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THE BLOTTER

ISSUE № 00204 — 07-31-26

BY: M.L. Nestel

Graphic by Melissa Eiler

⬛ [SIC] CITY

Graphic by Rob Weiss

▀ ‘What’s The Password?’

An ex-cop was caught patronizing NYC brothels as john and tallying ‘hundreds’ of calls and texts to prostitution promoters

A LOTHARIO WHO once carried a badge did himself in because he had a thing for cheap sex romps. 

The 31-year-old (now a civilian) served a decade as an NYPD cop after graduating the NYPD Academy in 2015. He had been posted at the World Trade Center Command.

That was until his alleged extracurricular tail chasing did him in, The Blotter has learned. 

Internal Affairs investigators were keeping tabs on the cop as far back as May of 2025 until they culminated the probe in March of this year. Notably, the suspect placed “hundreds” of calls and also texts messages to folks “associated with businesses and individuals that promote prostitution.”

In that time, according to sources, they counted nearly 100 searches the accused man ran using his NYPD-issued cell phone to pinpoint businesses in NYC that “promote prostitution” and then more than a score of searches for his own information, address, and license plate number. 

According to the source, with an understanding of the allegations against the ex-MOS, the searches themselves were determined to lack any “legitimate law enforcement purpose” and were also allegedly “did not relate to any official [NYPD] business.”

There is also a series of incidents where th especially prurient ex-police allegedly was tracked getting lucky. 

He allegedly dialed a “prostitution business” and then CCTV captured him withdrawing cash from an ATM. He then headed to said pleasure house and enter the spot and then leave 30 minutes later. 

Plenty of time to get his rocks off in the boom-boom room.

In another instant, per the source, the same former cop attempted to enter another biz known to send comers away especially happy — stand outside and ask, “What’s the password?”

He was buzzed in and a half-hour later exited. Perhaps with a little more pep in his step!

When the heat moved in to give him the legal business, they confiscated his personal cell phone. 

And it was found that he had been performing several internet searches for all kinds of colorful terms including “Manhattan brothel raid”; (d) “Manhattan prostitution”, “Soliciting prostitution charge”, “Statue of limitations of soliciting prostitution”, “NYPD Vice”, “NYC AMP Raids”, and “Asian Massage Parlor”.

▀ EXCLUSIVE: ‘How The Hell Did This Get Here? And Why?’

A retired cop traveling Europe was flummoxed by ‘strangest’ encounter with seemingly authentic NYPD police cruiser parked in… Prichenstien, Bavaria?!

Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter

HOW IN GOTHAM’S name did an NYPD Ford Crown Victoria (adorned with all the fixings — all the way to the bumper sticker) find its way in Germany’s Central Uplands?

When one conjures Bavaria, Germany what quickly comes to mind are its majestic alps, massive mugs filled frothy Oktoberfest brews, Weißwurst (white sausage), and the headquarters of both BMW and Audi.

But the damndest thing happened in May when Peter Calamera was enjoying his travels. It’s almost as if a he found a beached whale atop one of its peaks. Or saw Bigfoot… in Austria.

This comes close to it.

‘It looked 100% legit to me, right down to the ‘Cop Shot’ reward stickers.’

-Peter Calamera, retired NYPD cop who was touring Europe for three weeks as bass player and producer of his country singer daughter Jessica Lynn’s band

The retired NYPD cop touring three weeks with his his daughter NYC-based country singer Jessica Lynn (he plays bass guitar and produces her music), encountered a police car straight outta Washington Heights’ 33rd Precinct that was marking it.

The Jessica Lynn tour plotted stops in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

When they stopped in Volkach, Bavaria for some grub — he dropped off the crew and ventured to park their ride a football field away.

And the one time MOS disbelieved what he was seeing.

There before him was an unmistakable white and blue-striped Ford Crown Victoria RMP (NYPD parlance for Radio Marked Patrol) parked under a covered carport on a farm.

"I couldn't believe it," Calamara, who had worked in the 32 Precinct, in Inwood, taking note of the identifying markings on the car are from the 33 Precinct, in Washington Heights.

He took particular note of the car’s authentic details.

"It looked 100% legit to me, right down to the ‘Cop Shot’ reward stickers,” he marveled. “It looked beat up a bit. It even had a scratched up cage (separating the rear prisoners compartment from the driver and passenger).”

The dumbfounded Calamara, who posed for a photo with the almost meteor-like cruiser, proudly wearing his NYPD ball cap.

After posting it on his social media account, with a caption: "How the hell did this get here and why?"

'It looked beat up a bit. It even had a scratched up cage (separating the rear prisoners compartment from the driver and passenger).’

-Peter Calamera on a closer inspection of the NYPD RMP parked in Bavaria, Germany

That post drew a barrage of comments ranging from "Does it have hubcaps?" to spitballing about its provenance (movie studios buying up NYPD cars for flicks) along with more tickling questions like if it has foam missing from the steering wheel, if it possesses a milk crate propping up the (broken) driver seat, any empty beer cans or chicken bones strewn on the floor.

Stew MacKay wisecracked: “Juuuuust a little off post!”

Others were consternating that it might be some kind of car import for a club to pure amazement at the exotic find some 3,900 miles from NYC. 

The inquisitive Calamara was all too eager to meet this police car aficionado Farmer Finn.

But he was leery of the language barrier.

So he walked back to the Cafe Zuckerscheune in Prichenstien and inquired with the staffers about the fish-out-of-water find.

They were just as puzzled.

"I have been traveling for 10 years and this is by far the strangest thing I have seen, mused Calamara.

The Blotter did a little digging of our own.

A German author who reached contacted the cafe.

He was told that they would write a note and leave it on the neighbor’s door with our contact info.

So far, we haven’t heard back.

Whenever we do hear back, we will update. 

⬛ COURTHOUSE Q&A

▀ EXCLUSIVE: ‘I'm Going To Get You!’: Knife-Brandishing Man Caught Menacing Neighbor Claims He Was Defending His Harassed Mom (Harlem, NY)

The suspect tells The Blotter that he was merely trying to get his neighbor to leave his mom alone, stating, ‘I feel like she is accusing my mom of stealing her bracelet or picking it up and that's not true.’

NAME: Jonah
AGE: 28
LOCATION: Harlem, NY
OCCUPATION: "Right now I don't work. I'm on public assistance, I have EBT and a voucher that is paying my rent."
RAPS: Menacing with a weapon, weapons possession with intent to use, and harassment (physical contact)

AFTER 8 HOURS in custody Jonah’s hair wasn’t exactly coiffed to his liking so he asked not to pose for a full-length photo.

The 28-year-old soft-spoken defendant stepped out of Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday clad in an orange prisoner’s gown draped over his beltless shorts (his paperwork stowedin one of the jumbo pockets), a T-shirt, sneakers (sans laces).

He was nabbed on July 28 in Harlem’s 32 Precinct and stands accused of menacing with a weapon, weapons possession with intent to use and harassment, (physical contact).

At arraignment, prosecutors laid out the charges agains Jonah.

They say cops were summoned to the man’s West 144th Street home back at around 5:30 p.m. by a woman neighbor.

‘Come get it. I'm going to get you.’

-Jonah, 28, allegedly shouted at neighbor he later claims was harassing his mother over a missing bracelet.

She claimed while attempting to enter her building that she was headed off by Jonah pacing in the hallway.

He allegedly was gripping a kitchen knife.

And when the neighbor tried to get around him to get into her apartment — Stewart allegedly dared her, “Come get it. I'm going to get you."

The scrambled police unit soon reached building and they cuffed Jonah.

The arraignment judge ordered to set the suspect free without bail, but issued an order of protection prohibiting any contact with the neighbor.

The Blotter: What are you accused of?

Jonah: Technically, I was accused of, well, being violent with a knife in the hallway to my neighbor, which is a lie. I don't think that was true. She (the judge) put a restraining order against me and now I have to stay away from her, no contact."

TB: What was your issue with the neighbor?

J: She kept harassing my mom about a bracelet and I'm trying to figure out why she kept asking my mom where her bracelet is. If you lost your bracelet, that's on you. I feel like she is accusing my mom of stealing her bracelet or picking it up and that's not true. It's not a lie. Now I'm going to avoid this woman of course, I don't want to go back to jail.

‘Technically, I was accused of, well, being violent with a knife in the hallway to my neighbor, which is a lie.’

-Jonah disputing accusations he was taunting his neighbor in the hallway of their building brandishing a kitchen knife.

TB: How long were you in the system for?

J: I was in for like eight hours.

TB: How was it in the holding cell?

‘Now I'm going to avoid this woman of course, I don't want to go back to jail.’

-Jonah vowing to respect a judge’s imposed order of protection to steer clear of his neighbor

J: In the holding cell, It was a drag. I'm not going to lie. The time it took, it was like a four hour wait. It was a drag. But I'm out and now, yeah.

TB: Any contact with the criminal justice system in the past? Yes I have. No prison time but like, hoping the train, (fare evasion in transit) what else did I get arrested for before? Stealing from Walgreens and H&M clothing store, I went stealing back in my day.

⬛ LOCKED UP

▀ Convicted Golf Caddie Slayer Who Ducked Capture For Decades In Jamaica Before Feds Caught Him — Gets Paroled

HE WAS THE killer golf caddie who fled the States to reinvent himself to become a cabbie in paradise before he was finally found.

Michael Cousins won back his freedom when he appeared before the state Parole Board on July 7 while serving time at Franklin Correctional Facility.

Back in the fall of 1996, Cousins, was a 29-year-old golf caddy at the Pelham Country Club in Pelham Manor, Westchester County located just outside the city.

The man allegedly stabbed to the chest fellow cabbie, Jason Campbell, 23, ending their fight.

A bloodied Campbell staggered to the Westchester County Club’s pro shop, where he collapsed to his death, prosecutors detailed during trial. 

Cousins’ knife was recovered at the country club crime scene.

The suspect became a ghost.

In fact, he became TV fodder when the hit program "America's Most Wanted" featured his homicide in an episode.

Cousins found cover for 20 years before he was apprehended by the Jamaica Constabulary Force Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime Fugitive Apprehension Team in October 2015, in Kingston, Jamaica where he adopted an alias and working as a taxi cab driver.

He waived his right to an extradition hearing in Jamaica and turned over to the FBI and then faced trial when extradited back to Westchester in November of 2015. 

By April the following year, Cousins was staring down at 25 years to life if he were to go down for the murder charge.

So he pleaded down to a single count of first degree manslaughter and was sentenced in June to nine to 18 years under the plea.

After serving a decade of the sentence Cousins is now slated to return to society.

⬛ MANHATTAN

Upper West Side: ‘Now You’re Getting Poked!’: Duo Harassing Pregnant Woman On City Bus Wallop Senior Gentleman

CHIVALRY THESE DAYS is met with wanton fury. 

An old man paid a harsh price for doling out some class on mass transit. 

The 73-year-old Good Sam tried stepping in as two punks were harassing a woman sitting on the M-104 bus reached Broadway and West 92nd Street at around 6:30 p.m. on June 5, according to the criminal complaint. 

Both men, ages 24 and 19 and hailing from the Bronx, had been jawing with the woman who was apparently well along in her pregnancy. 

“She is pregnant,” he asserted. “Don’t be disrespectful.”

The two then turned their aggression toward the elder. 

“Mind your own fucking business,” one of them countered. 

The other stepped to the old timer and blabbed, “Now you're getting poked."

Both men then leveled the old man several times to his head and body and when he dropped — they started stomping on him several times. 

Then, one of them pulled a knife and stabbed him in the left shoulder. 

Both men took off running from the bus. 

Meanwhile, the pregnant woman’s guardian was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside and stabilized. 

The perps ducked the law for weeks until June 25, cops confirmed their arrests. 

Each faces assault and weapons possession raps. 

Midtown: Nut Busted Gratifying Self In Precinct Holding Cell 

HE NOTCHED ANOTHER misdemeanor by masturbating inside a crowded police precinct cell. 

A 38-year-old with extra idle hands was cooling his heels inside Midtown North Precinct’s lockup for thievery on the early evening of July 7. 

While waiting to be booked — the bawdy bloke couldn’t tame his insatiable libido. 

So the jerkoff indulged by giving himself a little self-loving.  

He was witnessed in “plain view” by other prisoners and a member of service pulling out his erected member and with his hand “stroke” it “up and down,” according to the criminal complaint. 

The calloused pawed hood’s gratuitous act tacked on more than just the  petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property raps. For he was also charged with public lewdness and exposure of a person. 

⬛ THE BRONX

▀ Wakefield: Vile Fiend Caught After Breaking Into Girl’s Bedroom To Perform Lewd Act

A REPULSIVE MONSTER broke into a child’s bedroom and pleasured himself.

The 35-year-old allegedly slipped into the 8-year-old’s home located nearby De Reimer and Bussing Avenues before sunrise on July 17.

The suspect allegedly got into the bedroom through the window and woke the tot from her sleep.

He then exposed himself and performed a lewd act before exiting the same way he slithered in.

There were no reported injuries.

The goon was described as wearing a black sweater with a white logo, black pants, a gray skullcap, and black sneakers.

He was nabbed the same day and formally hit with burglary, sex abuse, forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a child, trespass, and harassment.

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Park Slope: Blitzed Goon Refuses To Exit Public Park After Putting On Obscene Oral Sex Show — Pipes, ‘I Have The Gun!’

HE WAS MOST displeased when someone demanded the XXX exploits find another venue. 

Two men, 35 and 46, were interrupted engaging in oral sex inside the family-friendly Washington Skate Park when they were asked to get lost by a sickened park goer. 

‘Mind your own business!’

-46-year-old stepped to man asking him to leave a park after engaging in fellatio

It was around 11 p.m. on June 9 when the men were enjoying fellatio and the bystander asked them to scram. 

“Mind your own business,” the 46-year-old allegedly stated. 

So affronted by the heave-ho ask (and perhaps the interruption of their hookup) and the older of the two ticked off men then grabbed a pistol and marched back to answer allegedly “squared up to fight,” according to the criminal complaint. 

Brandishing the firearm, the older suspect then “squared up seethed, “I have the gun!”

The supposedly wasted tough guy and his pal left the park and dipped out in a white Dodge Challenger. 

Witnesses spotted the make and plate of the car and informed cops of the details. 

‘I have the gun!’

-Suspect training loaded pistol on complaining park goer

The officers tracked it down to nearby 5th Street and 7th Avenue where it was parked at a fire hydrant. 

The perps were then questioned by the cops. 

They quickly determined the answers coming from their boozy breath suggested heavy drinking. 

What’s more, the officers spotted a 9mm Glock pistol (with a defaced serial number) set on the center console and loaded with eight rounds plus one in the chamber.

There was also another gun confiscated; a Smith & Wesson .40 caliber pistol (with a serial number intact) and loaded with nine rounds pulse one in the chamber found stashed on the front passenger seat floorboard. 

Both men were busted and brought up on weapons charges, public lewdness, menacing, and harassment.

⬛ QUEENS

Jamaica: Crack Gal Pulls Out Blade From Her Lifted Shirt, Knifes Man At Bus Stop 

THE BARELY-DRESSED GAL was extra bloodthirsty. 

The woman, 27, allegedly took aim at a man waiting for the bus and then carved him up. 

It was around 9:30 a.m. on June 22 when the man says he was sitting at the bus stop located on Jamaica Avenue and 144th Street. 

