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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00107 — 04-17-26
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
▀ Midtown: 2 Old Hand Artful Dodgers Caught In Act Of Thieving Straphanger
THEIR STILL SWIPING.
A twosome — well known by law enforcement for their years of pickpocketing around the Big Apple — were doing their worst inside a heavily-trafficked subway station.
At around 4:45 p.m. on March 12, the fleecers — a man, 64, and tag-teaming woman, 60, were allegedly targeting a woman for her stuff as she was boarding a train that had just rumbled into the subway station on Park Avenue and East 42nd Street.
Authorities say a detail was watching as the old pickpocket woman reached her mitt inside the woman’s shoulder bag.
Officers then moved and and nabbed them both.
Each was taken to school for jostling (hand near pocket/pickpocket) grand larceny from a person and criminal possession of stolen property
The woman in particular had been on a roll in terms of getting caught stealing.
Despite the reality check — the woman continued to get busted on similar charges. Twice in the Bronx (Feb. 25 and April 13) as well as getting popped int Brooklyn on April 15.
▀ Upper West Side: Mounted Cop Nabs Purse Snatching Murder Parolee
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AN EX-CON WAS taken down by a mounted cop after allegedly snatching a purse.
Felicia Field, 44, futilely attempted to outrun horse rider with a badge back at around 11 a.m. on April 15.
She was pursued at the intersection of West 72nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue after several witnesses claim she lifted a purse off a victim.
The suspect was cornered and huffing and puffing from the chase and the arresting cop recovered the purse (estimated to be worth $100).
When she was asked to provide her name — the suspect allegedly obfuscated and offered “Nicole Williams”. But after fingerprinting her, the police realized who she was.
Last April 24, 2025, the woman was paroled after serving 25 years hard time (She was convicted to 25 to life) for taking part in the botched robbery of livery cab driver Cesar Lopez.
Field was one of three suspects who shot dead the 43-year-old who was parked on Elton Street East New York, Brooklyn back on April 29, 2000.
Back then, the woman claimed the gun misfired.
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⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Morris Park: Retired Cop Landlord Calling Police On Rent-Stiffing Tenant
A RETIRED COP and his tenant have been warring over backrent and a barrage of unseemly accusations.
Their feud came to a head on the night of Nov. 7 when the landlord, who says he served the city while detailed at the notorious 41st Precinct (aka Fort Apache) called the police.
He did so because he maintains his 44-year-old tenant who had lived at the home for five years was becoming unhinged.
The former member of service told The Blotter that the tenant sauntered up to his family’s part of the home plotted on Pinchot Place off Seminole Avenue.
And he did this as the doorbell cam was recording appeared to be packing a gun on his waist.
“You bring your pee shooter — I’ll bring my .45,” the tenant allegedly belted at the landlord. “Like a duel.”
According to the criminal complaint the tenant also chastised the man.
"I will send somebody after you,” the papers say he declared to his landlord based on the doorbell cam footage. “Funny that you called the police for an alleged firearm."
Not true, the tenant counters.
“He called the cops and made a fake report and had me arrested,” the man said. “I was not even home.”
The tenant also stresses that he’s dutifully paid rent for over five years totaling “over $80,000” and that the landlord decided to evict him and has since gone on a campaign hurling hate speak at both he and his girlfriend.
And at one point the tenant claims the landlord cruely cut off the heat to his home.
“He doesn't give me heat in the winter,” the tenant states.
The perplexed resident also accuses his retired police landlord of “unlocking my apartment door to allow the police to walk into my apartment without my consent, without my knowledge.”
The tenant also was affronted because he claims the landlord openly ridiculed his girlfriend by calling her “a whore in front of all of these police officers.”
‘You bring your pee shooter — I’ll bring my .45,.. Like a duel.’
And when they arrested him — he claims that after the cops searched his apartment — and confiscated $2,000 worth of merchandise” including jewelry, electronics, cologne, and sneakers.
The landlord maintains that the tenant whom he has been clashing with is not only holding out on him for rent, but is also a bad actor.
