A daredevil photographer was cut down to size when he was taken into custody at his own art gallery show — documenting his scaling the spire of the Empire State Building from last year. 

Cops picked up the 28-year-old skyscraper exhibitionist at a gallery located on West 26th Street on the night of May 15. The suspect was charged with base jumping, reckless endangerment and criminal trespassing for the unsanctioned stunt from July 23, 2024.

Authorities lowered the boom of charges against the man who had found a way to shirk the “Authorized Personnel Only” signage, breach the hatch and scale a ladder to reach the 1,525-foot antenna of the landmark. 

Once at the apex, the accused documented the antics on video and even allegedly scrawled “To the moon and never back…,” according to the criminal complaint. 

The Sun’s attempts to reach the accused were unsuccessful. 

Published reports noted the outlaw urban explorer’s Instagram account bearing the same moon motto. They also pointed out the distinct clock and smiley face tattoos on his left forearm.

A human wrecking ball was taken into custody after drawing first blood. 

The 27-year-old suspect was inside the East Tremont New York Grill on East Tremont Avenue near West Farms Road minutes before 7 a.m. on June 22. Authorities say the man was unruly from the first, jawing with a clerk. 

He allegedly leaped behind the counter, grabbed a knife and slashed the worker on his face, upper left arm and hands, according to the criminal complaint. The accused then allegedly tossed the establishment’s snack shelves to the ground and ripped displays off the walls — littering the floor with merchandise — before trying to bolt.

The knife was found tossed nearby and the perpetrator was quickly captured. As police frisked the suspected slasher, they plucked from his backpack 13 clear capsules containing coke. 

The suspect was subsequently hit with assault, menacing and criminal possession of a controlled substance charges. The suspect pleaded not guilty during his arraignment the day after the attack.

A bailed-out robbery suspect allegedly switched back into troublemaker mode. 

The 54-year-old accused brute was nabbed for targeting a 28-year-old woman who was descending down the Chauncey Street subway station steps just after midnight on June 22. 

He is said to have trailed her while gripping a knife and slashed her on the chin and then slugged her several times in the face before taking off from the subway station with her pair of Apple AirPods and cell phone, along with the woman’s backpack containing an external hard drive, cash, and a debit card, according to the criminal complaint.

The woman was treated for her injuries (the gash required stitches) at Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center.

The cops caught up to the woman’s alleged attacker three days later and brought a truckload of charges including assault, robbery, grand larceny, and harassment. 

At the time of his arrest, the suspect had been freed on bail from a Christmas Day 2023 robbery at Bushwick-Aberdeen station where he allegedly drew a BB gun and yanked a woman’s necklace, a ring, backpack, credit card, and mobile phone. He pleaded not guilty to grand larceny, robbery, and possessing the BB gun. 

Cops tracked down the suspect through surveillance footage. They even scooped up the BB gun that the alleged robber reportedly ditched underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn Heights.

A bailed-out robbery suspect allegedly switched back into troublemaker mode. 

The 54-year-old accused brute was nabbed for targeting a 28-year-old woman who was descending down the Chauncey Street subway station steps just after midnight on June 22. 

He is said to have trailed her while gripping a knife and slashed her on the chin and then slugged her several times in the face before taking off from the subway station with her pair of Apple AirPods and cell phone, along with the woman’s backpack containing an external hard drive, cash and a debit card, according to the criminal complaint.

The woman was treated for her injuries (the gash required stitches) at Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center.

The cops caught up to the woman’s alleged attacker three days later and brought a truckload of charges including assault, robbery, grand larceny, and harassment. 

At the time of his arrest, the suspect had been freed on bail from a Christmas Day 2023 robbery at Bushwick-Aberdeen station where he allegedly drew a BB gun and yanked a woman’s necklace, a ring, backpack, credit card, and mobile phone. He pleaded not guilty to grand larceny, robbery, and possessing the BB gun. 

Cops managed to track the suspect through surveillance footage. They even scooped up the BB gun that the alleged robber reportedly ditched underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn Heights.

There wasn’t much conversation between a police officer and a suspected heroin fiend. 

The 62-year-old suspect was standing at the intersection of Ditmas Avenue and East 23rd Street on the morning of July 1. An officer, the complaint reads, approached the man who allegedly attempted a disappearing trick: he was seen tossing aside a glassine bag of heroin and then repeatedly stepping on it.

The Houdini act didn’t quite dupe the cop who documented the ruse and quickly cuffed the suspect. He was booked on drug possession and tampering with physical evidence by allegedly trying to trample the heroin. 

