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THE BLOTTER

ISSUE № 0034 — 12-31-25 & 01-01-26

BY: M.L. Nestel

Illustration by Rob Weiss

Happy Holidays!!!!

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

Washington Heights: Jailbird Flies Coop, Then Lassoed Again

HE BREATHED SOME free air for a couple clicks.

Then it was back to institutional strength floor cleaner in prison.

The 27-year-old inmate was holed up inside Transit District 3 lockup located on 145th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue back at around 8 p.m. on Nov. 4.

The suspect was pinched for holding drugs and was in the process of being moved to Manhattan’s Central Booking to get arraigned.

But the suspect decided to play God and allot himself a get out of jail free card.

So when the holding cell opened, he pounced for the door.

He was striding strong out of the station house until he wasn’t.

Officers had a say in this as they quickly tackled and subdued the elusive inmate.

And when he finally appeared in court for his arraignment — the perp notched an escape charge to his previous drug possession rap.

⬛ THE BRONX

Tremont: ‘Can I Get Money?’: Vagabond Stabs Stranger For Stiffing Him

A DOWN AND out drifter went berserk on a man who refused him some extra scratch. 

At around 6 p.m. on Nov. 25, the 50-year-old cash-strapped suspect went for blood outside a White Castle dotted on Webster Avenue near East 176th Street. 

“Can I get money,” he allegedly asked another man. 

But when the questioner was rejected, he allegedly launched a verbal assault. There was a third man that joined in to defend the suspect for the cash snub. 

Then he allegedly drew a small knife and and stuck the unsentimental twice in the back and once in his left arm. 

Cops were called and upon arrival they took the stabber into custody.

They also collected the blade in the suspect’s back pocket. And his impromptu cheerleader fled the scene.

He’s now defending himself against assault, weapon possession, and harassment charges.

⬛ BROOKLYN

Bensonhurst: Beamer Driver Jacked Of Tablet And Tools Finds Thief Putting Them Up For Sale On Facebook Marketplace

HIS PRECIOUS GIZMOS and tools were taken overnight by a thief who flagrantly tried to turn a quick online profit. 

The owner of a 2015 BMW X5 recalled parking on Bay Ridge Avenue near 21st Avenue early on Nov. 5. 

Maybe he was a little slippery with the locks because a crook took interest in his SUV. 

Authorities say they secured CCTV showing the suspect allegedly grab the man’s Microsoft Surface tablet. And then he left. Only to return to the same car for seconds; this time taking with him the victim’s tools. 

That BMW owner then scoured the internet and found his very own ripped-off tools and computer being sold by the alleged 31-year-old suspect on Facebook Marketplace. He also confirmed that the wares were being sold on a post splashed on his personal Facebook page.  

And once in custody, the accused allegedly took credit for the thievery — telling authorities that he took the property, the criminal complaint states. 

He was summarily charged with grand larceny, petit larceny, and possession of stolen property.

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⬛ QUEENS

Jamaica: Snowman Nabbed On Hook & Crook Creek Boulevard

THE MORNING BLEW for a suspected coke slinger. 

At around 6 a.m. on Oct. 27, the 36-year-old alleged powder pusher was met at his Hook Creek Boulevard home by law enforcement armed with a warrant. 

A detective nosed around the abode and lucked on all flavors of sketchy. 

There was a .380 Luger loaded with five rounds in the magazine placed just so inside a blue Montclaire jackets inner breast pocket tossed on the bedroom floor in the rear basement apartment. 

There was also a scale weighted down by cocaine. 

Another scale was found on top of a nightstand because sometimes coke dealers do their homework at their bedside. 

The suspect also allegedly kept three Ziploc bags filled with glassine sleeves sandwiched underneath the mattress. And there was also a posh drawstring bag filled with a Louis Vuitton box behind the bed loaded with 21 .380 rounds and a magazine.

The man’s bedroom closet held few skulls. Just a benign black pellet BB gun resting on the shelf.

The suspect was nabbed for possessing a loaded firearm, drugs, drug paraphernalia (scales/packaging), and possession of an imitation/toy pistol.

⬛ STATEN ISLAND

St. George: Banned Butter Knife Tosser Totals Gal’s TV

A DEVIANT DISREGARDED a court order to hector a woman inside her house with her utensils and then broke her television set. 

At around 6 p.m. on Nov. 24, the 43-year-old menace allegedly showed up at the woman’s Victorian-style home located on St. Marks Place near Nicholas Street. 

But he wasn’t permitted to be anywhere near the woman or her home. That’s because he had been ordered by a judge to steer clear after getting busted flouting court orders twice before in August (not to mention skipping a court hearing). 

The zero engaged in a tussle straightaway with the woman. He allegedly clenched her neck and then grabbed “several butter knives and forks” and whacked her on her right arm multiple times, according to the criminal complaint. 

Then he punched the woman’s face and proceeded to take hold of her Blu cell phone and then broke it in half and chucked it to the ground — shattering its screen and rendering it as useful as a rectangular hockey puck. 

He then allegedly went off on the woman’s TV set; striking it “several times” until it was thoroughly offed. 

Authorities hit him with burglary (with a weapon), assault (with a weapon, criminal mischief, harassment, and violation of another order of protection.

⬛ SEPIA NYC

▀ Mecca Of Graf… ‘The 5 Pointz’ (Long Island City, NY)

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BACKTALK:

Charlie Mcgrath Jr.: The Mecca of Graff 💪 RiP 5POINTS

Masaya Quinones (responding to^): dont sleep on 107th and park

Jeff Brown: I watched them film the warriors in the 70s around that building

I painted that building in 94’ writing graff. Then recently during Covid a buddy of mine ran the building next door and let a bunch of artists come paint the stairwells inside. Myself…DUSTER UA. CURB YOUR EGO. .. bunch of us, it was dope.’ -Mike Pino

Velimir Tchatchevsky: My HS was right next to it and imagine my surprise when I just stumbled upon it while walking around (I was already into grafiti too)

David Fleming: I Use to Work in That Building, at The Middle and End of That Block. Before all the graffiti...it was a Manufacturing Warehouse for RECOTON MUSIC & VIDEO ACCESSORIES😉 I can remember the bathroom in back top flr...we would puff weed at the window during breaks!😂🤣

▀ Morning Open (Lower East Side) - 1985

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▀ Before Dark (Midtown, NY) - 1975

THE HOT DOG vendor in the leather coat wheeling down avenue as busy taxi bees crawl and walkers navigate the snarled intersection.

⬛ ET. AL

▀ Batmen Graf Gotham Trains… Nonna: ‘They Ruined The Train!’ (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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