With over twenty-five (25) years of law enforcement experience, Edwin L. Santana was a founding member of the Morris County Sheriff’s Office Gang Intelligence Unit (October 2000). Throughout the span of his law enforcement career, Edwin L. Santana was assigned to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office (MCPO) Task Force and detailed to their Fugitive Unit, Narcotics Unit and Crime Intelligence Task Force Unit. During these assignments, Edwin L. Santana assisted in county/statewide operational intelligence gathering, undercover surveillances and tactical arrests related to gangs, guns and narcotics. In addition, Edwin L. Santana has been certified as an Expert Gang Witness on both the State and Federal judiciary level. In 2019, Edwin L. Santana was accepted by United States Chief District Judge Frank

Edwin L. Santana is a graduate of the Passaic County Police Academy and was certified by the State of New Jersey as a Method of Instruction (MOI) instructor in 2001. Since 2008, Edwin L. Santana has had the honor of instructing academy recruits under the New Jersey Police Training Commission (PTC) Basic Police Class & Basic Correctional Classes. As a national speaker and international educator, Edwin L. Santana has trained over 50,000 civilian and law enforcement professionals throughout the United States. In 2011, Edwin L. Santana was invited as a guest speaker at the National Alliance of Gang Investigator Associations’ World Gang Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. Based on Edwin L. Santana’s extensive understanding of gang history, trends and identification, his expertise has been utilized and/or featured by the New York based National Football League (NFL) teams, Fox News’ “Giraldo Rivera at Large”, Biography Channel’s “Gangsters” America’s Most Evil,” the History Channel’s “Gangland” series and most recently, the international Complex Magazine and Spotify investigative podcast series, “Infamous: The Tekashi 6ix9ine Story.” Edwin L. Santana is presently the East Coast Gang Investigators Association’s (ECGIA) New Jersey Chapter President (2018-Present) and oversees its membership and training within the Garden State. Edwin L. Santana has also held positions within other gang investigative organizations; International Latino Gangs Investigators Association (ILGIA) Vice President (2010-2013) and ILGIA Advisor (2018-Present), overseeing its many chapters that included the United States, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Spain. In 2006, Edwin L. Santana became an original Executive Board Member for the New Jersey Gang Investigators Association (NJGIA), and eventually was appointed as the NJGIA Vice President of Training (2013-2015). Currently, Edwin L. Santana continues his individualized training, expert gang opinions and testimony throughout the Unites States under the Morris County Sheriff’s Office and/or his G-STEP (Gang Suppression Through Educational Programming), LLC banner.

D. Whitney of the Western District of North Carolina as an Expert Gang Witness regarding the “United Blood Nation” and "9-Trey Gangster Blood" gang history, culture and ideologies.