p***y
发帖数: 18037 | 1 这个最近的新闻不知道有多少人看到。真的骇人听闻。
这个BMW M3的原车主耳朵被割，不知道被塞在冷冰冰的後车厢多久了。还好假买主出了
车祸，弃車
而逃，警察才发现这个早已昏迷不醒奄奄一息的原车主。
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/nyregion/28bmw.html
A Car Sale Gone Wrong, Then a Grim Discovery
By AL BAKER
Published: January 27, 2011
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.
Akeem Ajimotokan, a Columbia University employee, was found bound and stabbed in the trunk of a BMW on Wednesday, after trying to sell the car to a man he had met online, the police said.
New York State Department of Correctional Services Barion A. Blake, in a 2007 arrest photo.
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.” | p***y
发帖数: 18037 | 2 Attack on BMW Seller Shows Hazards of E-Commerce, Police Say
By AL BAKER
Published: January 28, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/nyregion/29bmw.html?_r=1&part
Since its beginnings, the Internet has been praised as an easy way to bring
buyers and sellers together, for inexpensive household trinkets, high-end
diamonds or even $46,000 sports cars. But with this convenience have come
dangers — as demonstrated when Akeem Ajimotokan was found Wednesday,
stabbed and stuffed in the trunk of his BMW M3 coupe.
Marcus Yam for The New York Times
A stolen BMW, impounded for evidence, at the 34th precinct compound in
Manhattan. After a crash, the car’s owner was found, stabbed but alive, in
its trunk.
N.Y.P.D.
Barion A. Blake is sought by the police in connection with the theft of a
luxury car advertised on the Internet and the stabbing of its owner.
Mr. Ajimotokan had put his car for sale online. But he also, in a sense, was
telling the world: Come and get it. Investigators say an ex-convict named
Barion A. Blake did just that.
“This is expected to happen more and more, because of the anonymity of the
Internet,” said Michael A. L. Balboni, who was a top public safety aide to
two governors. “When you think about it, it gives the bad guys the
opportunity to case the joint without having to do anything. They can sit
home and basically do surveillance on who’s got what to sell. And there is
no vetting that you can do, or that is done.”
Put another way, by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly: “The Internet is
just a miraculous development in our lives, but it certainly has great
potential to be misused for crime.”
It was unclear if Mr. Ajimotokan, 33, had sold a car over the Internet
before.
His sister-in-law, Alice Ajim, 40, reached by telephone at her home in Texas
, said that Mr. Ajimotokan, a lawyer working in the procurement office of
Columbia University, had been born in Nigeria, and that she and her husband,
Ayo Ajim, were preparing for a flight to New York.
“My husband saw him 10 days ago,” Ms. Ajim said. “He is a family-loving
man, very conscientious, loved everyone, happy-go-lucky, and very friendly.”
On Friday, Mr. Ajimotokan was in critical condition in the intensive care
unit at Harlem Hospital, Sylvia White, a spokeswoman, said. Mr. Kelly said
that he was on a ventilator and that detectives had yet to speak to him.
Investigators say they believe that Mr. Blake went to Mr. Ajimotokan’s home
in New Jersey on Tuesday, after reaching him at the phone number listed
with his advertisement on Cars.com, possibly posing as a buyer. “There were
, at least, discussions about a sale,” Mr. Kelly said.
At some point, investigators suspect, Mr. Blake assaulted Mr. Ajimotokan and
stole the car, though in what order is unclear.
At 3 a.m. Wednesday, a Nassau County police officer saw the BMW on the side
of Jericho Turnpike with a man, believed to be Mr. Blake, outside,
apparently changing the license plate, and another, unidentified man inside.
The BMW sped away.
Investigators say they believe that Mr. Blake then went to his apartment on
Tenth Avenue in Manhattan and told his wife, “ ‘I did something that could
send me back to prison,’ ” said a law enforcement official, who insisted
on anonymity to discuss a continuing investigation.
At 9:10 a.m. Wednesday, the BMW crashed into a yellow cab in Inwood, in
Upper Manhattan, and the driver, who the police say they believe was Mr.
Blake, fled. Mr. Ajimotokan, badly wounded and with one ear nearly severed,
was found in the trunk, where he is believed to have been confined through
much of the frigid night.
Mr. Blake’s image was later picked out in a photo array as that of the man
at the scene of the accident. His name was also on a bill of sale found in
the BMW. As of Friday night, he remained at large.
Of course, Mr. Ajimotokan is not the first seller of something expensive to
come to harm: Beginning long before the Internet, those using the want ads
have sometimes met with bad luck. But the Internet has increased the
potential hazards of such encounters.
As Vernon J. Geberth, a former Bronx homicide commander, wrote in his
textbook “Practical Homicide Investigation,” which is used to train
detectives in hundreds of police departments: “The Internet has provided
criminals and those with bad intentions a whole new arena to play in.” And
it is an arena, he wrote, in which “law enforcement has yet to gain an
upper hand.”
