The scene of the crash where Sophia Anderson drove the car taken by Dan Sajewski through a Long Island home. (Steve Silverman)
The goofball boyfriend of the Brooklyn hipster who drunkenly plowed a convertible Mercedes through the Long Island home of a sleeping 96-year-old woman was shipped off to jail today by a no-nonsense judge who fumed that he has “no respect” for the law.
Daniel Sajewski showed up in Brooklyn Criminal Court in a blue Oxford and khaki pants – and bearing no visible marks from his wild weekend ride with 21-year-old galpal, Sophia Anderson, who remains locked up on Long Island.
But Judge Evelyn Laporte quickly sent Sajewski packing to Rikers Island, where he will spend the night without bail before a court date Friday in Manhattan on an outstanding warrant.
“You obviously have no respect for the court system,” Laporte told the 23-year-old Brooklyn bartender, who was in court on charges of pot possession and sipping booze on the subway.
Sources said Sajewski has an extensive history of no-showing court appearances. He’s set to face a Manhattan judge Friday on an outstanding warrant for having come up short on a sentence of community service.
“I don’t care if you were here on time,” Laporte scolded Sajweski. “You have six outstanding warrants on six different cases!”
The troubled son of a well-to-do Huntington family, Sajewski was riding shotgun next to Anderson when she boozily blasted his mom’s Mercedes-Benz CLK 320 though Helen Indiere’s home.
Sajewski and Anderson both escaped uninjured after the red convertible crash-landed against a tree and atop some bushes in Indiere’s backyard.
But Anderson remains jailed on $50,000 bail and prosecutors have said she likely guzzled more than a dozen drinks before getting behind the wheel of the luxury ride.
Sajewski’s rap sheet includes arrests in Manhattan, Long Island and Brooklyn for drug possession and theft.
His lawyer, Carl Benincasa, declined comment on Sajewski’s home-wrecking ride with Anderson.
“He’s been trying to do the right thing and turn his life around,” Benincasa said.