S.I. shooter is hit with $150G bail
A JUDGE set $150,000 bail Friday for the scion of a wealthy family involved in a wild police-involved shooting on Staten Island.
Patrick Allen, 24, was rolled into the courtroom in a wheelchair, his left arm in a sling, to face charges of criminal gun possession and reckless endangerment for the early Thursday incident.
Allen is the great-grandson of former longtime New York Post publisher Dorothy Schiff. Both his parents are former Brooklyn prosecutors. Police said Allen, wearing body armor, had drawn a 9-mm. handgun before they shot him twice during the 1:20 a.m. confrontation in the woods near Kreischer and Androvette Sts.
Cops later recovered an AR-15 rifle in the woods, as well as two more guns and a hunting knife.
A second alleged gunman, 24-year-old Jonathan Derbyshire, was held on $150,000 bail on weapons possession charges.
Authorities charged a third man, Liam Cox, with drug possession after cops raided his house – across the street from the shooting scene – Thursday night.
A prosecutor said that police found thousands of painkillers and 20 ounces of marijuana inside the Kreischer St. home.
Lawyers for all three defendants said they expected them to post bail. THE WELL-KNOWN owner of a popular Midtown gay club was found strangled in his apartment, cops said Friday.
A roommate found 54-yearold Savyon Zabar’s body on a bed in their fourth-floor apartment on W. 81st St. near Amsterdam Ave. on the Upper West Side about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
Cops declared his death a homicide on Friday. Detectives are looking to question Zabar’s masseuse, a police source said.
Detectives questioned his roommates and have identified a suspect, but no one had been charged by Friday night.
Zabar, who owned and managed the now-defunct popular Latin gay club Escuelita, died from compression of the neck, according to the city medical examiner’s office.
Friends of Zabar, who called him “Big Ben” because he weighed about 400 pounds, were stunned by his murder.
“He was a star,” said Christopher Lynn, Zabar’s lawyer and the former commissioner of the city Taxi & Limousine Commission. “Everybody is in a state of shock. We have the best police force in the world. They are going to get the person who did this.”
Lynn said Zabar developed a friendship with his teenage daughter, even throwing parties for her and her friends at the club. He said Zabar gave food to