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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00215 — 08-18-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
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⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Union Square: Rabble-Rouser Caught Ripping Fire Extinguisher Off Target Wall In Security Spat
HE MIGHT AS well have put a bullseye on himself.
A 58-year-old trespasser returned to the big box store he had been banned. And he stirred up plenty of tumult.
On the morning of Aug. 9, the perp entered Target located in Union Square. It was the same biz he’d been given the heave-ho previously.
And he was not to return.
Instead, he was back there and quickly started getting cross with the security guards.
When the suspect supposedly lost his wits, he allegedly yanked a fire extinguisher off a wall (causing more than $400 worth in damages.
The suspect was charged with burglary, assault, and weapons possession (for a loaded gun).
It’s unclear what role the piece played in the dustup.
He was already in a quandary from Jan. 18. It was then that authorities say the same suspect shoved a Metro North train conductor at a 125th Street and then threatened to pepper spray him.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Morris Heights: ‘I Got Your Shit!’: Thug Boasts After Pepper-Spraying, Biting Acquaintance Walking His Dog
THE MAN JUST wanted to walk his dog.
And he was clobbered by two men — one of them a familiar pal turned foe.
The 36-year-old man was walking his pooch along Grand Avenue back at around 1:30 p.m. on June 2.
Authorities say the suspect, 30 and an unknown assailant ambushed the innocent and his pet.
His acquaintance struck first, dousing his face with pepper spray while his cohort shook him down.
‘I got your shit!’
While this happened, the dog turned against his owner and bit his right leg.
The second man then swung and landed some haymakers at the man using a metal blunt instrument.
Both snatched the victim’s fanny pack (containing his wallet and keys) and the acquaintance gloated, “I got your shit!”
The one known to the victim was captured more than a month later on Aug. 11, court papers say.
He was charged with robbery, assault with a weapon, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Coney Island: Sicko Surveilled Then Shared Woman’s Nudes
A WOMAN WAS aghast upon finding out some perv had snapped pics of her in all sorts of undress.
Then disseminated them around for the consumption of others.
The 34-year-old had entered the woman’s private domicile back on the morning of July 5.
He allegedly spied a women and with his phone took snaps of her buttocks and her vagina, according to the criminal complaint.
The scumbag then took the images and shared them with his circle of jerkoffs.
The woman learned of the incident and called the cops.
The perp was nabbed on July 15.
He was then taken down for unlawful surveillance (for amusement or profit), unlawful surveillance (for sexual arousal), and harassment.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Jamaica: Decibel Demon Taunts Cop Who Asked Him To Turn Down Music
IT WAS PARTY time and he wanted everybody in the vicinity to know.
A 24-year-old was bumping some tunes on the corner of Sutphin Boulevard and 91st Avenue on the afternoon of July 27.
A detail allegedly saw the suspect, playing DJ with the giant speaker on the busy intersection.
They asked him to lower the volume.
But he balked and allegedly kept playing tunes at ear-wincing levels.
An hour later, the suspect was told again to lower the volume.
This time he obeyed.
However, when the officers started to leave — the suspect “raised the volume” again to a “very loud volume.”
The provocation led to the officers to take the king of boomboxes to take a ride to the precinct.
He allegedly tensed up and flailed.
He was dinged with resisting arrest, general noise Prohibition, and disorderly conduct.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Heartland Village: Antisemite Loon Clobbers Homes And Cars Grousing ‘I’m Gonna Eat You Alive. It’s Dinner Time!’
AS A TERRORIZER he stands alone.
A 53-year-old detonated on several homes and cars; especially peeved at homes and cars that he believed were owned and operated by Jews.
The ornery man unloaded in the predawn hours of July 20.
He stepped to a home on Keating Place and woke everybody, “I know you are Jews. You think you have it all. You own everything.”
He then allegedly rushed to the storm door of the home and shattered the glass — taunting, “I am going to eat you alive, it’s dinner time.”
The perp moved next door and again hollered, “It’s dinner time.”
‘I know you are Jews. You think you have it all. You own everything.’
Then he dared the residents to “Call 911! Call 911!”
As calls to the cops were placed, the suspect moved onto his next target: a home on Rockland Avenue.
By now it was 4 a.m.
The suspect bashed two windows and a storm door.
He then moved on from homes to cars.
With a club (how he got it in his hands — who knows?!), he destroyed a 200 white BMW parked on Travis Avenue.
Then he also took said club and shattered the window of a 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan.
‘Dirty, filthy Jew.’
He kept going and targeted a 2024 grey BMW beating to bits the mirrors and windows.
“Dirty, filthy Jew,” he yelped.
He then fixed to totaling a 2015 black Mercedes SUV.
‘I had to attack them before they attacked me.’
It wouldn’t be for well into the afternoon of the next day until the maniac found himself fielding questions and Miranda Rights being read to him.
He told police, “I had to attack them before they attacked me.”
The suspect then charged with hate crimes, menacing, weapons possession, and harassment.
▀ Slaps (New York, NY)
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⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Shoplifter Unloads Umbrella At Thwarting Bodega Clerk (Midtown, NY)
A WOMAN DECIDED she was too special to have to pay for the goods she had basketed.
Cops say the suspect was inside a bodega back on the late afternoon of July 9.
She allegedly collected items and then tried to walk out without tendering the purchase.
A 74-year-old clerk tried to stop her and she drew her umbrealla and gave him quite the wallop to his mouth.
▀ Two-Wheeling Plunderer (Queens, NY)
A THIEF ON bicycle went on a low level grift.
He first struck on Aug. 10 when he snatched a woman’s necklace — valued at around $1,000 — while she was walking along 101st Avenue.
Three days later the suspect walled off a 71-year-old woman walking on 105th Avenue and Waltham Street. He barked orders for her to give up her valuables. He took off her $6,000 necklace.
The next day the suspect rolled up on a 75-year-old woman at the intersection of 115th Street and Liberty Avenue and yanked her $400 necklace off her neck before fleeing.
⬛ ET. AL
▀ Teen Melee (New York, NY)
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▀ Bridge Burner (New York, NY)
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▀ Hot Pursuit (New York, NY)
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▀ Unyielded (New York, NY)
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