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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 0064 — 02-12-26
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
▀ Midtown: Hospitalized Hilton Hotel Guest Outed As Meth And GHB Pusher
MAYBE HE BROKE the kingpin’s cardinal rule… getting high on his own supply.
At around 10 p.m. on Jan. 14, a 35-year-old man was helped out of his Hilton Hotel room suffering from a bout of sickness.
He was rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital and be treated for a mystery illness.
Whether his infirmed state was legit or induced by some chemitry experiment on himself — once checked out of the posh Sixth Avenue digs, a security detail entered the room.
They were aghast to learn the sick guest left behind a smorgasbord of questionables.
They include copious amount of methamphetamine and the party drug GHB, along with an assortment of dope-selling items including scales and packaging materials.
The security detail turned over the narcotics and accessories to the police.
The recovering patient who hails from Newark, New Jersey was later dealt an especially tough pill to swallow by investigators at his hospital bed.
He was hit with possession of meth (with intent to sell) and criminal use of drug paraphernalia (packaging and scales).
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Castle Hill: Deadbeat Dad Caught Leading Cops On Predawn Moped Chase
A JACKASS ROAD warrior revving his Vespa all over town broke a bevy of driving laws.
The 35-year-old shouldn’t have even been on the bike.
It was around 3:30 a.m. when cops spotted the suspect on a moped and drawing suspicion.
The sketch factor only heightened when the detail flashed their lights and sounded the siren and the mope sped off.
Officers trailed him turning onto one-way street and also hopping onto sidewalks and forcing other motorists to suddenly brake and play chicken with people forced to dive out of the way to save their necks.
His Tour De Bronx was halted when the cops finally cornered him at the intersection of Quimby and Castle Hill Avenues.
It turns out the suspect was banned from being able to ride anything much more than a a big wheel because he had been flouting child support payments.
He was slapped with reckless endangerment, reckless driving, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and violations of vehicle and traffic law.
⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Bedford-Stuyvesant: Man Mauls Pizza Hut Worker Then Wrecks Register
AN APPARENTLY RAVENOUS maniac went primeval on a Pizza Hut clerk — attempting to make his own meat lover’s pie by biting the man all over his body.
The 34-year-old unhinged suspect stepped into the chain eatery located on Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Park Avenue at around 8 p.m. on Dec. 28, the criminal complaint reads.
The suspect allegedly went gonzo on the worker — slamming him to the floor and then started to “bite” him about “both hands, the right shoulder, and the right leg,” the papers say.
He then quit biting and grappled the food worker by his neck and began choking him.
The bites caused the man to suffer various cuts and bleeding.
When he was done inflicting the torture, authorities say the suspect knocked off one of the registers (worth about $3,000) to the ground, rendering it useless.
Authorities caught up to the berserker and charged him with assault on a retail worker, criminal mischief, and criminal obstruction of breathing.
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⬛ QUEENS
▀ Corona: Family Drive Ends With Wife Slugging And Stabbing Hubby
THEIR CAR RIDE as a family became a horror show.
At around 6:30 a.m. on New Year’s Eve, the dad was driving the family Ford on New Year’s Eve with their 1-year-old son on board.
Somehow as they were passing along Gleane Street and Whitney Avenue the wife snapped and decided was time to show her man who was boss with a car smackdown.
She allegedly distracted his focus on the road by landing a powerful blow to his mug and then shivved his right arm with a small metal object, according to the criminal complaint.
Aside from the distraught infant, the husband suffered not only emotional soreness, but also a split lip and two gashes on his arm.
The domestic incident was chalked up by the powers that be to an assault, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon, and harassment.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ St. George: Jailbird’s Fisticuffs Earns Himself Clink Christmas
HE COULD HAVE been feasting and having one too many spiked eggnogs.
Instead, he reportedly let his loose fists limit his options to canned mackerel and ramen.
The 22-year-old was already holed up in the Staten Island holdup for one crime when he allegedly unloaded on a fellow inmate.
The suspect was locked up on Dec. 21 for a weapons case dating back to Dec. 6 involving assault and unauthorized use of a vehicle.
On Dec. 22, he either enjoyed the austere offerings of jail and decided he wanted to stay a little longer. So he allegedly pounded the other inmate with rights and lefts — racking up yet another assault — this time in a correctional facility; plus a harassment charge.
The other inmate suffered head wounds and trauma as a result of the punchout.
The 5-foot-10, 190-pound pugilist, jail records show, was held on $20,000 cash bail following his arraignment and had his Christmas turkey (sandwich? jerky?) on Rikers Island.
⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Pooch Sniffs Poor Driver’s Smash Stash (Brewster, NY)
K9 VINN must have been treated to fillet mignon for his detective work.
State cops ferreted out the wrongdoing by summoning the wise pooch to sniff around a stopped car that had racked up violations on Interstate 684 back on the afternoon of Feb. 10.
Manuel De Jesus Genao Gutierrez, 38, of Queens was forced to reveal a secret compartment that contained 1,800 glassine sleeves of 58.1 grams of H, a vacuum-sealed bag, glass containers filled with 128.2 grams of blow, and around $24,000.
Gutierrez was busted for several drug charges.
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⬛ NYCTALGIC
▀ Broome & Elizabeth (New York, NY) - 1973
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▀ Church Avenue (Brooklyn, NY) 1980s
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▀ Cine 42 Marquee (Times Square, NY) - 1986
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⬛ GOTHAM, INK
▀ ‘Snow Troopers’ (Brooklyn, NY)
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▀ Various (New York, NY)
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Hanger-On & Off (Bronx, NY)
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▀ Not-So-Solid-Ground (New York, NY)
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▀ Console-Less Call Of Duty Soldier (New York, NY)
IS IT PERFORMANCE art? Or a trendsetter shadow soldiering while training around town? Whatever is happened the dude appears to really believe he’s waging a kind of theater campaign against an enemy — be it real or imaginary.
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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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