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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00187 — 07-09-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
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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⬛ QUEENS
▀ Ozone Park [JFK Airport]: ‘I Can Hook You Up!’: Airport Grifter Captured In SIM Card Con
A SLICK RICK diving into the crowded sea for dinner — locked his beak on a live one.
The 28-year-old was roaming around JFK Airport Terminal 1 for a sucker and he apparently found one.
It was around 6 p.m. on May 25 when the long-haired suspect smartly dressed in a dark suit approached a man shopping.
“It's too expensive to buy a SIM card here,” the hustler allegedly solicited to the man. “I can hook you up with a driver who can get you a cheaper one."
And there was the rub. Not only would he get a bargain. But a driver to boot.
Perhaps sticker-shocked or just too gullible to ward off the charms of this dapper stranger — he took the bait.
The suit led him out the exit of the airport.
"The driver is going to meet you on the other side,” he told the man before cruising off.
Port Authority cops learned of the ploy and reviewed CCTV footage of the man’s handiwork.
A photo circulated and he was captured.
Authorities soon brought him down for unlawful solicitation of ground transportation services.
⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Fort George: Man On Whippits Talking Gibberish
HE WHIPPED IT like a fired cake boss going postal by returning to the bistro with a tank of petrol and a match.
A 51-year-old man was sidelined after getting caught tripping balls on Whippits and hoarding nearly two scores of them.
An officer took a closer look at the driver who was stopped on Fort George Avenue back at around 11 p.m. on June 21.
When approached to answer some softball pedigree questions, the motorist allegedly mumbled some gobbledygook.
Specifically, the driver allegedly when questioned would “make noises without saying coherent sentences or words,” according to the criminal complaint.
Prompted to speak some more, the accused didn’t respond and even became “unresponsive” and “appeared unable to speak at all.”
One sentence passed as an admission when he allegedly copped, “I was taking nitrous oxide.”
And the officer then counted a whopping 32 canisters of the cheap thrill (modern day huffing equivalent) food foamers.
He was brought up on operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Fordham Heights: Tough Scapels Teen Heroes’ Faces
TWO GALLANT TEENS attempting to step in to shield a woman who was being browbeaten by a brute were rushed to hospitals with sliced-up faces.
The suspect, 27, was fuming at a woman while standing on Webster Avenue and East 187th Street.
Enter the two 16-year-old heroes who attempted to stand-up against the loudmouth.
The move enraged the goon even more and he drew a scalpel and slashed the lads’ mugs.
The bloody scene had the boys being rushed to hospitals to save them.
One man’s wound took a number of staples to close the scalp wound and the other needed 15 stitches to his right side of the face.
Cops took into custody the suspect and he was charged with assault (with physical injury/disfigurement), weapons possession, and harassment.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ East Flatbush: Audi Driver Struck And Dragged Man For A Half Mile, Kept Going After Corpse Dislodged
A MAN DIED in a cruelest of ways two years ago on New Year’s Eve.
The 64-year-old man was panhandling on Caton Avenue back on the early evening of that holiday.
The man breathed his last when a 30-year-old woman steering a white Audi struck him like roadkill and took his dying body for a lengthy ride.
In fact, cops say the suffering man spat on the car finally fell to the road after a half of a mile.
When he was discovered lifeless on the corner of Linden Boulevard and Nostrand Avenue — he was quickly pronounced dead on scene (having suffered severe trauma to his head and body).
The Audi driver apparently kept her foot on the accelerator to flee the carnage she had wrought.
She was formally hit with consequences on May 27 having been levied raps for criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an accident, reckless driving, and moving unsafely from a lane of traffic.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Stapleton: Clerk Busted With Crack, Unstamped Smokes In Bodega Raid
THE SKETCHY CIGS were one thing. But the unsmoked rock was another.
At around 4 p.m. on March 26, cops, armed with a warrant, snooped around the premises of New Way Convenience Store located on Broad and Canal Streets.
The officers seized 38 packs of cigarette packs — namely Marlboro, Newport, and Parliament brands.
All of them missing an Empire state and city tax stamp.
The 44-year-old was sweating bullets soon after the unannounced visit by law enforcement.
That’s because he was forced to explain a crack rock and a scale that was slathered in white powder.
The clerk was nailed for drug possession, drug paraphernalia, and vending unstamped cigarettes.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Beaming Bilker And Crew Sought For Elder Mugging Attempt (Bronx, NY)
Smile, you're on camera and wanted by the NYPD.
The NYPD is hunting for a smirking female menace caught making googly eyes and ear-to-ear grin to a doorbell cam inside a Bronx apartment building.
She’s being pursued along with her two male cohorts, for shadowing an elderly man to his home, demanding money.
Cops said the tattooed, wide-eyed woman and her two accomplices approached the 73-year-old man as he walked on Westchester Avenue near Metcalf Avenue, in Soundview at 4:19 a.m. on June 7.
They demanded cash.
And when he rebuffed their unsettling overtures — they just couldn't take no for an answer.
The trio trailed him into his building, where he sought refuge behind his slammed front door.
The thieves then pounded on it before ripping off his "Ring" doorbell camera and fleeing with zilch.
The targeted old man was unscathed.
Cops describe the lady larcenist as about 20-years-old, between 5-foot-2 and 5-foot-4 inches tall, with shoulder-length brown hair, weighing about 120-pounds, last seen wearing a white shirt and blue jeans.
▀ Hammertimers (New York, NY)
A FEARSOME TWOSOME flashed a hammer and jacked a man of his moped.
The pair approached a man on the afternoon of June 23 outside a building on 77th Street.
The moped owner, a 32-year-old man, claimed he was menaced by the pair — when one of them wielded a hammer and then took off with his wheels and cell phone.
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▀ Bus Melee (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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