A car-kicking screwball confronted two parents and their two-year-old infant with a pepper spray canister. 

The 48-year-old was allegedly stirring up mayhem on 53rd Street near 8th Avenue at around 2 p.m. on June 24. 

The accused was witnessed having a tantrum and kicking cars. That’s when the unhinged man was told: “Calm down!” — and that only made him angrier. 

The suspect allegedly pulled out a pepper spray canister and then aimed it at his civilized critics — a man, 24, a woman, 23, and their two-year-old son, according to law enforcement sources. He then allegedly discharged the potent fluid at the three, causing them to well-up and suffer pain. 

Responding officers collected the pepper spray can and slapped the suspect with assault, menacing and endangering the welfare of a child charges. After pleading not guilty at his arraignment, the suspect is due back in court in September, court records show. 

It wasn’t an empty nest. 

Despite all the years an old pro thief had been honing his craft, he made an especially rookie move. The 66-year-old career crook who served hard time before being paroled was caught in the act of trying to score valuables from a home located on 24th Street near 24th Avenue. 

Cops say the suspect thought nobody was home when he entered at around 2:30 p.m. on June 16. 

It was then that cops say the man, dressed in khakis and a jacket and carrying a folder, entered the home through an unlocked door and upon finding it occupied by a woman who lived there, all he could squeak was “I’m sorry,” according to the criminal complaint. 

CCTV footage pulled from various locations depicted the alleged deviant going door-to-door. Despite getting made, the interloper allegedly slipped away. But only briefly. 

He was fingered 10 days later in another theft down the block on 21st Street. The same suspect is said to have entered a home whose door was unlocked (and this time vacant). 

After allegedly getting into the home the crook made off with a handsome takeaway including 200 pairs of earrings, five jewelry boxes, five silver bracelets, 60 beaded bracelets, five watches, 12 silver broaches, an iPad, a Nikon camera, and three Nikon camera lenses.

Cops say that they pulled surveillance footage from five houses away and captured the suspect clad in a white T-shirt and gray sweats. The man was nabbed the next day. 

When he was shown the footage of him during the second suspected burglary, he allegedly took the credit for the thievery by bragging, “That’s me. Did the burglary there.”

The suspect is familiar with being on the wrong side of the law since he was convicted back in 2009 for burglary and served seven years before being paroled.  The man had phased out his supervision last year before allegedly returning back to his rotten roots. 

She wasn’t smitten to see him. 

A man suffered far more than heartache for allegedly coming in contact with his ex-girlfriend. At around dinnertime on July 1, the man and his 23-year-old ex were bickering outside a home on 257th Street. 

Tempers strained and that led the woman to demand that the man scram. 

“Get off my block,” she allegedly commanded the man, the criminal complaint states. 

When he refused, the woman allegedly pulled a pocketknife and lunged with it toward the man, stabbing his left thigh. The wound caused the man to bleed badly and led to both cops and medics rushing to the scene. 

Investigators quizzed her about the fisticuffs, and the woman allegedly told them that the man remarkably injured himself, stating, “He walked into it.”

She added that, “I came to the door and he didn’t know I had it.” She allegedly said that “I put it right there,” – showing the location of the knife wound. 

The knifed man was spirited to a local hospital to tend to the bloody mess that was his leg. The woman was charged with assault and weapons crimes. 

A Manhattan diamond dealer claims he was rooked of one of his pricy baubles by none other than a longtime, loyal client. 

The owner of the business told cops he set up a deal for his customer to purchase a custom $65,000 bauble. The 29-year-old suspect buyer allegedly left a $10,000 deposit for the chain and they met up at the crack of midnight on June 23 on a residential swath of Grand Central Parkway. 

It was there that the customer, who rolled up to the meet in a red Lamborghini with New Jersey plates, allegedly turned surly, according to a law enforcement source. 

While holding his hand in his pocket (suggesting he was packing a pistol), he took possession of the jewelry and refused to pay the remaining balance. He allegedly challenged the proprietor with violence, asking, “What are you going to do about it?” 

He then took off in his luxe wheels. 

Cops caught up with the suspect and recovered the jacked jewelry that he had been wearing. He was then charged with grand larceny, robbery, displaying a firearm, and criminal possession of stolen property.

Who needs an auto garage when you can take your tools to a Trader Joe’s parking lot? 

That was apparently the thinking of a 20-year-old self-proclaimed repairman who blowtorched innocents’ cars without their consent. 

The suspected mechanic menace was wandering around the grocery chain’s lot on Richmond Avenue near Nome Avenue at around 7 p.m. on May 3. The man allegedly approached random shoppers with wincing sales pitches. 

