A St. Albans man was convicted of wielding a weapon to cut in front of a long gas line in the days following Superstorm Sandy, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Sean M. Bailey, 37, of 204th Street, pulled up to a gas station at the intersection of Astoria Boulevard and 43rd Street around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2012 as a passenger in a white 2010 BMW and tried cutting the line in front of a 29-year-old man, Brown said. When the man complained, Bailey left the car, walked up to the man and showed his .25 caliber Phoenix Ravel pistol.
“If you don’t pull back, you are not getting gas tonight,” he allegedly told the man, Brown said.
The man then backed off and called the police, who arrived soon after and arrested Bailey.
Bailey was convicted of second and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and second-degree menacing after a nine-day trial in Queens Supreme Court, the district attorney said. He now faces a minimum of seven years and a maximum of 15 years in prison, Brown said.
