
THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 0083 — 03-11-26
BY: M.L. Nestel

Illustration by Rob Weiss
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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
▀ Lower Manhattan: NYPD Employee Caught Groping Man In Office Building
A POLICE EMPLOYEE was pinched for a sexual attack that occurred late last year.
The 40-year-old was inside a building located on Pearl and Madison Streets on the morning of Oct. 24. The man, who was off-duty from his Media Service Technician duties, pawed a man’s privates without his consent.
The victim apparently didn’t report the foul play until months later. It’s unclear if the two men knew each other at the time of the extra handsy incident.
The suspect was formally taken to task on Jan. 22 for forcible touching and sex abuse.
He’s been relegated to modified duty until the outcome of the investigation and the matter is adjudicated.

⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Riverdale: ‘I Wasn’t Doing Anything!’: Sicko Busted Masturbating In Front Of Daycare Center

A NASTY PERVERT was standing in front of a daycare center while getting off.
At around 2 p.m. on Jan. 21, officers were summoned and soon stopped the 34-year-old eager idiot who was seen standing five feet from the building located on Broadway and West 253rd Street.
They were informed that the unsavory allegedly had lowered his pants and was completely naked from the waist down and moving his hand in a “stroking motion” on his “erect penis”, according to the criminal complaint.
Once cops arrived and approached the aroused accused they asked about his behavior.
He allegedly denied whatever he did to himself was innocuous.
“I wasn’t doing anything,” he allegedly said in reference to his self-pleasuring incident.

⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Brownsville/Crown Heights: Knife-Toting Brute Blabs At Gal ‘I’m Going To Shoot You!’
HE CAME WITH blade but he threatened to shoot.
A 24-year-old man allegedly obsessed with a woman was caught after casing a woman for several days at two locations (her work and home) and then lobbing threats to end her life.
On the night of Jan. 11, the suspect was thrice seen loitering outside a bar on Sutter Avenue near Tapscott Street.
At one point, the suspect might have been bored with the idling and took action.
Clenching a knife, the maniac ran toward the woman shrieking, “I’m going to shoot you!”
Three days later, the woman was at her home located at St. Johns Place near Nostrand Avenue and again appeared; haunting her outside the spot three separate times during the day.
With all the evidence against him, investigators moved in and busted the man on Jan. 19.
He was then charged with stalking (with a weapon,) stalking (causing fear), stalking (at place of employment), menacing (with a knife), and harassment.

⬛ QUEENS
▀ Forest Hills: Antisemite Nutjob Decks Rabbi
A RUTHLESS RUFFIAN allegedly roundhoused a rabbi as he was walking to a synagogue.
The 32-year-old holy man was walking on Queens Boulevard near 71st when a slugging assassin, also 32, spit antisemtic insults his way.
Then he took a couple pops at him — landing blows to his face and chest.
The perp was netted right the hateful assaults.
He was taken to court for assault (as a hate crime causing injury) and aggravated harassment (based on race or religion).
When arraigned, the suspect pleaded not guilty and was freed without bail.
He’s due back in court on March 16.

⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Arrochar: Punk Who Can’t Stop Texting Ex-Galpal Shatters Cop Van’s Wall In Fit
HIS EX WANTS nothing to do with him. And yet he still can’t take a hint.
So when the cops came to collar the brokenhearted zero, 33, for disobeying a protection order for texting his 41-year-old ex nonstop, he allegedly threw a fit.
The suspect was taken into custody on McClean and Lilly Pond Avenues back on the morning of Jan. 14.
They had him seated in an unmarked police van and while there he allegedly racked up criminal mischief and disorderly conduct to his criminal contempt rap. The perp allegedly kicked the interior partition inside the gray Toyota Sienna model van “multiple times”, according to the criminal complaint.
The freakout shattered the wall and caused it “to split apart” rendering it “inoperable and broke”, the papers say.

⬛ [SIC] CITY

Illustration by Rob Weiss
▀ Schizophrenic Mom Lands Random Blows at Five Innocents After Brooklyn Meal With Daughter Abruptly Ends
The suspected attacker’s sister says the woman has been battling schizophrenia for years and when she’s off her meds believes ‘everyone is an enemy.’

Credit: Burrito Bar
A hellraiser wrecked an eatery and bashed several bystanders after a 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 tasty frozen margarita from the bar of Brooklyn’s 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 up 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 Sun days after suffering a blow to the top of his dome that was bleeding profusely after the raging customer allegedly whacked him with a glass projectile while he tried to bounce her out.
First, the food order was 86’d.
Yerman said the waitress serving them noticed the mother becoming “a little agitated” after her daughter marched out in a huff.
“Her daughter left crying,” Yerman said.
When the check was left at the table, Grullon allegedly unleashed 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 the bouncer whose mission it was to shield his staff and customers.
So he attempted to usher the human wrecking ball out of the restaurant by force.
She allegedly groused, “Get the fuck off me! Get the fuck 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. Glass flew. But Yerman sighed, “Thank God it didn’t hit anyone.”
This provoked at least one customer to return fire by chucking a glass back at Grullon.
As Yerman was dragging Grullon outside, he claims Grullon then took a glass bottle or candle holder (he can’t be sure) from another table and used it to clock him on the top of his head.
Blood drizzled down his face, but the adrenaline “was flowing.”
Yerman stayed determined to extricate the provocateur. And even when he did, he claims 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.”
With the threat walking off, Yerman was soon ambulanced to a hospital to get six staples to stanch the head wound.
Cast out in the winter cold — the woman allegedly went on a slugging spree, punching four innocents.
‘I don’t know how she would have the strength to do that. I’ve never seen it that bad.’
The random targets in Grullon’s Flatbush Avenue warpath were a 52-year-old man strolling the sidewalk with his two children, a 53-year-old woman, a 54-year-old woman, and a 37-year-old woman.
Cops busted the rogue pugilist and she was formally slapped with a heap 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.”
Afterward, she saw Grullon go and strike another man.
That man told 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 thundering right cross.
“She hit me and walked off,” he said.
The man was stunned.
‘Fucking crazy. I’m hoping to press charges if the judge doesn’t dismiss the case.’
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 people — 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 Sun about the human toll wrought by her sister’s flying fists, the sister was overcome with contrition.
“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, isn’t ready to pass the peace pipe with Grullon just yet. He doesn’t want her to get away scot-free.
Asked about Grullon being sprung from custody, he was nonplussed.
“Fucking 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.”
*This story was first published in The New York Sun

⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Tough Leveled Beating For $150 (Brooklyn, NY)

A GLUTTONOUS GOON mugged a man for quick cash.
The suspect in the do-rag and his chums struck at around 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 13 in front of Glenwood Road near East 98th Street.
They stepped to a 29-year-old and pressed him to cough up his currency.
When he waffled, they pounced his face with punches with several blows and emptied his pockets of $150.

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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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