{"id":413702,"date":"2025-11-29T21:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/413702\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:49:53","slug":"driver-carjacked-in-west-village-by-machete-wielding-muggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/413702\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver carjacked in West Village by machete-wielding muggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old man was carjacked by a trio of crooks, one wielding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/09\/16\/man-arrested-machete-spear-mini-crossbow-times-square-subway-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">machete<\/a>, who forced him out of his parked car in downtown Manhattan and fled in the stolen vehicle, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was sitting in his parked Honda CR-V in front of the <a href=\"https:\/\/manhattansdachurch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manhattan Seventh-Day Adventist Church<\/a> on W. 11th St. near Waverly Pl. in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityneighborhoods.nyc\/west-village\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Village<\/a> when two men opened the unlocked driver\u2019s-side door and forced him out of the vehicle just before 5 a.m. on Nov. 19. Just in case the car owner thought of putting up a fight, a third man then approached and waved a machete at him, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The man with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/11\/bronx-man-accused-chopping-dog-owners-fingers-machete-arrested-queens-hit-run\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">machete<\/a> and another carjacker jumped into the compact SUV and sped away, traveling west on W. 11th St., leaving behind the third crook, who ran east, police said.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday police released images of the carjackers and asked for the public\u2019s help in identifying them. Cops described all three suspects as males with light complexions.<\/p>\n<p>The man with the machete was last seen wearing a gray jacket, ripped blue jeans and white sneakers. The guy who fled on foot was last seen wearing dark-colored clothing and blue-and-white Nike sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Honda CR-Vs, particularly older models, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/most-stolen-cars-chevrolet-camaro-zl1-theft-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are popular targets<\/a> for car thieves.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the brazen machete carjacking, the West Village\u2019s 6th Precinct is among the city\u2019s safest.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/services\/see-say-something\/crimestoppers.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old man was carjacked by a trio of crooks, one wielding a machete, who forced him out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":413703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-413702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115635199875890405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413702","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=413702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}