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AN EARLY RISING raider took a man for his wallet. 

It was around 5 a.m. on June 5, where the 44-year-old goon stepped to a man, 35, while inside a building on Nicholas Avenue and West 178th Street. 

The suspect allegedly was brandishing a kitchen knife in one hand and a pocket knife in the other. 

“Don’t move or I will cut you,” he seethed. 

He then swiped from the man’s pocket a wallet that contained $110. 

The victim quickly reported the mugging at double knifepoint to the authorities. 

A detail spotted the perp based on the detailed description and he was lassoed.

Cops learned that the suspect had been wanted for a Nov. 21 assault and petit larceny incident. 

Once taken into custody, he was charged in the previous case and  robbery (with a knife) for the surly shakedown.

HIS PROBATION OFFICER is big on surprises.

THe officer turned up at a 19-year-old’s home at the Sotomayor Houses on Soundview Avenue on the morning of June 9. 

Once inside, a search turned up a loaded piece that was stashed somewhere (clearly not very well!). 

The strapped find is a violation of his probation agreement and he’s now back behind bars to defend against weapons and ammo possession raps.

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THEIR DAYS OF raking in the casino suckers’ cash were over. 

A 51-year-old hustler along with eight crime partners were caught operating a clandestine slot machine parlor inside a nondescript building on 54th Street off 7th Avenue. 

Cops showed up at the front door armed with a warrant. Once inside, they quickly saw the suspect and his partners fleeing the premises. 

All nine were scooped up quickly. 

The leader of the rat pack dropped a satchel in his desperate exit attempt. 

In it was the man’s ID. 

The investigators seized 32 slot machines that were essentially printing $5,000 per day in gambling profits. 

All of the suspects were rounded up and hit with gambling and possession of gambling devices.

THE HUMAN WRECKING ball of a son went on a two-day rampage against his dad — weaponising a chair, golf club, and hockey stick. 

The 39-year-old heir showed up at his dad’s 64th Place home back on the evening of June 5. 

Authorities say the man took a wooden chair and used it to strike his dad. 

Then he grabbed a golf club and marched outside to bash the old man’s Ford car. 

He smashed several windows after several swings. 

Cops were called and charges brought. 

But that only infuriated the unwanted charge. 

For he returned the next evening. 

This time his mission was allegedly to convince his dad to drop the charges lodged against him. 

When his dad rebuffed his pleas, the son went on another tear. 

In another meltdown, the bad son struck the front door of his dad’s home. He then tossed the old man's television set to the floor — destroying it. 

He wasn’t done. Or at least he wasn’t done unloading against that poor Ford. 

Authorities say he pulled a hockey stuck from his car and used it to clobber the car’s remaining windows — specifically cracking the front windshield. 

The suspect was charged with assault (elderly person over 65), criminal mischief, tampering, and harassment.

THEY HAD A deal. And he busted it. 

A 61-year-old huckster contractor duped a 71-year-old woman to renovate her home and then became ballistic in trying to squeeze more cash out of her. 

The elder woman had hired the man to perform $10,000 worth of upgrades to her Lincoln Avenue home. 

And dutifully, on May 3, the woman wrote and gave the man three checks. One was for $5,000, another for $3,000. 

But it wasn’t enough. He apparently wanted not only the full amount up front — but extra for his trouble. 

The customer contested the inflated sum and that drew his scorn. 

He allegedly grabbed the woman by the arm and hissed, “If you don’t pay, I will kill you!”

The granny broke free from the psycho and alerted authorities. Detectives from the 122 Precinct took action and collared the suspect four days later. 

He was slapped with grand larceny (by threat or extortion), aggravated harassment, and assault.

Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter

Whoever said "crime doesn't pay" never met a rainmaker named Amadou Balde or his Bronx set from the "Shiesty 66" gang.

The 26-year-old was among eight members rounded up in October, 2024, for a massive coast-to-coast bank fraud scheme that returned an estimated $10 million in ill-gotten gains.

All of it funding the gang’s taste for finer things such as fancy cars and jetsetting travel.

Balde must have put on quite the charm offensive when he was interviewed by the NYS Parole Board at Groveland Correctional Facility on June 2.

He was granted parole just three months after pleading guilty in Bronx Criminal Court to a single count of enterprise corruption, a deal that reprieved him a speedy one to three year prison stint.

With credit for time served in jail prior to his guilty plea — Balde was slated to walk free today.

Meanwhile, his chum, Soleman Troare, also 26, copped a guilty plea with Balde in March. He appeared before board this month also.

His decision is still pending. 

Cops started probing the Sheisty 66 crew in November. They blasted onto their radar while investigating a shooting on East 166th Street and Sheridan Avenue.

The investigators discovered opulent social media profiles, in which gang members fanning themselves with bricks of greenbacks and touted a banking scheme called "card cracking."

Between April, 2022 and September 2023, the gang recruited people in the tri-state area (and as far as the West Coast) finding willing participants to share their banking information with them for a price. 

Capitalizing on a banking loophole, the crew would then deposit phony checks into their bank accounts, liquidate the funds from local ATMs and then give the cardholder a kickback, once the card was reported stolen.

The scheme funded a short-lived high rolling existance for the crew, buying Rolex and Gucci timepieces, threads from Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Cartier as well as jetting to Miami, Paris and Kuwait and where they chartered boats like sultans.

One Sheisty 66 member flaunted a Rolls Royce purchase and made gun gestures on socials.

The scheme fell apart once the US Secret Service and US Postal Inspectors joined the pursuit in the banking fraud investigation and found the crew was behind the attempted theft of $12.6 million dollars in Federal COVID relief funds meant for Mt. Sinai Hospital.

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