“They sell these drugs,” he said of the tenant and his girlfriend. “They go out there and they sell them by the bulk.”
The tenant categorically denies this.
“I don’t sell drugs,” he argued. “Show me proof… There’s no proof.
“He’s making false accusations.
⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ East New York: Woman Welches On Manicure Tab
SHE WAS PAMPERED and had her hands dolled up. But when it came time to square away the tab — she bolted.
It was around 8:30 p.m. on March 5, inside Nails Spa located on East 98th Street and Rutland Road.
The suspect was lavishing herself for the spa treatment.
And when she was sparkling and ready for prime time — the staffers say she owed $95.
But the woman apparently made a disappearing act and fled the salon and stiffing the workers of the owed amount.
The woman was caught the same day and tasked with theft of service (dine and dash) at a beauty salon/barber shop.
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⬛ QUEENS
▀ Corona: Middle-Aged Harlot Hocks Handjob To Undercover
SHE SOLD THE wrong john.
While allegedly cruising for some action along Roosevelt Avenue, a 55-year-old woman was pinched trying to exchange her below-the-belt expertise to a man she thought was into paying for quick thrills.
The suspect approached a man on 94th Street.
She allegeldly offered to “manually stimulate” the would-be customer’s penis for $60, according to the criminal complaint.
The solicitation punched the woman’s trip to jail to go down for prostitution.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Emerson Hill: ‘Wow, I Look Drunk As Shit!’: Ex Parishioner Halts Xmas Mass By Smothering Holy House With Feces
AN INCONTINENT IMBECILE interrupted church services on Christmas and dumped and slathered his feces all over the chapel and handrails.
The 64-year-old philistine allegedly stopped the holiday services attended by almost 100 parishioners inside St. Sylvester’s Roman Catholic Church located on Targee Street and Clove Road.
CCTV cameras captured the deviant dressed in black pants and a black cap coating the church’s front door, steps, and handrails with a “brown liquid material”.
A closer sniff and look by brave deacons determined the man had been spreading fecal matter.
The shit spreader caused the mass to be cut short and invoked hysteria among the congregants.
When they attempted to exit through the layer of detritus the goon had lathered the main entrance and exit doors — they were forced to flee with punched noses out the side door.
Using the footage of the man’s latrine antics that he put on display — investigators caught up to him on Jan. 7.
Under questioning they asked him if he was the nasty one doing devilish deeds that Christmas Day eve.
“Yeah, that’s me,” he allegedly told them.
Apparently his recollection of the incident was a blur.
“I was homeless at the time [and] I drank a whole bottle of vodka,” he explained. “I was just roaming around.
“I don’t remember doing that but I used to go to that church when I was young.”
He again took credit for gifting everyone there (and especially those forced to clean up the mess he made) a crappy Christmas.
“Yeah, that’s me,” he repeated. “Wow, I look drunk as shit!”
The suspect was charged with disrupting a religious/church/funeral service, criminal tampering, and disorderly conduct (creating a hazardous condition) with the shitstorm he created.
⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Pills & Arms (New York, NY)
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⬛ GOTHAM, INK
▀ Pixelated Wall (Brooklyn, NY)
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⬛ NYCTALGIC
▀ Joseph ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo & Armando ‘Mondo The Midget’ Illiano Post Bail
Joseph (Crazy Joe) Gallo and his comrade Armando (Mondo the Midget) Illiano freed on bail photographed exiting court. after they were freed on bail on -
▀ Hydrant Waterfall (New York, NY) - 1954
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Freerider (New York, NY)
▀ Wheeler Stealers (Bronx, NY)
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▀ Morning R^$#!!!(New York, NY)
HE HAD ON Nikes and socks, a bucket hat and shades. But everything from the neck down was bare.
A snapper documented a man going commando on the 1 train — seen hanging it all out there on Montague Street Brooklyn to 14th St. at around 9:45 a.m. on April 13 9:45.
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▀ Siren Instigators (New York, NY)
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▀ Hack Attack (New York, NY)
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▀ Lowriding In The Lower East Side (New York, NY)
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▀ Blocked Street… No Prob (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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