The landscape of online offenders is broad. Among them, Mr. Balboni said,
are people sending nasty anonymous e-mails, hackers, terrorists and “some
guy on Craigslist trying to rip you off.”
In the case of the attempted car bombing in Times Square in May, the sport
utility vehicle used as a delivery device had been bought over the Internet.
Its seller told investigators that she had sold the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder
to a man — identified as Faisal Shahzad — who had answered her online
advertisements, met her in a supermarket parking lot, bargained the price
down and paid with $100 bills.
“It’s not ‘black market’ but rather a ‘back-door-market,’ ” said Mr.
Balboni, who introduced legislation on cyber-security more than five years
ago when he was a state senator. “And that provides a lot less transparency
as to who is the buyer and who is the seller. This definitely creates the
potential for people who want to do bad things to people, to have access to
people they might otherwise not have any other idea exist.”
Mr. Kelly urged anyone using social networks or “one of these trading
networks” to use care, and common sense, particularly when making a deal
involving a “significant amount of money.”
He said people should vet potential buyers, even if it slowed the process.
Mr. Geberth suggested having meetings with such strangers only “in a public
place, with people around as witnesses.” Also, he advised taking a friend
along.
Mr. Kelly said any Internet transaction called for “a sort of special
vetting, an examination, to the best you can, of who you’re dealing with.”
‘There’s an awful lot of hucksterism going on, on the Internet, as it
grows and expands, as social networks grow and expand,” he added.
“There’s a tremendous potential for misuse, so we all have to sort of take
a deep breath and step back from transactions that are going to
significantly impact on your life.”
Toby Lyles and Noah Rosenberg contributed reporting.
A version of this article appeared in print on January 29, 2011, on page A21
of the New York edition. | r*********r
发帖数: 839 | 3 大惊小怪，这种事天天有。
还有，没本事保护自己的安全开什么m3？
M3 coupe, a fully loaded speedster with an eight-cylinder engine and an
Interlagos Blue Metallic exterior.
【在 p***y 的大作中提到】
: 这个最近的新闻不知道有多少人看到。真的骇人听闻。
: 这个BMW M3的原车主耳朵被割，不知道被塞在冷冰冰的後车厢多久了。还好假买主出了
: 车祸，弃車
: 而逃，警察才发现这个早已昏迷不醒奄奄一息的原车主。
: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/nyregion/28bmw.html
: A Car Sale Gone Wrong, Then a Grim Discovery
: By AL BAKER
: Published: January 27, 2011
: 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.
: Akeem Ajimotokan, a Columbia University employee, was found bound and stabbed in the trunk of a BMW on Wednesday, after trying to sell the car to a man he had met online, the police said.
| T*****w
发帖数: 802 | 4 这不就是给大伙提个醒。
不是谁都那么警惕的。
【在 r*********r 的大作中提到】
: 大惊小怪，这种事天天有。
: 还有，没本事保护自己的安全开什么m3？
:
: M3 coupe, a fully loaded speedster with an eight-cylinder engine and an
: Interlagos Blue Metallic exterior.
| m********u
发帖数: 3942 | | r*******t
发帖数: 8550 | 6 骇人听闻
M3 coupe, a fully loaded speedster with an eight-cylinder engine and an
Interlagos Blue Metallic exterior.
【在 p***y 的大作中提到】
: 这个最近的新闻不知道有多少人看到。真的骇人听闻。
: 这个BMW M3的原车主耳朵被割，不知道被塞在冷冰冰的後车厢多久了。还好假买主出了
: 车祸，弃車
: 而逃，警察才发现这个早已昏迷不醒奄奄一息的原车主。
: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/nyregion/28bmw.html
: A Car Sale Gone Wrong, Then a Grim Discovery
: By AL BAKER
: Published: January 27, 2011
: 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.
: Akeem Ajimotokan, a Columbia University employee, was found bound and stabbed in the trunk of a BMW on Wednesday, after trying to sell the car to a man he had met online, the police said.
| s****j
发帖数: 2542 | | r*******t
发帖数: 8550 | 8 上次有一个在craigslist卖钻石的，男屋主被劫匪枪杀了
【在 p***y 的大作中提到】
: 这个最近的新闻不知道有多少人看到。真的骇人听闻。
: 这个BMW M3的原车主耳朵被割，不知道被塞在冷冰冰的後车厢多久了。还好假买主出了
: 车祸，弃車
: 而逃，警察才发现这个早已昏迷不醒奄奄一息的原车主。
: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/nyregion/28bmw.html
: A Car Sale Gone Wrong, Then a Grim Discovery
: By AL BAKER
: Published: January 27, 2011
: 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.
: Akeem Ajimotokan, a Columbia University employee, was found bound and stabbed in the trunk of a BMW on Wednesday, after trying to sell the car to a man he had met online, the police said.
| b*****n
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