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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00119 — 05-04-26
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
▀ Washington Heights: Cops Close Clandestine Casino, Bag Boss
IT WAS CLOSING time for a gambling den nooked inside a residential building.
A 54-year-old was busted on March 18, for playing Humphrey Bogart — lording ovber the parlor where customers patronize the place to partake in various games of chance.
At around 10 p.m. on March 18, cops, flashing a search warrant entered the establishment located inside the building on West 160th Street off Broadway.
They inventoried a craps table and three electronic gambling machines.
He was taken down for possession of a gambling device (slot machine) and promoting gambling.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ South Bronx: Baby Daddy Tells Terrified Mom,‘I Will See You At Your Funeral!’
A BARBAROUS BABY daddy nearly went postal on the mother of their child.
The 30-year-old goon allegedly drowned the woman in his phone calls. And then he upped the raging rhetoric to engage in house calls to her Westchester Avenue apartment.
The accused first started ringing his helpless ex’s phone staring back on Jan. 24 afternoon.
She tallied 19 calls in total from that day.
In one of the calls, the mother answered and he growled, “Give me back my daughter,” the criminal complaint states. “Where is your daughter?”
A week later, on the morning of Jan. 30, the suspect rang eight times.
Again, he appeared to be demanding custody by way of stick.
He blabbed, “Give me back my daughter. I’m going to do something crazy.
“I will see you at your funeral.”
And this time he didn’t leave his words to linger in his ex-galpals nightmare.
He showed up at her apartment and she heard violent banging on her front door.
Her doorbell cam picked up the father punching and kicking the door.
The rattled woman then saw the man wheel away on his motorcycle.
‘Give me back my daughter. I’m going to do something crazy.’
On the morning of Feb. 10, the same fiend allegedly rang their daughter’s mother seven times and then reappeared.
Again, the suspect kicked and punched the front door again and again.
The suspect tried the same deranged daddy act again.
It was the evening of Feb. 26 when he returned to the same apartment.
He skipped the front door bruising and just stepped up to the home and scolded her.
“Where is my baby,” he demanded. “You are going to go to jail.”
He continued, “I called ACS. The court is going to break your door open with a court order.”
The suspect was nabbed with several charges of aggravated harassment and plain old harassment.
⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Crown Heights: Lawless E-Biker Eluding Cops, Pinched With 9mm
A BATTERY-POWERED MAVERICK wasn’t slick enough to lose the coppers on his tail.
The 23-year-old suspect was allegedly riding his two-wheeler illegally on a sidewalk along St. Johns Place near Rochester Avenue.
It was around 3 p.m. on March 23 when the suspect wasn’t willing to stop despite chasing cops’ orders to do so.
The perp soon had to ditch the bike and then tried to rely on his own two feet.
But he wasn’t fast enough.
Again, officers demanded he quit eluding.
He refused.
The arresting cops searched him and discovered a loaded .9mm pistol in the man’s waistband.
Cops sought a license for the piece (and wouldn’t you know it) the suspect lacked one.
So if only the perp could have stuck to the road — he might have been able to dodge not only the infraction for biking on the sidewalk, but also the weapons raps that he incurred as a result of his flagrance.
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⬛ QUEENS
▀ South Ozone Park: Raider Boosts Then Wrecks JFK Airport Rental Car
HE BROUGHT TIMBER to the takeaway.
A desperado hellbent on rolling out of a Budget Rental Car lot at JFK Airport was busted after rigging the spike strip and getting into a massive smashup.
The 28-year-old suspect was witnessed at around 4:30 p.m. on March 30 breaking out of the Budget Rental car lot in a Mazda.
Authorities say the perp foreshadowed his thievery by placing a slab of wood over the exit strips of the car hiring biz exit and took off.
But he still punctured two of the tires and wobbled along.
Cops pursued the rental car crook and despite the flats — he still ticked up the speedometer to its max and led cruisers through “heavy traffic”, according to the criminal complaint.
The suspect then ended the chase by crashing into another car, causing the airbags to deploy.
The entire joyride in the less than lux rental racked up over $5,000 damages.
He was taken into custody and charged with grand larceny, criminal mischief, criminal possession of stolen property, and unlawful fleeing of a police officer.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Rossville: Geezer Caught Pistol-Whipping Kia With Kid Inside
A FURIOUS FOGIE was captured using a pistol to teach a car a lesson.
The 74-year-old man went mental on the 2016 black Kia sedan( with Pennsylvania plates) where a 15-year-old was seated.
The car hater targeted the Kia that was parked on Arthur Kill Road back on the afternoon of Feb. 13.
The elder allegedly first jawed with the kid who then spit at him.
That set the man off.
He drew a .380 caliber gun and he allegedly used it to shatter the driver’s window, then bash the driver’s side mirror.
The destructive antics drew the law and the suspect was formally taken to task for menacing (with a weapon), criminal mischief, endangering the welfare of a child, and harassment.
⬛ NYCTALGIC
▀ Forest Hills: Commission Collars - 1966
FIFTEEN MAFIOSI MARCHED out of LaStella (102-11 Queens Boulevard). Cops walked Carlo Gambino, head of the crime family that bears his name; Thomas Eboli and Mike Miranda of the Genovese Family; Joseph Colombo; Aniello Delacroce, underboss of the Gambino Family; Joseph N. Gallo, the Gambino Family’s consigliere; Dominick Alongi, Eboli’s driver; and Anthony Cirillo, a Genovese soldier. From Florida, Santo Trafficante, Jr. and New Orleans boss Carlos Marcello, his brother Joseph Marcello, Jr., Anthony Carolla, and Frank Gagliano. They also took the owners of the restaurant, Joseph and Jack Taliercio, in for questioning.
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Scientology Church Mobbing (New York, NY)
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▀ A/C Train Rope-A-Nope (Brooklyn, NY)
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▀ Daredevils (Astoria, NY) #HoodUber
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▀ Relocation Time (New York, NY)
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▀ B1G Bro (New York, NY)
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▀ ‘Don’t Take A Picture Of My Car!’ (New York, NY)
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▀ Cop Boots Ferrari (New York, NY)
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▀ Seating Inside Optional? (New York, NY)
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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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