Cops: 2 Arrested After Large Group Of Bikers Terrorizes Drivers On Van Wyck Expressway
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Two men were arrested after a large group of riders on dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles were spotted driving recklessly Saturday on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, police said.
Numerous motorbikes were traveling in both the northbound and southbound lanes of the expressway near Hillside Avenue around 5 p.m., police said. One four-wheel ATV entered the Van Wyck via an exit ramp and continued to travel south on the northbound side, poilce said.
Police were able to apprehend the ATV rider. They identified him as Omid Bedi, 30, of Queens. He has been charged with reckless endangerment, criminal nuisance, reckless driving, unregistered motorcycle and improper license violation.
Officers also observed another large group of bikers riding reckless heading south. Police said that when they slowed traffic in an effort to stop the riders, most of the motorcyclists lifted their bikes over the median and fled going north, leaving behind two ATVs and a dirt bike, which were seized by police.
One biker, however, proceeded south, but was arrested, police said. Cops identified him as Equilla Ross, 39, of Mount Vernon, New York. Ross has been charged with two counts of criminal nuisance.
The incident evokes last September's confrontation in Washington Heights between a group of bikers and a family in an SUV. In that case, the driver of the SUV was chased and beaten after bumping into a biker who had slowed down in front of him on the Henry Hudson Parkway. A helmet-mounted camera captured most of the incident on video.
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