
THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00196 — 07-21-26
BY: M.L. Nestel

Graphic by Melissa Eiler



⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ East Harlem: Ice Pick Perp And His Galpal Goon Shook Down Mark
HE SAW THE business end of the ice pick and forked over everything he had.
A 45-year-old heavy and his squeeze ambushed a man as he was waltzing around the neighborhood at around 3 a.m. on June 29.
The pair sized-up the unsuspecting victim and the iceman brandishing the ice pick demanded the victim’s bag. The unnamed woman grabbed hold of it and emptied if of its $200.
Then they went for the man’s cell phone and sprinted away.
But cops hopped into action and pinched the man.
He was nailed for grand larceny, robbery, and possession of stolen property.
His partner in crime galpal was still being sought.

⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Fordham Heights: Heroes Slashed By Scapel-Tantruming Tough
TWO GALLANT TEENS attempting to step in to shield a woman who was being barked at by a brute were rushed to hospitals with sliced-up faces.
The suspect, 27, was fuming at a woman while standing on Webster Avenue and East 187th Street.
Enter the two 16-year-old heroes who attempted to stand-up against the loudmouth.
The move enraged the goon even more and he drew a scalpel and slashed the lads’ mugs.
The bloody scene had the boys being rushed to hospitals to save them.
One man’s wound took a number of staples to close the scalp wound and the other needed 15 stitches to his right side of the face, according to the criminal complaint.
Cops took into custody the suspect and he was charged with assault (with physical injury/disfigurement), weapons possession, and harassment.

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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Greenwood Heights: Crack And Smack Slinger’s Tinted Windows Draws Cops, Ends In High Speed Chase
IT WAS DINNERTIME, but it might as well have been midnight.
A 31-year-old driver’s souped up 2025 Mazda drew some side eyes when it was idling on 4th Avenue and 32nd Street back at around 6 p.m. on June 14.
When a cop attempted to approach the car to quiz him about his obsidian hued car windows — the man behind the wheel was none too enthused.
He apparently put the car in drive and sped off with the side door still ajar and nearly clotheslining the police officer.
The cops rushed back in the cruiser and pursued.
Thus ensued a chase where the driver blew several red lights to try to lose the law enforcement tail.
Once stopped, the cops took the driver into custody and then figured out why he was so determined to steal away: they found on the driver’s side door a total of 11 zips of crack and 35 sleeves of H.
The suspect was hit with reckless endangerment, reckless driving, drug possession, and (for good measure) red light violation.

⬛ QUEENS
▀ Far Rockaway: Granddaughter Clobbers Grandma With Steel Water Bottle
SHE WEAPONIZED HER Stanley.
A spat between a 65-year-old woman and her granddaughter turned surly.
The elder was inside her home located on Mott Avenue back on the late night of June 10.
Whatever their grievance, the granddaughter thought it was fight night at the Garden.
So she punished her grandmother by shoving her to the floor, landing several punches and body blows and choked her.
And as she had her older kin dazed and suffering, she allegedly grabbed her metal water bottle and clocked the old victim in her noggin.
The devastating attack provoked an intervention with law enforcement. Cops took the granddaughter away and she was taken down for assault, criminal obstruction of breathing and harassment.

⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Port Richmond: ‘I Will Cut You!’: Lunatic Landlord Wielded Machete Before Cutting Tenant’s Power
A MACHETE AND a kill switch earned a landlord a spot in the pokey.
Something really vexed a 70-year-old maniac who went to the mattresses back on the night of June 19.
He apparently paid a visit to his tenant and decided it was time to show who was boss.
And he did so brandishing a machete.
He snarled, “If you don’t back the fuck up — I will cut you.”
By all accounts the tenant obliged and retreated some steps back.
The suspect may not have drew blood, but he allegedly decided it was time to force his tenant to find another living situation.
So he turned off the electricity.
Cops were called and the muscling to force the tenant to bounce and fear for his life led to a series of charges including menacing, weapons possession, harassment, and unlawful eviction.

⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ 3 Hoods Level Beatdown Of Straphanger For Cell Phone (Union Square, NY)

COPS ARE SEEKING tips to track down a trio who roughed up a man for his mobile.
It was around 3:30 a.m. on July 17 when they boarded a southbound 4 train at Union Square and soon clobbered a 32-year-old man and yanked his cell phone beofre fleeing.
▀ Garage Jerk (Mineola, NY)


⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Pusher Popped With White Product (Brooklyn, NY)

▀ Rubber Banded Bang (Brooklyn, NY)

▀ Old Boat Of A Car Towed (Brooklyn, NY)



⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Trash Piles (New York, NY) - 1975

Credit: Mel Finkelstein
▀ Beatlemania (New York, NY)


⬛ ET. AL

▀ Drifters’ Cloudy Cloak & Dagger (Ozone Park, NY)



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▀ Get Lucky Street (Queens, NY)

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▀ Cyclists V. Cabbie (New York, NY)

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▀ Wrong Of Way (New York, NY)

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