Kamar de los Reyes (10 July 1995 to August 1997; 1998; February 2000 to present)
Other Names
Manuel Santi II (birth name)
Lifeline
As Manuel Santi, believed to have died in a car bombing on September 17th, 1976.
Occupation
Owner/Manager of Capricorn Former Detective at the Llanview Police Department
Former Private Detective
Former Detective at the Llanview Police Department
Former law student at Berkeley in California
Shot Javier to protect Andy - cleared, self-defense.
Accused of murdering Carlo Hesser - cleared.
Shot Luis to protect Dylan Moody - cleared, self-defense.
Murder in pool hall - served 7 years - later ruled self-defense.
Arrested Rex Balsom under false pretenses.
Fired from the police department for using excessive force.
Arrested for the murder of Tico Santi - cleared.
Attacked R.J. at Capricorn after R.J. assumed custody of Jamie.
Brief Character History
Antonio had been in jail for 7 years for a murder in a pool hall and his mother, Carlotta, had severed all ties with him. Bo Buchanan makes a deal with Antonio, he will be released early if he helps Bo flush out the dirty cop who was selling stolen guns to the teenage gangs in Angel Square. Antonio works with police officer Andy Harrison and eventually they learn that her partner, Det. Nick Manzo, is the cop stealing and selling the guns. All hell broke loose when Manzo realized Andy and Antonio were working for Bo, and he set up Andy to look like the dirty cop. Antonio was stabbed while attempting to create a peace treaty between the two rival gangs, and Andy shot a gang member who was about to kill Antonio's brother, Cristian. Antonio ended up in the hospital with a stab wound, but was alive. But Manzo made it look like the teen Andy shot was unarmed and made Andy and Antonio look as if they were selling the guns.
Andy went on trial for murder AND for being the accused gun runner, with Antonio being set up as her lover-accomplice. Throughout her trial, evidence piled up, and Antonio and Dylan tried to convince Linda, a local girl who liked Antonio, to come forward with the truth- that Ice Dixon had a gun and Andy shot him to save another's life. Antonio talked and flirted with Linda, trying to get Linda to testify for Andy. Andy was convicted, but a day later the verdict was overturned when Bo and Linda tricked Manzo into confessing and Andy and Antonio were released. The next few months were devoted to Antonio and Andy slowly building up a relationship. Seven months after they met they made love on Valentine's Day and from that day forth, Antonio and Andy were fully committed to one another.
Antonio took a loan from loan shark RJ Gannon to buy the Angel Square diner for his mother and started working for gangster Carlo Hesser to repay the loan and to send his brother Cristian to college. He didn't tell Andy about it because he didn't want her to be compromised in her job. When Andy found out he was working for Carlo, she tried to be a cop and a criminal's girlfriend, but was suspended by Bo for protecting Antonio, which was actually a loyalty test the commissioner had set up for her. Andy and Antonio broke up for a few months, then Antonio went secretly undercover with Bo to trap Carlo. Antonio and Andy reunited when she found out he was working with the police, and she was reinstated to the force by a forgiving Bo.
Things were looking up, until Antonio was charged with Carlo's murder. Andy never wavered in her belief in her lover's innocence, even when she found incriminating evidence and turned it in to Bo. His trial was full of ups and downs, and Andy even was forced to testify "against" her lover, but Antonio was eventually cleared of all charges when Mortimer Bern testified that he saw Alex Olanov shoot Carlo. After the trial, Andy and Antonio went to NYC and re-affirmed their love for one another. Antonio's name was cleared for the original pool hall murder and Andy found an organization for Antonio which would pay all his law school expenses if accepted. He was, and with this great news, he proposed to Andy-who accepted.
The next few weeks were filled with Andy working to connect RJ Gannon with some Atlantic City mobsters. An old nemesis, Javier, ruined Andy's undercover operation and attempted to kill her, Antonio got there in time to save her and for his troubles his grant was taken back. Andy, Nora Buchanan and Hank Gannon fought for Antonio and his grant was restored. He was also accepted to Berkeley Law School and it was decided they would move to California. Antonio and Andy were married, had a reception in Angel Square and left for their new life in California. Antonio returned briefly in 1998, to help his brother-in-law Max Holden when his children were kidnapped.
