A CASH-STRAPPED CRACK smoking crook outran workers but wasn’t fast enough to elude the fuzz. 

The 23-year-old, was inside the Turbina Landromat on St. Nicholas Avenue off West 191st Street back on the evening of Feb. 7. 

She hopped behind the unattended counter and allegedly snatched $100 from the register and then darted out the door. 

A worker gave chase but wasn’t able to catch her as the thief hopped a subway as her getaway transport.

But cops, relying on CCTV footage were able to pin her to the crimes earlier in the day — made the woman and collared her for possessing crack while riding a subway. 

Once in custody authorities discovered her underhanded output. 

So beyond the crack possession she was charged with robbery and burglary (illegal entry with intent). 

THE DETECTIVES WERE knocking door to door looking for video evidence. 

When they knocked on a 76-year-old’s apartment inside the residential sliver on Richman Plaza that appeared to have a Ring camera installed — he allegedly confessed. 

“I’m the one who shot him,” the elder told them. 

It April 3 — the hours after the accused had felled the 21-year-old man found slumped in the doorway of his apartment.

They soon learned the neighbors had been cross toward each other for five years until things came to a head that April 2 eve. 

It remains unclear what they were feuding about. 

The suspect (who racked up two prior arrests, both from 1999 for assault and theft of service in transit) may have been getting the homicide off his chest. But he caught a case for murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon.

BLEEDING AND KICKED out of his pad — a man was locked out of his home by his slashing roommate who then rained down all of his belongings. 

It was at around 11:45 p.m. on March 10 when the ousted man was nursing his cut-up arms outside his high rise apartment on West 27th Street near Surf Avenue that he shared with the 24-year-old woman. 

She allegedly scratched him several times and used a knife to slash his left wrist. 

When the man suffering from extreme pain attempted to return to the apartment — the woman locked the door and “refused to open it” to let him back inside, the criminal complaint details. 

She then decided to toss all of the victim’s stuff out the window to fall to the ground below.  

Cops showed up to the gory laundry show and they quickly approached the woman in the apartment. 

But she wouldn’t go softly. 

In fact, authorities say the woman not only bit one of the officer’s hands but also once one of hers was handcuffed, she swung and struck an officer’s face with the one hand that was clamped in the metal restraints.

They finally got the woman under and she was charged with assault, menacing, weapons possession, unlawful eviction, and harassment.

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A NEW MOM was caught driving all over the road with a newborn riding shotgun next to an open beer bottle. 

The soused driver, 26, drew the attention of a detail back on the early morning of March 22. 

She was spotted tearing around in a 2022 white Honda Pilot and “failing to signal and yield to oncoming traffic” and even causing one of the officer’s cruiser to swerve to avoid a head-on crash, according to the criminal complaint. 

Once stopped, the woman slurred how she was contrite and also definitely maybe (but probably not) sober. 

She also wasn’t legally allowed to drive. 

“I don't have a license,” she allegedly told the cops. “I know I'm not supposed to be driving.”

Then she appeared to apologize for her misdeeds — which not only included her 10-day-old son being left to lay on the front seat next to an ajar Coors Banquet bottle. 

Cops took particular notice to her watery eyes, the boozy breath, and wobbly feet. 

The woman told the officers, “I'm sorry, I was drinking earlier. I had two drinks at midnight.”

Indeed, she had her driving privileges seized back in 2019. 

And when she was extricated from the ride and driven to the 112th Precinct — she refused to take an intox test, the papers say.

The woman was brought up on a raft of charges including operating a motor vehicle under the influence, endangering the welfare of a child, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

HE CLAIMS HE was clueless and being a loyal pal. 

Because good pals always backup their street baddies to wail on an innocent for profits. 

At least that was one 21-year-old’s admission under police questioning. 

One of the trio tagged to the chain snatching back on the late evening of Jan. 2 found himself trying to explain away his alleged misdeeds. 

He along with two chums allegedly were stalking a man outside a store on Clove Road. 

When they saw a mark wearing a gold chain — they jumped him. 

