[OC Guy]

Kidnapped lately?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...HssoX9aEfn7bcO

Police are trying to unravel the mystery of a wounded man found tied up in the trunk of a BMW in upper Manhattan this morning.

Around 9:40 a.m., the BMW, sliding on the icy roadway, rear-ended a livery cab at the intersection of 10th Avenue, Dyckman Street and Harlem River Drive in Inwood, said cops.

The BMW’s driver tried to back his car away from the crash.

But unable to get any traction in the snow, he jumped out of the car and fled on foot.

It was unclear if the BMW’s driver was armed.

When cops arrived, they noticed the BMW’s rear seat had been pulled up. So they pulled the seat all the way out, and saw a man tied up in the trunk.

The man, who was unconscious, had head trauma, said police sources. It was unclear whether his injury was caused by a blade or a gunshot.

"He looked unconscious. He was lying there and he looked half dead .¤.¤. He wasn’t wearing shoes or socks," said witness Vera Marino, 45, who was shoveling snow at a nearby school when cops arrived.

The unidentified man was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition this afternoon.

Because the man hasn’t spoken to police, officers will have to fingerprint him to learn his identity.

[OC Guy]

updated

A New Jersey man who was severely beaten - and part of whose ear was hacked off - was found tied up inside the trunk of a BMW that crashed in upper Manhattan early Wednesday, police said.

The victim survived the harrowing ordeal despite spending a frigid night trapped inside the trunk, police sources said.

Detectives believe they have identified the mysterious driver, who ran away from the wrecked sports car - and its incriminating cargo - in Inwood shortly after 9 a.m.

The driver, who goes by the name of Blake, slammed the luxury sedan into a livery cab after running a red light on snow-covered Dyckman St., near an exit for the Harlem River Drive, the sources said.

The cabbie, Muntaru Iddrisu, 47, said the suspect tried to flee the crash by making a U-turn, but got stuck in the snow. Iddrisu said the suspect, whom he described as black and wearing black jeans and a black jacket, got out of the car and asked if he was okay.

"It was just a flash - and then he walked away," Iddrisu said.

When police arrived, they spotted what looked like a bullet hole in the blue BMW's trunk, which also had blood spots on it, the sources said.

They popped the trunk open and found the victim, bound and barefoot, with the bloody remains of one of his ears dangling from his head, the sources said.

He was unconscious. His head had been sliced with a knife and beaten so hard that his neck was broken, the sources said. Paramedics rushed him to Harlem Hospital. He was in critical condition Wednesday night, breathing through a respirator. Police officials refused to release his name.

Investigators think the victim may have been selling the 2008 luxury coupe to the suspect, whose name was on a bill of sale found inside the car, the sources said.

But one of the sources said investigators at one point thought the victim had been abducted and brutalized as retaliation over a simmering, drug-related feud.

The suspect, who was still at large Wednesday night, has been arrested multiple times in the past, including one collar for participating in a cockfight, the sources said.

He lives in the Dyckman Houses, near the site of the crash, the sources said.

Investigators believe he may have driven the BMW to his home about 4 a.m. Wednesday - with the victim inside the trunk, the sources said.

Iddrisu said he hopes police catch him so he doesn't have to live in fear.

"This is New York, anything can happen," he said, acknowledging his dread.

[CollinsE90]

Thread made directed to the one guy in our OT without a BMW

[wakeboarder109]

wow that's some wild shit. I hope they catch him and burn his ass.

[ragingclue]

Originally Posted by CollinsE90

Thread made directed to the one guy in our OT without a BMW

Well, now we know why he doesn't have a BMW.

[OC Guy]

Originally Posted by ragingclue

Well, now we know why he doesn't have a BMW.

I didn't know he didn't have a BMW.

[wakeboarder109]

Originally Posted by CollinsE90

Thread made directed to the one guy in our OT without a BMW

haha. I wonder was a 2008 luxury coupe sedan actually looks like.

[Schm]

Haha holy shit freaking usual suspects style chopping peoples ears off.

[bmwmthree]

Originally Posted by wakeboarder109

haha. I wonder was a 2008 luxury coupe sedan actually looks like.

[ghosthi32]

Originally Posted by wakeboarder109

haha. I wonder was a 2008 luxury coupe sedan actually looks like.

what

[NYCGP]

Originally Posted by Schm

Haha holy shit freaking usual suspects style chopping peoples ears off.

...reservoir dogs?

[Kroy]

Originally Posted by ghosthi32

what

in the article they call the car both a luxury coupe and a luxury sedan.

Originally Posted by wakeboarder109

haha. I wonder was a 2008 luxury coupe sedan actually looks like.

benz cls?

[Kroy]

Originally Posted by NYCGP

...reservoir dogs?

mr. blonde ftw

[gaifaun]

the wheels from the raffle are ruined from the crash!

[Year's_End]

lol @ this thread

[wakeboarder109]

Originally Posted by ghosthi32

what

If you read the article, they call the M3 a sedan and a coupe. I didn't know it was so hard to tell whether a car had 2 or 4 doors.

[NYCGP]

Originally Posted by wakeboarder109

If you read the article, they call the M3 a sedan and a coupe. I didn't know it was so hard to tell whether a car had 2 or 4 doors.

a man was found in the trunk of his own car, with his ear hanging off, bound and tied and left for dead...

...and you guys are discussing discrepancies within the article. Amazing.

