By Ryan Schwach<\/p>\n
Police are looking for eight suspects allegedly involved in a raucous street takeover in Maspeth on Saturday night that has a local official up in arms. <\/p>\n
A video recorded of the Saturday takeover that later went viral on social media showed dozens of people crowding the intersection of Eliot Avenue and 69 Street in Maspeth, lighting a ring of fire and watching as cars did donuts in the street and around the flames. <\/p>\n
One of the vehicles doing donuts had a Palestinian flag hanging out of the window. <\/p>\n
The wild incident has a councilmember and locals calling for accountability less than six months after a similar incident in Northern Queens devolved into an attack on a local resident and public outage. <\/p>\n
Police arrived on scene shortly after the meet up began and the crowd quickly dispersed from the Queens intersection. <\/p>\n
According to the NYPD, cops responded to reports of drag racing just before 2 a.m. on Saturday. When they arrived, they saw a blue car doing donuts, as well as a silver BMW and white BMW. <\/p>\n
Two individuals allegedly leaped onto the hood of an NYPD car, cracking the windshield and then fleeing. <\/p>\n
No injuries were reported as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n
Police put out images of eight suspects wanted for reckless endangerment and criminal mischief, as well as vehicles of interests on Monday. <\/p>\n
Local Councilmember Phil Wong decried the incident as an affront to a good quality of life in the Western Queens neighborhood. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen the videos, and what happened at 69th Street and Eliot Avenue is disgusting,\u201d he said in a statement over the weekend. \u201cThis kind of reckless behavior is an attack on our quality of life, and it cannot be tolerated.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThese takeovers and the ongoing late-night car meetups blasting music are exactly the kind of chaos my office is working to stop,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
In November, a similar incident occurred in the Malba section of Northern Queens, which devolved into an assault on a local homeowner. <\/p>\n
In that incident, the victim came out of his house after hearing cars burning out on the street. He went out to his lawn with his wife and a baseball bat and told a group of around 10 people to leave. <\/p>\n
Around six of the people at the car meetup surrounded the man and began to threaten him. <\/p>\n
The group allegedly then began kicking, punching and stomping the man. At one point, the victim\u2019s wife attempted to get them to stop, but was punched in the mouth. <\/p>\n
Justin Aguilera, a 19-year-old from Far Rockaway, was arrested in connection with the illegal car meetup-turned-beating. <\/p>\n
On Monday, Wong said he had a scheduled meeting with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch for Tuesday to discuss the incident. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur neighborhoods deserve to feel safe, and I will continue working closely with our law enforcement partners to make sure they have the support needed to prevent incidents like this moving forward,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ryan Schwach Police are looking for eight suspects allegedly involved in a raucous street takeover in Maspeth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-204770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204770","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=204770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}