He first approached the owner of a parked 2017 white Mercedes-Benz SL. “Your car is messed up,” he allegedly yapped. “I want to fix it for you. I’ll give you a good price.”

The owner apparently demurred so the alleged pyro then set his sights on a 2008 blue Ford Taurus. 

Without the owner’s say-so, the suspect allegedly took his “dangerous instruments” of power tools — including a flaming blow torch – and seared the side of the sedan.

While the charred side of the car was smoking, the suspect had the gumption to demand payment in full. 

“You owe me $250 for all this work done on the vehicle,” he allegedly crowed. “You look like a nice guy — I don’t want to see anything happen to you.” He continued that, “I am going to make a video of you and I want you to say that I just did $7,200 worth of repairs on your car. You don’t want my boss to come here.”

The threats of physical violence allegedly compelled the Taurus owner to pay the suspect in two installments over a cash app. 

A month ticked by, but on June 26, cops caught up to the suspect and proceded to bring a raft of charges against him including robbery, grand larceny, weapons possession, menacing, and harassment. The suspect has denied the ferocious fix-it guy accusations. He was granted $25,000 bail. 

They wore the merchandise out the door. But they refused to pay. 

Two suspected five-finger discounters didn’t get far in their swanky Nike threads they allegedly swiped from Macy’s at the Staten Island Mall. 

The duo, one 21 and his unknown accomplice, were spotted upgrading their getup with Nike sweatshirts. They allegedly decided that the world is their personal catwalk and skipped the register. 

They allegedly strutted out of the retailer and as they exited, a store security guard approached them to remind them of their duty to square away the bill. That set one of the suspects into pugilist mode and he allegedly threw and landed a devastating blow to the sentry’s face, drawing blood. 

The accused perpetrators then tried to make a run for it. 

Cops swooped in and nabbed at least one of the suspects, according to the criminal complaint.  He faces several charges including robbery, assault, criminal possession of stolen property, and petit larceny. 

IT WAS DECK versus blade.

The deck won out.

A skateboarder seemingly tried to ward away a knife-wielding man while waiting on the subway platform.

When words and even body language failed — the apparently crazed knife toter kept advancing and that had the skater jabbing the rival with his deck and sending him flying to the ground.

The incident recorded on a fellow straphanger’s cell phone took place on the northbound A line of the 12th Street subway station, The Blotter learned.

The mustachioed Bronx man, who is 40-year-old was seen in shorts and clutching a long skateboard.

At one point he appears to point with his left hand; warning the 51-year-old Brooklyn aggressor in the dark hoodie and gripping a knife with his right hand — to stay back.

But he didn’t seem to acquiesce. It led the skater to turn violent.

After suffering the blow, the man who suffered the skateboard attack attempted to recover his knife at the bottom of the roadbed.

He hopped down there to fetch it.

A detail was quick to the scene. With Tasers drawn, one detained the skater. The other pleaded with the knife man, ‘Give me your hand!”

He, along with another officers, managed to help lift the knife man onto the safety of the platform.

Neither of the men requested medical attention.

But both were subsequently slapped with charges.

The skater was formally charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

Consequently, the knife man faces menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal trespassing.

Attempts by The Blotter to reach both men were unsuccessful.

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THEY WERE RIDING three deep on a moped.

And packing heat.

Cops from the 75th Precinct stopped three teens at the corner of Milford Street and Liberty Avenue by cops at around 11:45 p.m. on Aug. 19

They apparently were flouting road laws. That inspired the uniforms to quiz them.

Bodycam footage released by the NYPD shows officers approaching the trio on the unregistered moped.

“You got three people on your bike, bro,” he can be heard telling the driver.

“Oh my fault—” the teen, whose face (and those of his fellow moped peers were all pixelated_ can be heard countering.

The officer continued: “No helmets. Nothing.”

That same officer paints the teen in pink sweats with his flashlight, asking for his ID.

But the teen claims he doesn’t have any on his person.

“Nah, I ain’t got ID,” the teen tells him, according to the edited footage.

The officers continue to figure out who the three teens are — one notices a pistol popping out of one of the teen’s hoodie pockets.

A few tense clicks and one sprints off.

A chase ensues.

But it only lasts with a short distance around the corner.

As they jostle to bring the teen into custody — the officer plucks a pistol from the pocket.

The 17-year-old was slapped with criminal possession of a weapon, (a loaded Firearm) obstructing governmental administration, and criminal possession of a weapon 4.

Cops didn’t release the name of the suspect due to his age.

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