In 2000, Antonio returned to Llanview to help his brother, Cristian, who married Roseanne Delgado and then learned she had been lying to him. It turned out that Andy had had an affair with her police partner, which was why Antonio had left her. Andy and Antonio eventually got a divorce and Antonio started a relationship with Roseanne, who was now divorced from Cristian. Sophia, Antonio's partner, was also in love with him and when she called him for help, Roseanne didn't pass along her message. When Antonio found out that Sophia could have died because of Roseanne's actions, he broke up with her.
He became furious when he discovered RJ had hired a hit man to go after his brother, since he and Cristian were working together to bring him down. RJ refused to say anything to put Keith away for good, and that made Antonio very angry. He was taking college classes at Llanview University where he met Professor Keri Reynolds. She made life difficult when she turned down a paper that could get him a promotion. Finally, he fixed it to her satisfaction and the two had feelings for each other. Antonio was shocked to discover that Keri was RJ's daughter, which Keri herself did not know until recently. They had problems due to that, especially since RJ kept getting in the way.
Carlotta was not pleased either with Antonio dating RJ Gannon's daughter, and was not quiet about it. Finally, Keri and Antonio decided no matter what their families thought, they were going to stay together. Antonio tried hard to get Carlotta to accept Keri, but soon after the birth of his daughter, Jamie, his relationship would Keri fizzled out. Deeply jealous over the end of her and Antonio's relationship, Keri filed for sole custody of Jamie and tried to make Antonio out to be a bad influence on the child. Although Antonio was able to fight Keri and obtain joint custody, the victory was bittersweet when Keri wound up dead! Though accused of Keri's murder, Antonio's new girlfriend, Jessica Buchanan, was able to find new evidence that cleared him. Jessica was also there for Antonio when his brother, Cristian, died.
After learning that his mother, Carlotta, was the sister of infamous crime lord Manuel Santi, Antonio immersed himself deep undercover to investigate the crime family and gave Jamie to R.J. to look after, infiltrating himself in the life of local bar owner Sonia Toledo, who turned out to be connected to the Santis. Sonia eventually led him to Tico, who Antonio began to suspect was El Tiburón, the head of the Santi crime family. At the same time, he also met Santi governess, Angelina Paredes, and felt a strong connection to her. Through the course of his investigation, Antonio learned that his entire life was based on a lie; he was really Manuelito Santi, the eldest child of Manuel and Isabella, who had been adopted by Carlotta and Diego as a child to protect him from Manuel.
The news of his true parentage nearly destroyed Antonio. Unable to cope with what he had learned, he broke off his relationship with Jessica, and fell into bed with Sonia, whom he had learned was an INL agent. The two continued to investigate El Tiburón, and at one point, they even believed that Isabella had been the mastermind. Antonio and Sonia were eventually able to prove that Tico was El Tiburón, but then Tico ended up dying in the hospital. While the whole town wondered who killed Tico, Antonio was shocked when his brother Cristian turned up alive and well. The joy was short-lived, though, as Antonio was soon devastated to learn that Cristian was an imposter brainwashed to kill him on Tico's orders (in reality, it truly was Cristian, but he pretended he was an imposter).
After grieving for his brother again, Antonio became more determined than ever to get his life back on track. Regretting his decision to cast Jessica out of his life, Antonio had begun campaigning to get her back while 'Cristian' was still around, even when she suspected him of being her stalker. When R.J. arranged to have two marshalls pick Jamie up at Antonio's place (thanks to a writ of temporary custody) on the first real visit Antonio had with his daughter since giving her to R.J. months earlier, Antonio was devastated. Jessica vowed to stand beside him while he fought R.J. for custody, but when Jamie and Jessica nearly died in a fire, Antonio began wondering if staying close to Jessica was best for Jamie. Antonio eventually won custody of Jamie after John burst into the courtroom and arrested R.J., and was overjoyed when Jessica was back and pregnant, only to learn that Jessica had an alter named Tess and had also been intimate with another man. Antonio was convinced the baby was his, and was determined to get Nash Brennan out of their lives.
Antonio was thrilled when the baby was born and, shortly after, Jessica managed to regain control after months of Tess being in control, but devastated to learn that Nash was the father. Nevertheless, Antonio was determined to forge ahead and have a future with Jessica and Brennan, whom he planned to raise as his own daughter.
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