gina Santoro, 54, was arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court Monday for allegedly working as an arms dealer for her ex-con boyfriend, Phillip Moreno.
The 46-year-old Moreno is accused of fatally shooting Alafia Rodriguez, 46, and his pregnant partner Ana DeSousa, 33, in the couple’s Mariners Harbor home last May.
Another woman in the house at the time, Erica Johnson, 43, was shot multiple times but survived.
When Santoro’s lawyer told her that prosecutors had agreed to her release Monday, she cried audibly on her call-in arraignment on charges of conspiracy to commit gun trafficking and gun trafficking.
Santoro spent the months before the murders traveling back and forth to Pennsylvania, where she obtained a driver’s license and bought a total of eight guns over four separate trips, federal prosecutors said in an indictment.
On her last visit on April 18, Santoro allegedly bought three Ruger .22 caliber pistols from an arms dealer, one of which bore the serial number of the weapon used in the murders of Rodriguez and DeSousa.
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So we’re gonna pass massive new anti-gun legislation, only to release criminals who illegally provide firearms that result in murders?
I love my Ruger SR 22
Staten Island seems to be a weird place.
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