Ethan Telfair, the younger brother of former Lincoln high school basketball star and current NBA player Sebastian Telfair, was arrested Friday night in Coney Island on weapons and bribery charges, police sources said.
Telfair, 16, was arrested along with Lincoln boys basketball teammate Shaquille Davis, 15, after cops spotted two guns inside an open backpack in a courtyard behind the O’Dwyer Gardens Houses on West 33rd St. near Surf Ave. about 9 p.m. on Friday, authorities said.
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office said it was charging Telfair with criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and bribery in the third degree, which are both felony charges, and he is awaiting arraignment.
Cops searched the bag and found a third gun inside, police sources said. All three were loaded, the sources said, though it’s not clear who owned the backpack.
“They were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Jermaine Brown, the duo’s coach with the Juice All-Stars summer program, said he was told.
Telfair, who lives nearby at the nearby Surfside Gardens Houses, was taken back to the 60th Precinct, where he allegedly offered a cop a cash bribe to let him go, said a police source.
Teammate Shaquille Stokes was surprised to hear about his teammates’ alleged brush with the law.
“I don’t know what to say about that, just no comment,” he said.
Lincoln coach Dwayne (Tiny) Morton didn’t return voicemail messages from The Post.
Telfair, a 5-foot-10 sophomore point guard, received limited minutes this past winter and averaged 1.8 points and 1.6 assists per game for the PSAL Brooklyn AA regular-season champions, who won the borough crown and reached the PSAL Class AA title game, where they lost to rival Boys & Girls.
Telfair’s older brother, Sebastian, was drafted in the first round of the 2004 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves and his cousin, Stephon Marbury, who also grew up in Coney Island and starred for Lincoln, played for the New York Knicks until 2009.
Telfair is the second high-profile PSAL boys basketball player to be arrested in recent days. Wings senior point guard Deonte Houston was arrested Tuesday for his alleged role in an armed robbery in The Bronx. He was charged with first-degree robbery and released without bail.