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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00111 — 04-23-26
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.
⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Murray Hill: ATM Meddler Scores Zip
AN OILY GLUTTON was busted after trying to break into a bank ATM.
Back at around 6:45 p.m. on March 22, was when the 45-year-old was allegedly witnessed in the process of attempting to breach a money machine inside the vestibule of TD Bank located on Madison Avenue off East 31st Street.
Authorities say he was siphoning electronic components.
And yet despite the efforts to dismantle the apparatus and get at the cash — he came up empty.
He was taken into custody and slapped with criminal mischief (damage over $250) and tampering with/destroying physical evidence.
This wasn’t the perp’s first try at cooking up an underhanded scheme to get quick cash.
Back in 2018, the suspect was caught installing a skimming device inside a Chinatown bank ATM.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Rikers Island: Female Jailbird Rearrested For Attacking Fellow Inmate
REHABILITATION FOR ONE inmate is more fleeting than ever.
A 26-year-old serving time at Rikers Island prison for a lesser charge — notched some more crimes to her sheet.
On March 19, the woman, who stands 5-foot-3, 120-pounds, allegedly tangoed with another inmate and was caught in the melee.
The attack comes months after she walloped another woman on Rikers Island.
That incident (which involved weapons and resulted in serious injury) took place on July 16 of last year.
She now adds assault (causing disfigurement), assault while in a corrections facility, possession of dangerous contraband in prison, weapons possession, and obstructing governmental administration.
⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Midwood: ‘I Want To Fuck This Guy Up!’: Fire Extinguisher Bashing Brute Blabs Before Thieving Onslaught
A LOWLIFE POUNDED a man using an extinguisher and then ripped him off for some pocket change.
The 25-year-old knockaround punk was with four of his chums outside Nostrand Avenue off Farragut Road back at around 5 a.m. on March 17.
They crossed paths with the man of the house on that block and the ringleader decided it was fisticuffs time.
"I want to fuck this guy up," he allegedly declared, the criminal complaint reads.
His four heavies proceeded to tenderize the poor man with the main suspect weaponizing a fire extinguisher and clobbering him several times to his body.
After chucking the extinguisher, the perp pilfered the man’s wallet.
In it was $45 and a credit card.
It took two days until investigators tracked down the extinguisher instigator.
He was hauled away and facing gang assault, burglary (of a dwelling), robbery (with a dangerous instrument), grand larceny (from a person), and menacing.
So far, the four others who rumbled with him are still being sought after.
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⬛ QUEENS
▀ Jackson Heights: Sinister Gal Uses Scarf To Choke 2 Women On Train, Tries To Fleece Bracelet
IT WAS A train ride from Hades.
Early morning on March 19, a surly scavenger approached two women as a train was holding at the Roosevelt Avenue subway station.
The 45-year-old woman first tried to strike up some tittle-tattle with one of them.
A couple blinks later, their garrulous stranger took a scard and wrapped it around the womens’ necks.
The attacker then pulled on the scarf to apply pressure, according to the criminal complaint.
Seeing this woman was whacked out of her mind — the two innocents tried to flee to another subway car.
But the looney lady allegedly prevented them from exiting through the doors.
The woman then slapped one of the straphangers and attempted to wrestle away her bracelet.
She was unsuccessful.
Cops were able to intervene and took the suspect into custody.
She was formally charged with robbery, (with a dangerous instrument) criminal obstruction of breathing, unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession of a weapon.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Westerleigh: Blade Toting Tough Busted Menacing Pizzeria
HE CAME TO SLICE.
A punk with a large knife charged into Brother’s Pizzeria and taunted an employee before swinging a blade at them several times.
The attacker entered the eatery dotted on Port Richmond Avenue off Willowbrook Road at around 7 p.m. on March 22.
The fiend was gripping the kind of knife that could skin of a crocodile.
He proceeded to swing at the staffer several times.
Without drawing blood — the knife man fled.
Cops caught up with him a few blocks away and took him into custody and disarmed him of his dagger.
He was then taken away and arraigned on attempted assault, menacing, weapons possession amongst other raps.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Moto Menace (Queens, New York)
COPS ARE HOPING to entreat tipsters to snare a moped mugger. The incidents appear to have occurred late March.
*Jackson Heights - 10 p.m. on March 22: A 35-year-old woman walking along 87th Street and 31st Avenue (blocks away from the 115th Precinct) was confronted by the perp on a moped. He flased a knife and forced the victim to forfeit her jewelry and also $800.
*East Elmhurst - 9:45 a.m. on March 28: A 34-year-old woman was met by a perp riding a moped. The assailant again toted a blade and then slashed her, causing her jacket to open. She also suffered a gash to her hand. The suspect took the woman’s jacket and her purse before fleeing.
*Corona - 9:30 p.m. on March 28: A 32-year-old man outside on 110th Street near 37th Avenue was targeted by the moped mugger. Cops say the knife was displayed at the victim — but this time the suspect wasn’t able to wrest away any valuables.
*Corona - 11:30 p.m. on March 28: A 31-year-old woman walking on 38th Avenue near 108th Street was accosted by the two-wheeled crook. The same M.O. of flashing a knife before getting physical. He grabbed her collar and snatched a necklace and also her bag before taking off.
*Sunnyside - 11:30 p.m. on March 30: A 52-year-old man was standing at the corner of 65th Street and 43rd Avenue. The suspect on a moped pulled over and after hopping off — showed a knife and yanked the man’s bag.
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▀ Parcel Scallywag (Kew Gardens, NY)
A MAN BUNNED mope was captured on doorbell cam stepping up to a stranger’s home stoop and filling a clear plasting bag with their Amazon parcels.
The incident took place on the afternoon of April 17 at a home located on 153rd Street & Union Turnpike.
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⬛ GOTHAM, INK
▀ Got Way Way Up! (New York, NY)
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Unlicensed Weed Shop Padlocked (Forest Hills, NY)
A FEW NAUGHTY proprietors of the sticky green were nabbed and their over 200 pound inventory hauled away.
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▀ Bang, Blues + Bars (Brooklyn, NY)
THESE ARE THE kinds of drugs in your neighborhood. Or at least they were in Flatbush until cops removed them.
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⬛ NYCTALGIC
▀ Bonanno Mafioso Faces Murder Music (Brooklyn, NY)
MUGSHOT OF VINCENZO Asaro, the reputed Bonanno member who was questioned for offing Cattillo Cappolo back in November in Bath Beach. Accused of pulling the shotgun trigger.
But without much evidence to prosecute a judge in Flatbush tossed it.
And another gangster walks free.
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ A Rail Kamikaze
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▀ Warning Whiz-By (New York, NY)
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▀ Barnburner (New York, NY)
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▀ Times Square Drifters (New York, NY)
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▀ ‘Get The Fuck Off Me!’ (Bronx, NY)
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▀ Gridlock Denier (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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