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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00246 — 09-30-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Union Square: Shell Game Master Took Marks For Thousands.
HIS SHORT CON was up.
A trickster was outed after cops confronted him for duping unsuspecting participants out of cash wads.
The 41-year-old hustler was captured on surveillance rooking comers for their coin by using sleight of hand.
Authorities describe the suspect setting up shop along a sidewalk on 14th Street and Broadway dating back to April and well into June, according to the criminal complaint.
In each case the suspect barked for customers and they ponied up cash with promises they would get it back if they played the game involving a ball and bottle caps.
At least three gamers saw their cash go poof.
Detectives tracked down the money vanisher and after showing him working targets for their cash from April 13, June 3, and June 10 — he confirmed he was the one dealing.
The suspect was pinched on grand larceny and fraudulent accosting.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Fordham Heights: ‘Get The Crowbar’: Woman Goes Loco In Dispute Over Car Fix, Steals Keys And Valuables
THIS CUSTOMER THOUGHT she was right.
So she went vigilante on the mechanic.
A 35-year-old woman and her pal were dinged for beefing with a mechanic over the work done on her car.
After walking off in a huff, the suspect grabbed two pairs of keys (a white BMW X1 and a white Acura).
She then yakked, “Get the crowbar!”
She then grabbed various items from inside the Acura’s center console.
They include a Motorola Galaxy cell phone, a bag with the car owner’s documents, a spark plug, a thermostat, and the other set of keys.
The woman and counterpart were each netted and hit with robbery, petit larceny, menacing, weapons possession, and criminal possession of stolen property.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Flatlands: Bus Rider Whines, Then Punches ‘White Bitch’ For Sitting Next To Her
SHE PARKED IT on the wrong seat.
A woman was walloped after grabbing a seat next to an incensed woman while riding on a city bus.
The 35-year-old boarded the B46 bus back at the intersection of Utica Avenue and Avenue H at around 8:45 p.m. on Sept. 1.
‘I don't want to sit next to no white bitch!’
As she made her way through the bus, the woman chose a free seat next to a 47-year-old wanton woman — who was most displeased.
She seethed, “I don't want to sit next to no white bitch.”
She then clocked the woman in the face.
Cops were summoned and took the gal goon into custody.
She was booked on assault (as a hate crime), aттеmpтted assault (as a hate crime), assault, menacing (as a hate crime), aggravated harassment, attempted assault, harassment.
The woman has three open cases — two of them in May for shoplifting and assaulting a senior.
In June, she also was busted whacking another senior.
She pleaded not guilty and was sprung loose, only to now return for the “bitch” imbroglio.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Ozone Park: Jetsetter Grounded After Security Caught Her Trying To Board Plane With 2 Pistols
SHE WAS PACKING double heat.
A 53-year-old was halted from boarding a jet after JFK Airport guards discovered she was armed.
Two times over.
The woman was stopped at around 5:30 a.m. on Aug. 31 inside Terminal 5 (JetBlue’s hub).
Port Authority Police scrambled when the attempted passenger’s luggage was loaded with a purple and white Ruger EC9 semi-automatic pistol in a lockbox and a black Ruger P95 semiautomatic pistol also in a lockвох.
She was forced to miss her flight and instead busted with weapons possession.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Tompkinsville: Spitter Can’t Shake Chasing Cop, Gets Disarmed
IT WAS A regretful loogie.
Poor manners cinched a man’s downfall to catch not just a summons, but a loaded gun case.
It was around 9 a.m. on Aug. 2, when the man who was standing on Jersey Street and Stanley Avenue — wasn’t suited up to play a couple quarters for the Giants — decided to spit on the ground.
That action happened to be in the plain view of cops and led to them making an approach.
But the man decided to split instead.
Why?
Surely, once he was in their clutches the officers discovered he had tucked in his fanny pack a 9mm Canik TP9 Elite.
⬛ Hard Times
▀ Adored East Village Restaurant Killer Gains Parole (Wallkill, NY)
DECADES AFTER SLAYING his posh restaurateur boss — he’s getting paroled.
Lerome Hilson, 51, won his freedom after appearing before the parole board on Sept.1 at Shawangunk Correctional where they granted her release.
The killer had been sent away for a 20 year to life bit for the summer 2004 murder of Timothy Moore who managed a celebrity hotspot Pop, a celebrity hang nooked in Manhattan's East Village.
His boss was 50 when he was brutally slain.
Moore had hired his future killer Hilson, then 28, as a porter through a program from the Bowery Mission, which provided transitional housing and helped find jobs for ex-convicts.
At that time the man had been released after going away for six years for robbery, burglary, and weapons possession.
He had been working for Moore for about six months at the eatery on Fourth Avenue near East 13th Street, when on May2, 2004, Moore's body was found in the basement office of the eatery. His killer bludgeoned him to death with a fire extinguisher and the safe had been emptied of $1,000.
It was suspected that the killer had forced him to open the safe before beating him to a pulp. As a porter, cops said Hilson had his own keys to the eatery, police said.
Hilson was among other Pop staffers pressed by detectives.
But it was Hilson who made conflicting statements before cracking and confessing.
Hilson was facing the death penalty ended up taking a pleaded to second degree murder.
And in June of that year, New York State abolished the death penalty.
He first became eligible for parole in 2024 and appeared before the board last year and was denied at his initial parole hearing, records show.
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▀ Hyandai Heister (Hempstead, NY)
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▀ Bar Unkeep (New York, NY)
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▀ Smokers’ Wild (Bronx, NY)
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