3 Brooklyn Men Arrested In Westbury Target Theft: Police

© Nassau County Police Department Left to right: Ronald Jiles-Ais, Malique Wilson and Quamik Stephenson were arrested in connection with a theft at a Westbury Target on Sunday, Nassau police said.

WESTBURY, NY — Three Brooklyn men have been arrested following a theft at a Target store in Westbury on Sunday in which a police officer was dragged along from the side of a car, police said.

Quamik Stephenson, 24, and Ronald Jiles-Ais, 24, walked into Target at 999 Corporate Drive at 7:39 p.m. Sunday and placed two infant car seats into their shopping carts, police said. The duo went to the customer service counter and tried to return the car seats, which they did not purchase, so their returns were denied, police said. The men then left the store with the car seats, police said.

They entered the back seat of a parked Tesla with the merchandise as store security notified police of the theft, police said.

Officers saw the stolen car seats in the Tesla and made contact with the driver, Malique Wilson, 22, police said. Wilson got out of the Tesla and ran, police said. With the officers running after Wilson, he got back into the Tesla and tried to drive away with an officer at the passenger door, police said.

When an officer entered the car to arrest Wilson, he began to drive away with the officer dangling out of the passenger side of the Tesla, police said. Wilson rammed three cars, including a police vehicle, the flee attempt, police said. Wilson's attempted escape created substantial damage and risk to the public and police, the department said.

Wilson got out of the car and ran away again, police said. He was found a short time later hiding in the back of a dump truck, which was parked in a nearby parking lot, police said. He was arrested without further incident, police said.

Jiles-Ais, who was a passenger in the back seat, was placed under arrest without further incident and found to be in possession of three fraudulent driver's licenses, police said.

Stephenson also fled from police on foot prior to the collision, and he was found hiding in a nearby parking lot, police said. He was placed under arrest without incident, police said.

Wilson was charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, second-degree obstructing governmental administration, resisting arrest, third-degree unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, leaving the scene of incident with property damage, second-degree criminal mischief, first-degree reckless endangerment, and attempted assault of a police officer. Wilson was found to have an open warrant with the NYPD for criminal possession of a weapon, issued on Dec. 14, 2022.

Jiles-Ais was charged with petit larceny and three counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument.

Stephenson was charged with petty larceny and resisting arrest.

All three were scheduled to be arraigned on Monday at First District Court, at 99 Main St., Hempstead.

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