The proprietor of pickup truck whose menacing antisemitic exterior horrified Williamsburg residents is owned by a speed-demon scofflaw overtly utilizing faux plates to keep away from tickets, data present.
The souped-up Ford-150 was slammed with 51 site visitors summonses from October 2020 to Could 2 – together with being caught on digital camera 18 instances dashing at school zones and 4 instances working pink lights, based on a Publish evaluation of metropolis data.
The automobile’s proprietor – recognized as Jose Littef, 21, by his half-brother – was slapped with $3,622 in fines and late charges for the summonses and presently owes $551.94 – together with $226.94 on three pace cam summonses in default judgment racking up extra charges.
The black truck’s disturbing exterior contains photos of bullet holes, splattered blood and bloodstained handprints – which some may see as a logo of the notorious Ramallah lynching of 2000, the place two Israeli reservists have been savagely killed by a murderous mob.
Since The Publish broke the information in regards to the truck two weeks in the past, residents mentioned they haven’t seen it return to the neighborhood.
However for months, the truck illegally parked close to the nook of North 4th Road and Bedford Avenue within the coronary heart of the hipster haven and Jewish neighborhood, displaying no registration and inspection stickers and sporting a faux “ghost” plate studying “OH GAZA.”
The Publish was solely capable of evaluation the truck’s violation document after a whistleblower too afraid to present her identify supplied a photograph of the truck taken in April, when it nonetheless had legit plates issued in Pennsylvania.
Littef and half-brother Anas Arman, 34, function The Authentic Caribbean King meals truck on the identical nook. Each are of Palestinian descent, based on Arman.
Littef couldn’t be reached for remark, however he and Arman beforehand claimed the “OH GAZA” plate was legally issued.
Williamsburg resident Michael Safir, who calls the automobile “Hamas Truck,” mentioned authorities needs to be doing a greater job cracking down on ghost plates.
“If a jacked up F-150 lined in faux blood and bullet holes is getting away with no plates or registration, it makes you surprise simply what number of ‘regular’ automobiles are doing the identical factor,” Safir mentioned.
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