All because of a two-shot pistol: Passaic County rapper Juelz Santana agreed to surrender to authorities Sunday morning for having a gun in his bag at Newark Airport, Daily Voice has learned.
Santana — whose real name is LaRon James — could face prison time because he has a prior felony conviction out of Bergen County, which prohibits him from carrying a firearm.
A judge in Hackensack gave Santana two years probation in 2013 after he pleaded guilty to lesser charges for what prosecutors said were assaults on both his then-girlfriend, Kim ‘Bella’ Vanderhee, and a good Samaritan who came to her aid at an Englewood housing development in July 2011.
Santana and Vanderhee reportedly split last fall.
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This time, the co-founder of The Dipsets and The Skull Gang not only left his two bags but also his ID behind when he left the Terminal C security checkpoint at Newark Airport and ducked out an exit Friday night, a law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity said.
Inside one of the bags TSA agents found the .38-caliber Derringer pistol, multiple sources said.
"As TSA started going through his bag, he ran out of airport and jumped in a cab," one of them said.
Authorities reportedly went to his Totowa home looking for Santana, but he wasn't there, one told Daily Voice.
Arrangements were then made for a 9 a.m. surrender on Sunday, he said.
Six years ago, Santana was charged in connection with the discovery of two fully-loaded 9mm handguns, several boxes of ammunition and 17 dime bags of pot during a SWAT team raid of what was then his “Santana’s World” studios on South Washington Avenue in Bergenfield.
Santana -- who once lived in Teaneck -- wasn’t there at the time, but investigators arrested freestyle rapper Toby M. “Hynief” Raynor, who co-founded both The Diplomats (aka: The Dipsets) and The Skull Gang with him. Santana later turned himself in.
EXCLUSIVE: Rapper To Surrender For Gun Left In Bag At Newark Airport