{"id":121354,"date":"2026-02-03T15:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121354\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:30:35","slug":"man-arrested-for-stealing-car-in-queens-with-72-year-old-man-in-backseat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121354\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for stealing car in Queens with 72-year-old man in backseat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was arrested Monday for stealing a car in Queens \u2014 and kidnapping the 72-year-old man sitting in the backseat, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was waiting in the backseat of an idling 2016 Subaru near 44th Drive and 23rd St. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Long+Island+City,+Queens,+NY\/@40.7454508,-73.9567699,4902m\/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c2592bc7bab159:0x56156cc4c5ee8e31!8m2!3d40.744679!4d-73.9485424!16zL20vMGc0azA?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDEyOC4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA3M0gBUAM%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Long Island City;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Long Island City<\/a> when the thief hopped in the driver\u2019s seat and sped off around 7:13 p.m. on Jan. 17, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect abandoned the car and his unwilling passenger about two miles away in Maspeth a short time later, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police arrested 30-year-old Dominic Kanin about two weeks after the NYPD released MTA surveillance footage of a suspect. He is charged with grand larceny, kidnapping, unauthorized use of a vehicle and unlawful imprisonment, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kanin, who lives in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Cambria+Heights,+Queens,+NY\/@40.6927997,-73.7732132,4906m\/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c263e58173077b:0x60473995a9db666!8m2!3d40.692158!4d-73.7330753!16zL20vMDczcms4?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDEyOC4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA3M0gBUAM%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cambria Heights;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cambria Heights<\/a> neighborhood of Queens, has no prior criminal history, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested Monday for stealing a car in Queens \u2014 and kidnapping the 72-year-old man sitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[53169,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-121354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-dominic-kanin","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-queens","13":"tag-queens-headlines","14":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}