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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00134 — 05-25-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Illustration by Rob Weiss
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.
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⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Midtown: Gal Discovers Scumbag Ex Beau Splashed Myriad Of Clandestine Sex Pics On IG
A DEPRAVED FIEND was taken away for posting XXX images of him and his ex-girlfriend bumping uglies.
The 57-year-old allegedly chronicled coitus with his then gal pal inside his home back at around 10 p.m. on Nov. 15, 2025.
The mortified victim claims she was especially tipsy during the night and that her partner had manipulated their intimacy to position a camera to capture the lovemaking without her permission or knowledge.
The woman soon lost her wits when she saw a social media post on Instagram that had been created in her name and was stocked with her in an compromised sexual state.
Cops were informed about the pics in question. She suspects they were taken from inside the ex-boyfriend’s home back on that now dreadful night.
The woman informed the police she was especially inebriated on the night in question.
Investigators built a case and on May 6, they collared the accused and he was brought up on unlawful surveillance (for amusement or profit,) unlawful disclosure of an intimate image and unlawful publication of an intimate image.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Rikers Island: Corrections Officer Nabbed Taking $5K For Sneaking In Wet Letters
Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter
A GRUBBY JAILER got caught fattening his pockets to smuggle dope into the city's notorious lockup.
Eric Rivera, 54, was deep in it when he was taken into custody on Wednesday to face down charges of introducing contraband to prison, receiving a bribe and official misconduct, after investigators say he smuggled drug-laced paper into the jail and delivered it to an inmate.
Between June 1, 2025 and September 15, 2025, investigators say Rivera compromised his position of authority by taking $5,000 to smuggle paper soaked in a mystery drug to an inmate on the inside.
“Documents soaked in dangerous narcotics such as K-2 and fentanyl threaten the safety of inmates and staff," said Bronx DA Darcel Clark, in announcing the bust. "This defendant allegedly received money to bring in papers treated with drugs, ignoring the hazard of such contraband, and putting lives at risk.”
The cloak-and-dagger smuggling technique (colloquially known as “wet letters” and “strips”) is becoming increasingly common in NYC jails and State prisons.
Of a reported 15 deaths in NYC DOC custody on Rikers Island in 2025, eight of those deaths were suspected drug overdoses, according to the NYC DOC's Special Investigations Unit, which investigates and issues quarterly reports on deaths in custody.
In the case of Ramel Powell, 38, found dead in his cell at Rikers on Feb 19, 2025 — staff found documents inside a folder in his cell that tested positive for a coating them with "Spice" aka K-2, a synthetic marijuana, as well as 121 pills, the DOC investigation into his death determined.
In a similar suspected overdose death at Rikers, investigators found a six-by-six inch piece of white paper drenched in some type of substance inside a ziplock bag in the cell of Carlos Cruz, 43.
That paper turned out to be laden with the drug Naphyrone of "NRG," which over-stimulates the heart, the circulatory system and central nervous system and can cause feelings of euphoria as well as fits.
Earlier this month, narcotics detection K-9's at Attica Correctional Facility and Green Corrections (both state prisons in upstate NY) guards intercepted and seized suspected drug-laced paper that visitors had attempted to smuggle inside.
According to public records, Officer Rivera potentially tossed away $218,103 take home pay including overtime in 2025 while working for the NYC Department of Corrections.
After he was arrest the DOC suspended him.
He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Wednesday and he was released without bail. He is due back in court on July 22.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Clinton Hill: ‘I Have People Looking For You!’: Bigoted Gal Robber Caught Extorting Man For Thousands, Threatens To Release Stolen Nudes
SHE WENT NUDE nuclear.
A hustler already jacked a man for his valuables and phone and then went for his honor by threatening to expose compromising pics of him to stain his name.
The 32-year-old woman first struck on the early evening of March 6.
Cops say she entered his home and took his cell phone and various other possessions like some sweaters, a belt, and perfume.
She then vanished.
On March 8, the woman allegedly gained access to the cell phone and more critically an assortment of snaps “exposing [the man’s] intimate parts”.
