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'Mob Wives' Star Drita D'Avanzo Arrested on Drug and Weapon Charges
Mob Wives star Drita D’Avanzo and her husband, Lee, were arrested Thursday in Staten Island after police allegedly found illegal drugs and weapons in their home, PEOPLE confirms.
When police searched the couple’s home, they allegedly found two loaded guns, approximately pills of hydrocodone, 22 Xanax pills and marijuana.
PEOPLE confirms they have each been charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of marijuana, criminal possession of a firearm, criminal possession of drug paraphernalia and acting in a manner injurious to a child. A source tells PEOPLE that the couple’s year-old daughter was home at the time of the arrest.
According to ABC 7, the arrests came after the NYPD received tips from the community.
The couple will appear in court on Friday reports.
Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True brott newslet • STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Lee D’Avanzo, the husband of “Mob Wives” star Drita D’Avanzo, has already done “hard” time in federal lockup while awaiting his sentencing in a gun case, his lawyer told a judge on Friday. Due to the coronavirus (COVID) pandemic, the Pleasant Plains resident has been allowed out of his cell a total of just three-and-a-half hours some weeks to shower and speak to his loved ones, said attorney James R. Froccaro Jr. at D’Avanzo’s sentencing. That hardship, coupled with his “redeeming” qualities, including being a “loving family man,” were among the reasons why the year-old defendant should be sentenced to 37 months in prison, Froccaro said. “I respectfully submit it’s not a slap on the wrist,” said the lawyer. Brooklyn federal court Judge Rachel P. Kovner disagreed. Citing his extensive criminal history, which entails six convictions, including two in federal court, the judge hit Lee • Mob Wives star Drita D'Avanzo's husband Lee D'Avanzo has been sentenced to more than five years in prison after pleading guilty to keeping two loaded guns at their Staten Island home. D'Avanzo, 51, a reputed member of the Colombo crime family, appeared at the Brooklyn Federal Court house on Friday, in the court's first in-person hearing since the coronavirus lockdown in March. The mobster was handed a month sentence - much longer than the 46 months prosecutors had sought - despite wife Drita's pleas for leniency weeks earlier. D'Avanzo pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a weapon after authorities found two guns loaded with hollow point bullets stashed in the kitchen and master bedroom during a raid of the couple's home in December. Judge Rachel P. Kovner on Friday stood firm on her ruling, citing D'Avanzo's lengthy rap sheet
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