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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00240 — 09-22-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
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⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Canal Street Chaos (New York, NY)
For decades, vendors have long hocked luxury knockoffs to mostly penny-pinching tourist. The stretch of Canal Street served as their home sweet hustle.
But in the recent past, the NYPD has started cracking down harder on the counterfeit bazaar.
Nowadays, the merchants have begun to adopt a kinda grab-and-go mode. They set up their inventory of sorta Prada purses and Fugazi Versace wares and on a bedsheet or tapestry and when the cops roll in — they quickly roll all the items up and dash for cover or stash it in a parked car.
One denizen is particularly miffed yelling at one vendor: “Every fucking day!” before kicking one of his purses.
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⬛ THE BRONX
Claremont: Knife-Swinging Brute Netted 3 Years After Snatching Woman’s Lighter, Pounding Her Face And Lifting Wallet
A SCUMBAG DECIDED a woman’s lighter should become his property.
So he took it.
And when the woman fought back, he set her straight with a combination of devastating punches before ripping her off.
The wretch, 40, charged at a woman while in the vicinity of Gouverneur Playground back at around 12:45 a.m. on Aug. 11.
The 37-year-old lunged at the woman’s lighter.
When he ripped it from her grasp — she tried to grab it back.
They then started verbally sparring and that prompted the deviant to unleash a flurry of punches to her face.
That brought the woman to crumble to her knees.
As she was suffering and in a dazed state — the perp pilfered her wallet.
In it, there were two sets of car keys, various credit and debit cards, and $1,245 cash.
The woman was rushed to a hospital to tend to her shiner and other wounds.
Tireless cops tracked down the perp after three years.
On July 22, the suspect was formally arraigned on robbery (with a dangerous instrument), assault with a weapon, and grand larceny from a person.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Bedford-Stuyvesant: Woman Tagging ‘Crack Bitch’ On Home Nabbed Knifing Front Door
THE SPRAY PAINT hadn’t dried before the irate woman decided to take her knife and repeatedly jab her rival’s front door.
The 46-year-old unhinged was on a revenge tour — boondoggling a woman at least three times in one week.
She first struck the victim’s Myrtle Avenue apartment on the morning of July 29.
"You better back up,” she snapped at the tenant, a woman, while brandishing a black kitchen knife she pulled from a black box, the criminal complaint states.
At around midnight on Aug. 2, the same suspect returned.
She was being recorded on a RING camera spraypainting the woman’s door with brown and black spray paint.
The missive read: “Crack Bitch”.
Late afternoon that same day, the same woman returned.
When the victim encountered her, she recalled being verbally accosted.
The suspect spit, “I got you bitch,” and added, “You crack bitch!”
She then prevented the tenant from closing her door by “forcibly” pushing it ajar.
She then shoved her way into the woman’s home and with the kitchen knife stabbed the front door “several times”, according to the complaint.
The police engaged and lassoed the stabbing freak.
She was pinched for possession of a graffiti instrument, making graffiti, burglary (with a weapon) menacing, harassment, and criminal mischief (damage property).
⬛ QUEENS
▀ East Flushing: Woman Caught Blackmailing Sex Partner With Rape Ruse
THEY FORGED A kinky accord.
He would swing by the 20-year-old woman’s sublet located on Union Street to engage in sexual favors; specifically to “manually stimulate [her] genitals.”
They had their fun in the small hours around 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 23.
And her plaything left.
But the lusting woman wanted more than simply sating her libido.
She allegedly contacted her lover boy and compel him to return.
Not for more frisky business.
No.
It was to pay her a cash ransom.
And if he tried stiffing her, the suspect informed him that she march to the police and “make a false report or rape,” the papers detail.
Investigators learned of the sex shakedown and quickly slapped cuffs on the extortionist and she now faces grand larceny (extort to get property).
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ West Brighton / Lower East Side: Girl’s Kidnapper Busted 24 Hours Later While Shopping At Target
A TOT WAS snatched from her home and kept from fleeing by a cruel woman.
The youth went missing from her home located on Forest Avenue back on July 30.
The suspect, a 36-year-old woman, allegedly prevented the young girl from being out of her sight. And all the while she kept her hostage moving to “various locations” around Staten Island, according to the criminal complaint.
For 23 hours, the youth had been under the sway of her captor.
That ended on the morning of July 31.
Cops were able to get a make on the kidnapper on a shopping run at a Lower East Side Target.
It was that officers took the woman into custody and were able to find the missing girl and safely return her to her family.
The suspect was formally brought down for kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, and endangering the welfare of a child.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Spitting Attempted Abductor Wanted (East Village, NY)
THE PARENTS OF a 3-year-old girl were desperately in a tug-of-war with a strange woman who attempted to take off with the child.
She was lingering around East 4th Street between First and Second Avenue and started chatting with the tot back on the morning of Sept. 10.
The parents of the child intervened and pulled their daughter from the stranger’s clutches.
After they pulled her away, the suspect allegedly spat on them.
▀ Armed Bag Snatcher (Greenwich Village, NY)
AN ARMED PUNK made off with a man’s bag with $2,000 in it while he was inside a gourmet grocery.
Cops say the perp drew a pistol at the man inside the Tashkent Supermarket on the afternoon of Sept. 18 and took off running toward a West 4th subway station.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ Cost/Revs (New York, NY)
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▀ Spotlit (New York, NY)
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▀ Beastie (New York, NY)
⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ All About Base (Ridgewood, NY)
A LOUD WEEKEND helped cops stock up the evidence warehouse with some serious gear.
The decibel deviants received summonses.
⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ T Square Mounted (New York, NY) - 1949
▀ Geyser (Staten Island, NY) - 1985
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Loon Shows His Business And Challenges Jeweler: ‘Do You Want To Lose Your Teeth Or Your Balls? I’ll Cut’em Off!’ (Midtown, NY)
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▀ Earsnot (New York, NY)
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Is There A Parking Hell? (New York, NY)
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