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SOME HAVENOTS ARE crooking in style these days. 

Two hoods walloped a man to score his phone and watch. 

At around 3:15 a.m. on May 3, the pair riding extra luxurious, one of them a 28-year-old man, ambushed a 28-year-old man as he was standing out front of a building on West 34th Street off 9th Avenue. 

They shocked the man to the ground and demanded he forfeit his mobile. And then they snatched his watch. 

It turned out be worth about $500. 

Both perps then rolled off in their beamer. 

The victim didn’t suffer serious injuries. 

Cops picked up one of the two fleecers on May 14 and charged him with robbery. 

His cohort is still being sought.

A COUPLE WERE overrun by cops and caught with arms. 

The pair, a 72-year-old man and his 47-year-old galpal, were inside the man’s Marion Avenue apartment perhaps ready to catch the 11 o’clock news on May 29. 

Would have been a hoot to see the weather for tomorrow because they wouldn’t be getting a full splash of sun from the sky from central booking. 

Cops were diligent and found two guns: a black assault style rifle and a Heckler and Koch .45 caliber pistol. 

THe cops returned for a second visit an hour later. 

This time they used their handcuffs and led out the couple 

Each faces criminal possession of a loaded firearm, criminal possession of a firearm (assault rifle). 

The elder of the two is no stranger to police. He’s racked up  than two dozen priors for drugs, weapon possession, robbery, and burglary.

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HE LEFT SOME pricy hardware in his 2024 Toyota Tundra. And in a span of minutes it all disappeared. 

An overconfident man parked his ride overnight on March 27 on Gerritsen Avenue. 

It was almost as if the crew could smell the valuable items left inside the pickup like chum for voracious sharks. 

Four perps in a BMW were captured on CCTV shattering the rear passenger window and diving into the cab and took off. 

That same early morning, the driver of the BMW was summonsed for blowing a red light. 

Hours later the same BMW driver was stopped and this time the cops found the stolen power tools that were reportedly worth upwards of $81,000. 

The beamer driver so far is the only one nabbed and facing the music for grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

TWO UNSAVORIES RIPPED off a phone from a man in a violent shakedown. 

The heavies, a 31-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman, punched at around 10:15 p.m. on April 14 at the corner of 81st Street and Roosevelt Avenue. 

The man threw the first punch. 

He leveled the victim with a flurry of punches, sending him timbering to the ground. 

Once felled, the woman “slammed” the innocent’s head onto the ground, according to the criminal complaint. 

Her counterpart joined in and kicked the man’s face in again and again. 

He then snatched the phone and then used it to bash him in the head some more. 

The impact of the phone blows caused the device to crack and rendered it inoperable. 

Both perps were taken down and slapped with robbery, assault, and criminal mischief.

A DRIVER TRIED to peel away when approached by cops and smashed into a nearby parked cruiser. 

At around 9:30 p.m. on May 2, a 46-year-old suspect was idling behind the wheel of a 2026 Lexus RX350 in front of a home on Pond Way near Arlington Place.  

The accused allegedly was situated in the car and once he saw the law coming towards him — he took off. 

But his jittery reflexes led him into despair or the equivalent: totaling an unmarked cop car that had been parked nearby. 

The pileup resulted in the suspect deciding not to stick around to exchange insurance information. 

So the suspect fled. 

Officers caught up to the hit-and-run artist on Richmond Avenue and pulled from his car a loaded Keltec P3AT pistol with three .380 millimeter rounds in the magazine. 

They also found a billy club in the car’s trunk.

By M.L. Nestel

THE YOUNG ROAD terrorizer should never come near a driver’s seat.

But there the 40-year-old fast laner was – lining up his 2017 Polaris Slingshot (top speed 125 MPH) against another identical three-wheeled open-aired roadster.

Apparently it was just another sad day of many. 

“In some ways you kind of look at this as a way for him to get some kind of reprimand because if he doesn’t he could end up in prison; or dead,” his sister told The Blotter. 

She maintains that her younger brother can’t quit driving while hopped up on liquor or drugs. Drugs, she says, he also trafficks. 

“I can tell you that my brother’s been selling and doing a lot of drugs these days,” she added. “Our mom even said, ‘Yeah it was bound to happen.’”

That fortuitous sentiment followed the young man’s May 5 bust and subsequent forfeiture of his fast paced toy.

They were revving their engines on the heavily-trafficked intersection of Queens and Woodhaven Boulevards just before 9 p.m..

Both moron motorists happened to decide on their impromptu wheel duel in direct eyeshot of a detective.

He saw the two Slingshots line up and then burnout their tires once the street light turned green. 

The shield-bearing witnesses saw them launch out of the intersection and raced for a stretch until they braked for throngs of pedestrians. 

The detective mobilized with other officers to pull over the lawless speedsters. 

When prompted to produce his licence, the 40-year-old couldn’t. 

That’s because he had his New York driving privileges revoked way back on Dec. 12, 2011. That had been the second time the book had closed on him, the criminal complaint states. 

While he might be grinding in the drug game — it was the suspect’s dying father who gifted his son with the Slingshot. 

“My [deceased] father bought it for him,” the sister explained. “My dad had a lot of money when he was alive and he got it for him.”

And ever since, the sister claims her brother “keeps  getting himself in trouble with it.”

Learning about her brother’s recent run-in with the law over speed racing in Elmhurst, she wasn’t the least surprised. 

“Honestly, good,” she avowed. 

The Blotter’s attempts to reach the suspect were not immediately returned.

Despite the clearcut order that he not drive in the Empire State… ever — her recidivist brother refuses to obey. 

“He’s basically not allowed to ever have a driver’s license in New York state again,” she said, noting he’s also racked up a fine stack of DUIs and drug selling pinches. “That’s how many times he’s gotten himself in trouble.”

As of 2024, Angelica’s Law kicked in and imposed a more severe consequence to driver’s who are guilty of racking up at least five separate suspensions of revocations. 

What’s clear is aside from racking arrests for speed contest, reckless driving — he also was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree. 

That would essentially fall under Angelica’s Law and thus up the charge to a class E felony.

The law was put into action to “keep dangerous drivers off the road.” 

The wheels of justice are especially unforgiving here and his sister admits not left for interpretation. 

“New York state is one of the toughest states with revoked licenses. 

“So once you get that —— you’re just fucked. “

Still, her brother may be perhaps the hardest headed driving addict she knows.  

“They permanently revoked his license,” said his flabbergasted sister. “But he still gets behind the wheel.”

The most recent screwup at the footpedals of her brother may be enough to keep him off the road for good. 

It’s something that has been circulating in her mind and forced her to let-go. 

She explains,  “I don’t talk to him much these days so I don’t really care if he gets arrested or if he gets hurt. 

“He’s doing it to himself.”

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