A CONNIVER HAS been duping establishments with a dine and dash hustle. 

The 63-year-old was nabbed after she was grubbing chow at Emmy Squared Pizza on First Avenue off East 5th Street back on the late afternoon of March 12. 

The woman allegedly ordered up a $16 dish of “Brooklyn Mozz Sticks” and two Tanqueray cocktails. 

The total came to $56.62. 

But when the woman handed a credit card to cover the damage — the transaction was rejected. 

The cops were called and the woman was brought up on failure to pay based on stealth (dine and dash). 

It appears this wasn’t her first attempt at crossing the law over gluten and cheese. It appears the woman pulled the same stunt at the eatery’s Midtown West location where she snarfed down grub and beverage, then failed to pay for it.

A HUSTLER DEPUTIZED himself to permit entry into the city subway station for a reduced cash gratuity. 

At around 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 2, a 41-year-old woman was inside the Bedford Park Boulevard subway stop. 

She allegedly gained entry into the station where the D line travels and offered a dirt cheap entry cost by manually opening and shutting the exit door.

The woman allegedly had placed her own sign that read, “Exit Only”, according to the criminal complaint. 

“I will let you in for a dollar,” the suspect said, attempting to bait folks into skimming the system of its cost. 

Cops put the stops on the doorwoman’s deviance. 

When they searched her, they found a glass pipe with crack residue. 

She was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and theft of services.

HE WAS ARMED. Sort of. 

A 48-year-old was having a tough day when he confronted a police officer. 

It was around 1 p.m. on Feb. 8 (the weather that day maxed at 18 degrees Fahrenheit) when the suspect allegedly was in an especially grim mood. 

The rabblerouser wielding none other than an ice chisel was making waves outside 8th Avenue off Bay Ridge Avenue. 

Authorities say a uniformed officer approached the man with the scraping tool and “did swing” it “multiple times” at him. 

He missed every time. 

When the officer attempted to put the cuffs on the man — he allegedly resisted by tensing his arms. 

He was formally taken down for menacing a police officer, assault, resisting arrest, obstructing of governmental administration, and criminal possession of a weapon (with intent to use).

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THE REEFER REEKED. 

A 19-year-old didn’t board a plane when he allegedly tried to back on the night of Feb. 2. 

He was at Terminal 4 of JFK Airport when he checked his black Samsonite suitcase. 

The baggage check workers likely tranced back to a Grateful Dead show. 

The suitcase was found to be loaded with doobage and that had authorities charging the young flyer with criminal possession of cannabis.

A PAIR WAS stopped for driving with a defective headlight. 

The 35-year-old driver and 31-year-old passenger were driving in a Mitsubishi Outlander back at around 9 p.m. on March 4. 

The traffic stopped was affected on Park Hill Avenue near Sobel Court. 

The officers took keen notice of a clear cup in the center console that was filled with some kind of hooch. When they questioned the driver (who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt) he allegedly turned combative. 

When they performed a more thorough search of the SUV they discovered a loaded 9mm Ruger pistol with eight rounds of ammo in the magazine. 

The two men were hit with criminal possession of a loaded firearm, possession of an ammo feed device, and possession of ammo.

Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter

No one escapes the bureaucracy of NYC government, not even the NYPD.

City law requires that the NYPD can't mount a brass plaque inside the 116th Precinct to bestow honor to slain NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller without wading through bureaucratic red tape.

The perhaps archaic rules mandate that to salute their fallen brethren, they must first introduce it during a public hearing and gain approval of the city's Public Design Commission.

The Commission must approve any permanent addition of a public building before construction can begin. Even if construction in this case is a small token of affection.

The Diller memorial plaque was on the Committee’s March 23 meeting agenda at City Hall. But it was also one item among a raft of other designs and renovation upgrades for public spaces throughout the city.

Diller, 31, was on duty in the 101 Pct in Far Rockaway, Queens, on March 25, 2024, when he approached a Kia Soul, occupied by two men on Mott Avenue. 

Riding in the passenger seat was Guy Rivera, 34, who allegedly pulled a gun and shot Diller, hitting him below the bulletproof vest, killing him. He then tried to fire at Diller’s partner but the gun jammed. That cop who had been questioning the driver, drew his service weapon and fired into the car tagging Rivera in the back.

Rivera, who is an ex-con, has been putting on a defense at trial in Queens Supreme Court where he’s facing a second-murder charge and weapons possession.

The case is expected to go to the jury sometime this week.

The Blotter has reached out to City Hall for a status update on the Design Commission’s review of the Diller plaque if approved, when work might begin.

A POLICEMAN STANDS guard in front of storefront hours after riots sweapt through over purported teenager’s beating death from a shoplifting.

Guiseppe “The Clutch Hand” Morello was unarmed and despite being in the company of Joseph Parriano and Gaspari Pollaro — all of them were wiped out by assassins Sebastiano “Buster from Chicago” Domingo who sprayed them with at least a dozen rounds. Parriano lurched to the rear doorway to breathe his last. Pollaro survived and at the hospital gave cops a description of the near-curtains incident, and Morello crept to another office but died choking on his own blood.

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MERCURY RISING MEANS revelers are gonna get out and choke city streets to indulge in burning up the asphalt in fits of circular rebellion.

A recent gathering of the gear heads took place at an intersection in Kew Gardens Hills before dispersing and going at it again elsewhere.

A Queens block association is warning its members to be especially vigilant.

“As the weather starts to get warm, we are bracing for the summer of street takeovers. With NYPD levels at their lowest, decriminalization of crimes, and less policing ideals is this what we have to look forward to? We predict that this will be the summer of street take overs throughout the 5 boros. This was the other night in Kew Gardens Hills then they went on to another location. Do not confront or try to stop them it could cost you serious physical injury or worse.” -Ozone Park Residents Block Association

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