One of them three repeatedly bludgeoned the victim’s face with a pistol and a flurry of punches. 

As they turned the man’s face into ground round — one of them ripped off his gold chain. 

They then ran off. 

But on March 11, cops caught one of the brutes and he didn’t deny he was there. 

“Yes, that is me in the photo from after the incident,” he allegedly claimed when shown evidence captured from the day. 

He said that he was “running from the store.”

Then the suspect tossed his buddy under the bus as the ringleader and pistol-whipper. 

“It was [friend’s] idea to rob they guy because he needed money,” he told the cops. 

As far as where the chain was, he claimed to have been paid $1,200 by his friend to let it go. 

“[He] gave me $1,200 for the chain,” he said, adding “[he] and the other guy took the chain because I am new at this.”

It was his pal — not him — who “had the gun.”

He also didn’t deny he scrapped. 

“Yes, I was involved in the fight... I was just helping out my friends.

“I was just trying to follow my friends, I didn’t know what I was doing.”

Whether he had his wits about him or not, cops brought robbery, assault, grand larceny, and petit larceny.

Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter

"Crazy Sal" will remain behind bars.

For now.

Cop killer Salvatore "Crazy Sal" DeSarno, 67, went before the New York Parole Board at Five Points Correctional Facility on March 31 and he was summarily denied release.

DeSarno was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the 1980 murder of NYPD Officer Cecil Sledge in Canarsie, Brooklyn.

Sledge was in uniform, assigned to the 69 Pct, when he stopped DeSarno's car at Flatlands Avenue and East 78th Street. The car was suspected of being tied to a robbery the previous day. 

As Sledge approached the vehicle, DeSarno, 22, pulled out a .32-caliber pistol and shot Sledge four times.

As he backed up to escape, DeSarno ran over the officer's body and his gun belt got tangled in the vehicle under carriage.

The snag dragged the body a quarter-mile before breaking free.

At the time, DeSarno was out on parole after serving time for a knife-point robbery.

The copkiller was represented by infamous civil rights attorney William Kunstler, who fought a self-defense Hail Mary at tral arguing DeSarno only returned fire after being shot by Sledge.

But despite the theatrics, it took the jury four days of deliberation before issuing a guilty verdict.

DeSarno appealed the conviction. However, in 1986, the motion was denied by the Appellate Court. 

The convict had appeared 13 times before the state Parole Board starting back in November 2004.

He comes up for pareole eligibility in March of next year, according to the NYS Department of Corrections.

While DeSarno remains above ground, fellow inmate Shatiek Johnson, 45, serving 25 years to life for the 1998 murder of Police Officer Gerald Carter in Staten Island, died in Attica Prison on April 7.

Johnson, 17, assassinated Carter, 28, who like P.O. Sledge, was uniform, and sitting in a marked NYPD van in the West Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island.

He shot him through the vehicle's windshield.

The cause of Johnson’s death wasn’t disclosed.

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The NYPD arrested and charged Asil Assaidi with reckless endangerment, riot, criminal mischief and other charges for his role in Saturday’s dangerous car meet up in Queens. We will continue to go after anyone causing chaos and endangering the lives of New Yorkers

Pursuant to an ongoing investigation, detectives have submitted additional media for three of the eight sought individuals.

Media depicting the sought individuals is attached and available at DCPI.

All calls are strictly confidential.

The New York City Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying the eight individuals and vehicles depicted in the attached media in connection with a reckless endangerment incident that occurred within the confines of the 104 Precinct. Details are as follows:

It was reported to police that on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at approximately 0148 hours in the vicinity of Eliot Avenue and 69 Street, multiple unidentified individuals were reportedly drag racing. Upon arrival, officers observed a blue car driving recklessly in a circular motion, along with a silver BMW X3 occupied by three unidentified male individuals, and a white BMW occupied by two males and one female. Furthermore, two unidentified male individuals jumped onto the hood of a marked NYPD vehicle, causing damage and cracking the windshield and then fled in a black Nissan to parts unknown. No injuries were reported as a result of the incident.

Media depicting the eight individuals and four vehicles is attached and available at DCPI.

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