Queens Man Charged In Carjacking That Injured Suffolk Woman: PD

MASTIC, NY — A 22-year-old Queens man has been arrested in connection with a carjacking that injured a woman in Mastic back in January, Suffolk County police said.

Cristian Torres Fuquen was arrested by police with the help of the U.S. Marshals Service and was charged with first-degree robbery, police said.

Police said a 66-year-old woman got out of a 2021 Nissan Sentra in the driveway of a Burney Boulevard home at about 5:40 p.m. on Jan. 9 "and she was approached by two men, one of whom struck her in the head with a metal object." In a video of the incident, two men can be seen struggling with the woman who is yelling, "Stop hitting me," and she falls to the ground, then one grabs her car keys before the other kicks her once as she is down.

The two men then drove away in the car, according to police. The woman was transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead for treatment of "non-life-threatening injuries," police said.

The two men who approached the woman were described as white and in their 20s or 30s, police said, adding that a third man, who was driving a red Infiniti sedan with a yellow license plate, was also involved in the robbery. The car, which was stolen, is a gray 2021 Nissan Sentra with New Jersey license plate B38 NCZ and it had been rented, police said.

Fuquen is being held overnight and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Friday.

Detectives are asking anyone with information about the robbery to call the 7th Squad at 631-852-8752 or anonymously to Crime Stoppers, a confidential police hotline, at 1-800-220-TIPS.