This wasn’t the kind of action he expected on a first date.
Romeo and his date from Queens are violently carjacked and end up with a gun pointed at their faces. Romeo then joins the police in a $150,000 BMW “Grand Theft Auto” style and begins an intense pursuit.
“I felt like I was in GTA Man,” 23-year-old Joseph Sadikov told the Post. “I was literally in the NYPD all night. I searched and hunted and found those mothers.”
Sadikov and a female friend said Tuesday that they had just finished a “great date” at Midtown’s “Hot Spot” restaurant and decided to “take a quick nap” in the back seat of their BMW to have a few drinks before heading home. . – But around 3 a.m., a trio of thieves disturbed the sleepy couple.
“I was doing the right thing, but I didn’t lock the door, and it backfired,” Sadikov said. “I woke up and they grabbed me by my sweater and dragged me out of the car. Imagine waking up and being dragged by my sweater out of the car.”
He said the thugs held a handgun in his face and demanded he hand over thousands of dollars worth of jewelry he had been wearing for a big night out.
“I was on my knees when he pistol-whipped me in the head. He hit me twice in the back of the head and once in the top of the head,” he said. “I’m a big boy, but yeah, I’ve got a few bumps on my head.”
Meanwhile, his date broke up with him. – He ran to a nearby bakery and called his father for help, breaking several nails in the scuffle. – When Sadikov tried to defend himself.
He handed over the jewel in response. – Necklace worth $8,000 and bracelet worth $7,000 – In his head, he said, he sees the loss as a change for Champ.
“I did it today and barely broke a sweat,” said Sadikov, a cash advance and term loan broker. – But the thieves jacked up the deposit when he entered the ultra-expensive M5 Competition, which he claims is worth nearly $150,000.
“I thought they were going to get into some of the ST cars that came in and drive off. That’s it, my night was good, but it didn’t work out,” he said. Said. “Then a guy jumped in my car. At that point I thought, ‘Okay, this is the real deal.’
“It made me angry. I lunged at him and started hitting him, I was trying to destroy him and get him out,” Sadikov said. “He kept saying, ‘I’m going to shoot, I’m going to shoot, I’m going to shoot.’ I wasn’t really thinking at that point, I just said, ‘Go ahead, go ahead.’
“At that point, it wasn’t 1-on-3, it was 1-on-1. And he knew I was overpowering him. So what did he do?” I called my son who was in the car. His son came out of the car in which they arrived and they overwhelmed me. ”
“What will they do to stop me from chasing them? They will take my car,” Sadikov said, adding that the attackers were all wearing ski masks and spoke in Spanish. He explained that he had done so.
But the expensive vehicle was equipped with a GPS tracking device linked directly to an app on the phone, which the thieves couldn’t swipe.
“I immediately told the officer, ‘The guys who stole my car are headed to the Bronx, let’s go.'” I was in the back of the police car. The cops immediately jumped onto the highway and chased the car as if it had been stolen. ”
The pursuit led them to the Major Deegan Expressway, where a large police response is said to have taken place. Sadikov said the impostor in the BMW realized he was cornered and tried to make a U-turn into traffic, but then stopped and got out of the car.
“He jumped,” Sadikov said. “When I saw him start running, guess what I did? Me and the police all started running after him.
“But when his freedom is at stake, he becomes like a Super Saiyan very quickly,” Sadikov said, referring to the Dragon Ball Z character. “He was like Usain Bolt and bolted. He bolted. I was running fast, brother, I run fast too, so for him to beat me? I thought, “Oh my god.”
“This guy climbed over like an 8-foot fence on the side of the highway, which was crazy.” When he got over the fence, the officer said, “Hey, you’ve got 40 pounds of equipment on you, so you can’t climb over that fence.” I can’t get over it,” he said. I was like, ‘Hey, why do they hire fat cops? “I thought. ”
Although the perpetrator escaped – And Sadikov now believes the NYPD should impose a 200-pound weight limit for officers to keep up with fast-moving criminals. – He said he was left with a new appreciation for New York’s Finest.
“I thought these guys were assholes, but the two cops I was with the whole time, those two cops, they really, really took it upon themselves to make sure we closed this case. “I had nothing but bad things to say about “,” he said. The fools who took him away.
“New York sucks, dude. It’s just a hole. It’s full of scum of the earth who want to take shortcuts and rip off other people who work hard,” he says, adding that the scammers are likely taking their spoils. After dividing the pile, I figured they’d each walk away with only a few thousand dollars.
“They had to commit a robbery, assault someone, play GTA, drive down the highway, do crazy things to escape barricades with 8 police cars and 2 helicopters. Isn’t it stupid to go home with 30,000 or 40,000 yen?
“The situation in New York is getting worse because people are getting hungry. So people are trying to cut more corners.”
As for Sadikov, he is confident that he will be able to have a second date as early as Thursday.
“That girl is a police officer,” he said. “She’s in shambles, but I sent her money to get her nails fixed.”
