By JOHN DOYLE and TATIANA DELIGIANNAKIS
Posted: 3:44 am
July 6, 2008
BROOKLYN
* Three men were stabbed - one fatally - in an early-morning brawl yesterday in East New York.
Cops said the fight broke out at Ashford Street and Liberty Avenue at 2:30 a.m.
Charles Pena, 29, was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he died.
Two others were taken to Jamaica Hospital: a 28-year-old man in critical condition with a stab wound to the chest and an 18-year-old man in stable condition stabbed once in the lower back.
* A man was gunned down at a Sheepshead Bay housing project yesterday.
A 911 call reported gunfire shortly after 2 a.m. on Batchelder Street near Avenue W at the Sheepshead Bay Houses.
Responding cops found 27-year-old Kenneth Powers slumped on the ground outside a building shot several times in the chest and stomach, police said.
He was rushed to Lutheran Medical Center, where he died.
QUEENS
* A drunken driver smashed into a storefront in Queens, killing two of his passengers in a horrific smashup early yesterday, authorities said.
A sauced Stephen Bush, 28, was driving his 2005 Cadillac on Rockaway Boulevard, near Brookville Boulevard, in Brookville at 3:30 a.m. when he careened onto the sidewalk and into the store, sources said.
Wayne Burnett, 29, and Nelson Garfield, 33, of Far Rockaway, were rushed to the hospital, where they were pronounced dead, cops said. A third passenger suffered minor injuries.
Bush, who was not injured in the crash, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and DWI, police said.
* A motorcyclist was arrested after leading cops on a chase through Jamaica.
Cops spotted the biker and his female passenger on 87th Avenue near 144th Street shortly after 4:30 p.m. on June 28 and tried to pull him over for not wearing a helmet, sources said.
He sped away, passed two red lights and traveled against traffic, reaching speeds up to 60 mph, cops said.
When Shameer Mohammed, 25, was stopped, cops found he did not have a valid driver's license. Cops also questioned the female passenger, the biker's 13-year-old niece.
Mohammed was arrested and slapped with charges of reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child, said a spokesman for DA Richard Brown.
* Cops say a man paid the price for trying to buy his way out of trouble with police.
Joshua Lorenzo, 24, was taken to New York Hospital-Queens after being arrested for allegedly beating a fellow patron at the Pourhouse Lounge in College Point at around 1:30 a.m. last Sunday.
While he was being treated, he offered two cops $500 each if they agreed to talk to the victim and convince him to drop charges, police said.
The cops declined and Lorenzo was slapped with bribery charges in addition to the assault rap.
* A drunken driver was arrested after he passed out behind the wheel of his car in Flushing, police said.
As cops tried to wake the allegedly sauced motorist, Meng Lee, 25, in his idling vehicle on College Point Blvd near 36th Road at 1:30 a.m. last Sunday, his foot slipped off the brake, sending the auto rolling into a telephone pole, court papers revealed.
Under questioning, the suspect allegedly admitted to drinking three beers. A Breathalyzer test revealed his blood-alcohol content was more than twice above the legal limit, sources said.
THE BRONX
* Cops were hunting a gunman who shot and critically wounded a man during a holiday celebration in Norwood early yesterday.
Police said the unidentified 24-year-old man had been among revelers at a barbecue in a parking lot on West Mosholu Parkway near Jerome Avenue when the gunfire erupted shortly before 2 a.m.
He was shot once in the stomach and rushed to North Central Bronx Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.
