{"id":164941,"date":"2025-08-21T22:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164941\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T22:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:48:17","slug":"nyc-car-thief-steals-same-bmw-hed-sold-to-man-27-for-6k-in-gunpoint-heist-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164941\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC car thief steals same BMW he&#8217;d sold to man, 27, for $6K in gunpoint heist: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A car thief stole the same BMW he\u2019d previously sold to a 27-year-old Queens man for $6,000 in a gunpoint heist early Thursday, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim, who lives on 124th Street near 25th Avenue in College Point, recently bought the blue 2018 BMW on Facebook Marketplace for $6,000 in cash, law enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He told police he noticed an AirTag tracker on the car on Wednesday, but thought nothing of the discovery and trashed the device, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.72972973;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36895953\" width=\"1021\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/124th-street-25th-avenue-queens-109888629.jpg\" alt=\"124th Street and 25th Avenue in Queens, NY\" class=\"wp-image-36895953\"  \/>The armed thief stole the 27-year-old victim\u2019s blue BMW around 3:30 a.m. Thursday at 124th Street and 25th Avenue, police said. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.93572779;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36895955\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2018-bmw-330e-109888625.jpg\" alt=\"2018 BMW 330e M Sport \" class=\"wp-image-36895955\"  \/>The victim had recently purchased the blue 2018 BMW from the same person who later stole it, sources said. Wikimedia Commons\/Vauxford<\/p>\n<p>But the trouble started when the victim, who was inside his home, heard his car start up around 3:30 a.m. Thursday, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once the victim stepped outside, the same man who had sold him the Beemer pointed a black handgun at him and seethed, \u201cBack the f\u2013k up,\u201d cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then the gunman took off in the BMW, with a passenger already sitting inside, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The car thief, described as a tall male with a black complexion wearing a black sweatshirt, had not been caught by Thursday, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car thief stole the same BMW he\u2019d previously sold to a 27-year-old Queens man for $6,000 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,16730,419,4219,95025,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-164941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bmw","10":"tag-cars","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-grand-larceny","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-queens","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115069196931893747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}