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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00132 — 05-21-26
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.
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⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Gramercy Park: Peeping Tom Caught Recording Through Subway Stairwell To Get Peek At 16 Y.O. Girl’s Underskirt
A SICKO WAS snared at a subway station trying to sneak a peek under the skirt of a teenage girl.
The 30-year-old was allegedly inside the Park Avenue South/East 23rd Street train station back on the night of May 5.
Cops say the perv plotted himself underneath a staircase on the northbound No. 6 train side of the station.
He allegedly aimed his cell phone camera through the grating to snap images of a 16-year-old girl descending down the stairs.
Officers took the creep into custody for the act and he now faces unlawful surveillance (under clothing) and acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Hunts Point: Windsor Terrace: Beefing Brute Erupts And Blasts Man With Legshot
A LOOSE CANON unloaded on an innocent.
Two men were volleying insults back and forth until one pulled an iron and used it.
The 22-year-old gunslinger was standing outside a Popeye’s restaurant on Prospect and Southern Boulevard early afternoon on April 25.
He was picking a squabble with a 41-year-old opponent.
Whatever was said (and it’s doubtful it had anything to do with the ketchup stain on his poke-a-dot shirt) it rose to the point where the suspect, clad all in black, decided to go to the mattress.
He drew the gun and popped the older rival in the right leg.
The victim was rushed to Lincoln Hospital where he stabilized.
It's not clear what prompted the original argument or whether the two men knew each other.
Investigators reeled in the accused on May 5.
He was charged with attempted murder, assault, weapon possession, and reckless endangerment.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Bedford-Stuyvesant / Crown Heights: Gun-Toting Kidnapper Muttered To Woman ‘I’ll Take You Home!’
A TERRIFIED WOMAN was escorted to her home against her will by a hanger-on that was pointing a pistol and robbed her of her cell phone.
The 19-year-old slithered out of his Lewis Avenue home at 1 a.m. on April 13.
He encountered a woman and quickly put his hooks into her.
Brandishing a piece, the suspect hissed to the “I will take you home.”
The woman “agreed out of fear,” according to the criminal complaint.
They traveled to the woman’s walkup home on Atlantic Avenue near Troy Avenue.
‘I will take you home.’
Once at her door the woman quickly opened and then attempted to lock out the psychopath holding her captive.
But the brute forced the door open and proceeded to slug the woman repeatedly and then choked her out.
Cops finally caught up to the perp and he was slapped with kidnapping, robbery (with a firearm), burglary, assault, grand larceny from a person, and unlawful imprisonment.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Hollis: Scumbag Caught Posting Secretly Recorded Sex Video
SHE COULD TELL it was her because her face and breasts were all over the frame of a hidden cam.
The same with her bed partner’s small and big heads.
All of it was now apparently out there for public consumption after the 33-year-old posted their romp on his Instagram account.
The woman was made aware of the XXX footage and informed cops that she had no knowledge of their intimacy being recorded.
And so cops moved in on the morning of April 7 where the suspect was popped from his Woodhull Avenue home.
The deceptive misfit is now defending against unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image and unlawful disclosure of an intimate image.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Edwin Markham Gardens: Spitter Taunts Cop To ‘Arrest Me’ Because He Was Going To ‘Make Money’
HE COULDN’T CONTROL his fluids. And then he lost his shit.
A 39-year-old man was spotted on Campbell and Henderson Avenues on the night of April 26.
It was there that cops accused the suspect of spitting on the ground.
When the officer approached the accused to receive a summons for the saliva slip.
But the mouthy perp became especially unsettling.
“Arrest me,” he proclaimed while tensing his body, fighting back the handcuffs and resisting being dumped into the radio patrol car.
He continued, “This is a lawsuit. I’m going to make money.”
So when he could have been forced to deal with a littering prohibited ticket was overshadowed by the resisting arrest rap.
⬛ [SIC] CITY
▀ ‘El Jok3r’ Meets Frowning Fuzz (Middle Village, Queens / Bronx, NY)
Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter
THE JOKE IS on the "El Jok3r" — compliments of the NYPD.
The driver parted ways with his impounded Infiniti (with the vanity license plate “El Jok3r” as part of a roundup.
Between May 15 and May 17, authorities fanned out across three boroughs, seizing 19 muscle cars, issuing 150 summonses every traffic infraction in the book and forcing five motorists to walk the arraignment plank as part of a crack down on reckless car "meetups" ahead of the summer.
The joker’s Infinity was one of three vehicles seized when cops swooped in to break up a street takeover where 50 other cars assembled at Fresh Pond Road and Metropolitan Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens on Saturday.
Cops wore out their pens by doling out 16 traffic citations.
That same night in Mott Haven, the Bronx cops broke up another rowdy street takeover and arrested one driver for reckless endangerment and driving without a license.
In Canarsie, Brooklyn also on Saturday, a 20 year old motorist was caught driving without a license and he was issued a summons for the car’s excessive window tints.
The crackdown comes after a caught on video meet up on April 18 on Elliot Avenue and 69th Street in Middle Village, Queens, in which dozens of vehicles were filmed drag racing, setting fires in the street and doing donuts in the intersection during a social media promoted "ride out" which caught cops flat footed and drew outrage from elected officials.
Several arrests were later made in that case with some of the participants being charged with among other things, riot, reckless endangerment and unlawful assembly.
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⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ Upped (New York, NY)
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▀ Untrained Map (New York, NY)
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Small Timer And Galpal Caught With Dope Stash, Barely Any Cash (Jamestown, NY)
IT WAS A lot of bad items taken out of a Euclid Avenue apartment.
On the afternoon of May 18, Tyler Perrin and an unnamed galpal were escorted out and the officers and deputies bagged a bunch of dope including 26.5 grams of methamphetamine, 18.4 grams of fentanyl, 6.6 grams of crack cocaine, digital scales and packaging material. The suspect wasn’t exactly raking in the cheddar as he was found with just $170 in drug profits.
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▀ Bang Bust (Bronx, NY)
A HANDFUL OF chintzy firearms confiscated.
⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Stained Stoop (New York, NY) - 1980s
Credit: Philip Pocock
EAST 8TH STREET between Avenues B and C.
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▀ Walk + Talk (New York, NY)
SURVEILLANCE SNAP OF Genovese Family boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante taking a stroll with former acting boss Dominick "Quiet Dom' Cirillo.
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Street Ravelers (New York, NY)
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▀ Bag Grabbers (New York, NY)
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▀ >HoodUber (New York, NY)
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▀ Waterworks (Queens, NY)
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▀ Animal Of A Human Ditches Home, Pooch (Queens, NY)
GOOD SAMS CALLED cops to save an abandoned dog and RV as the city sizzles.
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▀ Schoolbus Sunk (New York, NY)
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▀ Valet Parking (New York, NY)
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▀ ‘They Just Shot Him, Pow!’ (Bronx, 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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