And she had the gall to send some of the nudes in a series of text messages to the victim’s sister.
Three days later, authorities say the same ghoulish gal continued to impose fear in the victim by demanding cash or she would send more pics.
‘And when we catch you we’re going to kill you, faggot!’
When the funds were apparently off the table, the suspect moved to ringing the victim from a variety of cell phone numbers.
And then the suspect informed the victim she wasn’t done with the shakedown.
“I have people looking for you,” reads one of the merciless text messages. “And when we catch you we’re going to kill you, faggot!”
The criminal justice walls closed in on the alleged blackmailer on April 16.
They lowered the boom with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, stalking (causing fear), unlawful publication of an intimate image, and aggravated harassment (threat).
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Jamaica: Turnstile Hopper Caught Packing Whopper
HE MUST HAVE thought it was Fourth Of July… in April.
A not-so-clever klepto taking the city for a free ride was busted with pyrotechnics.
It was just past noon on April 27, when the 21-year-old suspect slipped into the subway system at Homelawn Street and Hillside Avenue.
After hurdling the turnstiles, the perp was pursued and then was frisked.
The officers pulled some fireworks from his possession.
And enough to charge him not only for the theft of services for failing to pony up for the subway ride, but also for unlawfully dealing with fireworks.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Arlington: Crack Fiends Lead Cops On High Speed Pursuit, Then Smashup
IT BEGAN WITH an idling Acura.
Three hombres in a car that was seen stopped while the motor was revving.
The time was 12:45 a.m. on April 28 when the cops took extra notice of the black 2004 Acura MDX with New Jersey plates parked on Staten Island Expressway and Clove Road.
And when state troopers crept closer and the sirens wailed and the lights flashed — the Acura went whoosh.
And so began the chase.
The troopers continued to trail as the driver took the Acura’s speed up to 80 MPH.
The pursuit continued for a several blocks, the driver blowing through several red lights.
The dipshits behind the wheel weren’t slick as they thought.
As the Acura zipped through Goethals Road North and Lambert Street — it torpedoed into two parked cars.
The suspects then popped out and made a mad dash for freedom.
And another chase (by foot) resulted with the cops screaming for the perps to surrender. The uniforms finally took two (ages 22 and 20) of the three down at a building on Richmond Avenue near Wilcox Street.
From the driver — cops pulled out from his pocket a pipe with some unsmoked coke remnants in the bowl.
The snared suspects were hit with unlawful fleeing a police officer, criminal possession stolen property, reckless driving, resisting arrest, and leaving the scene of an accident.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Supercar Steal McLaren Thwarted (New York, NY)
INVESTIGATORS STOPPED SOME eager bandits from boosting a 2022 McLaren 765LT (a supercar worth more than $300,000) that was bounded for a buyer in New York.
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Pink Firepower (Bronx, NY)
A BUST ENDED with a couple rifles and a pistol in the possession of the NYPD.
One of the arms is a pink rifle.
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⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Omerta Cannonball (New York, NY)
WET AND WILD day for Lucchese Family Acting Underboss Patrick "Patty" Dellorusso, soldier Danny Campo, capo Louis "Louie Jet" Gampero, soldier John "Butch" Arpino.
▀ Strung Out (Lower East Side, NY) - 1979
Credit: Chris Stein
A DAY IN at Tompkins Square Park where some youths getting loaded on junk.
⬛ ET. AL
▀ Ugh Turn (New York, NY)
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▀ Buddha Bodega (New York, NY)
A BAZAAR OPENLY selling “illegal cannabis”. Task force members padlocked the joint and weighed in 85 pounds of the stuff.
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▀ Prick Lane (New York, NY)
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▀ Times Square Showdown (Midtown, NY)
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▀ End Of Front (New York, NY)
▀ Wide (+ Weird) Load (New York, NY)
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▀ Subway Fall (Brooklyn, NY)
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▀ Scientology Suppressives (New York, NY)
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▀ Not Tow Be!!! (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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