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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00TKTK — TK-TK-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Illustration by Rob Weiss
The Blotter.* A roundup of happenings in Gotham’s mean streets (and from time to time the tri-state region). Each item provides a staticky glimpse into the sleepless city’s peripheral misdemeanors, felonies, and misadventures.
⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Morningside Heights: Patient Caned Woman In Hospital Room They Shared
A WOMAN SUFFERED a drubbing at the fists of a crotchety old geezer infirmed at an uptown hospital.
The 78-year-old patient was caught after allegedly inflicting a ruthless assault at around 8 p.m. on March 16 inside a room they were sharing inside the Mt. Sinai Morningside Hospital (formerly St. Luke’s).
The 76-year-old tough interrupted a conversation the woman was having with her visiting relatives when he ripped open the curtain partition and then punched the bedridden woman and whacked her with a cane.
No motive or words were exclaimed making the motive for the waylay unclear.
The grandpa goon was nabbed and hit with assault (with a weapon,) assault (as a hate crime) and aggravated harassment (based on race or religion).
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Melrose: Brooklyn Heavy Shoots Up Public Housing
A BROOKLYN MAN was caught after unloading at innocent bystanders.
The 24-year-old was in the vicinity of the Melrose Houses located on East 155th Street and Courtlandt Avenue.
At around 11:15 a.m. on March 2, the suspect pulled a piece and fired off several rounds.
He then ran off.
The suspect was well known to police, having racked up a batch of busts in the recent past.
In fact, the suspect had already been facing a charge from March 1 involving attempted murder, assault, and weapons possession.
He was alaso wanted for a stickup of the New Way Deli and Grocery. The suspect pointed the weapon at a clerk and walked away empty-handed.
Once caught on March 4, he was charged with all three incidents. The latest shooting at the Melrose Houses earned him more charges including attempted murder, menacing, weapons possession, and assault.
⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Coney Island: ‘If You Don't Let Go Of The Bag, I Will Hurt You!’: Grocery Bag Mugger Lobs Urine At Cops
MAYBE HE HAD an especially empty fridge.
The 44-year-old got into a tug of war with a straphanger over his groceries.
He bumrushed the suspect who was at the train station located on Surf Avenue at around 8:45 p.m. on March 19.
The victim was holding a bag not filled with top choice cuts or top shelf hooch. But it was filled with avocados and olive oil.
And for whatever reason the scavenger demanded the man relinquish it over to him.
When the grocery bag owner’s grip tensed.
As he pulled the bag away, the victim grabbed hold of it to reclaim it.
The move provoked the perp to scold him.
“If you don't let go of the bag, I will hurt you,” he allegedly groused. “I will stab you!”
After he yanked hold of the produce and condiment, the suspect pulled out a lighter and flicked sparks at the victim he filched.
Authorities caught up to the punk and slapped him with robbery, menacing, and grand larceny raps.
Once he was holed up in a cell, authorities say the grocery ganker took a cup filled with his urine and he allegedly doused it all over a police officer causing it to drench his face and eyes.
The move earned him an extra attempted assault charge.
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⬛ QUEENS
▀ Floral Park: Gal Sliced Up Roommate In Spat
A WOMAN SUFFERED mightily in a duel with her roommate.
On the morning of March 15, inside the Commonwealth Boulevard abode they shared — the 37-year-old woman drew a blade and used it.
Whatever they were at odds about exploded with the roommate slashing the other woman’s forehead, arm, hip, and breast.
Medics rushed her to a local hospital where she received 23 stitches.
Her attacker was hit with assault (causing disfigurement) and menacing (with a weapon) among others.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Arrochar: Geezer Canes Geezer
AN ELDERLY MAN weaponized his cane.
The 67-year-old resident of the New Broadview Manor senior home located on Father Capodanno Boulevard and Ocean Avenue had possibly over did it on the tapioca that particular Valentine’s Day morning.
Because authorities say the elder lost his cool by wielding his wooden cane and accosting another resident’s face with it.
The caning caused the old-timer to suffer cuts and bleed all over his head.
Authorities took the wrinkled rascal away and charged him with several assault crimes.
⬛ [SIC] CITY
▀ Convicted Killer Dies Serving 45 Of 115 Year Prison Sentence For ‘Shocking’ Bedford Slayings
Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter
Credit: Judkins Colonial Home
A stone cold killer, convicted of four murders, in what prosecutors called "perhaps the most shocking crime in the history of Westchester County," croked in prison, the Blotter has learned.
Jimmie Lee Allen, 87, breathed his last at Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome, New York on April 3.
Allen was just 45 years into his 115 year prison sentence for the May 10, 1979 for slaughtering four fast-asleep people during two separate home invasions in tony Bedford Hills, Westchester County.
Prosecutors argued that Allen, 41, and his partner Junius Gray, (also 41) broke into a home at 41 Bisbee Lane and shot 61-year-old Helen Frankel while she was sleeping in her bed.
The intruders then executed her 61-year-old husband, Dr. Charles Frankel, shooting him as he slept in a nearby bedroom.
Frankel was a philosophy professor at Columbia University and had served as a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs under President Lyndon Johnson. He resigned from his government post at the end of 1967 in protest of the Vietnam conflict.
The two intruders ransacked the home taking an undisclosed amount of jewelry and furs.
The pair traveled down the road to another private home at 62 Succabone Road, where they shot dead two more innocents who were asleep: Nellie McCormack, 82, and Christopher Sperry, 21.
During their murder trials, it came out that the stone cold killers fenced the stolen furs for $250 and pocketed $450 for the jewelry. They also boosted a BMW from the Sperry home. It was later found in Brooklyn with an empty safe inside and some scattered jewelry.
Prosecutors said the break-ins were random and the intruders did not know the victims.
Police got a break in the case about two and a half weeks later, when Allen and Gray were nabbed on May 27, after a stickup at a Brooklyn Social Club where they held three dozen people at gunpoint celebrating a 50th birthday party.
The gun recovered was determined to be the same one (a .32-caliber pistol with a silencer) used in the Bedford Hills unsolved slayings.
A cooperating witness, Bernard McGee, who was with Allen the day after the murders when he pawned some of the stolen loot — served as a star witness for the prosecution.
He testified that Allen in particular bragged to him about the murders and the burglaries and each man had also noted how each man pulled the trigger on two of the victims.
After seven weeks of testimony in a White Plains courtroom, it took a jury 11 hours to hand down a guilty verdict.
On June 4, 1980, Allen and Gray were convicted of the quadruple murder, burglary and robbery.
They were each sentenced to 115 years in prison.
Gray died behind bars at Greenhaven Correctional in May, 1988.
⬛ NYCTALGIC
▀ Play A Game Of Human Pool? (New York, NY) - 1932
▀ 149th Street & Third Ave (South Bronx, NY) - 1980s
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*When perusing The Blotter, know that arrests do not constitute guilt, and all suspects are innocent until proven guilty. Moreover, the reported items are merely a snapshot of a criminal matter – what is known at the time of publishing. In most cases, the persons arrested for breaking the law haven’t been convicted (yet). It’s also possible that the charges brought against them may be reduced or even withdrawn.
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