{"id":36495,"date":"2025-11-11T22:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36495\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:33:09","slug":"lexus-riding-vandal-trashes-11-nypd-cruisers-parked-outside-newest-stationhouse-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36495\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexus-riding vandal trashes 11 NYPD cruisers parked outside newest stationhouse: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Lexus-riding vandal smashed up 11 police cruisers parked outside the NYPD\u2019s newest station house in Queens, cops said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The still-at-large vandal used an \u201cunknown\u201d object to deface five marked and six unmarked NYPD vehicles near the 116th Precinct headquarters in Rosedale around 11:20 p.m. on Monday \u2014 then drove off in a luxury getaway car, according to police. <\/p>\n

He damaged the tires of seven vehicles and wrecked the windshields of four others \u2013 causing an airbag to deploy on one, which also had driver\u2019s side mirror damage, cops said.<\/p>\n

The unidentified vandal damaged five marked and six unmarked NYPD vehicles near the 116th Precinct headquarters, authorities said. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n

The damage included cracked windshields, wrecked tires and a smashed driver\u2019s side mirror, cops said. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n

The unidentified delinquent, who wore dark clothing, fled in a silver Lexus and had not been caught by Tuesday afternoon, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The nearly $105 million 116th Precinct station house \u2014 which opened less than a year ago <\/a>in December of 2024 \u2014 is the first entirely new NYPD command established in more than a decade, with the last one opening in 2013.<\/p>\n

The suspect, who wore dark clothing, fled in a silver Lexus, police said. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n

Officers assigned to the NYPD officers assigned to the 116th Precinct patrol the neighborhoods of Rosedale, Springfield Gardens, Brookville and Laurelton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lexus-riding vandal smashed up 11 police cruisers parked outside the NYPD\u2019s newest station house in Queens, cops…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8141,57,9,11,10,103,8192,122,58,5614],"class_list":{"0":"post-36495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nypd","14":"tag-police-investigations","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-vandalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495","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=36495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}