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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00153 — 06-18-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
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.
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⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Midtown: Diner Engorged At Italian Bistro Then Tried Welching On Bill
A TOURIST ORDERED up a storm at an upscale eatery with the intent of trying to dip out on the tab.
The 62-year-old Los Angeleno was in town on the night of June 1 and was feasting at Casa Di Issaco located on 9th Avenue off West 40th Street.
He ordered various plates and beverages off the pricey menu. A veal piccata dish costs $26.
And then when it was time to soiree away with the $147 bill, the greedy gourmand stiffed the owners claiming he was in the poorhouse.
The waiter dialed the cops and they hauled away the meal mugger.
Once under, the suspect was charged with failure to pay based on stealth (dine and dash).
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Soundview: Dipshit Minivan Driver Pinched After Fleeing Head-On Collision
SHE CRASHED OUT and got lost.
A woman, allegedly high on some kind of dope, crossed over into oncoming traffic, plowing into a man’s car and then speeding off from the wreckage.
The 39-year-old suspect was behind the wheel of a 2013 Dodge Caravan back at around 1:30 a.m. on June 10.
The woman allegedly was traveling into the intersection of Commonwealth and Watson Avenues.
It was there that she drifted over the double yellow lines and was then riding into traffic going the opposite direction.
She slammed her minivan head on into a 34-year-old man’s car.
The woman caused both cars to suffer severe damage.
But rather than staying around to deal with the poor driving, the woman stole away.
The man who was struck by the woman suffered back injuries and was treated at a local hospital.
Cops found the hit-and-run woman nearby by the clear fresh damage to her Dodge.
She faces operator of motor vehicle impaired by drugs, leaving the scene of an accident with injury, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, reckless endangerment, and reckless driving.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Coney Island: Crack And Smack Slinger Busted With Product And Loaded Pistol
DRUG DEALERS CAN’T catch a break these days.
A 53-year-old woman was in her home and maybe making french toast when she heard a knock on the door of her 19th Street pad.
Perhaps it was more of a pound — from the fist of a narco cop? At 6 a.m. on May 14.
In came the calvary who searched the home and found all kinds of questionables.
They searched the woman herself. She likely put down the spatula and forfeited 28 capsules of crack rock.
The investigators also ruined up 75 glassine sleeves of heroin from the woman’s bedroom.
They then cracked open the suspect’s safe to find a loaded Ruger 9mm pistol inside a red bag along with a fully loaded 10-round magazine.
She was hauled away and hit with criminal possession of a controlled substance, weapons possession, and ammunition possession.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Queens Village: Ousted Man Tells Cop ‘I Will Shoot You In The Head 100,000 Times!’
SOMETIMES A BIGMOUTH digs himself into a ditch of excrement.
And that’s just what happened with a 31-year-old nomad who already made attempts to terrorize his family.
The suspect was yelling nonsense outside his brother’s Hempstead Avenue home in the middle of the night on May 24.
At around 2:35 the same perp was witnessed in the vestibule, shouting, “I’m going to cut you!”
He apparently decided to leave. But then he returned just before sunrise.
The man’s mother was also home at the time and confirmed the rowdy behavior and mortal threat lodged by her son.
All of this came weeks after the suspect had been ordered by a judge to keep away from his family.
When cops arrived, the suspect allegedly became even more apoplectic.
‘I’m gonna end up doing something to the police,” he vowed. “I will shoot you in your dick. I will shoot you in both your eyes.’
Informed he was going to be jailed, the suspect attempted to argue his way out of the situation.
“I don’t wanna get locked up no more,” he protested. “You think I won’t come in here and make this shit filthy?
“I can get a gun, too.”
The suspect then began bragging about his connections and how hard of a criminal he was.
“I’m in Queens, you think I can’t get a gun,” he asked, before answering his own question. “I can get that shit mad fast and blow this hwoe shit up.”
His protest started getting more grotesque.
“I’m gonna end up doing something to the police,” he vowed. “I will shoot you in your dick.
“I will shoot you in both your eyes.”
He then claimed he had already gotten away with an attack when he was in stuck serving time at Rikers Island prison.
“Why do you think while I'm in Rikers Island they let me go that day,” he questioned. “I was about to stab a corrections officer in the eye.”
And as if that didn’t sound shocking enough, the suspect went on to say how he was prepared to “take correctional officers’ eyes out” and that he would “leave them blind” as well as “stab them with my shank.”
The suspect then again told the officer that he was ready to go after him.
“I will shoot you in the head 100,000 times,” he announced. “Not playing no more. You gonna see. Watch when I come back over here.”
The suspect was nailed for making a terroristic threat, criminal contempt, and harassment.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Old Town: Primping Bandit Caught Filching Rx Of Beauty Creams
NOTHING SHADY ABOUT a guy stepping into a CVS late night to fit nearly $1,000 worth of women’s skin care items into his pockets.
And yet that was what happened for one 29-year-old freeloader.
The perp was witnessed attempting to rip off the pharmacy chain at 10 p.m. on May 14.
The offender cleared off all the top shelf products and then attempted to skip out the door without paying.
Once stopped, the accused was found to be holding $925.06 worth of merch, including L’Oreal skin care and CeraVe facial skin screams.
The suspect was charged with grand larceny (retail good scheme), and criminal possession of stolen property.
⬛ [SIC] CITY
▀ Rub-A-Tug Shuttered (Long Island City, NY)
A HOUSE OF ill repute no more.
There was too much hanky panky going on behind the walls of a nondescriptive two-story warehouse moored in the trendy nabe.
Cops moved to padlock the massage parlor for the foreseeable future, a judge ruled this month to put the stops on the Mandarin Oriental Spa that they say doubled as a cathouse.
The NYPD Vice Enforcement Division targeted the property’s second floor (the first floor warehouse is empty and is up for lease) after finding online ads.
They allegedly featured lascivious pics of "Tina Thailand" and "Coco Taiwanese" both boasting in an ad "we love giving massages and receiving them too. Our mission is to leave you with a smile. Your fatigue will be swept away and your vitality will be unlimited."
Undercover NYPD Vice investigators booked a series of appointments at the Oriental run inside 38-31 Crescent Street, near 31st Road, court papers state. The blight was cloaked deel in a nabe that was once working class and is getting dwarfed by new construction of soaring glass towers.
The prostitution hustle was being run out of a variety of apartments on the second-floor above the 6,000 square foot prewar warehouse.
On Dec. 5, an undercover Vice officer visited the second floor location and struck up a deal to have fornicate with two women for $100 each.
A second victim by another officer on Dec. 10, claimed he reached a deal for oral sex with a one of the rostered talent for $160.
A short time later cops raided the location and ended business, padlocking the building under the States nuisance abatement laws, which allow them to shutter a business engaged in criminality.
One June 4, a Queens Supreme Court Judge Ira M. Greenberg sided with the NYPD, ordering the building’s second floor closed down for a year, arguing the owner of the property, AMP Estates, should have been aware of the criminality happening at the property and holding them liable for a $1,000 fine for every day the business continues to operate.
A one bedroom apartment at the RockRose, a 42-story residential building Crescent Street, not far from the Oriental sex den currently fetches $4,419 a month.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ Championship Graff (New York, NY)
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▀ Bombing The Metro System (New York, NY)
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⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Naptime (New York, NY) - 1985
Credit: Mitch Epstein
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▀ Hizzoner (New York, NY)
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▀ Boss Of Bosses Busted (New York, NY)
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▀ Pickpocket Flies Coop (Ellenburg, NY)
ON JUNE 12, 1914, a convict by the name of Thomas Hannon escaped from a Clinton Prison Road Camp. The sprung inmate was doing a year stint for picking pockets.
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Sidewalk Coasters (NY, NY)
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▀ Game Of Millimeters (New York, NY)
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▀ Lunchtime (New York, NY)
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▀ Knicks Melee (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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