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THE BLOTTER

ISSUE № 0065 — 02-13-26

BY: M.L. Nestel

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.

⬛ MANHATTAN

Midtown: Granny Madame And Temptresses Busted Accepting Undercover’s Indecent Proposal 

SHE WASN’T OFFERING to knit sweaters. 

An undercover cop propositioned a 70-year-old woman to bed one of her gals stabled somewhere in her home and allegedly offered up for sex. 

It was at around 3:15 p.m. on Jan. 7, when the vice cop, posing as a john, entered the senior woman’s swanky domicile in a six-story building located on West 57th Street and Sixth Avenue.

There’s a one-bedroom unit that is currently on the market for $1.5 million, according to Zillow.   

She allegedly squared away a deal with the “client” to get laid in exchange for $120. 

The woman was busted for promoting prostitution for profit. Two other women, ages 57 and 35, were also pinched for the same misdemeanor charges.

⬛ THE BRONX

South Bronx: Man Knifes Teen Straphanger As Crime Partner Roughs Up 911 Caller

A TRAVELER WAS trying to board a train but was sent to the hospital instead. 

A 32-year-old punk and his cohort bushwhacked an 18-year-old standing on the northbound platform of the 2 train line.

The blade brute stabbed the teen several times. 

And while the suspect was slicing up the innocent, a 19-year-old bystander dialed 911. 

The perp’s pal darted to the Good Sam on the phone and inflicted several kicks and punches to thwart summoning the calvary. 

But the call went through anyway.

The stabbed youth was transported to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was listed as stable. The 911 caller refused medical attention. 

Cops nabbed the stabber with attempted murder, assault, robbery, grand larceny, menacing and weapons possession. The sidekick street fighter (who is no fan of emergency calls) was able to slither away. 

⬛ BROOKLYN

Crown Heights: Car Thief Takes Off With Bag Containing Book And Jewish Prayer Accessory

IT’S LIKELY NOT gonna go down as the score of the century. 

A desperado at the ripe age of 67 was up to some mischief back on the late afternoon of Jan. 7. 

He was captured on CCTV compromising a car’s defenses while it was parked in front of the Congregation Anshei Lubavitch Crown Heights on Albany Avenue. 

He allegedly ran off with a bag that had a book and a “Tefillin” — a leather-strapped article that features two boxes with Torah scrolls and worn by observant Jewish men underneath clothes for morning prayers. 

The holy item was estimated to be worth more than $1,000. 

Investigators were able to make the unholy one and that same night cuffed him and recovered the stolen items. 

He was charged with criminal possession of stolen property (valued at more than $3k) and criminal possession of stolen property, (religious articles).

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⬛ QUEENS

Flushing: Stick-up Crew Shakes Down High Rollers At Underground Gambling Den

AN EIGHT-DEEP CREW of desperados stormed an illicit gambling den and ripped off everyone. 

They were aiming guns — and a few toting knives — on Jan. 11 when they bumrushed the makeshift casino tucked away inside a building located on Prince Street and 35th Avenue. 

Once inside, the goons roughed up the nine players and demolished some of the gaming machines. 

They then relieved the innocents of their cash and at least one man of his keys to a BMW.

Worse, a 37-year-old perp among the raiders groped a woman’s genitals.   

With heavy pockets, the suspects took off (several hopping into the stolen beamer and last seen racing northbound on Prince Street. 

The groper was left to make his luck by the speed of his two feet. Cops caught up to him. His accomplices were still being pursued. 

⬛ STATEN ISLAND

Rossville: Blade-Swinging Maniac Steals Houseguest’s Phone, Tells Him ‘Get The Fuck Out!’

THERE ARE MANY ways of giving someone the boot. 

A homeowner allegedly chose a nuclear route: brandishing a knife and chasing a slumbering man away. 

“Get the fuck out of my house,” the 40-year-old shouted in the middle of the night on New Year’s Eve. 

He had allegedly borrowed his houseguest’s Motorola cell phone the day prior. 

But after he menaced the phone-less cohort, he allegedly informed him, “You are not getting your phone back!”

And while he talked big about getting the man to become a memory, the suspect allegedly pinned the man from leaving.

Cops were called and quickly took rude awakener into custody. 

He was slapped with robbery, weapons possession, menacing, unlawful imprisonment, petit larceny, and harassment.

NYCTALGIC

▀ Carmine Galante’s Last Lunch (Brooklyn, NY) - 1/12/1979

On July 12, 1979, Carmine Galante was killed by three ski-masked men unloading shotguns and pistols just as he and Bonanno capo Leonard Coppola, a Bonanno capo restaurant owner Giuseppe Turano finished eating lunch on an open patio at Joe and Mary's Italian-American Restaurant at 205 Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York. Galante's Sicilian bodyguards, Baldassare Amato and Cesare Bonventre left unharmed.

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▀ Herbal End (Bronx, NY)

A CAR STOP resulted in a bunch of buddha collected and table-topped by the cops.

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⬛ ET. AL

▀ Descalator (New York, NY)

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Dummy Tossing Train Seat Hack Mastery (New York, NY)

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▀ Cops Cloaked As Cabbies(New York, 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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