A NOT-SO-SLICK RICK was witnessed pulling a sloppy heist — fattening his bag full of goods and trying to break away without paying for them. 

The 56-year-old man was inside Bath & Body Works located on West 125th Street and Lenox Avenue at around 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 18. 

The suspect was spotted handpicking five bottles of perfume, three body creams, and a candle from store shelves and tucking them in his bag, according to the criminal complaint. 

He wouldn’t get away with the beauty products. For cops scrambled and were outside the shop to greet him with Miranda Rights. 

The perp was charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. 

The new bust was another in a lengthy line of past run-ins. 

He was busted on April 22 for shoplifting in Brooklyn and at that time he had an active warrant for failure to show up to a previous hearing involving a prole violation. 

That was for being slamdunked for robbery from an October 2023 case. 

He was paroled in November 2024 and under court oversight until May 2027. 

After his most recent Bath & Body Works legal whoopsie — his court-appointed attorney on Dec. 30 filed a civil suit against state corrections for the suspect’s continued detention, calling it a “violation right to due process by failing to provide him with a timely preliminary hearing thereby causing his unlawful imprisonment."

A KID’S FASHION statement in the brick cold temps cost him.

Two enterprising bandits spotted the 15-year-old entering St. James Park just before 1 p.m. on Jan. 28

The creeps — one of them a 17-year-old — chirped threats to the kid and demanded he hand over his jacket; which cost a pretty penny to the tune of $850.

When the boy didn’t comply straightaway, the suspects ripped it from his body and then took off on foot sprinting down Morris Avenue.

Other than the fact that the victim was out in the cold without the warmth of his jacket, he was unscathed.

The jacket jackers remained outstanding.

One of them was described as having a dark complexion and wearing a blue and black jacket with a gray hoodie, beige camouflage pants, and gray sneakers.

His cohort with a lighter complexion was last seen in a black jacket, black jeans, a black facemask, and white kicks.

A WAYWARD ROUND fired by a would-be assassin missed one person and hit another person who wasn’t meant to get hit. 

Lead was flying back on Nov. 30 when a 19-year-old allegedly squeezed off multiple rounds to take out a person. But a 16-year-old was hit instead. 

The person meant to get offed was believed to be a friend of the victim and had bumped into each other to talk. Their commisserating set off the shooter clad in a black track suit who fired and then missed the teen’s pal and struck him instead. 

The boy, who is a prep basketball player was taken to Maimonides Medical Center where the bullet struck his spine and left him paralyzed from the waist down.

On Dec. 17, investigators caught the suspect and laid attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a loaded firearm, and reckless endangerment raps on him.

The suspect, is believed to be involved in a June 20, 2024 basketball squabble at the Williamsburg Houses that ended with a 19-year-old falling to the ground with three shots to his leg. 

He was bailed out awaiting his day in court to fend off facing attempted murder, criminal possession of a loaded firearm, assault and reckless endangerment and earned an outstanding warrant for failing to show up to court for that case.

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HIS BLOWUP AT his better half put his illicit guns on blast. 

At around 9 p.m. on Dec. 27, the 34-year-old hubby was inside his home on Beach 137th Street. 

It was this night that he was haranging his wife and at one point allegedly propped his fist “up to her face”, the criminal complaint reads. 

The suspect then allegedly lost it and punched out the bedroom door.

When officers showed up they discovered the man’s weapons. 

They pulled out a Smith & Wesson 12-Gauge model 916 shotgun from a closet shelf, a .223 caliber Springfield Saint AR-15 rifle that has a pistol grip and the ability load a detachable magazine, along with three magazines loaded with 15 rounds of .223 ammunition the closet. 

Quizzed about the arms, the suspect allegedly claimed ownership. 

“Yes, those are mine,” he told them, the papers say. 

As to whether they were legitimately owned… that was left far more vague. 

“I don’t think I have a license,” he said. “I got them in Colorado.”

The man was brought up on weapons charges for the assault rifle, ammo clip, menacing, criminal mischief, and damage to property.

TWO BILKERS SHOOK down a man for his dough. 

It was around 5 a.m. on Jan. 7, when the 33-year-old and his crony crept up on a man walking along Cedar Street near Hudson Street. 

They stopped the man and with the pistol symbolically doing most of the talking — the suspect hissed, “You bastard! You white motherfucker! Give me your wallet!”

He also allegedly called the mark a “bitch” and a “white motherfucker”. 

The outnumbered and unarmed target complied and forfeited his wallet that had his bank debit card in it. 

He was able to give cops a good description of his larcenists. 

And the next day they found one of the duo on Broad Street and nabbed him. 

The lone caught suspect is facing robbery, (with a gun) menacing, grand larceny from a person, criminal possession (of a credit card), and harassment.

He apparently was back to pulling some of his old tricks, given he was paroled from serving a three-year bit in November of 2024 for drugs. Records show he’s no longer on parole.

A hellraiser wrecked an eatery and bashed several bystanders after her supper with her daughter hit the skids, the Blotter has learned. 

