A BMW-obsessed thug was nearly arrested on Long Island as he drove around with the car’s mutilated owner in the trunk — but was able to escape from a police chase when the cruiser flipped over on a snowy highway, authorities said yesterday.
Barion Blake, 30, resurfaced about six hours later in upper Manhattan Wednesday morning when he crashed into a livery cab. He fled on foot before the NYPD showed up and is still on the run.
His victim, 33-year-old Akeem Ajimotokan, remains on a respirator at Harlem Hospital after being found tied up and unconscious with a broken neck and his ear nearly hacked off in the trunk of his M3.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said a Nassau cop approached the 2008 BMW at 3 a.m., when it was stopped on the side of Jericho Turnpike.
As the officer approached, “Blake jumps in the car, they take off. They go westbound [toward Queens] on Jericho Turnpike,” Kelly said.
With the cop in hot pursuit, Blake steered the BMW south on the Cross Island Parkway. “In the snow, on the roadway, the police car overturns,” Kelly said.
At 9 a.m., Blake himself became a victim of the weather.
He skidded the BMW on some ice and rear-ended a livery cab near 10th Avenue and Dyckman Street.
The BMW was found to have stolen plates that came back to a Toyota in Corona, Queens.
Ajimotokan, who has no local family, was listed in serious condition, but high-school pal Okwui Olewunne said, “He is doing much better.”
Ajimotokan has a law degree and an MBA, and works for Columbia University as an expert in contracts and procurement.
The 6-foot-8 Blake is an ex-con whose record includes three BMW thefts, said Kelly.