THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 0050 — 01-23-26
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.
⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Harlem: Woman Hit By Gunfire While Dumping Trash During Pair’s Gun Showdown
THEY WERE CAPPING off in broad daylight felling an innocent bystander emptying her trash.
The shooters, both men, 22-year-old and 23-year-old — were allegedly gun playing with their arms on the afternoon of Nov. 30 around the King Houses located on Fifth Avenue and West 112th Street.
The unintended target, a 48-year-old woman, took a round to the left leg while attempting to throw away trash outside the public housing building.
Cops canvassed for the gunslingers, one wearing a dark grey hoodie and 22-year-old royal blue sweatpants and the 23-year-old donning all black attire.
They caught up to the men who fit the descriptions and saw one of them adjust “something in his waistline” of his big jacket. They also saw the other accused “pin his arm across his chest” as if he was holding something in his waistband, according to the criminal complaint.
They saw him saunter “side by side” and then heave the object into a scaffolding.
The officer stopped the odd-gaiting suspect who was found ducking under a parked car on Madison Avenue.
They then fetched the object that the 23-year-old suspect allegedly tossed and found it was a .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol.
The same cops chased down the 22-year-old who was running and seen throwing something on West 112th Street off 5th Avenue.
Once they had him under, the cops also found a 9mm pistol ditched under a parked car.
Each is now defending against weapons possession.
The shot woman was treated at a hospital and survived.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Soundview: Couchsurfer Rousted By Roommate Stabbing Fork In His Ear
HE WOKE TO a real-life night terror.
A 30-year-old was sound asleep on a sofa inside an apartment on Stratford when his roommate, 27, allegedly turned his left ear into bloody chop suey.
The attack took place at around 4 a.m. on Dec. 10 when the victim was unable to sleep and feeling excessive pain in his head.
He wasn’t imagining it. The fork-jabbing roommate was repeatedly stabbing his ear.
The bleeding target lunged away and rang authorities by dialing 911.
They arrived and took the fork freak into custody.
Curiously, the weaponized flatware was nowhere to be found.
He’s facing assault charges.
It’s unclear what provoked the utensil waylay.
⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Flatbush: Bed Burner Caught After Trying To Torch Storage Building
IT COULD HAVE been a barnburner.
A 64-year-old woman was captued on film stirring up mischief inside a moving and storage brick edifice located on Tilden Avenue off Lott Street.
Perhaps she had fireworks in mind (it was New Year’s Eve morning, after all) when she allegedly set a mattress alight.
The woman was captured on CCTV entering a room where the fire started clad in a puffy gray jacket with a hood, a dark skirt, and sandals, according to the criminal complaint.
The fire spread around and wafted smoke — leading at least one person to suffer a bout of smoke inhalation.
So hot were the furious flames that they caused the mattress plastic to melt and drip into the floor.
Investigators tracked down the woman and on Jan. 14 formally charged her with arson and criminal mischief (damage property).
The hot tempered individual was already facing an April 18 assault and harassment case and considered a fugitive for skipping court.
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⬛ QUEENS
▀ Woodhaven: Hit, Punch, And Run Over
A FENDER BENDER became a battle royale and demolition derby.
The driver of a 2013 KIA allegedly caused a collision with an Acura TLX at the corner of 104th Street off Atlantic Avenue.
It was around 1 a.m. on Dec. 13, when the 44-year-old driver and a woman riding shotgun allegedly accused the Acura driver for the cause of it.
When the placating driver and his two passengers (a man and a woman) hopped out of the Acura to assess the damage and trade insurance information — they were met with hostility, according to the criminal complaint.
“I am not getting out of the car,” the KIA driver asserted. “I am not giving you any information.”
Those words were simply prelude to the affray.
The suspect’s galpal stepped up to the pair in the Acura and allegedly shouted at them and then took a swing at the driver.
She returned to the KIA.
Then they peeled out and clipped the driver and both passengers with his front side wheel.
‘I am not getting out of the car. I am not giving you any information.’
As a result, that wounded driver broke his right leg and right ankle, the papers say.
Their escape from the scene also caused “substantial pain” to the two other passengers — causing them to suffer bruising and cuts.
The victims were taken to Jamaica Hospital where they were treated for their injuries.
The perp was brought up on leaving the scene of an accident with injury, failure to exercise due care (to a pedestrian), reckless driving, and assault.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Dongan Hills: Longtime Lover Busted For Uploading Sex Video On Instagram
HE GOT CAUGHT posting a sex video of his former flame.
A 26-year-old was picked up from his North Railroad Avenue lair after he allegedly uploaded a video of both him and his ex doing the dirty “without pants or underwear” on Instagram, according to the criminal complaint.
The suspect also didn’t have the consent of the woman to post their lovemaking footage.
Cops were alerted to the video on the man’s Instagram as it was used for other (less XXX) posts.
They also learned that the accused had been in a “lengthy relationship”.
The man was booked on unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK
▀ Misc. (New York, NY)
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▀ REVOLT
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▀ SENT
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▀ More Misc. (Staten Island)
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▀ More Misc. (New York, NY)
⬛ NYCTALGIC
▀ K9 Jacks Bargain (New York, NY) - 1982
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▀ Granny + Oldsmobile (New York, NY) - 1981
Credit: Joel Meyerowitz
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▀ Alphabet City (New York, NY) - Early 1980s
Credit: Susan Fensten
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▀ Rated X Times Square (New York, NY) -
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BACKALK:
Ja'mez Jahmez-James-Antonio Reid: In 1975 would agree that 42nd street was the "Red Light" District that bump up against the Theater District.
GiGi Graham: Hookers pimps pimps waiting at the port suyhtitunto grab those teenage girls to pimp out up 8th Avenue too
Ric Rosa: The runaways from the Midwest thought they were getting away from their strict parents now find themselves being pimped out by strict pimps
Reinaldo Tirado: That's the way I remember it, frequented the Arcade on 7th Avenue, plenty of pinball machines there, amongst other things...
⬛ ET. AL
▀ ‘Ahmed, Stop!’ (New York, NY)
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▀ Das Boot (New York, NY)
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▀ Pray Nobody Has A Light! (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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