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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00222 — 08-27-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
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⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Harlem: Crack Slinging Parolee Caught Plying Rocks While Cops Passed Popcorn
HE WAS BACK at it.
A seasoned crack slinger ws busted putting on a show before a cop audience.
The 57-year-old perp had been granted release after serving a two prison bits for drugs.
And while he could taste some freedom, he couldn’t help himself.
He was witnessed on the night of Aug. 4 selling some crack on 125th Street and Lenox Avenue to a willing buyer, 54, who offered him cash.
Once the sale tendered — cops moved in and took both of them down.
When they searched the suspects they found the seller had more than half an ounce of crack while his customer had the small single serving sized amount he just bought.
The seller was brought up on criminal possession of a controlled substance (crack/with intent to sell).
At his hearing, the crack dealer pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors painted him as a predicate felon with several drug hits on his rap sheet. And that not only would he face serious hard time if convicted — but he would be a flight risk if let-go.
But the judge cut him a break before cutting him loose. He was set free on supervised release with conditions.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ University Heights: Crazed Gunslinger Warns Rival ‘Leave Or I’m Gonna Kill All Of You!’ Before Blasting
IT WAS HIGH Noon at 4 a.m.
A 23-year-old suspect was out well past his bedtime when he was caught shooting a man and pistol-whipping another.
The suspect was jawing with others outside on University Avenue before sunrise.
At one point, he drew his pistol and used it to strike the forheard of the man he was trying to dress down.
He seethed, “Leave or I’m gonna kill all of you!”
Moments later, the same perp made good on his threat and squeezed off a round, striking his opponent to the chest and arm.
The suspect was lassoed and brought up on an assortment of charges including attempted murder, assault, attempted assault, weapons possession, and harassment.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ East Flatbush: Deviant Donning ConEd Vest Forces Way Into Home, Pistol Whips Hubby Then Runs Off With Wife’s Purse
A CALCULATED JOKER dressed up as a utility worker to tune up a couple and steal away with their loot.
The 56-year-old allegedly stood outside the pair’s home wearing a bright ConEd vest located at East 54th Street on the afternoon of July 20.
Authorities say the suspect’s attire appeared to disarm the woman, 29, to open the front door of their East 54th Street home.
The brute barged in and immediately grabbed hold of her neck.
Her husband tried Batman the situation — but was quickly neutralized by the bad guy’s unrelenting pistol-whipping mitt.
The perp then took hold of the woman’s purse and took off on foot.
Shortly after, the couple rang the authorities.
Investigators appeared and tracked down the dipshit using an app on the phone stowed in the wife’s stolen purse.
He might as well have swallowed a AirTag!
Because within a short couple clicks the wanted perp was spotted on Prospect Place.
And returned him to the clink.
The purse was recovered along with the wife’s phone and credit cards.
Cops also put into evidence a loaded pistol.
He faces burglary (causing injury), robbery (with a firearm), and menacing charges among others.
At the time of his arrest, the accused was already sweating a gunpoint robbery case from May 4.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Long Island City: Homophobe Repeatedly Barks ‘Faggot’ Slur At Man Inside French Pastry Shop Before Grating His Legs With Bicycle
A CUSTOMER WAS showered with hate by a homophobe.
The morning of July 29 a customer entered the French bakery Noisette located on Steinway Street near 25th Avenue.
Once inside, he was feted to a series of slurs launched by the 37-year-old suspect.
He allegedly told the customer, “Hey faggot, why didn’t you buy anything?
“Are you a faggot?”
The nightmarish rube didn’t seem to have exercised all the demons.
For he kept on dogging the suspect by “repeatedly” calling him a faggot, according to the criminal complaint.
At one point the customer decided to get away from the punk.
But that same hater had already hopped on a bicycle and was nipping at his heels.
Then he steered ahead and slapped the customer.
They then started grappling and the unsavory used his bike to slice up the victim’s legs.
Cops responded and took the foul mouth into custody.
He was then charged with assault as a hate crime and aggravated harassment.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Tompkinsville: ‘I Just Want To Talk’: Barred Goon Breaks Judge’s Order To Get A Bus Bench Hug With Mother’s Daughter And Months Later Catches Gang Assault Case
HE WAS SUPPOSED to steer clear.
But an unwanted pest was unable to abide by the terms of the protection order.
So he decided to break it.
The suspect, who earned a ban stemming from a domestic incident.
He was supposed to be forbidden from contacting the mother and her daughter when a judge signed the document back on March 24.
But on the morning of May 4, was said to have creeped up on a the mother’s daughter who was sitting at a bus stop.
He sidled next to her and stretched his arms in an attempt to receive a hug.
“I just want to talk,” he told her. “Where is your mom?”
While he was freed to await the protection order violation, he was one of a five deep crew (at least one using a knife) who at around midday on July 22 they jumped a man on the corner of St. Marks Place and Wall Street.
Together they inflicted a hurt, sending the victim to hospital to receive 45 stitches on both arms and back.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Dope Fired Gun (Brooklyn, NY)
HE WASN’T WEARING his Sunday best.
Cops have been searching for a man who unloaded a gun at a man who was standing in front of a building on Osborn Street back at around midnight on May 3.
▀ Another Granny Chain Snatcher (Bronx, NY)
A GOON ON a moped drove up to a 72-year-old woman who was standing on the corner of East 203rd Street and Valentine Avenue early evening on Aug. 17. The suspect snatched the woman’s chains off her neck and drove off.
▀ Swiper (Brooklyn, NY)
▀ Motorized Muggers (Bronx, NY)
A COUPLE SCOUNDRELS mugged a man of his wallet.
At around 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 19, two perps rolled up on the man walking on Stratford Avenue when the passenger dismounted, drew a pistol and demanded the innocent’s wallet. He handed it over and the perp took it and hopped back on and vanished.
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Minus The Bang (Queens Village, NY)
⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ 82 Precinct Pinch (Brooklyn, NY) - 1955
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Head Case (Elmhurst, NY)
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▀ Caught Red-Handed (Brooklyn, NY)
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