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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00211 — 08-12-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Midtown: Thug Tagged For Striking Infant With Cell Phone Toss
A SCUMBAG BEAMED a baby girl being strollered by her mom in Bryant Park with a cell phone.
He then tried to get a lick in on the woman as well.
The 50-year-old perp was lurking around the popular park back at around 10 a.m. on July 18.
Cops say a mother, 39, was enjoying a walk with her infant daughter by the Sixth Avenue and 41st Street side.
The suspect, who allegedly didn’t know the woman, hurled a cell phone at the baby, striking her arm.
He then grabbed the same device and launched it at the mother.
But he missed her.
Cops took the phone-tossing derelict into custody at the scene.
They determined he had an outstanding theft warrant from May 18 involving.
He was not only taken to task for that but also charged with assault with a weapon, assault causing injury to a person less than 7-years-old, acting in a manner injurious to a child, and aggravated harassment.
▀ Chinatown: Who Is Gilgo Beach’s ‘Asian Doe’?
THE GILGO BEACH Murders may have been cracked. But for the bodies found in the vicinity — closure remains elusive.
Rex Heuermann, 62, copped to eight murders.
He was sentenced in earlier this summer to three life sentenced without parole plus 100 years.
The bodies he was charged with — all women — were all found in a geographic mass grave area off Gilgo Beach, Suffolk County, Long Island.
However, there is now a widening scope conjuring whether Heuermann may have been honing his craft earlier than admitting.
As part of his plea allocution, Heuermann admitted to his first murder on November 19, 1993, the strangulation murder of Sandra Castilla, 28, whose body was found by hunters off Fish Cove Road in the town of North Sea in South Hampton.
Heuermann would have been 32-years -old at the time of committing his first murder. The last of serial killings that he has been charged with and pleaded guilty to was in 2010 by his own account.
He was arrested July 13, 2023.
There is a strong suspicion that Castillo was not his first kill and that the self-admitted strangulation of Amber Costello, 27, in September 2010 wasn’t his last.
As part of his plea deal, Heuermann must meet with FBI profilers behind bars so they can get a better sense of the behavior and the mind of a serial killer.
"Asian John Doe," is an unsolved crime for which he has not confessed nor been charged. The body of an unidentified Asian man in his 20s was found along the Gilgo Beach burial ground; he was found wearing women's clothing and a wig.
Tierney and volunteers from the Suffolk PD along with prosecutors visited Manhattan's Chinatown last week during National Night Out Against Crime to collect DNA samples from the large Asian community to help tie the victim to a geographic area in China or a possible familial DNA match to help identify the victim and trace his last movements.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Rikers Island: Homicidal Inmate Caught Brawling
A JAILBIRD WAS busted for throwing down with other inmates.
The 32-year-old featherweight, who stands a pint-sized 5-foot-3 and 110 pounds, was being held at Rikers Island for an attempted murder rap from 2025 in the Bronx.
He tacked on assault while in a correctional facility and harassment for the fisticuffs.
Authorities say he threw down on Aug. 2 and took the new raps on Aug. 11.
The suspect was being held in lieu of a $300,000 bail and is still awaiting trial from the Sept. 11 attempted murder case.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Bensonhurst: Groping Ghoul Caught After Accosting 2 Women
A MOPE RIDING a mope inflicted brutality upon women to sate his sexual gratification.
The 22-year-old predator allegedly ambushed a woman who was walking down a sidewalk back at around 12:30 a.m. on June 12.
The woman recounted how the sicko snuck up behind her and with his mitts grabbed the woman’s genitals and her clothing, the criminal complaint reads.
His actions forced the woman to tumble to the ground.
She suffered bruising and emotional distress.
Video surveillance footage from the darkness of night depicts the man, later ID’d as the perpetrator, hop off a scooter and rush the woman.
The same suspect is believed to have struck nearly two weeks later.
On June 23 at around the same time as the first attack, the perp was seen rolling up to a woman on a scooter as she was walking along Bay Street.
This time he bear-hugged her aggressively and slammed her against a van and yanked her pants down from her waist.
Somehow, the woman was spared further horrors and the animal of a human scurried away.
By July 1, investigators believe they had the sicko made.
He was charred with assault (sexually motivated felony), menacing, forcible touching, and sex abuse.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Jamaica: Madman Admits He Was Having ‘Angry Moment’ When He Slashed Old Man’s Ear
HE’S WRESTLING WITH some mean demons.
A 29-year-old claims he couldn’t control the urge to take out a man’s ear during a spat.
His bloody tantrum hit an zenith midday on July 17.
The perp was standing on an LIRR platform at the Sutphin Boulevard stop.
Whatever was gnawing at his psyche was too much to bear.
‘I was in my angry moment.’
So he darted after a 69-year-old man and with a mystery sharp object — he slashed the rival’s ear.
When cops came to scoop up the berserker, they asked what prompted the vicious assault.
He claimed that his emotions got the best of him.
“I was in my angry moment,” he allegedly told investigators.
Prosecutors brought a handful of charges including assault (victim 65 or older), assault with a weapon, and criminal possession of a weapon (with intent to use).
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Port Richmond: Fatal Hit-And-Run Driver Nabbed
A WOMAN WAS slain attempting to cross a street when a BMW unsavory of a driver clipped her and then kept zooming off.
The 60-year-old innocent was walking across Decker Avenue near Catherine Street back on the afternoon of June 21.
As she was attempting to get to the other side of the the avenue mid block — a white 2020 BMW X6, driven by the 28-year-old driver, struck her and then left her like a crinkled pylon.
Someone called 911 and the woman was rushed to Richmond Medical Center where she initially had been listed in critical condition.
But she later succumbed to her injuries.
Investigators tracked down the craven driver and on July 9 the suspect was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in a death.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Trio Of Bandits Sought For Tying Up Night Club Workers, Emptying Safe For Cash And DJ Gear (New York, NY)
THREE PROS STORMED a night spot after closing and cleaned out the joint.
Several hours after closing time at Obvio Cocktail Bar on 28th Street (Mondays per its website is 11 p.m.) saw three raiders barge in — one wielding a gun in hand with extended magazine.
Two workers, males aged 38 and 43, were bound with electrical cords and tape and dumped in separate loos.
The intruders then helped themselves to the safe which contained $7,000 and $13,000 worth of DJ equipment.
They also boosted several bottles of hooch worth $7,000.
▀ Weaponized Granny Buses For Getaway (Forest Hills, NY)
A SURLY STRAPHANGER squared off with another before pulling a knife.
The woman was riding on an E train back at around 5:30 p.m. on July 24.
As the train approached the Forest Hills-71st Avenue station — her quarrel exploded into a standoff with the woman drawing a knife and then took off on a Q76 bus.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
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▀ Assassins Off Carmine ‘The Cigar’ Galante In Drug War (Brooklyn, NY)
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▀ Ladder Up (Chinatown, NY)
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▀ Cops Gun Collection (New York, NY)
▀ Beware Of Distraction Scammers (New York, NY)
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▀ McDonald’s Melee (New York, NY)
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▀ Tase A Little Longer (New York, NY)
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