A gang of knife-wielding robbers has been terrorizing Queens while swiping mopeds this summer, cops said Tuesday — as they released the suspects’ photos.
The three criminals threatened their victims before fleeing with their mopeds in six incidents, cops said.
Farid Ahamed, 31, told The Post he was on his moped and stopped at a red light at 106th Street and Liberty Avenue when two scary-looking men approached him.
“They just came up and showed me a big knife and said for me to give them everything,” Ahamed said.
“I got off my scooter, and they took my scooter and my Samsung mobile and also my AirPods.”
Ahamed said he hasn’t bought a new scooter since the robbery July 3.
“I feel afraid,” he said. “I think it will happen again, so I don’t get a new scooter.”
In another attack three days before, a 29-year-old man was on his moped was heading east on 107th Avenue in Queens Village when the robbers hit him in the head with a chain and then held him at knifepoint and took his vehicle, cops said. The victim was treated at the scene for minor injuries, police said.
On July 20, two of the suspects, one flashing a knife, stole a 22-year-old man’s moped as he parked at 101st Avenue and Drew Street, cops said.
A few hours later, a 28-year-old man was sitting on his moped at 122nd Street and Liberty Avenue when the three thugs approached him, ordered him off his vehicle and grabbed it and fled, police said.
On Aug. 7, a 55-year-old man was stopped on his moped at Rockaway Boulevard and 103rd Street when suspects removed his keys and then forced him off of his vehicle. The robbers fled the scene with the moped.
Later that same day, two suspects threatened another man with a knife before driving off with his moped on Linden Boulevard.
Photos released by investigators show three suspects in casual clothes — one riding a moped.