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Friday, July 30, 2021
Vol. 96, No. 31
HEALTH & WELLNESS
TOWN, COUNTY TO BOYCOTT BEN & JERRY’S
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Manhasset men killed in Quogue car crash Garden City woman in critical condition BY S A M U E L E PETRUCCELLI
PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE CUNHA
Manhasset resident James Farrell was one of five people, including his brother Michael, to die in a car crash in Quogue on Saturday evening.
A man driving along a narrow highway in Quogue crashed head-on into an oncoming Uber, killing three young Manhasset residents riding in the hired vehicle, local police said. Approaching midnight on a winding strip of the Montauk Highway last Saturday, the driver veered on the two-lane road and collided with a Toyota Prius carrying the Manhasset passengers, according to Quogue police. The drivers of both cars were also killed, raising the death toll to five.
Among the fatalities were Ryan Kiess, 25, and brothers Michael Farrell, 20, and James Farrell, 25 — all of whom lived in Manhasset and graduated from Manhasset High School. The crash also killed Uber driver Farhan Zahid, 32, of Bay Shore; and Justin Mendez, 22, of Brookhaven, who slammed into Zahid’s car, police said. Mendez, the sole occupant and driver of a red Nissan Maxima, crossed into oncoming traffic and struck Zahid’s Prius that was carrying the Farrells, Kiess and 22-year-old Brianna Maglio of Garden City, acContinued on Page 27
Ex-G.N. surgeon pleads guilty to felony BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Great Neck resident and plastic surgeon Matthew Bonanno pleaded guilty to a felony in the
Nassau County District Court Wednesday after two county police departments seized a cache of guns, ammo, and other weapons from him in 2019, officials said. The 49-year-old Bonanno
pleaded guilty to possessing a 9mm pistol while Nassau County prosecutors dropped additional charges, including 11 counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees and two charges of criminal possession of a firearm, court records showed. Bonanno faces five years of probation, handed down by Acting State Supreme Court Justice Terence Mur-
phy of the county’s 10th Judicial District, according to Newsday. Officials also said he will lose his medical license due to the convictions. Paul Gentile, Bonanno’s lawyer, contended that his client is “an esteemed plastic surgeon and an avid gun collector.” Gentile Wednesday told Murphy that Bonanno legally purchased the gun but failed to register it. Gentile also reportedly told the judge
that Bonanno never fired the gun. Bonanno was first indicted in Westchester, where he pleaded not guilty to 53 weapons charges separate from the ones in Nassau County - in September 2019. Earlier this month, according to multiple reports, Bonanno pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in Westchester. He faces an additional five years of probation Continued on Page 26
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