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ISSUE № 00254 — 10-12-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Upper East Side: Sprinter Driver Slams Into And Kills Old Man Crossing Street
AN 85-YEAR-OLD MAN breathed his last after getting clipped by a 1019 Mercedes Sprinter driven 67-year-old.
The walker was crossing Park Avenue from East 91st Street back on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 2025.
The motorist suspect stayed at the scene.
Someone dialed 911 and medics arrived.
They rushed the victim to New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
However, he wasn’t formally charged with motor vehicle failure to yield to pedestrian/cyclist (a misdemeanor) until Oct. 5 of this year.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Riverdale: Hoarder Caught Neglecting 7 Cats
ALL THE POOR kittens were tortured and suffering.
A mean cat lady was found to have turned her back on seven cats living inside her Netherland Avenue home.
Cops moved in the 65-year-old woman back on the morning of Sept. 30.
They found the granny’s home to be in squalid conditions with extreme hoarding conditions.
And there were six cats in the basement — three kept in cages suffering from starvation and lack of adequate water.
The ASPCA took the animals to seek medical attention.
Meanwhile the suspect was hit with neglect of an impounded animal and torture/not feeding an animal.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Gravesend: Croupier Caught Running Speakeasy
A HUSTLER WAS caught working on his night moves.
The 25-year-old was busted plying illicit hooch and hosting slot games in the basement of a nondescript storefront.
The perp was netted on Sept. 19, where he was hosting games of chance to gamblers inside a clandestine downstairs lair on Kings Highway and West 9th Street.
Cops discovered a secret door from an illegal wall that led to the playpen in the basement.
There, they found six slot machines and a robust bar.
The suspect and his cohort, 28, were both rounded up and slapped with promoting gambling, possession of a gambling device, sale of alcohol without a license, disorderly premises, possession of alcoholic beverages, unlicensed bottle club, and storing of alcoholic beverages.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Flushing/Forest Hills: Munchies Leads Fuzz To Masked Brazen Bandits’ $160K BMW Score, Thwart Their Canada Escape
TWO GOONS WHO scored a six figure sum were a bit too loose with their bread crumb trail.
The perps, 25 and 28, are believed to have strong-armed a man rolling deep in cash inside a parking garage.
And they took him for everything: $160,000 that was bagged in his beamer.
It was minutes before 1 p.m. on July 30 when a 53-year-old was parking a white BMW X4M in a parking garage on 41st Avenue off College Point Avenue.
The masked masked and donning black attire appeared out of thin air. And they barked orders, demanding the bag stowed in the car.
When the driver hesitated, the duo starting working him over.
They quickly grabbed the bag with the stacks of greenbacks and fled.
Investigators did some looking into the BMW and found that it belonged to a man who denied being involved in the big money heist at the garage.
They traced its GPS to the garage where the shakedown occurred.
Its owner was questioned and offered that he routinely rents it out on the side.
They determined he wasn’t in on the money grab.
Cops tracked the heisters to a Paris Baguette in Forest Hills.
But they did determine that on the same day of the score, the same two grubbers grabbed a quick snack at a Paris Baguette on 71st Avenue and Austin Street in Forest Hills.
Its unclear if the money was recovered (or why he had that much dough on his person).
But it notably, it was Canadian Railway authorities who were the heroes here that snared both men as they were allegedly attempting to skip town and make their out of the country escape.
Each faces grand larceny 2 (more than $50k), robbery, and robbery 3.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Port Richmond: Road Terrorizer With 30 Suspensions Caught After Sideswiping Cop
HE SHOULDN’T HAVE been driving a big wheel, let alone navigating the road.
The 29-year-old perp had racked up 30 suspensions (Is that even possible?), 24 scoffs, and 11 times he was AWOL when he was mandated to answer said scoffs, according to the criminal complaint.
While driving (very, very illegally) in a black Acura TLX on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway and the Bayonne Bridge in the middle of the night on July 19, he piqued the interest of a squad car that had been parked.
That cop initiated the lights and sirens.
The suspect didn’t stop. He drove his Acura into the oncoming cruiser and grinded against it and took out its rear view mirror.
And after blowing several red lights in an ensuing chase — suspect was soon nailed and hit with a slew of charges including aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, obstruction, assault, and traffic device violation.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Bang-Banger (Bronx, NY)
A GUNSLINGER IS being pursued for blastin goff midday on Sept. 16.
While standing on the corner of Webster Avenue and Claremont Parkway, he allegedly took out a piece and fired off several shots and then vanished before cops arrived.
▀ Gun-Toting Goon Shakes Down Man For $25K Watch, Chain, And Ring (Brooklyn, NY)
A PERP STRUCK early, holding up a man for his valuables.
The suspect approached a 40-year-old victime at around 5 a.m. on Sept. 5.
The perp held a black pistol and demanded the man’s stuff.
He proceeded to forfeit his watch, ring, several chains, and cellphone — al totally $23,200.
With the loot, the perp then hopped into a grey car and took off.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ NOTICE (New York, NY)
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
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Great Work by our Field Intelligence Officers! An illegal firearm was recovered, helping keep our communities safer.
⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Fare Beaters (New York, NY)
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▀ Anastasia’s Bodyguard Found Slain In Convertible (East Bronx, NY)
Detectives look at the body of murdered Vincent (Jim) Macri, 48, who was discovered stuffed inside the trunk of Macri's flashy hardtop convertible on a quiet street in East Bronx, N.Y. on April 25,1954. Macri, henchman and one-time bodyguard of the notorious Albert Anastasia, Lord High Executioner of Murder Inc., was found with two bullet holes through his head.
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▀ Times Square - 1958
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Critter + Diaper (Bronx, NY)
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▀ Brakeless (New York, NY)
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▀ Phantom Station (New Yor, NY)
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