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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00131 — 05-19-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Illustration by Rob Weiss
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
▀ Harlem: Ghoulish Gal Roughed Up, Kidnapped Date With Woman
THE FIRST DATE ended in handcuffs.
A 19-year-old woman was romanced by a 23-year-old woman until she turned out to be a ruthless ruffian.
Their first date took place late night on April 26.
Initially, they had enjoyed a rendezvous together.
They then returned together to a nine story apartment building that houses “LGBTQ-affirming community members” who need housing.
The younger woman thought it was goodnight. But the suspect wasn’t ready to call it that just yet.
Investigators believe that the suspect was so determined to not part with her fling that she pulled a gun on her.
She then wrestled the victim to a bed and allegedly choked and beat the teen.
She also comandeered her cell phone.
It wasn’t until 6 p.m. into the next day that the suspect decided to free her hostage.
But the woman allegedly only agreed to spring her loose her victim if she promised to keep her mouth shut about the kidnapping and not go tattling to the cops.
The woman must have been convincing enough.
Because her captor freed her.
But she quickly informed the Manhattan DA's office.
Investigators mounted evidence and on May 5, they took the suspect into custody .
She was charged with kidnap and assault.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Port Morris: Outlaw Named ‘Outlaw’ Busted For Cell Phone Robbery
SHE LIVED UP to the name.
A woman with the last name “Outlaw” was allegedly up to no good when she allegedly walloped a man on the street to score his phone.
The 40-year-old cutthroat pounced on the man walking along East 141st Street and Bruckner Boulevard back at around 8 a.m. on April 15.
Authorities say Ms. Outlaw snatched the man’s cell phone out of his mitt and then when he made the decision to wrench it back — the unsavory struck him several times with her right and left dukes, landing punch after punch to his face and chest.
Perhaps in a huff or displeased by the outdated phone model — she took the gizmo and tossed it to the ground.
The woman was lassoed and charged with robbery (causing physical injury), assault, petit larceny, and criminal possession of stolen property.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Boerum Hill: Crack Dealer Busted Selling Rocks To Undercover
HE CHOSE THE wrong clientele.
A 30-year-old man was busted plying two capsules full of crack in broad daylight.
The perp was grinding in front of a liquor store Hoyt and Baltic Streets at around 4 p.m. on April 14.
There, the suspect agreed on a price for the rocks with a keen customer.
Without realizing crack fiend was actually the fuzz — he dealt two capsules with crack.
Instantly, the perp with a head for business was quickly wearing bracelets.
He was then put out of commission and processed for possession of crack and selling the stuff.
The arrest comes after the suspect pleaded guilty for a case stemming from Nov. 21 last year where he was caught with too tinted car windows and then found to be possessing crack, fentanyl, and heroin.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Broad Channel: Train Creeper Caught On Cameral Thieving Fleecing Sleeping Straphanger
A DIRE DEVIANT was extra unlucky when he was captured on camera picking off a slumbering traveler.
The 57-year-old was conked out on a train as it was barreling into a station at the intersection of Noel and West Roads back on the early morning of April 9.
The victim told cops that he last recalled his Superdry backpack (filled with critical docs like his passport and social security card) resting on the floor of the train between his legs.
It was around 2:30 a.m. and he suspected someone did him wrong while he napped.
For an hour later, his possessions disappeared.
When he ran to the authorities — they pored over the CCTV footage.
They determined that a slippery suspect wearing a black hat, black jacket, black trousers was seen taking off with the victim’s backpack and then exiting the train at the Broad Channel subway station.
However slick he was on the train — the perp didn’t trot off far with his victim’s backpack booty.
Cops pinched him and he was slapped with grand larceny (public record) and petit larceny.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Oakwood: Storming Of Slinger’s Trap Pad
HE’S NO PABLO Escobar.
If the coppers were thinking they scored the motherlode following a morning raid back on the April 15 — they were sorely disappointed.
The 35-year-old suspected crack honcho was taken into custody following the paid visit to his apartment on Mill Road.
It’s there that authorities say they found some pills and some other no-nos littering the joint.
The takedown effort yielded six green Oxycodone pills (marked with “M15”), a white oval Oxycodone/Amphetamine pill (marked “107”), a pink round Oxycodone pill (marked “K56”), along with cocaine-filled straws like very naughty pixie sticks, 25 glassine envelopes, 21 Suboxone strips plucked from a living room drawer, and a scale smeared with nose candy.
When he was searched, cops found another coke straw (you know… for the road!).
They also found a set of knuckle dusters in a drawer along with a .22 shotgun round.
The perp was nailed to the cross with criminal possession of a controlled substance (Crack/with intent to sell,) criminal use of drug paraphernalia, (drug packaging and scales,) and criminal possession of a weapon and possession of ammo.
⬛ [SIC] CITY
▀ Coke Courier Service And Posh Stash House Given Heave-Ho (Bronx, NY)
Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter
A VIP DRUG biz reaping a quarter of a million dollars in profits was suddenly done for.
The white-gloved delivery service kept a flat inside a high-end 26-story sliver in trendy Port Morris as its HQ.
And it’s where narcos bagged 22-pounds of cocaine.
Members of the NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Office appeared on Sunday at 6 a.m. to execute search warrants at the stash house located at 5 Lincoln Avenue.
There they evidence-tagged a fleet of cars (with funds secreted in various compartments) and used in deliveries, recovering $200,000 in cash, two pistols, electric money counting machines, and thousands of vials of cocaine bound for sale in the five boroughs.
Four dope peddlers were arrested and face drug possession charges and two of the men face additional gun possession charges.
All four men were ordered held on bail at arraignment on Monday at Manhattan Criminal Court.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ TEXAS (New York, NY)
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▀ Cafe Wague (New York, NY)
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Drug + Gun Bust (Brooklyn, NY)
A DOPE BUST involving an illegal piece was table-topped.
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⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Blue Horseshoe Loves Anacott Steel (New York, NY)
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ 7-Eleven Down For Count (New York, NY)
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▀ Wheel-less (New York, NY)
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▀ No Joyride (New York, NY)
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▀ Firebull (Lower Manhattan, 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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