More Bad News for Andrew Zayac

According to the Danbury News Times, there was more bad news for Scarsdale’s Andrew Zayac in Bridgeport Court on Monday when a federal grand jury returned additional charges of conspiring to use a firearm in a crime of violence and destruction of evidence.

Zayac and Herbito Gonzales of the Bronx are accused of robbing and murdering Bronx drug dealer Edward Rivera and dumping his body in Danbury in February 2009. The government contends that Zayac and Gonzalez set up a meeting with Rivera to buy 80 pounds of pot on February 8, 2009. Rather than pay for the drugs, they shot Rivera and then dumped his body near the Padanaram Reservoir where it was found two days later. When they returned to the Bronx they burned the Jeep they had driven to destroy the evidence. Investigators obtained a search warrant to go into the Zayac’s home and found 50 pounds of marijuana.

Before these new charges were made, Gonzales’ trial was to begin on October 4, but it has now been postponed until January 11, 2011. According to their lawyers, Zayac and Gonzales will be tried separately as they both made statements to the police that would incriminate the other man. Zayac will be tried in February, 2011.

Andrew Zayac was a star soccer player at Scarsdale High School, and graduated from SHS in 1998. In 2000, county police arrested him and two others for allegedly possessing more than 1,000 ecstasy pills. Zayac is the son of Linda Zayac, a treasured member of the staff of the Greenacres School, and Bob Zayac, a popular soccer coach who now runs the Soccer Camp for the Village of Scarsdale.