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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00246 — 09-29-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ East Harlem: Fabulist Spits On Cop After Getting Face-Egged For Reporting Bogus Gun Threat Against Her Son
A FRANTIC WOMAN begged cops to rush to her home fearing her son was going to be shot by a random assailant.
The 46-year-old had been inside her home on Madison Avenue at around 11 p.m. on Aug. 27, according to the criminal complaint.
When the fuzz reached the apartment — they discovered the mother, her
son and daughter, 15 and 12, as well as her niece, 15, and nephew, 8, – all apparently safe and sound.
The detail determined quickly that there gunslinger, specifically a woman “threatening to shoot her son” was the stuff of fiction.
The cops then moved to take the woman into custody for dialing 911 to report a false incident.
As they made their approach they asked if she was carrying any weapons.
She reportedly replied that she “did not have anything on her."
Further, when she was ordered to surrender, the woman resisted by flailing her arms, tensing her body, and trying to avoid getting cuffed.
She also spit in the arresting cop’s mug.
Charges were leveled on the woman for endangering the welfare of a child, resisting arrest, falsely reporting an incident, and aggravated harassment.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ West Farms: Maniac Roughs Up Mom In Front Of Daughter, Beams Her With Corona Bottle And Wrecks TV And Playstation
A LUNATIC beat a mother in front of her daughter and then destroyed the home.
The 26-year-old thug erupted inside the woman’s Honeywell Avenue home early morning on Aug. 30.
The suspect allegeldy first slapped the woman several times on her arm and then started choking her.
His actions compelled the victim’s daughter to start sobbing uncontrollably.
The tears distracted the man enough for the mother to retreat to her bedroom.
She slammed the door and locked it.
But the brute broke through the door, knocking it off its hinges.
He then trashed the television and Sony Playstation 5.
Before he was through, the demon took a Corona bottle and hurled it at her, striking her knee.
The suspect was taken away and hit with assault, criminal mischief, criminal obstruction of breathing, assault, weapons possession, endangering the welfare of a child, and harassment.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Cypress Hills: Pepper Spraying Bandits Rough Up Victim, Steal Gizmos, Cash And Draw Piece Hissing, ‘Stand Back!’
THEY JUMPED AND mugged him.
A quartet ambushed a man and took him for his possessions, including nearly $7,000 in cold cash.
The goons, two women and two men ganged up on their prey who was walking on the corner of Jamaica Avenue and Highland Boulevard back on the night of 7 p.m.
First, they stunned the man with pepper spray.
Then they tuned him up by ripping his hair and inflicting a series of punches.
"Stand back," roared one of the female perps while toting a pistol.
The suspects then snatched the wounded man’s satchel and took his cell phone, AirPods, and $6,500.
The man suffered bruising and cuts to his face but wasn’t hospitalized.
Cops caught up to the attackers and he was slapped with robbery (with a firearm), grand larceny from a person, criminal possession of stolen property (value over $3k), assault, menacing with a weapon, and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Cambria Heights: Bodega Clerk Caned Trying To Stop Can Thieving Goon Sneering ‘Don’t Come Near Me!’
HE REALLY WANTED that tin.
A looter tried to be slick and make off with a can of something delightful (Chef Boyardee?!).
The 45-year-old man was spotted grabbing the grub back on the morning of Aug. 19 inside the Food Line Deli and Grocery on Springfield Boulevard.
The clerk was wise to the pull and she attempted to put the stops on it.
But the thief went ballistic.
“Don’t come near me,” he roared while pulling out a knife.
But he didn’t use it.
Instead, the hungry bandit almost magicked a wooden cane and struck the woman’s arm.
Cops caught up to the perp and he was taken down for robbery, attempted robbery, and criminal possession of a weapon.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Eltingville: Woman Dinged Pummeling Bus Driver
A BUS DRIVER was struck so brutally by a thrown haymaker by a mad woman, causing her glasses to fracture.
The passenger was aboard a bus as it was stationed at a hub located on Richmond Avenue back at around 6 p.m. on Aug. 12.
The furious woman, 36,punched out the civil servant and caused her to suffer a bloody nose and dazed without her prescription eyeglasses which fell and the lenses popped out.
The woman was hauled away and slapped with assault, aggravated harassment, criminal mischief, and harassment.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ Storefront (New York, NY)
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▀ SHAME (New York, NY)
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⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ 14 Y.O. Groper (Brooklyn, NY)
A SICKO ACCOSTED a teen at a subway station.
The goon reportedly put his mitts on a 14-year-old’s buttocks back on the night of Sept. 18. She was ambushed on Metropolitan Avenue.
He then took off into the Graham Avenue subway station.
▀ Serial Robber (Brooklyn, NY)
THE SUSPECT SEEN snuggled in a blanket cocoon over himself is wanted for striking multiple times around Brooklyn.
⬛ ET. AL
▀ Spitter KO’d (New York, NY)
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▀ PSA Of The Day (New York, NY)
▀ Duck And Cover (New York, NY)
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▀ Rumble In The Boogie Down (Bronx, NY)
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▀ Synchronized Subway Surf (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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