Five thugs pistol-whipped a man and then holed up in a crowded biker club where a party was raging Saturday morning in Brooklyn — prompting a nearly two-hour-long standoff with a huge contingent of police, authorities said.
The 43-year-old victim was outside Club Bejac, home to Bejacs Motorcycle Club, on Third Avenue near 57th Street in Sunset Park when the suspects assaulted him at around 7:20 a.m., police said.
The five men then darted inside the club — where nearly 100 people were partying — and refused to leave.
Heavily armed cops, including those with the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit, swarmed the location, police said.
“I was walking my dog earlier and the armored truck was trying to bust in,” said one 32-year-old witness who gave his name as Jesse D. “It rammed right into the front doors.”
The doors remained standing, but were badly damaged. The show of force was apparently enough to prompt those inside to open the doors, and the five suspects were hauled out at around 9 a.m., police sources said.
About 75 more people were lined up outside, some in handcuffs, but police only confirmed the five arrests.
“It was just a regular party, no noise, nothing wild,” griped reveler Johan Dillone, 30. “They shut the whole thing down.”
Locals said the scene at the club is often rowdy.
“I’m not surprised,” one woman said. “It’s an after-hours place — just young kids having a good time.”
Charges against the suspects are pending. It’s unclear if they were members of the club.
Additional reporting by Larry Celona