Call it a motorpsycho makeover.
With wild hair flowing to his shoulders, a muscle shirt and tattoos, Ray Dwyer looked every inch the Hells Angel he is when busted last February for allegedly killing a member of a rival gang at a Hell Raiser’s Ball.
What a difference a court hearing makes!
When he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of weapons possession yesterday, Dwyer’s hair was tied back in a ponytail, his mustache and beard were neatly trimmed and a pair of sunglasses was perched atop his head.
Instead of biker duds, he wore a white shirt, tie and conservative dark suit.
Dwyer, 39, was accused of fatally shooting Pagan gang member Robert Rutherford after members of the rival gang – wielding bats and pipes – crashed the “ball,” a biker’s expo in Plainview, L.I., last Feb. 23.
The Oceanside, L.I., tattoo artist had been facing up to 130 years to life behind bars on charges of wounding four others in addition to killing Rutherford, 51, in the riot that erupted after the Pagans invaded.
But Nassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon accepted Dwyer’s claim that he acted in self-defense and allowed him to plead guilty to criminal possession of a weapon.
He’ll spend no more than a year in jail.
“God bless America and God bless the Hells Angels,” Dwyer said after entering his plea in a Mineola courtroom.
After the rumble, cops seized hundreds of weapons – knives, baseball bats, handguns, shotguns and an Uzi machine gun.
Seventy-three Pagans have been convicted or pleaded guilty to federal charges in the case.
Dwyer also is charged in a beating and robbery at the Hells Angels clubhouse in Hempstead last spring. Sentencing on the weapons charge was postponed until after that trial.
With Andy Geller