Police from the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows are looking for a suspect who set up a meeting with a 24-year-old man at a BP gas station at 73-15 Parson Blvd. at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, to buy the victim’s dirt bike.
The two men rode together for a test drive, and when they returned to the Fresh Meadows gas station, the perpetrator pushed the victim off his dirt bike and rode off in an unknown direction, police said Wednesday. The man who was robbed was not injured during the encounter.
Investigators have determined that the same man targeted another dirt bike owner on the night of Thursday, Feb. 20, in the confines of the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights. During that robbery in front of a home at 110-06 34th Ave. in Corona, the suspect approached a 36-year-old man from behind just after 11 p.m., pretended to have a firearm and forcibly took the man’s dirt bike before riding off westbound on 34th Avenue toward 108th Street, police said the victim was not harmed.
The NYPD released surveillance video of the suspect in the Fresh Meadows BP station mini-mart and described him as having a light complexion and black-rimmed eyeglasses. He wore a reflective yellow and black jacket with gray and orange stripes, a gray hooded sweatshirt over a black baseball cap, gray pants, and white sneakers.
A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to his arrest.
Anyone with information regarding these robberies is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are confidential.
Through April 20, the 107th Precinct has reported 32 robberies so far in 2025, seven fewer than the 39 reported at the same point last year, a decline of 17.9%, according to the most recent CompStat report.
Robberies are also down in the 115th Precinct with 82 reported so far this year, 30 fewer than the 112 reported at the same point in 2024, a decrease of 26.8%, according to CompStat.
