IN THE SHADOW of Manhattan’s notorious criminal courthouse and nearby Manhattan’s famous Little Italy — an small-time meth mover was pinched in a narco sting. 

A 61-year-old brazen hustler allegedly engaged with a prospective customer (who was actually an undercover orchestrating the buy with investigators in the waits) to sell some crank over the messaging app WeChat. 

They plotted a meet. 

The suspect showed up minutes before 9 p.m. on July 17 as agreed on the corner of Worth and Mulberry Streets — steps away from 100 Centre Street where the city’s crime cases are adjudicated. 

The suspect allegedly brought along three Ziploc baggies filled with about nine grams of meth. It’s suspected that he intended to exchange the ice for $300, according to the criminal complaint. 

Months later, on Nov. 12, the accused was nailed for the charges of criminal sale of a controlled substance for the meth bags.

THIS WAS SOME real cloak and dagger tradecraft.

A 22-year-old woman was caught after allegedly attacking another person with a pink comb.

The hair accessory attack allegedly took place at around 4 p.m. on Nov. 16 inside a home located on Crotona Avenue near East 187th Street.

The woman was allegedly clashing with another and allegedly pulled out a blade from a pink comb.

She then started gunning after the rival and at one point successfully slashed the person on the right hand, according to the criminal complaint.

Cops showed up and took the woman into custody and charged her with menacing, assault, weapons possession, and harassment.

It remains unclear what provoked the knife play.

SHE’S A BACKSTABBER. 

A 63-year-old woman was nabbed for sticking a knife in her lover who is 11 years her junior. 

The couple were in an explosive tiff just after midnight on Nov. 6. 

They were inside of the apartment that they shared on Martense Street near Flatbush Avenue. 

There, authorities say the suspect grabbed hold of a knife and daggered it into the younger man’s lower back. 

Staggering from the blow, the victim fought off the shock and ouch of it all to dial 911. 

Medics arrived and took the man to Kings County Hospital where he was stabilized. 

His girlfriend was caught at the home crime scene and the bloody blade collected as evidence. 

She is facing assault, weapons possession, and harassment raps.

THE GROCERY WAS a ganja mecca. 

An afternoon on Oct. 12 later landed two green thumbs in the city hotel after being dinged for hoarding heaps of Mary Jane out of Cambria Grocery located on Linden Boulevard and 227th Street. 

The man, 25, and his woman partner, 28, were wrangled a month after cops raided the joint. 

Investigators searched the premises and collected almost 33 ounces of edibles in the “rear storage” of the grocery biz, according to the criminal complaint. 

They also found 13 pounds of “vegetative cannabis” in the man’s black 2010 Ford E150 parked outside the market. 

A month past by until Nov. 12, when each was hauled away and brought up on criminal possession of cannabis charges. 

The suspects pleaded not guilty at their arraignment and are expected to return to court on Jan. 14, records show.

LADY JUSTICE WAS duck and covering after someone squeezed off a wayward round by the Staten Island Criminal Courthouse. 

It was around 3 p.m. on Nov. 13 when a lone gunshot was heard. 

Cops canvassed the grounds around the city building and found a single casing on St. Marks Place.

A 911 caller described five or six men scattering after the bullet fired. Despite ther being “ShotSpotter” monitors plotted around the vaunted building — none of them apparently were able to generate an alert.  

No gunman was found after a search. Checks at local hospitals for potential victims turned up fruitless. 

While the court was in session at the time of gunfire occurred — there appeared to be no damage reported. 

Whoever was the intended target remains murky.

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TWO GRIFTER GALS chowed down and imbibed top-shelf libations at a family-owned D.C. seafood bistro before allegedly bolting to skip out on the check.

The two Goldiloxes — one donning a blonde wig and Adidas track suit top and her hungry pal clad in an orange T-shirt — sat down a couple hours before closing time at Crab Plug Seafood & Grill.

They ate. They gulped. Then they allegedly split.

Everything but pay.

“They were here for about an hour,” the co-owner, Antonio Powell told MMM in an exclusive interview.

The patrons cum pilferers sat down at around 10 p.m. (the restaurant closes at midnight) and didn’t give off any inclination they were up to anything shady.

“Pretty much unsuspecting,” he said. “I mean, we didn’t think nothing of it.”

Antonio, who runs the eatery with his twin brother, Ty, serves up slow-cooked, quality seafood fare including several variations of crabs.

He admitted that the one waitress tending to the two deviant diners was a tad too lax that particular evening.

“My server was downstairs for longer than she should have been because she was on the phone,” he recalled. “I know what she was doing, but I believe they took that opportunity to, you know, to run off.”

Together, after consuming a seafood feast and downing their liquor — they ran up about a $200 tab. (Though Antonio insists neither was drunk.)

Antonio said they enjoyed multiple lemon drops to whet their palates and then ordered chicken wings, crab legs, and the restaurant’s heralded seafood boil.

A 19-second clip of the pair jubilantly jogging away while giggling as if they had just tasted the rainbow — doesn’t sit well with Antonio.

“It was a joke,” he lamented. “Yeah, they were laughing and screaming.”

He noted that their behavior is damaging.

“They don’t care how it affects the business,” he said, noting that the and his brother opened their doors to the public 17 months ago in the Columbia Heights nabe. “They just want their quick fix and they want it for free.”

In the end someone has to make up the loss. “We still gotta pay our staff.”

But the greedy incident is a learning lesson.

He readily admits: “We understand that this is part of the game.”

Going forward, the owner is considering ways to beef up security measures so they don’t get stiffed by future bill scofflaws. One idea is to maybe ask customers to give something to the restaurant as collateral while they dine.

“This is 2026, man,” he shrugged.

He does hope somebody recognizes the two meal moochers. “We think maybe they’re from out of state or somewhere else because it’s like so far nobody recognizes them,” he reflected, adding the tips have been pretty dry in terms of bites so far.

MMM reached out to the Metropolitan Police Department to inquire about the theft of services case.

Brandi Merolla: I heard shots fired while in my apartment. I ran to my window to see the drive-by shooting scene with camera in hand. One person was dead, ambulances came for others shot, people poured out of the hotel and police ran down the street in pursuit. Then came the press. Sad times.

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THIS MESSY IMBROGLIO on a Brooklyn street appears to be between two heavies. One of them driving a red pickup truck was especially revved up to hop out and launch a handle of booze at his opponent.

But just when it seems like the aggressor is the bottle flinger — but the man with a long scarf whom he was tossing it was being swarmed by half the neighborhood.

And once uniforms arrived on scene with their stun guns drawn, they cuffed the man and warded off all the comers wanting a piece of the rabble-rouser.

What’s more, the one throwing the projectile appears to either be off-duty or riding around in a red pickup with a light pack that flicked on after the arrest was affected.

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