01/29   HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (UPI) -- Nine persons including four New
York City policemen were arraigned Friday in First District Court on
charges of assault in the bachelor party beating of a man in a Long
Island bar last July 4.
   The policemen were suspended from the New York police force
Thursday when they voluntarily surrendered following action by a
grand jury.
   All of the suspects face up to a year in jail and-or a $1,000
fine on the third-degree assault charges.
   According to Nassau County District Attorney Dennis Dillon, the
men attacked David Shafer, 26, of 11 Sunset Ave., Lynbrook, when he
objected to their taking his girl friend's sweatshirt as the couple
sat at a table in the "On the Rocks" bar in Island Park.
   Shafer told police when he tried to get the sweatshirt back about
20 men punched and stomped him inside and outside the bar.
   Shafer was hospitalized for three breaks in his right leg, nose
injuries, several facial cuts requiring stitches and bruises all
over his body. After he complained that police called to the scene
made no arrests, an investigation was initiated by the Nassau County
Police Department and the District Attorney's Major Offense Bureau.
   The defendants who were members of the New York police force were
identified as Detective Thomas Egan, 30, of of 159A Beach 109th St.,
Rockaway Beach, and Officer John G. Leahy, 26, of 180 Beach 114th
St., Rockaway Park, both of the Midtown North precinct in Manhattan;
Officer John Bellington, 31, of 108-14 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Belle
Harbor, of the 113th precinct in Queens, and Officer Patrick Leahy,
29, of 180 Beach 114th St., of the 68th precinct in Brooklyn. The
Leahys are brothers.
   The other defendants are Michael Leahy, 27, of 180 Beach 114th
St., Rockaway Park; Kevin Nolan, 27, of 8100 Shore Front Pkwy.,
Rockaway Beach; William Moore, 22, 111-26 Rockaway Beach Blvd.,
Rockaway Park; Greg Carey , address unknown, and Ralph Celcentano,
25, of 196 Beach 128th St., Belle Harbor.