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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00129 — 05-15-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
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.
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⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Hell’s Kitchen: Rumble Ends In Deadly Gunfire
MONTHS AFTER A man was felled by spraying bullets — investigators netted the suspect they believe pulled the fatal trigger.
The 24-year-old was taken into custody on April 28 and hit with murder and weapons possession.
He allegedly deemed himself executioner during the predawn hours of Nov. 23.
That’s when he and 10 others were scrapping on West 46th Street and 12 Avenue.
The duel where initially the only weapons at play were fists and feet was interrupted when the suspect grabbed his iron and fired into the crowd. A 39-year-old man was struck once in the groin and another in the back.
He would succumb to those wounds a short time later.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Norwood: Galpal Slayer Who Fled To Mexico… Nabbed At JFK
SHE ALLEGEDLY OFFED a man and then jetted out of the country. But detectives were front and center upon her return.
The 28-year-old was allegedly witnessed around 10 p.m. on March 28 fleeing the Webster abode of a man who was found to be stabbed to death in the chest.
Medics rushed the victim to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was quickly pronounced dead.
Cops recovered the bloody knife.
The suspected femme fatale allegedly knew the victim but it remains unclear what provoked the bloodshed.
The woman allegedly fled the country after the slaying.
But Bronx homicide detectives were at JFK Airport able to generate leads on her whereabouts and played the part of receiver when the woman stepped off a plane from Mexico at midnight on May 12.
She was quickly cuffed and processed.
The accused already had a bit of a repertoire in the crime game.
The 5-foot-5, 200-pound suspect had three priors involving weapons possession dating back a decade.
She was remanded and locked up on Rikers Island where she will be cooling her heels until she arrives before a judge to July 29.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Bushwick: Beamer Double Parking In Bike Lane Busted With Scooby Snacks
A HOT SHOT in a BMW took liberties to hog the bike lane and then was facing hard time for the bags of crank.
The 30-year-old perp behind the wheel of a 2025 BMW drew a scolding from the cops back on the night of April 14 while sitting smack in the way at the corner of Gates and Central Avenues.
But as the cops were in the process of citing the suspect for the obfuscation, the officers lucked on two gallon bags loaded with crystal meth; eight ounces of the stuff.
The cops then kept writing beyond the no standing zone parking job and added possession of crank with intent to sell.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Corona: Unholy Parishioner Caught Stalking ‘Spiritual Abuser’ Pastor With Hundreds Of Hate Emails
A PASTOR MIGHT as well have been checking his stove daily to be sure there wasn’t a rabbit being boiled.
That’s because a woman kept showering him with a barrage of emails despite his repeated pleas to stop.
From 2023 until 2025, the now 60-year-old woman knew no quit with pressing send.
The beginning of the emails came off as flirting.
‘The pastor is despicable, a liar, a schemer, a spiritual abuser, a psychological mess, and very, very, very, very ugly.’
“You need lots of hugs, kisses, sex, and a good massage of those muscles from someone special,” reads a missive she allegedly sent back on Feb. 5, 2023.
But over the years, the suspect’s tone turned particularly vicious.
By Nov. 20, last year the woman sent another email to the priest.
“The pastor is despicable, a liar, a schemer, a spiritual abuser, a psychological mess, and very, very, very, very ugly.”
Cops picked up the woman on March 15 at the woman’s home in the Queenswood Apartments on 100 street.
She is up against it having been brought up on stalking, aggravated harassment, and harassment.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Tottenville: Bamboo Stick Swinging Loon To Homeowner ‘I’ll Fucking Shoot You!’
MAYBE HE HAD a real bazooka in his bubblegum.
The batshit brute was caught after licking for a fight with a resident at high noon on April 6.
The suspect apparently was wielding a bamboo stick when he hollered, “I’ll fucking shoot you!”
And while the perp didn’t appear to be able to have much more than the plant to make good on his threat — he proceeded to wreck some havoc.
He used the stick to strike and scratch up the home’s front door.
The same blowhard then used the makeshift cudgel to ruin the home’s mailbox.
The police were summoned and quickly took the suspect into custody and disarmed him of his plant.
He was taken away and charged with criminal mischief, menacing, and harassment.
⬛ [SIC] CITY
▀ GOP Advocate Hopeful Caught In $1M Defrauding Scheme (New York, NY)
By Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter
SHE WENT FROM public advocate candidate to public enemy.
A Manhattan woman who ran an unsuccessful 2025 election campaign for NYC Public Advocate, was busted by the feds for attempting to defraud the NYC Campaign Finance Board out of nearly $1 million dollars in taxpayer funds.
Angela Aquino, 47, was arrested on Thursday on federal wire fraud charges.
The former Republican pol hopeful, is suspected of running a shell game with her personal finances, shuffling $130,000, which originated in her native Philippines; including a $34,000 overseas "loan" to help meet the Campaign Finance Boards minimum $150,000 threshold in campaign donations.
By law, those funds should have been small dollar donations, anywhere from $10 to $100 from the provenance of least 500 donors in NYC.
Instead, she allegedly used bank accounts linked to friends and associates to mask where the money originated and the campaign submitted falsified paperwork about donors to the NYC Campaign Finance Board, the investigation determined.
Aquino then allegedly purloined the "campaign funds" for personal expenses, including paying her personal rent.
Upon meeting the $125,000 minimum threshold of donations, Aquino then applied for an 8-to-1 matching funds from the NYC Campaign Finance Committee, which was available to all candidates.
The scheme would have netted her a $1 million dollars of taxpayer money.
But Aquino never did receive the matching funds.
Her name was scratched from the ballot for the June 24, 2025 Republican primary contest.
Incumbent Jumaane Williams, handily won a second term in the general election with 73% of the vote.
Aquino was slated to appear in Manhattan Federal Court this week.
If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Bad Gat Tipsters (New York, NY)
⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Seized Pistol (Brooklyn, NY)
COPS SHOWED OFF another loaded piece that was in bad hands.
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▀ Impounded (Queens, NY)
ILLEGAL MOPEDS — SCORES of them hauled away.
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⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Wranglers (New York, NY) - 1980s
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▀ Walk + Talk (New York, NY)
SURVEILLANCE SNAP OF Angelo "Quack Quack" Ruggerio, Gene Gotti, and Armand Dellacroce
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Ballet Buskers (Brooklyn, NY)
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▀ Fleeing Fuzz (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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