NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- An Upper East Side grandmother is now safe and sound after a wild weekend the ended out front of a hip Chelsea nightclub.
Steve Sandberg reports
Betty Zengel, an 86-year-old Alzheimer's patient, apparently gave her caretaker the slip and wandered away from church Saturday morning only to show up 16 hours later at the velvet rope of the "M2" nightclub in Chelsea.
A security employee at the nightclub called the police and asked them to get rid of an old lady who was hanging out in front of the club scaring off patrons, police said. The club's owner disputes that and says they called the police because they were worried about her.
The club's owner says two police officers took her away, but then unthinkably dropped her off on a corner just blocks from where they picked her up.
Police deny that claim and say Zengel seemed fine at first, but when she was spotted walking disorientated in the rain they took her to the precinct and realized she was missing.
The club's owner says that after the cops dropped her off on the corner, he approached them and told them they can't just leave her on the street -- he also says he has video surveillance tapes to prove it.
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