Re: CHAOS ON THE WEST SIDE HIGHWAY: Wild pack of motorcycling madmen chase family in
Meet the cop arrested in biker gang’s attack on family man
Undercover Det. Wojceich Braszczok (whose face has been blurred), left, and leaving court today, right, flanked by bail bondsman Ira Judelson and attorney John Arlia, was allegedly involved in bikers' rampage.
He gels his hair into a tough-guy “Lo-hawk.” He posts Weiner-esque, bare-chested “selfies” online, and swaggeringly boasts in a dating profile that he’s “attractive.”
Det. Wojceich Braszczok — the off-duty, NYPD undercover cop who shamed his badge by allegedly joining in a motorcycle gang’s terrorizing of a Manhattan family – was arraigned in Manhattan Wednesday on gang assault charges that could cage him for 25 years.
Meahwhile, the dapper but dastardly detective emerged through his online postings as a skirt-chasing braggart who was so careless, he used close variations of the same screen name, “evovillen,” for both real-life and undercover communications while infiltrating Occupy Wall Street last year as “Al” the protester.
As Braszczok, 32, of Queens, was sprung on $150,000 bail bond, Occupy Wall Street protesters immediately took to Twitter, erupting with outrage over “Al’s” apparent betrayal.
“I’d love to give him a piece of my mind,” tweeted one apparently duped occupier, @SeaNick_.
Posted another, “@evovillen you really are stupid. COVER = BLOWN.”
It’s amazing the knucklehead hadn’t had his cover blown sooner.
Braszczok has been referring to himself as a cop in postings using the same “evovillen” handle since at least 2007, online records indicate. That’s a good year or more prior to his undercover work — and yet he never changed his handle, going on to use it on Twitter, Instagram, motorcycle forums and online dating sites, including in undercover posts to his Occupy “buddies.”
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The scene as rampaging bikers dragged Alexian Lien from his Range Rover and pummeled the family man in front of his terrified wife and child, who were inside the vehicle.
At Braszczok’s arraignment Wednesday afternoon, Assistant District Attorney Samantha Turino demanded high bail, arguing, “This defendant was clearly present and actively participated,” in a gang of motorcyclists’ startling, broad-daylight predation on a Financial District family who’d unwittingly driven across their path on the West Side Highway September 29.
According to the criminal complaint against him, the off-duty cop was wearing a black vest with the emblem of the New Rochelle, NY-based club “Front Line Soldiers” on the back as he used his motorcycle-gloved fist to bust out the rear window of the family’s Range Rover.
The attack — joined in by as many as seven additional bikers — left 33-year-old Internet exec Alexian Lien cut and bruised on the highway from a barrage of boots, sneakers and fists as his wife and 2-year-old daughter cowered in terror.
Braszczok only came forward four days after the attack — and allegedly lied that he had no hand in the violence, explaining he simply rode off so as not to blow his cover.
His lawyer, John Arlia, countered in court that Braszczok came no where near the family, and that the Rover’s rear window was already cracked when Braszczok admittedly hit it.
“My client is breaking what’s already broken, and they’re taking a misdemeanor and building a [felony] case,” Arlia said.
When he wasn’t busting windows or pretending to be a protester, Braszczok trolled for “girls” as young as 18, posted hunky bare-chested self portraits and warning would-be dates that he is “athletic” and “attractive.”
“Looking for girls 18-34, up to 20 miles from me,” according to his current online dating profile on Singlesbee.com
“Fire, law enforcement and security,” Braszczok says of his employment. He lists himself as Catholic, never married but still a dad, though he admits he doesn’t live with his kid or kids.
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The criminal complaint against Braszczok said he was riding a red Yamaha at the time of the rampage. The detective posted this photo of a motorcycle online.
He also brags that he is “attractive,” 6’1”, and “athletic” — the better to allegedly swing his fist and bash in the rear window of the black Range Rover that was prey to the seething biker mob he rode with that day.
Sources say Braszczok was off-duty at the time of the ride, and waited to come forward until three days after the Sept. 29, broad-daylight attack, which left Lien bloodied on the pavement.
When not boasting of his attractive athleticism, Braszczok tweeted under the handle @evovillen.com,” sharing videos of extreme and stunt motorcycling, The Post has found.
“Come join us in spring training by occupying the stock exchange today at 2:30 p.m., he posted last year, referring to Hope to see you there.” he wrote on Ap. 6 ‘12, while infiltrating the demonstration.
Work had its perks, though. “Hard day at work tonight,” he brags in the caption to a photo he tweeted two years ago, showing a table laden with two half-empty pints of beer, and plates of calamari and crab cakes dated two years ago.
And a peek into his online photo album reveals Weiner-esque selfies highlighting his buff, slightly hairy chest.
Braszczok also poses separately at nightclubs with a bevy of three fetching young women.
Then there are his album’s way-undercover boudoir pix, showing a pair of shapely mystery women, the blonde wearing a fishnet body stocking and the brunette in a lacy pink thong.
The UC was crafty — or careless — enough to post a photo of his souped-up Silver Mitsubishi sitting smack outside his Ridgewood condo.
And finally, photos the apparent love of his life: his spotless, souped up Yamaha, painted a shiny, candy apple red, the same bike he rode to the West Side Highway melee.
So far, a total of five alleged rampaging bikers, including Braszczok, have been charged with gang assault. The fifth biker is Clinton Caldwell, 32, of Brooklyn, who was arraigned after Braszczok in the same courtroom on charges of gang assault and assault.
A sixth biker, James Kuehne, 31, of Brooklyn, remained at the 33rd Precinct in Washington Heights. Sources said he, too, has been arrested on gang assault and assault charges for allegedly helping to drag Lien out of the Rover and then joining in the beatdown.
Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts
Meet the cop arrested in biker gang’s attack on family man
Undercover Det. Wojceich Braszczok (whose face has been blurred), left, and leaving court today, right, flanked by bail bondsman Ira Judelson and attorney John Arlia, was allegedly involved in bikers' rampage.
He gels his hair into a tough-guy “Lo-hawk.” He posts Weiner-esque, bare-chested “selfies” online, and swaggeringly boasts in a dating profile that he’s “attractive.”
Det. Wojceich Braszczok — the off-duty, NYPD undercover cop who shamed his badge by allegedly joining in a motorcycle gang’s terrorizing of a Manhattan family – was arraigned in Manhattan Wednesday on gang assault charges that could cage him for 25 years.
Meahwhile, the dapper but dastardly detective emerged through his online postings as a skirt-chasing braggart who was so careless, he used close variations of the same screen name, “evovillen,” for both real-life and undercover communications while infiltrating Occupy Wall Street last year as “Al” the protester.
As Braszczok, 32, of Queens, was sprung on $150,000 bail bond, Occupy Wall Street protesters immediately took to Twitter, erupting with outrage over “Al’s” apparent betrayal.
“I’d love to give him a piece of my mind,” tweeted one apparently duped occupier, @SeaNick_.
Posted another, “@evovillen you really are stupid. COVER = BLOWN.”
It’s amazing the knucklehead hadn’t had his cover blown sooner.
Braszczok has been referring to himself as a cop in postings using the same “evovillen” handle since at least 2007, online records indicate. That’s a good year or more prior to his undercover work — and yet he never changed his handle, going on to use it on Twitter, Instagram, motorcycle forums and online dating sites, including in undercover posts to his Occupy “buddies.”
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The scene as rampaging bikers dragged Alexian Lien from his Range Rover and pummeled the family man in front of his terrified wife and child, who were inside the vehicle.
At Braszczok’s arraignment Wednesday afternoon, Assistant District Attorney Samantha Turino demanded high bail, arguing, “This defendant was clearly present and actively participated,” in a gang of motorcyclists’ startling, broad-daylight predation on a Financial District family who’d unwittingly driven across their path on the West Side Highway September 29.
According to the criminal complaint against him, the off-duty cop was wearing a black vest with the emblem of the New Rochelle, NY-based club “Front Line Soldiers” on the back as he used his motorcycle-gloved fist to bust out the rear window of the family’s Range Rover.
The attack — joined in by as many as seven additional bikers — left 33-year-old Internet exec Alexian Lien cut and bruised on the highway from a barrage of boots, sneakers and fists as his wife and 2-year-old daughter cowered in terror.
Braszczok only came forward four days after the attack — and allegedly lied that he had no hand in the violence, explaining he simply rode off so as not to blow his cover.
His lawyer, John Arlia, countered in court that Braszczok came no where near the family, and that the Rover’s rear window was already cracked when Braszczok admittedly hit it.
“My client is breaking what’s already broken, and they’re taking a misdemeanor and building a [felony] case,” Arlia said.
When he wasn’t busting windows or pretending to be a protester, Braszczok trolled for “girls” as young as 18, posted hunky bare-chested self portraits and warning would-be dates that he is “athletic” and “attractive.”
“Looking for girls 18-34, up to 20 miles from me,” according to his current online dating profile on Singlesbee.com
“Fire, law enforcement and security,” Braszczok says of his employment. He lists himself as Catholic, never married but still a dad, though he admits he doesn’t live with his kid or kids.
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The criminal complaint against Braszczok said he was riding a red Yamaha at the time of the rampage. The detective posted this photo of a motorcycle online.
He also brags that he is “attractive,” 6’1”, and “athletic” — the better to allegedly swing his fist and bash in the rear window of the black Range Rover that was prey to the seething biker mob he rode with that day.
Sources say Braszczok was off-duty at the time of the ride, and waited to come forward until three days after the Sept. 29, broad-daylight attack, which left Lien bloodied on the pavement.
When not boasting of his attractive athleticism, Braszczok tweeted under the handle @evovillen.com,” sharing videos of extreme and stunt motorcycling, The Post has found.
“Come join us in spring training by occupying the stock exchange today at 2:30 p.m., he posted last year, referring to Hope to see you there.” he wrote on Ap. 6 ‘12, while infiltrating the demonstration.
Work had its perks, though. “Hard day at work tonight,” he brags in the caption to a photo he tweeted two years ago, showing a table laden with two half-empty pints of beer, and plates of calamari and crab cakes dated two years ago.
And a peek into his online photo album reveals Weiner-esque selfies highlighting his buff, slightly hairy chest.
Braszczok also poses separately at nightclubs with a bevy of three fetching young women.
Then there are his album’s way-undercover boudoir pix, showing a pair of shapely mystery women, the blonde wearing a fishnet body stocking and the brunette in a lacy pink thong.
The UC was crafty — or careless — enough to post a photo of his souped-up Silver Mitsubishi sitting smack outside his Ridgewood condo.
And finally, photos the apparent love of his life: his spotless, souped up Yamaha, painted a shiny, candy apple red, the same bike he rode to the West Side Highway melee.
So far, a total of five alleged rampaging bikers, including Braszczok, have been charged with gang assault. The fifth biker is Clinton Caldwell, 32, of Brooklyn, who was arraigned after Braszczok in the same courtroom on charges of gang assault and assault.
A sixth biker, James Kuehne, 31, of Brooklyn, remained at the 33rd Precinct in Washington Heights. Sources said he, too, has been arrested on gang assault and assault charges for allegedly helping to drag Lien out of the Rover and then joining in the beatdown.
Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts
