A veteran NYPD detective who shot and wounded his partner after the pair allegedly pounded multiple beers at a Howard Beach diner last month has been canned, sources said Wednesday.
Detective Jay Poggi, 57, had put in for retirement earlier this month, which meant that NYPD brass had only 30 days to bring him up on departmental charges and take the case to an an internal department trial, sources said.
Commissioner William Bratton made the call on Friday after a trial commissioner recommended that Poggi, a 31-year veteran who refused to testify, be terminated, the sources said.
Poggi and his partner, 15-year vet Matt Sullivan, had left the 75th Precinct in East New York about 1 a.m. April 24 to supposedly track down a robbery suspect in the Rockaways.
Instead, the alleged goldbricks stopped off at the Cross Bay Diner in Howard Beach in Queens, where beer is on the menu along with eggs and burgers.
After drinking up to 11 beers each, they left, and the senior cop pulled out an old-school, six-shot revolver to show his pal.
But the gun went off, striking Sullivan, 35, in the hand. Poggi drove him to Jamaica Hospital, even though both were heavily under the influence.
Sullivan needed surgery and Poggi was charged with DWI after blowing a .113 on a Breathalyzer test — well over the legal limit of .08, sources said.
The first-grade detective had been suspended without pay from his $154,000-a-year job, but released after his arraignment. His driver’s license was suspended.
Despite the firing, Poggi will still get his pension. Cops can only loose their pension if they are convicted of a felony.
Poggi, who worked most of his career in East New York, helped build a case against Lamont Pride — who was convicted of gunning down another 75th Precinct officer, Peter Figoski, in 2011.
“He knew Pete for years. This is such a shame. He wasn’t thinking. It’s out of character for him,” a source told The Post at the time of the incident.
Figoski was fatally shot in the face while responding to a “burglary in progress” at an East New York drug den.