{"id":217236,"date":"2026-05-01T23:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:32:10","slug":"second-suspect-arrested-in-wild-queens-car-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217236\/","title":{"rendered":"Second suspect arrested in wild Queens car takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"

A second suspect in a wild car takeover<\/a>\u00a0that terrorized a Queens neighborhood was arrested Friday, cops said.<\/p>\n

Winston Pat, 20, was apprehended by an NYPD warrant squad and charged with reckless endangerment, riot and reckless driving for the car meetup in Middle Village on April 18.<\/p>\n

Pat hung his head and did not comment as he was escorted in handcuffs out of the 104th Precinct station house. Asil Assaidi, 22, was previously charged in the car takeover<\/a>, after police identified him as the driver of a blue Infiniti recorded<\/a> doing donuts at the intersection. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n

\"WinstonWinston Pat is pictured in police custody leaving the NYPD’s 104th Precinct stationhouse in Queens on Friday, May 1, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

An NYPD spokesman could not say what role Pat played in the mayhem, but City Council Member Phil Wong applauded the arrest in what he described as a \u201creckless event\u201d that \u201cput lives at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe arrest\u2026 is another step toward accountability,\u201d Wong said. \u201cIf you take part in this chaos, you will be found and you will be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pat lives in the Oakland Gardens section of Queens, about nine miles away from the the \u201cFast & Furious\u201d-style takeover<\/a> at Eliot Ave. and 69th St. where roughly 100 cars were spotted drag racing, doing donuts and performing other stunts around a ring of fire set with accelerant.<\/p>\n

When cops arrived to break up the scene around 1:40 a.m. most of the participants scattered. But three people\u00a0jumped on the hood of a police car<\/a>, breaking its windshield, before piling into a black Nissan with no license plates and zooming north on 69th St. They are wanted for criminal mischief.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice released images from a massive \u201cFast & Furious\u201d style car meetup that caused havoc in Queens, and asked for help identifying the people involved, including a trio who jumped on the hood of a police car responding to the chaos, cracking its windshield. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

Earlier that night, the same group of people tried to hold a car meetup in another Queens neighborhood not too far away but police shut it down, Wong said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese issues are serious. This is a public safety issue,\u201d Wong said earlier this week. \u201cWhen you set a road on fire, when you close down a street, that\u2019s criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assaidi\u2019s cars, including a blue Infiniti and a purple Infiniti, were both seized by police.<\/p>\n

\"Asil<\/p>\n

Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Asil Assaidi is pictured in police custody leaving the NYPD’s 104th Precinct stationhouse in Queens on Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

In addition to the people who jumped on the cop car, police are looking for other drivers and passengers, including three people who posed for a photo wearing keffiyehs obscuring their faces, with only their eyes visible, who were in a silver BMW X3 with a Connecticut license plate, #BW98494, and three people in sweatsuits who were in a white BMW sedan with no plates.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call\u00a0Crime Stoppers<\/a>\u00a0at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second suspect in a wild car takeover\u00a0that terrorized a Queens neighborhood was arrested Friday, cops said. Winston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-217236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217236","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=217236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}