The woman allegedly drew up her dark skirt and the man said below them she was wearing white-striped undershorts. 

While circling him like a lone wolf, he saw her then lift her shirt to reveal a pink bra and pulled out a knife out of the cleavage. 

He likely didn’t know it yet but the woman was hellbent on going to work on him. 

She swung the knife at him and gashed him several times to his defending hand face. 

The victim’s attempt to fight back forced the woman to at least not leave him for dead. 

The slashed man was taken to a nearby hospital where he received 10 stitches to his forehead and three to his right hand. 

A bystander tried to help stop the woman — managed to hand the bloodied knife to him and cops were able to collect it as evidence. 

By 4 p.m., cops found the suspect standing on Merrick Boulevard and 90th Avenue; and dressed in her same skirt and pink bra getup. 

When they attempted to arrest her, they found she was carrying a sack of crack. 

The woman was taken down for assault, attempted assault, and criminal possession of a controlled substance.

⬛ STATEN ISLAND

Brighton Heights: Woman Claims Home Burglary Was Actually An Effort To Reclaim Her ‘Wig And Other Belongings’

THE ONLY CRIME she committed was not knocking first. 

At least that was the takeaway from the woman who was caught quickly after breaking into a home and going to town to take what she thought was hers. 

It was the morning of July 2 when the 43-year-old allegedly “kicked the front door in” and enter the home located on Montgomery Avenue. 

Once inside she helped herself to a wig, two Nintendo Switch consoles, a T-shirt, and a pair of jeans. 

The woman wasn’t bothered with any sort of conscience kick until cops caught up with her on July 9. 

‘Yes, that’s me in the images. I did kick the door in. I grabbed my wig and other belongings.’

Accused woman, 43, arguing she was recovering her stuff when she broke into home.

It was then that they confronted her on the suspected thievery. 

But she wasn’t bashful of the incident that also happened to be captured on CCTV. 

“Yes, that’s me in the images,” she confessed. “I did kick the door in. 

“I grabbed my wig and other belongings.”

The investigators weren’t exactly taken by the theory that the stuff she allegedly stole were hers to claim. 

The glass pipe with the coke residue didn’t help her situation much either. 

Prosecutors soon dropped the hammer on her with several charges including burglary of a dwelling, criminal mischief, petit larceny, criminal possession of a controlled substance (cocaine), and criminal trespass.

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.

Midland Beach: Soused Woman Explains Wrong Way Car Wreck To ‘Driving Stupidly’

SHE WAS SMASHED when she caused the smashup. 

A woman was behind the wheel of a 2019 Hyundai Ioniq when she lost control and crashed — her ride was facing the wrong side of the road, the criminal complaint reads.  

It was around 9:15 p.m. on June 28, when the 41-year-old was riding along Lincoln Avenue and found her e-SUV inoperable. 

Police approached the woman and questioned her sobriety. 

She admitted to “driving the vehicle” while traveling from Matawan, New Jersey. 

Did she drink anything this particular evening?

Oh yes. Cocktails galore it would seem. 

She admitted in a distinct liquor-stinking slurring voice, “I drank Long Iced Tea and Cutwater.”

As for how she found herself in the fender bender the woman was especially self-loathing. 

“I was driving stupidly,” said the driver.

The cops took the woman to a drunk tank and charged her with DWI and reckless driving.

⬛ EVIDENCE ART

▀ Larcenist Unloaded (Bronx, NY)

▀ Big Gun (Brooklyn, NY)

⬛ ET. AL

▀ Nightcrawler (New York, NY)

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Quick Drift (New York, NY)

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▀ E-Bike Crash Death (Manhattan, NY)

A TEEN RIDING an e-bike perished when he collided with a Chevrolet SUV.

Gabriel Nacato was slain when he was wheeling off the Brooklyn Bridge onto Centre and Chambers Street at around 9 a.m. on Thursday.

He was 17.

The Chevy driver stayed after the deadly crash.

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