Update to the story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/nyregion/28bmw.html

A Car Sale Gone Wrong, Then a Grim Discovery
By AL BAKER

The two men met through the Internet, fate and a 2008 BMW. The car was an M3 coupe, a fully loaded speedster with an eight-cylinder engine and an Interlagos Blue Metallic exterior.

The owner, Akeem Ajimotokan, worked in the procurement office at Columbia University. He was the original owner of the car, and he was asking $46,000.

The prospective buyer, identified on a bill of sale found inside the BMW as Barion A. Blake, was an ex-convict with previous arrests for stealing BMWs. He apparently had a different price in mind.

After a series of events that included a police car chase and a collision with a yellow cab, the BMW was found in Upper Manhattan on Wednesday morning, its front end crushed. Mr. Blake, who the police believe was driving the BMW at the time of the collision, was gone, but the police officers examining the wreck found Mr. Ajimotokan.

He was in the trunk — alive, barely, though he was bound, with multiple stab wounds and with his ear partially severed.

Mr. Ajimotokan, 33, was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, was placed on a ventilator and was in a coma on Thursday, the police said. Meanwhile, an all-out search was on for Mr. Blake, 30, who had been released from jail in April after serving time in New Jersey for assault, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman.

“The motive appears to be the robbery of a high-end car,” Mr. Browne said.

But many investigative gaps were still being filled in.

It was not immediately clear when Mr. Ajimotokan first placed his ad, with his phone number, on Cars.com; it also was not known when Mr. Blake met Mr. Ajimotokan. But something clearly had gone awry for at least several hours before the accident in Upper Manhattan.

At about 3 a.m., a uniformed officer with the Nassau County Police Department spotted the BMW pulled over on the side of the road, near Jericho Turnpike. The officer saw “two people outside of it,” Mr. Browne said, suggesting that it was Mr. Blake and an accomplice.

“It looks like they are swapping license plates on the vehicle,” Mr. Browne said.

The officer, from the Third Precinct, went to inquire, but the two men jumped in the car and took off westbound on Jericho Turnpike, and then southbound on the Cross Island Parkway, Mr. Browne said. The officer followed the BMW in a marked squad car but lost control on the snow-covered streets, and his car flipped over.

The officer was taken to a hospital for evaluation; a spokeswoman for the Nassau Police Department described his injuries as not life-threatening.

The BMW was next seen in Inwood at 9 a.m. on Wednesday. Witnesses, including the yellow cab driver, said that the suspect tried to drive away after the accident, but that the BMW’s undercarriage got hung up on a concrete divider as he attempted a U-turn at Dyckman Street and 10th Avenue.

When the responding officers from the 34th Precinct looked inside the BMW, they saw several .38-caliber bullets sprinkled in the car’s blood-spattered interior.

The car had only one license plate, affixed to the rear, and the officers had determined that it had been stolen from a 1999 Toyota Camry left in a parking lot in Queens.

They saw that a piece of the rear seat, separating the car’s cabin from its trunk, appeared to be missing. Then they found something worse: Inside the trunk was Mr. Ajimotokan, clinging to life. He was unconscious, having been stabbed several times in the head and body. His hands had been tied behind his back with plastic zip ties.

They found a handwritten bill of sale, dated Jan. 25, to Mr. Blake, of 10th Avenue in Manhattan, from Mr. Ajimotokan. Investigators are examining the possibility that the car was stolen from Mr. Ajimotokan’s home in West New York, N.J. It is unclear if he was assaulted there or at some later point.

“We have reason to believe the individual who ran from the car, or fled the scene, is the same one as the purported buyer,” Mr. Browne said. “Right now, we are working on the investigative premise that Mr. Ajimotokan was lured to some location on the belief there was going to be a purchase of the vehicle and was instead assaulted and put in the trunk and the car stolen.”

Linda M. Foglia, a spokeswoman for the New York State Department of Correctional Services, said that Mr. Blake has also used the alias Adrian Burnett, and has been convicted under both names. Under his alias, Mr. Blake was convicted in February 2001 for four crimes between June 1999 and July 2000, in Nassau County, Manhattan and Queens.

“At one point, he stole a 2000 BMW car, valued at $80,000,” Ms. Foglia said. “Then, he possessed a stolen 2001 BMW.”

Another time, she said, he stole “another BMW worth $79,000.”

In October 2004, Mr. Blake, 6-foot-7 and 215 pounds, was released into the custody of New Jersey authorities.

He returned to the New York State correctional system on Feb. 2, 2007, to serve two to four years for a second-degree assault on a police officer stemming from an episode in April 2006 in Queens, Ms. Foglia said.

No one at Mr. Ajimotokan’s residence could immediately be reached by phone.

Robert Hornsby, a spokesman at Columbia University, where Mr. Ajimotokan is employed, said the university did not comment on police investigations.

“Because of the police situation on this, we don’t ever comment,” he said. “If there is additional information, it would have to come from the N.Y.P.D. first.”

[Kroy]

The officer followed the BMW in a marked squad car but lost control on the snow-covered streets, and his car flipped over.

DAMN! car chase, hostages and police cars flipping over.

[ragingclue]

What sucks is it would be a crime for someone to torture or kill (or preferrably both) that Blake douchenozzle. There should be rewards instead. Our justice and moral systems are so fucked up.

[Maestro]

I bet this will show up as a law and order episode in the coming months....