Police have raided a Long Island condo owned by former Jets defensive star Jonathan Vilma, searching for clues in a pair of grisly drug retaliation murders.
Cops went to the $900,000 condo in a gated community in Woodbury after finding the bodies of two bullet-riddled men dumped in Brooklyn and Queens.
A law enforcement source said there is no evidence that Vilma, 26, who signed a $34 million contract in February with the New Orleans Saints, was involved in the crimes.
The source said a friend or relative Vilma may have allowed to use the condo could be connected to the double murder.
Vilma's agent Mitch Frankel said he hasn't lived in the condo since November 2007 and thought the place was empty.
"Jonathan has no knowledge of this. He hasn't lived there since Nov. 2007," Frankel said - a fact neighbors confirmed.
The 2004 NFL Rookie of the Year is trying to sell the two-story townhouse and spoke to his Realtor last week, Frankel added.
"To his knowledge, nobody is living there," the agent said. "He is clearly shocked to find out about this." Cops began searching the condo over the weekend and went door-to-door asking neighbors if they noticed anything suspicious.
"They wanted to know if I heard a gunshot, a bang, a noise," one neighbor said.
On Friday, NYPD cops found the body of Sekou Sakor, 31, dumped in the Paerdegat Basin in Brooklyn. That same day they discovered the naked body of an unidentified man on 78th St. and Dumont Ave. in Queens. Both men had been shot in the head execution-style. Detectives suspect the murders were in retaliation for a drug theft.
The killings may have been sparked after a Clay Ave. apartment in the Bronx was robbed by a crew of gun-wielding men who stole a suitcase full of cocaine from Sakor, a Liberian immigrant. It was unclear what role the other victim played.With Kerry Burke
Cops went to the $900,000 condo in a gated community in Woodbury after finding the bodies of two bullet-riddled men dumped in Brooklyn and Queens.
A law enforcement source said there is no evidence that Vilma, 26, who signed a $34 million contract in February with the New Orleans Saints, was involved in the crimes.
The source said a friend or relative Vilma may have allowed to use the condo could be connected to the double murder.
Vilma's agent Mitch Frankel said he hasn't lived in the condo since November 2007 and thought the place was empty.
"Jonathan has no knowledge of this. He hasn't lived there since Nov. 2007," Frankel said - a fact neighbors confirmed.
The 2004 NFL Rookie of the Year is trying to sell the two-story townhouse and spoke to his Realtor last week, Frankel added.
"To his knowledge, nobody is living there," the agent said. "He is clearly shocked to find out about this." Cops began searching the condo over the weekend and went door-to-door asking neighbors if they noticed anything suspicious.
"They wanted to know if I heard a gunshot, a bang, a noise," one neighbor said.
On Friday, NYPD cops found the body of Sekou Sakor, 31, dumped in the Paerdegat Basin in Brooklyn. That same day they discovered the naked body of an unidentified man on 78th St. and Dumont Ave. in Queens. Both men had been shot in the head execution-style. Detectives suspect the murders were in retaliation for a drug theft.
The killings may have been sparked after a Clay Ave. apartment in the Bronx was robbed by a crew of gun-wielding men who stole a suitcase full of cocaine from Sakor, a Liberian immigrant. It was unclear what role the other victim played.With Kerry Burke
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