THE TRIMS AND fades performed at one barber shop were merely a front. 

Behind the hairstylings at the biz located on West 187th Street was a side gig offering customers a chance to court Lady Luck by playing slot machines. 

Cops busted Lewis Acosta, 44, for hosting the clandestine money grab. 

It took an undercover cop who back on the afternoon of Oct. 24, entered the establishment. 

He played the slot machine and made $20 bank on a win. 

The house paid mighty for this. 

Cops were soon swarming the spot and took the suspect into custody and promoting gambling and possession of a  gambling device (slot machine).

A HACK WAS suffered a brutal attack after a passenger slashed him. 

The man claims the passenger, 31, was driven to her destination. 

But upon arrival at the intersection of White Plains Road and East 215th Street back at around 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 5 — the woman fled the taxi. 

When the driver pursued her to keep her there for the cops — she brandished a sharp object and cut up the man’s chest. 

It would be months (specifically Oct. 11) until the cab crossing woman was netted. 

She was hit with assault, criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal possession of a forged instrument.

Breasts are among the most talked about and medically researched parts of the human body, yet many of us are embarrassed to discuss our breast health openly. 

Allure Perspectives, a new podcast hosted by Allure editor-in-chief Jessica Cruel, spends its first season exploring how breasts intersect with beauty, health, identity, sexuality, and culture. Episodes feature Olivia Munn on the test she says to take even if your mammogram is clear, sex educator Ericka Hart on reclaiming her body after breast cancer, and a Beverly Hills surgeon on why GLP-1s are driving a surge in breast lifts. All episodes available now.

Listen wherever you get podcasts.

TWICE A WOMAN had sex with a man in his bedroom. And both times their hanky panky was being secretly recorded without her knowledge using a camera hidden on the perv’s bedroom stand. 

At the strike of midnight on March 23 and May 17, the woman suspects the perp, 58, was getting lucky inside his home located on Pacific Street and Eastern Parkway. 

The suspect allegedly rigged a clock that had been strategically placed to capture the woman’s bits during their “sexual intercourse”, according to the criminal complaint. 

The perp was formally hit with unlawful surveillance, (under clothing/for amusment profit/for sexual arousal).

A BALLISTIC SCOUNDREL’S video threat prompted a swift police response. 

THe 22-year-old gunslinger was chatting with a woman on the afternoon of Sept. 20. 

Cops say it was during that interaction that the man drew a grey and black colored pistol and told the woman his ill intent. 

“I am going to shoot you and your mom,” he growled. 

That move had the woman dialing the cops. 

Nine days later, investigators secured a warrant and were at the doorstep of the man’s home located on 191st Street off 119th Avenue. 

Upon entering they seized a bag in the hallway containing a loaded.40 caliber ghost gun and a black switchblade. 

They also collected a loaded magazine with .40 caliber rounds. 

He was hauled away and arraigned on aggravated harassment and several weapons possession raps.

NOT EVERYBODY CAN or should drive. 

Take a 37-year-old live one. 

He turned small backstreets into his personal freeway. 

The suspect was driving a white BMW on the night of Oct. 21 when he made enough poor violations and doubled the 25 MPH speed limit to draw the attention of a police unit. What’s more, the suspect’s beamer had a plastic covering cloaking its license plate.

A pursuit ensued on the corner of Jersey Street and Castleton Avenue. 

The officers on the man’s tail saw the motorist turn the car into one-way traffic and forced numerous other drivers to skid out of the way to dodge crashing head-on into the suspect. 

He was finally pulled over and charged with several raps including

Reckless endangerment, reckless driving, unsafe turn, plate knowingly covered with intent to obscure, and speeding.

As the world was nearing war — opium smuggled though Europe was hitting Brooklyn streets.

An undercover NYPD sting, in which two cops posing as crooked drug couriers out of a Hoboken, New Jersey steamer to the Brooklyn waterfront, led to a massive narco takedown and taking a bite out of the trans-continental pipeline.

Six years after the repeal of Prohibition, on January 6, 1939, under the cover of darkness the undercovers set a trap to snare three Brooklyn smugglers.

NYPD Det. Edward Runey of the Rackets Bureau posed as a crooked cop and offered police protection to transport opium from the Italian freighter "Ida" docked at Pier 2 in Hoboken to the Brooklyn waterfront.

The crew obliged the Finests’ offer, three weeks prior to the bust, where Runey was greased with $300 to make the transport.

A second, larger haul (worth an estimated $50,000) had Runey adding a fellow copper: Rackets Bureau investigator, Sgt. John Sweeney.

Both men loaded he harbor launch and set sail for Brooklyn, where their dope pushing scallawags were waiting, all while secretly communicating on the ship’s radio in morse code, giving his NYPD backup team on dry land the signal to move in and execute the arrest and seizure.

As the harbor launch pulled into the foot of 39th Street on the Brooklyn waterfront, three men were waiting in a parked car to receive the opium.

But five NYPD cars loaded with a dozen officers converged on the men.

They didn’t go down easy.

A gun battle ensued and NYPD Patrolman James Bute of the Harbor Squad took a round to his right hand.

All three dope peddlers, Luigi Esposito, 42, a bar and grill owner from Sunset Park, Salvatore Luisi, 22, a waiter from Coney Island, and Frank Visciano, 40, a longshoreman from Sunset Park were captured unscathed.

When the smoke cleared, NYPD investigators along with Customs Agents seized 123 pounds of opium, at the time, officials estimated the street value to be an estimated $225,000.

Adjusted for inflation, today's opium price tag would be a staggering $5.4 million dollars .

In court, the US Attorney labeled the men members of the "underworld." 

Customs officials also moved in on the "Ida" docked in Hoboken and took four sailors into custody.

Each pleaded not guilty the next day in Manhattan Federal Court to charges of smuggling and opium possession.

"High Bail for Seven Men in Narcotics Case: Total of $250,000 for Suspects in Brooklyn Opium Smuggling" was the Times’ headline.

U.S. Attorney T. Vincent Quinn commended the cooperation between police and federal agents in the case and noted that it caused the street price of opium to soar to "unprecedented prices" due to the recent seizure of opium aboard steamships in the Hoboken port.

TWO PERPS ARE being sought for a robbery of a bodega.

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