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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00242 — 09-24-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
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⬛ THE BRONX
▀ University Heights: Couple Busted In Ninth Domestic Dustup
THEY AREN’T WRITING songs about these two.
A 33-year-old and her boyfriend, 34, were both hauled off after they engaged in another ugly feud.
The pair were taken away on Aug. 21 after physically clashing.
The mother has three kids and have no relation to the live-in lover.
They were both charged with menacing with a weapon, menacing, harassment, criminal possession of a weapon with intent to use.
What’s more, the judge ordered both individuals must stay away from each other.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Gravesend: Ice Cream Monster Busted For Sugar Rush
A SWEET-TOOTHED ADDICT was busted hoarding several tubs of ice cream.
The 31-year-old suspect entered a Dollar General back on the morning of July 24.
Authorities say he filled up his backpack with 13 ice creams.
He proceeded to exit the discount chain store without tendering the $62.50 he racked up.
The frosty fleecer didn’t get to indulge on the desert.
That’s because cops swooped in to dole out some salty reality.
And he was son heading for Jello commissary after being charged with criminal possession of stolen property.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Bayside / Flushing: Federal Pretender Shakes Down Marks For Thousands Threatening To Expose Bogus Afghanistan Terrorism Funding And Child Porn Nexus
A CUNNING CON was caught blackmailing multiple men by feigning he was a federal agent and demanded to be paid bundles of cash to prevent his targets’ purported ties to child porn and bankrolling jihadism.
The 61-year-old hustler first put his hooks on a man back on May 4.
It was then that he rang the oblivious victim on the phone and feigned he was a G-Man.
‘We can get you a new social security number and card… if you withdraw $16,000.’
He blabbed, “Your social security number is compromised and is currently being used to buy cars and houses in Afghanistan and used to fund terrorism,” the criminal complaint reads.
Thoroughly rattled, the man asked what he could do to fix the situation.
“We can get you a new social security number and card,” the perp told him.
But it was gonna cost.
In fact, he claimed the new social security card could only be procured if “you withdraw $16,000.”
The suspect didn’t take COD, either.
He told the worrywart that he had to put the cash in a plastic bag, tape it up and “someone will pick up the money.”
When the clock turned 3 p.m. the next day, the man did as he was told.
He came with the cash wrapped up and taped in the bag.
He dropped it off in front of a residential building located on 141st Street.
Shortly the dead drop, the 61-year-old grey-haired suspect appeared wearing a tan coat, white shirt and black trousers.
CCTV captured the crook take the dough and take off.
Days later he did it again.
‘Someone will pick up the money.’
On May 12, the same money grubber beamed 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 for the chicanery on Aug. 4 and dinged for grand larceny (more than $50,000) and grand larceny (get property through extortion).
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ New Dorp: Raid Retires Smack Slinger
THE DAWN PATROL scored.
At 3 a.m. the cavalry entered a home on Hylan Boulevard to determine what and how many questionables were in a perp’s duffel bag.
The inventory was impressive:
*four pushrods with cocaine residue
*three blue glassine envelopes with brown H
*one yellow glassine
*a pipe with a bowl of some smoked and unsmoked coke
*a cap of coke
*a plastic spoon with heroin residue
*a razar blade with coke
*a pen grip.
*four Ziploc bags with cocaine
*one Ziploc bag with crack rocks
There was also a bunch of random non narcotic stuff.
The items included two Visa gift cards, two Walmart gift cards, 15 face masks, a pair of Chanel sunglasses, a Golden Nugget Casino player card, a gas membership card, one Oceans Resort player card, one Hard Rock Casino player card, an Odyssey of the Seas keycard, and a home health aid card.
Authorities booked the suspect for criminal possession of a controlled substance.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Lamp Looter (New York, NY)
A CHURCH WAS vandalized by a rogue.
At around 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 20, CCTV captured the deviant stepping up to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary & St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church where he yanked a light fixture and destroying it before fleeing.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ Repair Letters (Bronx, NY)
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▀ Barrier Art (Bronx, NY)
▀ Backside (New York, NY)
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⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Mafia Wars (New York, NY)
THE SHOT-RIDDLED BODY of gangster big Frankie Yale next to his car.
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Party Crashers (New York, NY)
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▀ Shooting Aftermath (New York, NY)
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▀ Cop Rammers (Bronx, NY)
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▀ More Canal Street Chaos (New York, NY)
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▀ Zipping (New York, NY)
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▀ ‘You’re Gonna Be Fired!’ (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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