3 New Suspects Sought After Wild BMX Ride at Splish Splash: Police

CALVERTON, NY — The search for suspects after a wild Thanksgiving morning BMX ride at Splish Splash continues.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Riverhead Town Police are asking for the public’s help to identify and locate three additional men who were among a group of BMX riders that illegally entered a Calverton water park on Thanksgiving morning.

A video of the joyride took the internet by storm.

Eight people climbed a fence at Splish Splash, located at 2549 Splish Splash Drive, on November 24 at approximately 8 a.m. and rode BMX bikes on multiple waterslides throughout the closed park, police said.

Four men have already been arrested and a fifth identified; three subjects remain unidentified, police said.

According to Riverhead Town Police, Jonathan Nemecek, 25, of Lindenhurst, William Perry, 22, of West Islip, Anthony Panza, 19, of Lindenhurst, and Brian A. Chliek, 34, of Bayport, were arrested and charged with third-degree criminal trespass.

Riverhead Police Department's COPE unit conducted an investigation into the incident, resulting in the four arrests, police said.

More than 8.5 million people have watched a 15-minute YouTube video that was posted by Billy Perry, one of the BMX riders.

At the start of the video, Perry, who is 21, according to his YouTube profile, says from a car on the way to the Calverton park that the day is "going to be insane, if we don't get arrested. Hopefully we don't get arrested."

Later, he wrote on YouTube: "We talked about sneaking in and riding this waterpark for years. Thanksgiving Day came and it was finally time to head out at 6 a.m. in hopes of riding the waterpark and not getting arrested. The day was absolutely insane and then we got spotted by security."

Perry has a substantial following on YouTube and frequently posts videos of himself and his friends biking, mainly in New York City.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about the crime is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

Video courtesy of YouTube.