{"id":207448,"date":"2026-04-23T17:47:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207448\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:47:38","slug":"driver-in-video-of-queens-car-meetup-arrested-charged-with-riot-after-maspeth-chaos-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207448\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver in video of Queens car meetup arrested, charged with riot after Maspeth chaos, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD has made an arrest after this weekend&#8217;s fiery and chaotic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/maspeth-queens-illegal-car-meetup-drag-racing\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">car meetup<\/a>\u00a0in Queens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It took place around 2 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Eliot Avenue and 69th Street in Maspeth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene showed cars with revving engines, spinning around and tires screeching. Participants set a ring of fire alight in the street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m surprised nobody got killed,&#8221; one Maspeth resident said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NYPD announces arrest<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD previously said it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/maspeth-queens-car-meetup-cars-seized\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">seized two cars<\/a> and was searching for eight suspects in the wake of the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, police announced an arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asil Assaidi, 22, of the Bronx, has been charged with reckless endangerment, riot, criminal mischief, unlawful assembly, reckless driving, aggravated unlicensed operator, and operating a motor vehicle without insurance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is Asil Assaidi, who the NYPD arrested and charged for his role in Saturday\u2019s dangerous car meet-up.<\/p>\n<p>This type of chaos has no place in our city, and we&#8217;ll continue to crackdown on anyone who engages in this reckless behavior. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QzfqHTAg0s\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QzfqHTAg0s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2047344486406119644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">April 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NYPD posted video it says shows Assaidi behind the wheel of a vehicle at the car meet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This type of chaos has no place in our city, and we&#8217;ll continue to crack down on anyone who engages in this reckless behavior,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2047344486406119644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the NYPD wrote on social media<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD previously released images of the eight people it was seeking. Seven remain outstanding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The department says it has an aggressive plan for addressing car meetups, and that it has shut down more than 60 &#8220;ride-outs&#8221; so far this year, and made at least 42 arrests and seized 62 cars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD has made an arrest after this weekend&#8217;s fiery and chaotic\u00a0car meetup\u00a0in Queens.\u00a0 It took place around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2608,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-207448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-maspeth","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\/207448","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=207448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}