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Fourth biker busted in vicious upper Manhattan attack on SUV driver
Craig Wright of Brooklyn was charged with gang assault in the frenzied attack on Alexian Lien, who was dragged from his luxury Range Rover and beaten in front of his wife and 2-year-old daughter. Wright was seen on new video obtained by police that shows him punching Lien in the face through the shattered window of the victim’s SUV, a source told the Daily News.
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By Rocco Parascandola , Tina Moore AND Bill Hutchinson / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Monday, October 7, 2013, 12:41 PM
Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 1:42 AM
Fourth biker busted in vicious upper Manhattan attack on SUV driver
Craig Wright of Brooklyn was charged with gang assault in the frenzied attack on Alexian Lien, who was dragged from his luxury Range Rover and beaten in front of his wife and 2-year-old daughter. Wright was seen on new video obtained by police that shows him punching Lien in the face through the shattered window of the victim’s SUV, a source told the Daily News.
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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: NYPD detectives take a man believed to be Craig Wright from the 33rd Precinct to Central Booking. He is charged with with gang assault in Alexian Lien's beating.
A biker believed to have delivered one of the first punches in the brutal beating of a father by a motorcycle mob in upper Manhattan was arrested Monday.
As Craig Wright of Brooklyn was charged with gang assault in the frenzied Sept. 29 attack on Alexian Lien, the Daily News learned from police sources that investigators believe that NYPD Detective Samir Gonsalves, 34, took part in the rogue ride, but not the beatdown, while off-duty.
Alexian Lien was brutally beaten in front of his wife Rosalyn Ng on their first anniversary.
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Alexian Lien was brutally beaten in front of his wife Rosalyn Ng on their first anniversary.
And it was reported Monday that another cop at the scene of the shocking attack, an undercover detective, is suspected of pounding on the window of Lien’s Range Rover in the moments before he was dragged from the driver’s seat and beaten by six rabid bikers. The Daily News could not immediately confirm that report.
Wright, 29, was seen on new video obtained by police punching Lien in the face through the shattered window of his luxe ride, a law enforcement source told The News. Lien, the 33-year-old director of an e-commerce firm, was beaten in front of his wife and 2-year-old daughter on his first wedding anniversary.
Christopher Cruz is charged with reckless endangerment, driving without a license and false imprisonment for allegedly boxing in Alexian Lien's SUV on the road.
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Christopher Cruz is charged with reckless endangerment, driving without a license and false imprisonment for allegedly boxing in Alexian Lien's SUV on the road.
The gotcha video, taken with an iPad by a witness, also shows Wright kicking Lien twice after he was pulled from his vehicle following a 4-mile chase that started on the Henry Hudson Parkway and ended on W. 178th St. in Washington Heights, the source said. The video has not been made public.
Wright — who has prior arrests for reckless driving in Virginia in 2005, driving without a license in New York in 2011, and failing to appear in court in January on a traffic violation — was pinched Monday at his home in Canarsie. He was also booked for assault and unlawful imprisonment. He was due to be arraigned Tuesday.
Christopher Cruz claims he was just changing lanes, not brake-checking an SUV — the event that police say sparked a wild chase and brutal attack on a Manhattan dad.
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Christopher Cruz claims he was just changing lanes, not brake-checking an SUV — the event that police say sparked a wild chase and brutal attack on a Manhattan dad.
The license plate on the motorcycle he was driving was visible in the video, enabling cops to trace the bike to Wright’s uncle, who told investigators he loaned it to his nephew on the day of the attack. Wright is the fourth man collared in the shocking incident, which made national headlines.
The NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau continued Monday its investigation of two detectives who took part in the unsanctioned motorcycle ride, which drew hundreds of bikers.
Reggie Chance allegedly used his helmet to bash in the windows of Alexian Lien's SUV.
Reggie Chance allegedly used his helmet to bash in the windows of Alexian Lien's SUV.
Gonsalves was identified after cops traced his bike’s license plate to him, sources told The News. He did not come forward to notify his bosses of his presence during the ride, the source said. He was already on modified duty after being arrested in August for allegedly fighting with cops who were sent to break up an argument he had with his girlfriend, who is a Queens prosecutor, sources told The News.
Cops are still hunting for three of the six bikers believed to have pummeled Lien. Also charged in the assault were Robert Sims, 35, of Brooklyn, and Reggie Chance, 37. Chance, who has a history of drug, robbery and gun arrests, was seen in a video of the attack smashing the driver’s side window of Lien’s SUV, authorities said. Detectives say they’ve uncovered other footage showing bikers pulling Lien from his car and beating him.
Shattered glass allegedly shows how bikers also tried to get in the Range Rover's passenger's side door, where Rosalyn Ng was.
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Shattered glass allegedly shows how bikers also tried to get in the Range Rover's passenger's side door, where Rosalyn Ng was.
Christopher Cruz, 28, of Passaic, N.J., was previously arrested for sparking the confrontation on the Henry Hudson Parkway by swerving in front of Lien’s Range Rover and slamming on his brakes.
Lien struck Cruz’s rear tire, provoking other bikers to surround the SUV and bang on it with their helmets.
A terrified Lien hit the gas, running over biker Edwin Mieses Jr., 32, of Lawrence, Mass.
Mieses’ spine was fractured and both of his legs were broken. Doctors fear
Lien’s wife, Rosalyn Ng, issued a statement last week saying the bikers put her family in a “life-threatening situation.”
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