{"id":9570,"date":"2025-06-24T02:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9570\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T02:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T02:19:09","slug":"nyc-man-charged-in-fatal-hit-and-run-while-fleeing-burglary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9570\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC man charged in fatal hit-and-run while fleeing burglary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A convicted burglar with ties to \u201cMob Wives\u201d star Drita D\u2019Avanzo\u2019s<\/a> jailed mobster husband was charged Monday for fatally mowing down a cyclist while fleeing a burglary in Queens.<\/p>\n

Bekim Fiseku, 53, could face 25 years to life in prison if convicted. <\/p>\n

Fiseku is walked out of the 114th Police Precinct in Astoria, Queens on Monday. Brigitte Stelzer<\/p>\n

Bekim Fiseku, 53, allegedly ran over 36-year-old Amanda Servedio<\/a>, an avid cyclist, while leaving the scene of a burglary with three other people in his vehicle and a swarm of cops hot on his trail back in October.<\/p>\n

Servedio went flying off her bicycle and slammed into a parked BMW while Fiseku sped off, according to surveillance video viewed by The Post.<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage viewed by The Post showed Amanda Servedio being propelled forward after Fiseku allegedly hit her with his vehicle. NYPost<\/p>\n

The authorities stopped their pursuit to assist Servedio, who later died at Elmhurst Hospital.<\/p>\n

Servedio slammed into a parked BMV, denting the hood. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n

Fiseku was ordered held without bail on the murder charge. He faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n

At the time of the fatal crash, Fiseku was on supervised release after serving nine years in federal prison for a 2014 home invasion robbery conspiracy in Westchester. He was released in February 2023.<\/p>\n

In 2008, Fiseku was caught along with a group of other burglars<\/a> responsible for a string of heists in Staten Island. He was apprehended alongside three other men, including D\u2019Avanzo\u2019s husband Lee, a reputed associate of the Bonanno crime family<\/a>, one of the five major Mafia families in New York City.<\/p>\n

Lee D\u2019Avanzo, an associate with the Bonanno crime family, is currently serving time in prison after a 2020 home raid. Alexandra Salmieri<\/p>\n

Lee D\u2019Avanzo, 56, is currently serving 64 months in prison after a 2020 home raid led authorities to a heaping supply of drugs and guns.<\/p>\n

Fiseku was also known for running around with other Bonanno members like John Matera, a source told The Post. <\/p>\n

Cops lead Fiseku out of the precinct on Monday. Brigitte Stelzer<\/p>\n

The group was best known for their sophisticated, formulaic heists. They allegedly used an underground location adjacent to a bank, chiseled their way through the wall and broke in \u2014 knowing they had plenty of time because they always planned around a holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

They would rarely ever step foot inside the actual bank, instead opting to tunnel their way directly into the vaults and empty out the deposit boxes, as reported by silive.com<\/a> when they were captured during \u201cOperation Turkeyshoot\u201d in 2008. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A convicted burglar with ties to \u201cMob Wives\u201d star Drita D\u2019Avanzo\u2019s jailed mobster husband was charged Monday for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5417,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,7207,9294,8156,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-9570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-hit-and-run","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-police","18":"tag-staten-island","19":"tag-theft","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114735950481868762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570","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=9570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}