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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00226 — 09-02-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
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⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Hell’s Kitchen: Man Nabbed After Chopping A Stranger’s Skull At Hi-Rise
A GOON KNIFED a resident inside a posh skyscraper in a heated squabble.
It was around 1:30 a.m. when cops were summoned to 42nd Street where they learned a 34-year-old victim suffered several slash wounds to his face and had a piece of his skull cut out.
The assailant, described as wearing a hat, gray sweatshirt, and jeans took off with the victim’s wallet.
While the victim was rushed to Mt Sinai Hospital to be stitched up and tended to — the cops hit the bricks to find the slasher.
And officers found their man ducking into a deli nearby on 9th Avenue.
They found him in the bathroom and with the slashed victim’s wallet.
He faces robbery and criminal possession of stolen property.
Prosecutors learned quickly that the suspect had an open case from a year ago involving assault with a weapon causing serious injury.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Morrisania: Fare Draws Pistol On Cabbie For Ten Spot, Crows ‘Ima Shoot You!’
A HACK WAS held at gunpoint over a Hamilton.
The 41-year-old woman feigning a fare was ready to end a taxi driver’s life for a pittance.
‘You give me the $10!’
It was around 1:30 a.m. on July 21 when the woman was sitting in the back of a cab when she drew a black pistol and made clear it was pay her or pay with your life.
“Ima shoot you,” she snarled. “You give me the $10.”
Fearing that the drivel of a threat might be the last thing he ever heard — he coughed up the $10. And the gunplaying goon split.
But apparently not fast enough to outpace the fuzz.
The perp was quickly lassoed and taken down for robbery (with a firearm), menacing (with a weapon), criminal possession of stolen property, and weapons possession.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Bay Ridge: Flashing Fiend Shows His Ding Dong At Stretching Planet Fitness Member And Then Again At Bookstore Clerk
HE PLAYED PEE pee peekaboo.
A 28-year-old showboat was nailed for his doughty behavior.
The perv allegedly lowered his trou to expose himself two times before two agonizing innocents.
On the morning of May 25, the perp first grossed out a person who was stretching inside a Planet Fitness located on 86th Street.
It was a hard situation for the person enjoying their pre-workout when getting loose they had to be forced to see the man’s underside.
The same indecent imbecile reappeared (and so did his genitals) on July 25 while standing inside a bookstore dotted on 3rd Avenue and 84th Street.
Investigators were made aware of both below-the-belt incidents.
In the Planet Fitness peep show, he forced on the stretching member, they verified the suspect signed into the log.
It wasn’t long — four days — before the cops pinched the perp and took him into custody and charged him with lewdness and harassment.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Bayside / Flushing: FTC Pretender Shakes Down Mark For Thousands Threatening To Expose Bogus Child Porn Nexus
A CUNNING CON was caught blackmailing a man by fronting he was a fed and needed to be paid bundles of cash to prevent his ties to child porn.
The 61-year-old hustler put his hooks on a man on May 12.
It was then the he allegedly sent a missive urging the man to call a phone number because his account had been “linked to child pornography”, according to the criminal complaint.
When the man made the call, he spoke to the suspect who allegedly claimed to be from the FTC [Federal Trade Commission] and then explained how the man’s cell phone had been linked to a child pornography sites and that he would have to pay up to “remove the link,” the papers say.
Specifically, the man was told to wire $37,000 to a Well Fargo Bank account under a specific name and then withdraw $41,000 and place it in an “unmarked envelope” so that someone would meet to pick it up.
The next day, the white-haired Asian suspect, arrived at an agreed upon dead drop spot on a residential stretch along 46th Avenue and took hold of the enveloped cash.
On May 14, the same suspect allegedly went for a third round to rook this guy.
Again, he played the FTC suit and explained how if the man was hoping to get his cash back that he would have to withdraw $40,000 and place it in another unmarked envelope for pickup by another bagman.
Like clockwork, the money man appeared. However, it wasn’t the suspect but a Hispanic man who grabbed the cash.
The cops were informed of the money grabs and after poring over surveillance footage from the various cash drops and pickups — they were able to peg the elder suspect with his signature white hair.
He was brought under arrest on Aug. 4 and dinged for grand larceny (more than $50,000) and grand larceny (get property through extortion).
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Chelsea: Perv Pinched (And Confessed) To Underskirting Woman At Burlington Coat Factory
A WOMAN FELT violated after a sleazebag took a snap of her.
The woman was inside a Burlington Coat Factory store on South Avenue back at around 12:45 p.m. on June 5.
The suspect allegedly followed the woman around the floor of the store and then at one point is said to have aimed his phone’s camera to take a photo “underneath her skirt,” according to the criminal complaint.
When he was brought to bear for the despicable act, he allegedly came clean.
In a one sentence confession the perp attested by name that he “took a picture of a woman underskirt.”
He now faces unlawful surveillance and harassment.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Metalhead (Rockville, NY)
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ Collage (New York, NY)
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▀ Slaps (New York, NY)
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ <Gun (Bronx, NY)
⬛ NYCTALGIA
JUST AFTER 3 A.M., a raging fire broke out at the Happy Land Social Club on Southern Boulevard in the Bronx. It killed 87 people.
⬛ ET. AL
▀ Follow The Leaders (Brooklyn, NY)
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▀ Cops Fell Knives-Charging Woman (New York, NY)
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▀ Drifter (New York, NY)
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▀ Cops Thwart Street Takeover (Newark, NJ)
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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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