Police Blotter

Volume One, Issue 20, February 9- 15, 2007

Police Blotter

Fatal fall in Chelsea
A manager at BED, a club on the sixth floor of 530 W. 27th St., was charged with negligent homicide in connection with the death of a guest who fell four stories down an elevator shaft during a tussle shortly after 4 a.m. Sat. Feb. 3, police said.

The victim, Orlando Valle, of the Bronx, was celebrating his 35th birthday at the club with about 10 friends when he became involved in an argument that erupted among a coat check attendant, a member of his party and Granville Adams, 43, working as a manager and maitre d’ at the club.

In the tussle that followed, Adams pushed Valle against an elevator door that was not securely on its track. The door swung open when Valle fell against it, and he plunged down four stories to the roof of the elevator, which was between the first and second floors, police said.

Valle was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where he died a short time later. Adams, of Brooklyn, was identified in newspaper reports as an actor who played in 24 episodes of the HBO series “Oz.” Valle was identified as the father of a 13-year-old son.

Chelsea sex abuse
A science teacher at Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities is facing charges that he sexually abused seven female students in the building at 351 W. 18th St., in Chelsea, during the school year from Sept. 1, 2005, to June 13, 2006.

Hector Aquino, 50, was arrested Jan. 23 after an investigation by the Department of Education, which resulted in his suspension. He was charged with seven counts each of endangering the welfare of a child and harassment, and six counts of sexual abuse without the consent of the victims.

Arraigned on Jan. 24, he was freed on $3,000 bail pending a March 19 court appearance.

Aquino was charged with touching the girls, who ranged in ages from 15 to 17, on the buttocks, thighs and backs, and with rubbing one victim who was pregnant on the stomach. He is also charged with publicly asking them in front of other students about their sexual lives and causing them “to become alarmed and seriously annoyed.”

Arrest suspect
Police arrested Jason Bourdeau, 28, last month for larceny in connection with the incident involving a woman resident of a W. 27th St. single-room-occupancy hotel who told police that after a night of drinking on Oct. 25, she awoke in her room to find a strange man kissing her. She said the intruder raped her and fled with her cell phone and an ATM card that he used to withdraw money from her account. Police did not have sufficient evidence to charge the suspect with rape but filed the larceny charge. Bourdeau was freed pending a March 28 court appearance.

Sushi and such
Security guards at Whole Foods, 250 Seventh Ave. stopped a woman walking out of the shop at 4 p.m. Sat. Jan. 27 with a package of sushi and three small containers of cold food valued at a total of $17 under her coat, police said. Kellie Flynn, 39, was charged with petit larceny.

Chelsea prostitution
Four female strippers and two male managers of Scores, the club at 536 W. 28th St., were arrested Jan. 25 and charged with promoting prostitution. The women had told undercover vice officers that they would perform various sexual acts for prices ranging from $200 to $750 in special rooms in the club with special doors that lock, according to the charges.

The two managers told undercover officers posing as customers that as long as they had an agreement with a girl, the rooms were available for them, according to the charges.

Three of the women, Colleen Matthews, 22, of Livingston N.J.; Karina Vasquez, 32, of Manhattan; Marianna Nasyarova, 19, of Brooklyn, and the men, Gustavo Kiste, 29, and Eli Iskolsky, 36, were freed on their own recognizance pending a March 20 court date. Nicole Green, 23, of Manhattan, who had been charged in 2005 with prostitution, was freed on $1,500 bail until March 20. Mark Bederow, lawyer for all the defendants, said the charges were false.

— Albert Amataeu