NYC Sheriffs raided swingers club with 80 revelers in room with ‘buffet, DJ, and boxes of condoms’

Sex club busted for illegal party amid rising COVID rates on Sunday night

Caligula, which bills itself as ‘the Hottest Swingers Club in New York’, was raided just at 12:05am after officers received a 311 complaint about a party in Queens

Officers encountered patron, many of whom were not wearing masks, as they illegally drank in clusters inside the venue in violation of the city’s maximum 25-person gathering rule

Three couples were also found having sex in a small back-room, police said

Caligula also wasn’t licensed to sell or store alcohol on the premises, according to police

Manager, Roy Bacoy, 37, was charged with violating an executive order, violating an emergency measure and received $16k in fines

Earlier same night NYPD officers shut down speakeasy with 120 people in COVID crackdown

New York City sheriffs busted nearly a hundred patrons partying at an illegal swingers club in Queens early Sunday morning.
Officers found upwards of 80 revelers crammed into a secret location without masks in violation of the Big Apple’s pandemic orders.
The illicit underground club Caligula, which bills itself as ‘the Hottest Swingers Club in New York’, was raided just at 12:05am after officers received a 311 complaint about a party on 20th Ave. near 41st Street, in Astoria.
Police swooped on the Queens sex club which was operating while ignoring the steady rise in citywide COVID-19 cases and guidelines to slow the spread.
Officers making the bust early Sunday, walked in on an illegal party decked out with the trappings of a modern-day Roman orgy.

When deputies arrived they found a swath of mostly maskless carousers unlawfully drinking and disregarding social distancing protocol in a room that featured a buffet, a DJ and several boxes of condoms, according to police.
Three couples were also found having sex in a small back-room that had been lined with mattresses, police said.
Signs inside advertised the location as a place where “wild ones cum to play,” with rooms for sex available to rent.
The orgy-like event was hosted by Caligula New York, a club that advertises itself as the “Hottest Swingers Club in New York.” Aside from lack of social distancing, the club didn’t have the proper licenses to sell alcohol, authorities said.
Caligula New York is named after the infamously debauched Roman emperor.

Two party organizers were arrested and given desk appearance tickets.
The city sheriff’s officers charged the club’s manager, Roy Bacoy, 37, of Woodside, with violating an executive order and violating an emergency measure, running an unlicensed bottle club, unauthorized warehousing of alcohol and failure to protect health and safety.
Bacoy received a $1,000 failure to protect health and safety fine while the business was given a $15,000 fine, the sheriff’s office said.
They also charged one of the patrons, Jennifer Hayes, with disorderly conduct and violating an emergency measure.
In an interview with the NY Post, Hayes, 47, denied she was at the club to partake in any debauchery, instead she was there only for the live music.
‘[The chief] kept saying how long have you been working there… I didn’t work there. I heard them laughing and making fun of everybody,’ adding that she will be appealing the violations. ‘I got angry, I mouthed off… they kept me there for four hours.’

Hayes insisted she was wearing a mask the whole time and didn’t witness anyone having sex.
‘I just wanted to dance and see and hear a DJ play music, that was it!’ she said. ‘There’s no other options. You can’t go anywhere.’
The 47-year-old added that she didn’t believe the place was crowded and said she thought people were stood apart at an adequate distance. She said she didn’t believe there to be as many as 80 people inside, though she wasn’t sure of the exact size of the crowd.
‘We were trying to do it safely, we were wearing masks, we just wanted to hear music, that’s all,’ Hayes said. ‘We weren’t trying to put anyone in danger, we were maintaining our distance from other people.’

Hayes insisted she was wearing a mask the whole time and didn’t witness anyone having sex.
‘I just wanted to dance and see and hear a DJ play music, that was it!’ she said. ‘There’s no other options. You can’t go anywhere.’
Hayes said that she didn’t believe the place was crowded and said she thought people were stood apart at an adequate distance. Though she wasn’t sure of the exact size of the crowd, she didn’t believe there to be as many as 80 people inside: ‘We were trying to do it safely, we were wearing masks, we just wanted to hear music, that’s all,’ Hayes said.
‘We weren’t trying to put anyone in danger, we were maintaining our distance from other people.’
Sheriffs accused Hayes of engaging in ‘tumultuous or threatening behavior and made continual unreasonable noise,’ during the bust.
Earlier, in Midtown Manhattan, the Sheriff’s Office zeroed in on an illegal club on the third floor of a building on W. 36th St. near Eighth Ave., officials said.
Officers observed about 75 people entering the building through a service entrance around 11:30 p.m. Saturday along with bouncers standing outside. The bouncers ushered people inside, then patrolled the sidewalk to make sure it didn’t look like a party was underway, authorities charged.
Waiting for the party to get into full swing, the Sheriff’s Office busted in around 2 a.m. Sunday and found over 120 people dancing, smoking hookah, and drinking without masks or social distancing.
The building lacked proper liquor licensing and bottle club certificates, authorities said.
Five people were arrested, including the bouncers, organizers and a DJ. Tickets were doled out that could lead to $75,000 in fines.

The busts were the latest in a string of weekend raids by the Sheriff’s Office as secret nightspots continue to flout coronavirus rules.
Last weekend, deputy sheriffs busted three parties attended by 600 revelers, including an underground boxing tournament in the Bronx.
The Hunts Point fight night, dubbed the “Rumble in the Bronx,” was advertised on social media. When officials showed up, they found over 200 people watching amateur fights, smoking hookah, drinking, and partying without regard to social distancing and face mask guidelines.
Ten organizers were arrested while deputies handed out tickets for unlawful assembly, failure to protect health and safety due to COVID, violation of emergency means, unauthorized warehousing of alcohol and obstructed egress.