Brooklyn landlord’s ‘killer’ held without bail on murder charge

The Crown Heights man who copped to the abduction and killing of Brooklyn slumlord Menachem Stark was ordered held without bail during his arraignment on kidnapping and murder charges Thursday.

Kendel Felix, 26, clad in a black jacket, dark jeans and sneakers, stood with his shoulders slumped and a resigned look on his face but didn’t speak during the proceeding in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

But the victim’s brother, Joel Stark, said cops need to bring charges against others involved in the crime.

“Nobody should get away. They should come to justice,” he said.

Cops on Wednesday grilled three suspects, including a man Felix said helped with the abduction and another who helped him dispose of the body – but the others were not charged.

Sources said detectives pushed for the second kidnapper to be charged but that prosecutors from Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson’s office said they needed more evidence before more arrests could be made.

Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) said the borough’s Orthodox Jewish community expected additional arrests soon.

“We want additional arrests, and I know [police] are working on it as we speak, but we want to make sure once these arrests happen, these individuals who committed this horrible act of violence, that they spend the rest of their life in jail,” Hikind said.

Menachem Stark with wife Bashie and one of their sons.

He also said the arrest should dispel rumors that swirled after the killing that Stark was rubbed out by mobsters or over higher-level shady business dealings.

“It was a robbery, that’s what it was. All those other stories of horror caused so much pain during the shiva, when the family sat shiva for their son, for their husband, for their father,” he said.

Another brother, Yitzy Stark, said through tears that Stark’s family was relieved that there had finally been an arrest in Jan. 2 killing.

“Everybody knows that he was a great man. He was not a bad man. We cannot have him back. The family will always be broken and our family will never be the same as it was in the past,” he said about his brother, a father of seven.

The suspect, of Montgomery Street, admitted he was one of the two kidnappers who snatched Stark, 39, a married father of seven whose body was later torched and left in a dumpster on Long Island.

His attorney, David Jacobs, did not seek bail and Judge Jane Tully ordered Felix remanded.

Felix on Wednesday told cops he had done some construction work for Stark but had never been paid, sources said.

The suspect claimed he and his accomplices only wanted to scare Stark and get their money, but that the landlord died during the struggle when an accomplice sat on his chest in the backseat of the minivan they used to snatch him.

Detectives seized computers and cell phones from the suspects, and also a pair of work boots from one of the men’s apartments. Surveillance video showed that one of the kidnappers was wearing distinctive work boots.