{"id":140135,"date":"2026-02-20T16:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140135\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:43:11","slug":"2-arrested-after-botched-tiktok-stunt-left-teen-trapped-on-queensboro-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140135\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Arrested After Botched TikTok Stunt Left Teen Trapped On Queensboro Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

QUEENS, NY \u2014 Two teens have been arrested in connection with an incident on the Queensboro Bridge where a 16-year-old fell was left trapped after falling down a 50-foot-deep shaft. <\/p>\n

The teen is believed to have gotten stuck after he allegedly planned to post his stunt on TikTok, police said. <\/p>\n

In a petition posted to Change.org<\/a>, the family says 16-year-old Frankie was “abandoned and left to die during their worst and most traumatic moment of their life.”<\/p>\n

The family is accusing the teen’s friends of recording the incident and posting the video online instead of calling for help.<\/p>\n

“Instead of helping him, they left him there. They even took his phone and disposed of it, leaving him with no way to call for help. Frankie lay alone for over four hours, bleeding and exposed to the cold,\u201d the family wrote in the petition.<\/p>\n

The teen still faces a long road of surgeries, recovery, rehabilitation and a long list of medical bills, according to the family. <\/p>\n

Police on Long Island have said that there is one other teen involved in the incident. No charges have been filed as of Friday morning. <\/p>\n

An investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 Two teens have been arrested in connection with an incident on the Queensboro Bridge where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-140135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140135","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=140135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}