{"id":839031,"date":"2026-09-07T02:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/839031\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T02:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:18:09","slug":"park-police-release-photos-of-dirt-bikers-who-fled-traffic-stop-injuring-park-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/839031\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Police release photos of dirt bikers who fled traffic stop, injuring park officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Park Police released photos on Saturday in hopes the community recognizes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/02\/parks-officer-injured-when-atv-flips-during-queens-traffic-stop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trio riding dirt bikes that fled a traffic stop<\/a> and injured a Park police officer in the Rockaways.<\/p>\n<p>The Park Police officer\u2019s all-terrain vehicle overturned when he attempted to pull over the dirt bike riders, who collided with the officer\u2019s ATV near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/gate\/learn\/historyculture\/fort-tilden.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Tilden Chapel<\/a> inside the national park in Breezy Point around 2:30 p.m. on Sept 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least one witness reported seeing three individuals riding dirt bikes, at least one of which collided with the officer\u2019s ATV,\u201d a spokesman for the National Park Service said. \u201cThe impact caused the ATV to overturn onto the officer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The officer was taken to a local hospital in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The trio was last spotted on Nostrand ave. in Brooklyn, USPP said.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Tilden is the site of a former U.S. Army installation that was established as Camp Rockaway Beach shortly after the United States entered World War I in 1917.<\/p>\n<p>The area is currently listed on the<a href=\"https:\/\/savingplaces.org\/story-categories\/national-register-guide-stories?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=324585972&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAD3cOxIj1iDPeoTgJFz2T6RlLbFIb&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwkt_UBhDMARIsALpnOAwrvEY3O9SGLjqeHC_SGRaQSupv5_7hdtpISDucWdhePqsCL7-qo3AaAnxtEALw_wcB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0National Register of Historic Places<\/a>\u00a0and forms part of the\u00a0Gateway National Recreation Area, with a theater and hiking trails featured alongside the fort\u2019s coastal\u00a0batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the incident is encouraged to contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/uspp\/index.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Park Police<\/a> Tip Line at 202-379-4877.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States Park Police released photos on Saturday in hopes the community recognizes a trio riding dirt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,355297,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-839031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-park-police-officer-injured-dirt-bikers","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}