GRAMERCY — Drugs littered the hotel suite where a group of guests live-streamed a video showing guns laying on a bed, sparking a police raid at the Gramercy Park Hotel on Tuesday night, according to prosecutors.
Maxine Hansen, 25, began streaming the live video from inside a room at the 2 Lexington Ave. hotel just before 1 p.m., giving a tour of the decadent suite, while boasting about her lavish lifestyle and panning over to six fake guns laying on a bedspread, according to prosecutors.
“Somebody’s gonna catch a body!” she says in the video.
About five hours after the video started, police got a search warrant and raided the room, where they found found six bags of methamphetamine, smaller amounts of heroine and marijuana and hypodermic needles scattered throughout the room, including the bathroom and living room area, prosecutors charged.
Hansen was in the suite with three others, including 22-year-old Ashley Mueller, Firas Youself, 32, and Bassem Yousef, 30 — who was out on parole from a previous arrest, according to prosecutors and records.
Officers also found a knife with a nine-inch blade and six fake guns that appeared and weighed the same as real ones, according to a criminal complaint.
All four are being held at Rikers Island and were charged with felony drug possession, in addition to a misdemeanor drug charge, a violation for marijuana possession and a misdemeanor for the fake guns during an after-midnight arraignment on Thursday, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
A judge set bail at $30,000 for Bassem Yousef, $20,000 for Firas Yousef, $15,000 for Hansen, and $10,000 for Mueller, records show.
Their lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to a police source, someone called 911 after seeing the guns in the video and detectives were able to identify the hotel based on the images.
Police first alerted hotel security, who recognized the guests from the video and went up to the room before officers arrived, sources said.
As they approached the door, the guards could hear someone on the other side saying, "be careful with that, you could get shot," according to sources.
Bassem Yousef, of South Salem, New York has previously served a year in state prison for a 2015 conviction for possession of stolen property, and is currently on parole following his release in May of this year, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision records show.
