Police Blotter

Hush looses license
The State Liquor Authority ordered the summary suspension of the liquor license of Club Hush, at 580 11th Ave., on Oct. 20, after one man was shot to death in the wake of an argument inside the club four days earlier and two men were stabbed during an incident five days earlier.

The suspension came after an investigation by the S.L.A.’s Rapid Enforcement Unit, which found that the club, located near 43rd St., also had building, fire, health code and unlicensed cabaret violations in addition to the disorderly premises designation.

The club operator is entitled to a hearing before an S.L.A. administrative law judge. Hush has until Nov. 22 to demand the hearing, or the club may go to State Supreme Court to overturn the suspension, which remains in effect until it is modified or lifted by the S.L.A. or by the courts.

In the Oct. 16 shooting, Gerard King, 37, of Jersey City, was shot in the chest by an unidentified gunman and died after collapsing a block away. The day before, Ryan Jones, 32, of Detroit, and his friend Gilbert Lemel, 40, of Freemont, Ohio, were stabbed and injured after an argument inside the club when shots were also fired into the air.

Fabolous mystery
Despite a denial by Boston Celtics star Sebastian Telfair, 21, that he is not connected to the Oct. 17 shooting that injured John Jackson, the hip-hop performer known as Fabolous, in the parking lot of Justin’s, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ restaurant at 31 W. 21st St., police last week said they were investigating the possibility.

Telfair had a $50,000 chain taken from him at gunpoint in the same parking lot 20 minutes before the shooting in which Fabolous was hit in the leg. The hip-hop performer and three companions drove off after the shooting but were stopped by police, who charged the four with weapons possession after two unlicensed guns were found in the car.

A surveillance camera captured the image of two people robbing Telfair, according to a Daily News article. The article said that Telfair went into the restaurant after being robbed and made a cell phone call when he saw Fabolous finishing his meal at one of the tables. The parking lot surveillance camera also caught the shooter driving off in a gray car, according to the report. Fabolous has hired private investigators to look into the shooting, according to a New York Post article.

Arrested in abduction
Elmo Rivandeneira, 22, of Kearney, N.J., arrested last week for the May 2005 knifepoint sexual assault and abduction of a 16-year-old girl in North Bergen, N.J., was charged also with the Oct. 31, 2004, abduction and rape of a woman, 29, as she left a Halloween costume party at Crobar, the club on W. 28th St. in Chelsea. The suspect was charged with forcing the woman into his car, raping her and dropping her off naked in New Jersey.

He is also facing charges of the attempted abduction in September 2004 of another woman from a West Chelsea street. In that incident, the victim struggled and escaped and the attacker dropped a cell phone that police recovered.

DNA on the cell phone matched DNA recovered from the attack on the girl in North Bergen, and the cell phone was traced back to a store in Pennsylvania and then to the person who bought it and gave it to Rivandeneira, according to Hudson County, N.J., law enforcement officials.

Flatiron stabbing
Three friends walking out of Taj, a lounge at 48 W. 21st St., after 4 a.m. Sun. Oct. 22 encountered two strangers who started an argument that escalated into a fight, according to police. One of the three was slashed in the ribs before the suspects fled. The injured man, 25, was treated at Roosevelt Hospital and released.

Killed in subway fall
A man crossing between cars on a southbound No. 1 train as it approached the 28th St. station about 7 p.m. Sat. Oct. 21 lost his footing and fell between the moving cars, police said. The victim, Carl Leach, 55, was declared dead at the scene.

Foxy probation
Inga Marchand, 27, the hip-hop performer known as Foxy Brown, went to court on Tues. Oct. 24 and tried but failed for the third time to withdraw her guilty plea to misdemeanor assault in connection with the Aug. 29, 2004, incident in which she was charged with assaulting two employees of a nail salon on W. 23rd St. near Seventh Ave. in Chelsea.

Judge Melissa Jackson denied the request by Frank Rothman, Brown’s third lawyer in the case, to withdraw the plea deal Brown made in August 2005. Brown said she was coerced into the plea deal

Jackson sentenced the hip-hop queen to three years probation and ordered her to report to a probation officer, undergo drug testing and attend an anger-management program.
After Brown left the courtroom she denounced the judge for a “disdain of hip-hop,” and indicated she would appeal the ruling.

Albert Amateau