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THE BLOTTER

ISSUE № 0044 — 01-15-26

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.

⬛ [SIC] CITY

Illustration by Rob Weiss

▀ Ballistic Bicyclist Shreds Queens Pub’s Old Glory (Woodhaven, NY)

GEORDIE’S JOINT HAS been sating thirsty denizens for six years. 

And ever since the first pint was served — they proudly planted an American flag waving above the pub’s facade. 

A rogue rolling on the sidewalk on a bicycle ended the patriotic tradition by striking back at the Stars and Stripes. 

“I never seen anybody desecrated American flag like that, and I was angry,” said Geordie’s owner Pat Robinson in an interview with The Blotter. 

The bearded beligerent was captured on CCTV at around 1 p.m. on Jan. 13 rolling by the establishment. He then hops off his bike and with a knife in his right hand — gripes (allegedly in Spanish) toward the sky. 

He then leaps upward to get his hands on the American flag and yank it down.

Then, he can be seen using his blade to tear up several of the 13 red and white stripes at the seams. The stripes symbolizing the original 13 colonies

He then pedals off. A man in pixelated fatigues strolls by, cranes his neck a couple times at the American symbol’s crestfallen state.

Robinson was waylaid from the business that day, tending to her ailing husband who had suffered a stroke. 

It was so violent!’ - Geordie’s Joint owner Pat Robinson

She would return and forced to stomach the flagrant act.

“You know, you hear about these things on the news, but when you see them, and the fact is, he was carrying a knife; that's illegal, too.”

She then pulled footage from security camera storage and asked herself, ‘Who did this?’ and ‘What happened here?’

The motive in her eyes wasn’t cryptic.

“When I watched it and it was so violent,” she said. “It was as if he hated it.” 

The suspect, who Robinson said didn’t patronized the pub,  remains outstanding. 

‘He's not gonna turn me from putting an American flag up on an American business. It was somebody who was angry at America, and they didn't like my American flag.’ -Geordie’s Joint owner Pat Robinson

But the owner confirmed that when she filed a police investigators told her “we know him” from previous transgressions in the neighborhood. 

Workers at a deli across the street informed her that the goon was yelling in Spanish before he destroyed the flag. 

Robinson said she already donated the desecrated flag to the local Knights of Columbus chapter to be part of their flag retirement ceremony.

“It must be burned,” she said. “That's the rules for an American flag.” 

And she already has assurances from the American Legion that a replacement flag is on its way to tower proudly over Geordie’s once again. 

“He's not gonna turn me from putting an American flag up on an American business,” she said. “It was somebody who was angry at America, and they didn't like my American flag. 


“But it's not my American flag. It's the people's American flag, you know?”

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⬛ MANHATTAN

Chelsea: Hairdo Heister Claims She’s A Pauper

SHE GOT ALL dolled up. And then ducked out without doling out a dime.

A 34-year-old woman enjoyed getting pampered inside of the Pure Spa II on 9th Avenue near West 26th Street back on the early evening of Nov. 20.

The customer had entered the salon and asked for the works and was told it was going to cost over $100.

She agreed and the beautifying began.

When she was transformed, the woman allegedly informed her makeover artists that she was immune to the concept of paying for the services rendered. Or more specifically she claimed all the fortune she had was somehow missing.

The alleged withholding of cash (or excuse that her wallet was mysteriously empty) compelled the workers to prevent the woman from leaving.

And they also called the cops.

Authorities took the riches to rags woman away and nailed her with theft of service.

⬛ THE BRONX

Wakefield: Pill And Crack Wacko On Bus Pummels Gal Then Gets Caught Hiding Under Car

A SUSPECTED HOPPED up slugger decked another woman and sent her to the hospital with one punch. 

At around 12:15 a.m. on Nov. 1, an MTA bus driver witnessed the 30-year-old pugilist at loggerheads with a woman outside the intersection of East 242 Street and White Plains Road. 

When her temper shot up to a zenith she allegedly threw a KO punch that felled the woman into a state of unconsciousness. 

She was rushed to a local hospital to treat knuckle-sandwiched face.  

Cops arrived and they went prowling for the woman slugger.

They searched around the premises and discovered the suspect hiding out underneath a parked car. 

The suspect was taken into custody and searched. 

Officers searched the woman and pulled from her left jacket pocket two capsules filled with crack rocks (one with a blue top and the other with an orange). 

She was then cuffed and brought up on criminal possession of a controlled substance, assaulting an on-duty police officer, resisting arrest, and obstructing governmental administration.

⬛ BROOKLYN

Bensonhurst: Carjacking Crew Dogged Driver, Rolled Off In Hot Wheels 

THEY WERE FOUR deep and sick of walking. 

So they did what desperados do — take what’s not theirs. 

It was around 1:15 a.m. on Nov. 17 when a man in his car was swarmed by the crew; one of them a 36-year-old woman. 

The armed goons allegedly tooled up with metal objects bashed the driver’s side and rear windows. Initially, the victim attempted to ward away the thieves, the criminal complaint states.

That burst of resistance compelled the suspect to draw a knife and aimed it close to the driver as her fellow assailant used the metal object to repeatedly strike him. 

That had the driver seeing stars and dropping onto the street. 

Then the bandits hopped in and motored away. 

Investigators caught up to one of the fearsome foursome and booked her on robbery (of a motor vehicle), assault (with a  weapon), grand larceny, and criminal possession of stolen property (worth more than $1,000).

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⬛ QUEENS

Jackson Heights: Diner Guzzled 9 Drinks Then Went AWOL When Bill Arrived. 

A SOUSED CHEAPSKATE kept ran out on a steep tab after getting tanked on early morning booze. 

It was around 4 a.m. on Nov. 3 when the 27-year-old lush had downed nine drinks ordered up at El Poblado Gastro Bar on 79th Street off Roosevelt Avenue.

After he reached his limit, the hammered customer was provided his high roller-sized bill. 

The total amounted to $181. 

The manager claims the boozer decided he was special and attempted to make a beeline for the door. 

Authorities charged the freeloader with failure to pay based on stealth (dine and dash).

⬛ STATEN ISLAND

Edward Markham Gardens: Tylenol Fiend Nabbed Fleecing Family Dollar

HE MUST HAVE had a migraine the size of Bolivia.

So perhaps that’s why the 45-year-old racked up his third bust in three months.

For Tylenol! Loads of it.

He wasn’t very discreet back when he was emptying shelves inside a Family Dollar store on Castleton Avenue near Taylor Street on the early afternoon of Jan. 9.

Workers cottoned on to his maneuvers and when he avoided the registers and checkout lanes — he was then met by authorities at the exit.

He had to forfeit the $191 worth of over-the-counter brand pain suppressants.

The man’s downfall comes as another strike on his poor stroke of luck at the larceny game. For he was caught on Dec. 4 for petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. He also was caught shoplifting on Nov. 19.

The latest bust tacks on another dose of petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

NYCTALGIA

▀ Boat Ride Circa 1930s

▀ Times Square (New York, NY) - 1978

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▀ Sloppy Jalopy (East Village, NY) - 1980s

EAST 7TH STREET.

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⬛ ET. AL

▀ Batshit BMXers (Times Square, NY)

TWO JACKASSES SLALOMED down Times Square on bikes. Their recorded antics showing them wheeling through the subway train corridors; weaving in and out of humans that almost are reduced to soulless slow-motion pylons from the dizzying helmet cam. The daredevil antics somehow spare the masses from suffering too many blindsided close calls to count.

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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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