DAN SAJEWSKI
“Borrowed” mom’s Mercedes.
THE HOLE TRUTH: At top is the gaping hole through which Sophia Anderson (in police custody Monday) drove a Mercedes-Benz taken allegedly by Dan Sajewski. (
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Ferris Bueller couldn’t have done it better.
Brooklyn hipster Sophia Anderson’s boyfriend swiped the home-wrecking Benz convertible from his parents’ Long Island mansion without their permission — and after the accident he offered as an apology to shake the hand of the old lady whose house had been smashed, The Post has learned.
“My grandmother came down and there was the passenger from the car — some guy she had never seen — standing in her kitchen!” said the granddaughter of Helen Indiere, 96, who encountered Dan Sajewski, 23, inside her totaled house at 4 a.m. Monday.
“She asked him, ‘Who are you? Why are you in my kitchen?’ And the guy said, ‘I can’t answer any questions, I’ve just been in an accident.’ Then he tried to shake her hand!”
“Just weird!” she said, adding that Indiere lived with her 94-year-old sister, Virginia Bennert.
The Huntington, LI, house will be condemned, officials said.
Sajewski, a bartender, arrived at his family’s Huntington estate last weekend with Anderson, 21, his on-again, off-again waitress girlfriend, a family member told The Post.
While his parents vacationed on Long Island’s North Fork, the duo helped themselves to his mother’s 2003 Mercedes-Benz CLK 320, a birthday gift from Sajewski’s anesthesiologist father, the source said.
They took a joyride to the Hamptons, where they had a little too much fun.
A field Breathalyzer test revealed that Anderson drove home with a .30 Blood-Alcohol Content — nearly four times the legal limit and the equivalent of about 15 drinks, prosecutors said at her arraignment yesterday.
Each drink typically increases an average person’s BAC by about .02.
They drove back to Huntington and she was speeding along Southdown Road when she failed to turn at a T-instersection — ramming through the front of Indiere’s house, obliterating her kitchen, and exiting through the back wall, prosecutors said.
Anderson, who lives in a Bushwick loft with several roommates, wore skinny jeans, a neon-green shirt and matching socks with no shoes to the arraignment.
She was held on $50,000 cash bail.
“We can’t believe he just let this girl drive a car he wasn’t even supposed to have in the first place,” a Sajewski family member said. “He’s done this before; he took his sister’s Jeep and just took off.
“He was trying to get the car home before the family got home from their own Memorial Day weekend. He’s not exactly the model son.’’
The relative added that Sajewski didn’t call his father about the accident until two hours later.
“His dad is really upset,” the relative said. “He had to hurry back home from the North Fork to deal with this.”
Anderson’s lawyer, John Loturco, said he plans to challenge the accuracy of the BAC reading in court.
In the police report, Anderson told cops “her power steering got stuck, causing her to crash,” and that she only drank “three beers.”
She faces up to a year in jail on charges of DWI, excessive speed, failure to halt at a stop sign and failure to produce insurance.
Loturco said his client “comes from a typical, middle-class family and has never had any problems at all.”
But Anderson’s neighbors described her as a wild child.
“She parties a lot,” said Ken Cohen, 33. “I’ve seen her up on the roof drinking a bunch. About two weeks ago, I saw her on the subway. It was about 4:35 in the morning. She was passed out on the subway. I had to shake her to wake her up so she wouldn’t miss her stop.”
One of Anderson’s roommates, Savona McGhie, said her pal isn’t “a drunk, she’s a typical 21-year-old.”
McGhie, 26, said of the DWI, “it’s out of character for her. I’m shocked.”
Sajewski wasn’t charged in the accident, but he’s had brushes with the law. Three years ago, on Memorial Day, he was arrested for selling ecstasy to an undercover cop, the Southampton Press reported.
Additional reporting by Dan MacLeod and Pedro Oliveira Jr.