Authorities are building a criminal case against the owner of the East Village building that blew up last week and left two people dead when it collapsed, sources told The Post Wednesday.
An investigation into possible illegal plumbing work to supply the apartments in 121 Second Ave. with gas from a building next door has expanded to include landlord Maria Hrynenko, law enforcement sources said.
Possible charges include second-degree manslaughter and reckless endangerment, the sources said.
Hrynenko inherited both 121 Second Ave. and 119 Second Ave. from her late husband, Michael, who also ran the neighborhood’s 24-hour Kiev diner before his death in 2004.
Meanwhile, City Hall said DNA testing confirmed that the second body pulled from the building’s rubble was that of Moises Locon, 27, the Sushi Park busboy missing since Thursday’s explosion and fire.
Moises comes from a family of nine in Guatemala. He was described as a hard worker who was planning to move back home and marry his childhood sweetheart, Susana Matzar.
The body of Nicholas Figueroa, 23, of East Harlem, who was at Sushi Park on a date, was also recovered Sunday and was identified by family members shortly after the grim discoveries.
The “cause and manner” of both men’s deaths remain under investigation by the Medical Examiner’s Office, City Hall said.
I assume they will also go after the plumber.
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