{"id":206507,"date":"2026-04-22T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:52:13","slug":"nypd-images-show-2-ruffians-involved-in-fiery-nyc-car-meet-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206507\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD images show 2 ruffians involved in fiery NYC car meet-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

New NYPD images show two ruffians allegedly involved in a fiery Queens car meet-up<\/a> over the weekend \u2013 as cops continue to hunt for the crew that sparked a local uproar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the photos released Wednesday, one of the suspects is shown behind the wheel of a white vehicle said to be caught up in the viral street takeover, while the other is on foot.<\/p>\n

Hours earlier, the department revealed cops impounded two Infinitis \u2014 one blue and one purple \u2014 linked to the lawless Saturday gathering at the Eliot Avenue and 69th Street intersection along the Maspeth-Middle Village border.<\/p>\n

One of the suspects is shown behind the wheel of a white vehicle caught up in the viral street takeover. NYPD<\/p>\n

City Council Member Phil Wong condemned the fiery ruckus as a \u201cpublic safety issue.\u201d Instagram\/@philwongnyc<\/p>\n

The NYPD also previously released photos and videos of a young-looking crew<\/a> allegedly involved in the street takeover \u2013 three of them donning keffiyehs. In total, one woman and seven men are sought.<\/p>\n

Footage from the scene shows one brazen motorist apparently waving a Palestinian flag as he burned rubber \u2013 narrowly missing those standing around while the car made donuts around a ring of fire in the middle of the street.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two men even jumped on the hood of a marked department vehicle, causing damage and cracking the windshield, before speeding off in a black Nissan, police said.<\/p>\n

New NYPD images show two ruffians involved in a fiery Queens car meet-up over the weekend \u2013 as cops continue to hunt for the crew that sparked a local uproar. NYPD<\/p>\n

Just hours earlier, the NYPD confirmed two of the vehicles involved in the takeover were impounded. NYPD<\/p>\n

City Council Member Phil Wong claimed Tuesday that cops had been patrolling a previous car meet-up in the Elmhurst and Corona area and there weren\u2019t enough police cruisers to get to the fiery scene in time.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo clearly there\u2019s a problem on the number of patrol cars available that night, and clearly we don\u2019t have enough patrol cars, we don\u2019t have enough police officers,\u201d the pol said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I was told by the commissioner, there\u2019s a graduating class coming and there will be an influx of new recruits assigned to various precincts in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scene doesn\u2019t have a documented history of drag racing or car meetups, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n

He condemned the ordeal as a \u201cpublic safety issue.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

But an NYPD spokesperson said officers responded to the scene within a minute of receiving the 911 calls and \u201cimmediately began dispersing the gathering.\u201d<\/p>\n

The location doesn\u2019t have a documented history of drag racing or car meetups, the department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New NYPD images show two ruffians allegedly involved in a fiery Queens car meet-up over the weekend \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3283,8141,303,57,9,24,63,103,122,124,123,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-206507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-cars","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nypd","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206507","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=206507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}