
THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 0070 — 02-20-25
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
▀ SoHo: Fashion Fleecers Take Posh Boutique For $1.2M Worth Of Threads
THEY WERE IN and out with seven figures worth of merch in minutes.
And it was all caught on film.
A four-deep crew’s calculated heist scored $1.2 million worth of haute couture goods.
They rolled up in a silver Ford SUV to the lux atelier 4GSeller on Spring Street at 4:10 a.m. on Dec. 1, according to the criminal complaint.
One scallywag hung back to act as a lookout propped a ladder against the scaffolding.

151 Spring Street where four thieves targeted for clothing score.
The other three donning black clothes climbed up the ladder and one of them hurled a rock at the chic store’s window — shattering it.
They then entered and each pulled out garbage bags. They then filled them with various garb stocked on shelves and tables.
The take included pants, jeans, shorts, jackets, bags, wallet chains, belts, hats. Some of the stolen pants and jackets were Saint Lauren brand.
At 4:19 – just nine minutes clicked away — the perps exited out of the smashed window and shimmied down the fire escape.
They hopped into the SUV and peeled off.
Authorities kept tabs on their escape and tracked them to Hunts Point in the Bronx.
CCTV captured from that rendezvous point in front of a laundromat on Lafayette Avenue at 5:47 a.m.

Fashion fleecers’ purported Bronx rendezvous point.
The same four thieves popped out of the ride, changed their clothes and headed to another spot two miles away on Brook Avenue.
By now it was 7:22 a.m. and the authorities say a man exited a building and approached the SUV with a large red and green laundry bag.
The man accessed the rooftop of the building and moved the laundry bag there.
So far, authorities charged one suspect, 21, with the crimes of grand larceny, burglary, and criminal possession of stolen property.
It’s unclear if the other three or the man in the apartment seen on video manning the large laundry bag on the roof are facing similar consequences.

⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Straphanger Captures Moment Man Shot On Subway Platform (Bronx, NY)


THE MAN WHO was recorded by a straphanger blasting a man in cold blood surrendered.
Alberto Frias, 27, gave himself up at the 44 Precinct on Thursday and facing murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.
His run from the law comes after cops circulated a photo of him.
The triggerman was standing on the southbound platform of the 170th Street station at around 3 p.m. on Feb. 10.
The token booth operator recalled the victim, later identified as Adrian Dawodu.
He told investigators Dawodu’s a daily rider stricken emotionally with erratic tendencies such as shouting at people and himself.
Video footage from that day shows the victim entering the station alone and park on the bench. Station footage depicts him conversing with himself and people moving away from him.
Then Frias enters the platform.
Both men engage in a conversation. But the chatter is incendiary.
They both start to trade blows. Dawodu launches the suspect onto the tracks. That prompts the suspect to pull a gun.
Unfazed, Dawodu continues talking with his fists. Frias fires and lands a leg shot. That slug strikes a crucial artery and Dawodu bleeds to death.
The shooter bails on foot. He reaches a family home and changes his bloody clothes in a bathroom.
It’s there that a shell casing drops to the floor. (Cops would later match that to Frias’ gun).
He asks for the family to call him a cab.
The man takes a Lyft to Harlem and the trail goes dry.
Prior to the shooting, Frias racked up four domestic violence busts in Mt. Vernon and a 2018 ding in New York City for possessing a loaded gun.

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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Flatbush: Pyro Caught Setting Mattress Aflame In Building Blaze
A GHOUL KINDLED a fire inside a building, smoking out several innocents quartered inside to get out in frenzied fright.
The 64-year-old woman was busted on Jan. 14 for an arson attack that took place on New Year’s Eve morning.
The suspect was recorded on CCTV in a building, a supportive housing facility, located on Tilden Avenue off Lott Street.
Footage shows the woman clad in a grey hooded puffy jacket, a dark skirt, and sandals meandering around the building and then entering and leaving a room where investigators believe the fire started.
The woman in question was the only person in the room, the papers say.
In the room, the suspect burned a mattress and flames consuming it caused the plastic to melt and it “dripped onto the floor” — scorching it, according to the criminal complaint.
At least one person suffered from smoke inhalation while the building was evacuated.
The woman was nabbed and charged with arson (person present), arson (intentionally damage, and criminal mischief (damage property).
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⬛ QUEENS
▀ Long Island City: Ghoul Claims He Tied Two Pooches To Moving Car Bumper Because ‘Didn’t Want Them Pooping Inside’
MARZIPAN AND NOUGAT were dogged.
A monster that was wearing a human suit was driving a red 2010 Volkswagen Passat on the night of Jan. 4.
And dragged behind it were two leashed pooches: Marzipan, two-year-old German shepherd and Nougat, four-year-old pitbull mix.
As they passed along the intersection of 11th Street and 43rd Avenue a perplexed witness intervened and called for help.
Cops arrived and questioned the 68-year-old motorist.
He tried to explain that Marzipan was acquired from Pennsylvania and Nougat from neighbors who abandoned him.
So he wasn’t some pooch hater. He told the officers he had completed an errand to fill up some gas cans and mused, “everyone loves my dogs.”
And yet when he tried to explain why the dogs were hooked to the car it was to avoid mess.
“I tied the dogs to the car because I did not want them pooping inside the car,” he said.
Prompted to produce a valid license, the driver couldn’t.
Both dogs were taken to an ASPCA clinic on East 92nd Street.
Marzipan was treated for a ruptured left eardrum and was shaken up, according to the criminal complaint.
As for Nougat, she was overly obese, experiencing dysentery, because of the cruel car act, suffered cysts to her paws, toes, and wrists.

⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Cop Caught Stalking And Misusing Department Computer
AN OFFICER WAS nabbed for a series of questionable judgments.
The 30-year-old cop was taken into custody within the 120th Precinct on the morning of Dec. 4 and booked for computer trespass and stalking and possibly other charges of alleged misconduct.
The officer, who was off-duty at the time of the booking, allegedly took excessive liberties beyond her police mandate to use the computer system without authorization.
The department’s Internal Affairs Bureau is reviewing the matter.

⬛ NYCSTALGIC
▀ Rolling Through (Bronx, NY) - 1970s

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▀ Chin Mug (New York, NY)

LORDED OVER THE Genovese crime family who put up straightjacket smokescreen to dupe the feds. In 2005, the 77 prisoner died after going away for racketeering and conspiring to slay fellow mafia members.
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⬛ ET. AL

▀ Jewelry District Bout (Midtown, NY)

A STREET BRAWLER took down another between two parked cars on West 46th Street amongst the oil-stained slush.

When a detail arrived to referee the rumble and calm tempers — one of the sluggers taunted his foe exclaiming:
“You’re a bitch. That’s why you’re getting arrested. I can’t wait to get back to Florida. You’re a bitch.

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▀ Scofflaw Ferrari (Lower Manhattan, NY)

Ferrari SUV ticketed for illegal parking outside NYC City Hall building on Chambers St.
▀ Juice Jacker (Ozone Park, NY)

A MASKED MARAUDER wasn’t slick about using shears to snip wires off a utility pole.
BACKTALK:
Mike Martinelli: Those are thick gauge copper wires which ground the overhead power system ( transformers). Initially, it will not cause any issues to the naked eye. But it does make work very dangerous for other utilities whose workers need to work on the pole…Spectrum, Verizon, and yes, Con Ed. All of these workers should test for foreign voltage before working on the pole to avoid electrical hazards. And if a transformer is not properly grounded, it is at risk of blowing. And everyone knows how frequently that happens. If you know where these ground wires are being cut, report it to Con Ed.
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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.



