EXCLUSIVE: Accused gun-smuggling leader weighing 550 pounds lost 50 pounds HAS at Rikers

Maybe it's that jailhouse diet.William (Wobbles) Soler, the once 550-pound alleged honcho of a Bronx gunrunning ring, has shed at least 50 pounds at Rikers Island since his arrest, court sources told the Daily News.

“I thought my client was looking exceptionally well,” said Soler’s attorney Tuesday after court officers rolled the accused gun smuggler into Bronx Supreme Court in his double-wide wheelchair.

“He has lost around 50 pounds,” said lawyer Brian Sullivan, confirming Soler’s slight drop in size. “Clearly, he is very concerned about these charges.”

The rotund ringleader’s weight loss was hardly noticeable as Soler, 33, wearing a baggy gray sweatsuit and white Velcro sneakers, briefly appeared.Soler Was Among 10 members of an East Coast Bloods sect of the busted in May for Allegedly firearms sneaking into the city from upstate, Connecticut and Maine before flipping the weapons out of Bronx apartments for profit.

The tattooed gangster sold 93 weapons - ranging from .22-caliber semiautomatic pistols to rifles - to an undercover officer last year, the state attorney general's office Said in a whopping 367-count felony indictment.

Soler Could not be arraigned in the courtroom Among His fellow "Red Side" members in May Because His massive wheelchair, dubbed by one judge a "love seat on wheels," could not fit in the elevator Correction Department prisoner.The gargantuan Alleged gunrunner wound up pleading not guilty to the charge in a drab basement hallway of a facility Normally used to hold Inmates.

Held without lease at the city jail's infirmary, Soler faces up to 25 years on the top count of criminal sale of a firearm. In June, he rejected a plea deal for 20 years.

He is due back in court in late October, When the judge is expected to rule on His lawyer's motion to toss evidence Prosecutors Obtained through wiretaps.

Soler - Whose --other nickname is "Redrum," or "murder" spelled backward - aussi faces 25 years on a second-degree conspiracy responsible for Allegedly plotting to kill a rival gang member.