A brazen carjacker was arrested more than two weeks after he allegedly took an elderly blind man for an unwanted joyride through Long Island City when he swiped a parked vehicle with the senior sitting in the backseat.
Dominic Kanin, 30, insisted to The Post on Monday that he was no “thug” despite the slew of charges he is staring down in the case.
He was cuffed and charged with grand larceny, kidnapping, unauthorized use of a vehicle, and unlawful imprisonment the same day in connection with the Jan. 17 carjacking of a Subaru outside a Target near the intersection of 44 Drive and 23 Street in Queens, according to the NYPD.
Kanin allegedly hopped inside the idling car as the 72-year-old blind man with dementia waited inside for his 34-year-old son to return from Target — later dumping the car and its geriatric passenger three miles away in Maspeth.
“The defendant is alleged to have entered a running vehicle after the driver had left the vehicle to enter a Target,” Assistant District Attorney Jonathan Brewer told the courtroom at Kanin’s arraignment at Queens Criminal Court on Monday night.
“He got into the driver’s seat of the vehicle and drove away while the owner’s father was described as blind and having dementia, was seated in the backseat of the vehicle, effectively stealing the car with a passenger inside,” Brewer added.
The elderly passenger was unharmed but “didn’t know what was happening” throughout the entirety of the alarming ride, the victim’s wife previously told The Post.
Since the charges against him were not bail eligible, Kanin was sprung on supervised release, Judge Srividya Pappachan ordered.
As he was exiting the courtroom, Kanin decried that he is “actually a good person” and has a “condition,” without elaborating on what the supposed condition is.
“It’s not what it looks like, to be honest. I’m actually a good person…this story has made the media, right?” Kanin said.
“The thing is, yeah, I have um, I have a condition. I have a condition. It’s not like I’m a thug or what. It’s not that at all. That’s all I’m gonna say,” he added.
An order of protection was also granted for the vehicle’s owner and his father.
Kanin is slated to return to court on March 30.
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