Hilda Grullon, 44, was allegedly calm and composed around 3:30 p.m. on January 31; even enjoying sips of a frozen margarita from the bar of Burrito Bar & Kitchen. 

When her daughter arrived, the two were seated at table 27 — a prime spot in the corner of the establishment that since 1991 has been serving Tex-Mex fare in Prospect Heights after relocating from Tribeca. 

“It hurt like a motherfucker,” Gregory Yerman, the eatery’s 63-year-old general manager told the Blotter days after suffering a blow to the top of his dome that was bleeding profusely after the woman allegedly whacked him with a glass projectile. 

Their food order was 86’d. 

Yerman said the waitress serving them noticed the mother became “a little agitated” after her daughter marched out in a huff.

“Her daughter left crying,” he said.  

Once the check was left at the table, Grullon allegedly capped off a profanity-laced freakout. 

“She started screaming at the top of her lungs,” Yerman recalled. “She was saying everything under the sun. 

“It was out of the blue; obscenities, the N-word.”

The manager deputized himself as a bouncer to shield his staff and customers. 

He attempted to usher the human wrecking ball out of the restaurant. 

She allegedly groused, “Get the f— off me! Get the f— off me! I’m gonna kick your ass!”

Grullon, he said, snatched a glass off a table and hurled it toward fellow diners. 

It smashed. But Yerman sighed, “Thank God it didn’t hit anyone.”

This provoked at least one customer returning fire by chucking a glass back at Grullon. 

As Yerman was dragging Grullon outside, he claims Grullon took a glass bottle or candle holder from another table and used it to clock him on the top of his head. 

Blood drizzled down his face, but adrenaline “was flowing.” 

And so Yerman stayed determined to extricate the provocateur. 

But Grullon was raring for round two. 

“She tried to get back in,” said Yerman. “My employees were at the front door, you know, holding it to keep it closed so she couldn’t.”

Yerman was ambulanced to a hospital and had to get six staples to stanch the head wound.

Cast out in the winter cold — the woman allegedly went on a slug spree, punching four others. 

The random targets in Grullon’s Flatbush Avenue warpath were a 52-year-old man strolling with his two children, a 53-year-old woman, a 54-year-old woman, and a 37-year-old woman. 

Cops busted the pugilist and she was formally slapped with a barrage of charges including assault, menacing, endangering the welfare of a child, and harassment. 

However, at her arraignment Judge Jacob Zelmanovitz granted her supervised release, dismissing prosecutors’ request for $40,000 cash or $80,000 bond bail. 

“I saw this woman bleeding on her face just come up to me and punch me,” the 53-year-old woman — a public school teacher who asked to remain anonymous — told the Blotter. 

The startled woman recalled, “She hit me in the face; right on the bridge of my nose.”

She saw her go and strike another man afterward. That man informed the Blotter under the condition of anonymity that he was with his two kids when he saw this distraught woman dart straight for him. 

There was a distinct beat where he said he was able to ask the distraught woman, “Do you need help? Are you okay?”

Grullon answered with a right cross. 

“She hit me and walked off,” he said. 

The man was stunned. 

As for her being sprung by the judge, the second victim hopes Grullon “gets the help she needs because she’s obviously disturbed.”

Indeed, The Blotter learned from her sister who offered only her first name, Natalie. 

She confirmed that Grullon suffers from a severe case of schizophrenia. 

“It was diagnosed a few years ago,” Natalie explained, adding that she has tried to get her sister help based on “certain scenarios that were occurring.”

When informed of her sister’s attacks on five innocents — the sibling was flummoxed. 

“I don’t know how she would have the strength to do that,” she said. “I’ve never seen it that bad.”

The majority of Grullon’s schizophrenic outbursts were limited to excessive arguments. 

Even though they weren’t necessarily physical, they were enough to force her sister to become estranged given she wanted to protect her two young children.  

“She’s OK most of the time,” said Natalie, noting that it’s highly likely Grullon wasn’t taking her crucial meds. 

“When this happens she believes in things that are not occurring,” said Natalie. “And then she becomes defensive and everyone is an enemy from out of nowhere.”

Specifically, Grullon suspects that there are “people trying to come and attack her.”

Cursing and “saying some pretty harsh stuff” is commonplace during these protracted states, she added. 

When informed by the Blotter about the human toll that was allegedly accosted at her sister’s flying fists. 

“I’m definitely going to look into it so that I can at least apologize to those innocent bystanders — because, honestly, you know it sucks.”

Meanwhile, the Burrito Bar & Kitchen owner, Yerman, is ready to ensure Grullon doesn’t get away scot-free. 

Asked about Grullon being sprung from custody, he was nonplussed. 

“F—ing crazy,” he said. “I’m hoping to press charges if the judge doesn’t dismiss the case.”

He intends to make sure the prosecutors know where he stands, stating, “I’m waiting to talk to the ADA, and we’ll see what happens.”

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