Police ID carjacking suspects

Updated 11:41 a.m., March 21: Two men carjacked a silver 2006 Infiniti G35 from Ohio Avenue in Hicksville, and one of them crashed it into the back of Fayette Elementary School in North Merrick, seven miles away, sometime between noon and 1 p.m. on March 20, according to Nassau County Police. Both men were apprehended and charged with multiple crimes.

According to Deputy Inspector Kenneth Lack of the Nassau County Police Department, a Hicksville man was pulling out of his driveway on Ohio Avenue shortly before noon. Before leaving the driveway, the man got out of his car to look it over, and 18-year-old Remick Menjivar, of Washburn Avenue in Freeport, approached, brandished a black, semiautomatic handgun and demanded the car. The suspect then drove off in the vehicle, and the victim ran into his house and called police.

At the time, the victim noticed a second man, 20-year-old Edwin Flores, of Woodbury Road in Hicksville, standing nervously beside a 2011 Toyota Corolla. After Menjivar allegedly made off with the Infiniti, Flores drove off in the Corolla.

Lack said that the 2nd Precinct immediately issued a notice for the stolen car, and at 12:13 p.m., officers from the Bureau of Special Operations spotted the suspect driving westbound on Jerusalem Avenue in North Merrick.

The four officers tried to converge on Menjivar in their Jeep Cherokee at a red light in the vicinity of Merrick and Jerusalem avenues, Lack said. The suspect evaded police by driving through a gas station, and then drove northbound for a half-mile on Merrick Avenue, where he pulled into the parking lot of Fayette School. Police officers blocked the exit to the school, while others followed the suspect, who drove head-on into the Cherokee. The Infiniti then hit the side of the school near a first-grade classroom. According to Superintendent David Feller, the first-grade class was at a “special” at the time, and the classroom was unoccupied.