{"id":127378,"date":"2020-12-06T12:10:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T09:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/autonomous-zone-bar-owner-jailed-after-driving-car-into-cop\/"},"modified":"2020-12-06T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T09:10:46","slug":"autonomous-zone-bar-owner-jailed-after-driving-car-into-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/autonomous-zone-bar-owner-jailed-after-driving-car-into-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Autonomous Zone’ bar owner jailed after driving car into cop"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Autonomous Zone’ bar owner jailed after driving car into cop<\/strong>”
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The co-owner of a Staten Island bar that has kept serving customers in violation of COVID-19 restrictions was arrested again late Saturday \u2014 this time for allegedly ramming his car into a Sheriff\u2019s deputy, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n

Danny Presti, co-owner of Mac\u2019s Public House in Grant City, was being held early Sunday at the borough\u2019s 122nd Precinct, police said. <\/p>\n

A Sheriff\u2019s deputy who Presti allegedly drove into remained at Staten Island University Hospital for injuries sustained when he was thrown onto the hood of the bar owner\u2019s car, a law enforcement source alleged to The Post.<\/p>\n

The deputy\u2019s condition was not clear early Sunday.<\/p>\n

The incident happ<\/a>ened shortly after Mac\u2019s closed for the night at 10 p.m. on Saturday, the source said.<\/p>\n

The bar has continued to serve customers food and drink indoors throughout the week despite strict COVID-19 restrictions limiting them to take-out only, and on Saturday night, patrons were being being let inside through an adjacent address, the source alleged. <\/p>\n

A Sheriff\u2019s deputy who posed as a customer was able to get inside, and established that alcohol was being sold in violation of strict state \u201corange zone\u201d restrictions and despite Mac\u2019s liquor license having been revoked, the source alleged.<\/p>\n

When the bar closed at 10 p.m., surveilling Sheriff\u2019s deputies waited until the crowd of customers dispersed, then moved to issue Presti another summons some distance from the bar, the source said.<\/p>\n

But Presti jumped into his car and drove into one of the deputies, sending the officer flying onto the hood \u2014 an assault that has been captured on video, the source alleged.<\/p>\n

Charges against Presti were still pending early Sunday; his attorney could not immedia<\/a>tely be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

The pub has been a flashpoint for frustration over strict COVID-19 restrictions by business owners since Gov. Cuomo cracked down on the southern part of the borough on Nov. 23, acting on a spike that had trip<\/a>led hospitalizations borough wide.<\/p>\n

Mac\u2019s declared itself an \u201cautonomous zone,\u201d and remained open despite a stack of fines, a shut-down order by the state Health Department and the revocation of its liquor license.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Mac\u2019s was raided and Presti was arrested by city sheriffs for the first time at the bar itself, an incident that drew dozens of angry supporters.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“#’Autonomous Zone’ bar owner jailed after driving car into cop” The co-owner of a Staten Island bar that has kept serving customers in violation of COVID-19 restrictions was arrested again late Saturday \u2014 this time for allegedly ramming his car into a Sheriff\u2019s deputy, according to law enforcement sources. Danny Presti, co-owner of Mac\u2019s Public…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Danny_Presti.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[82848,71155,1545,70344,71556],"class_list":["post-127378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-6-20","tag-bars","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-staten-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}