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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00128 — 05-14-26
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
▀ East Village: Career Crook Caught Thieving
A PROLIFIC PERP was nabbed squirreling away all kinds of other peoples’ valuables.
The 25-year-old, with a lot of ink on his rap sheet, was busted on April 30 for his part in a string of robberies around town.
The accused struck on the afternoon of April 22.
He breached an apartment building dotted on 11th Street.
The greedy one took off with a bunch of stuff including keys, credit cards, an XBox console among other items.
The tally of the hot score topped $600.
On the morning of April 30, authorities say the same suspect pulled of the same cat burgling heist from a home on 2nd Avenue off East 12th Street.
It’s not clear what he walked out with. But that same day his rook run came to an end.
He faces several counts of burglary (of a dwelling) for the misdeeds.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Hunts Point: Windsor Terrace: Beefing Brute Erupts And Blasts Man With Legshot
A LOOSE CANON unloaded on an innocent.
Two men were volleying insults back and forth until one pulled an iron and used it.
The 22-year-old gunslinger was standing outside a Popeye’s restaurant on Prospect and Southern Boulevard early afternoon on April 25.
He was picking a squabble with a 41-year-old opponent.
Whatever was said (and it’s doubtful it had anything to do with the ketchup stain on his poke-a-dot shirt) it rose to the point where the suspect, clad all in black, decided to go to the mattress.
He drew the gun and popped the older rival in the right leg.
The victim was rushed to Lincoln Hospital where he stabilized.
It's not clear what prompted the original argument or whether the two men knew each other.
Investigators reeled in the accused on May 5.
He was charged with attempted murder, assault, weapon possession, and reckless endangerment.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ South Williamsburgh: Turnstile Ducker Dinged For Drawing Switchblade In Subway Drubbing
A PUGILIST PULLED a blade in a dustup while engaging in a throwdown underground.
The 30-year-old first decided to skip paying to enter the subway system inside the Flushing Avenue subway station back on the evening of April 6.
The freeloader than turned especially fierce versus another straphanger.
Authorities say the suspect started the bad blood by shouting and then kicking the victim.
Maybe the innocent was getting the best of him because it wasn’t enough to knock him around with fist or foot.
Indeed, he allegedly resigned from the standoff by drawing a switchblade.
It was enough to get the cops to intervene.
The knife man was then captured and nailed for criminal possession of a weapon (explosive or silencer/see below, fare evasion, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct).
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Jackson Heights: Exposed Perv On Train Tells Woman ‘You Come Sit Over Here’
THE UNBRIDLED HUBRIS oozing from the creep on a train was palpable.
There he was in au natural sitting on a bench as the subway was barreling into the Roosevelt Avenue station.
Authorities say the sicko made a pass at the woman just before 3:15 a.m. on April 8.
“You come sit over here,” he allegedly entreated. “I like you.”
The man was sitting there like a rotten slab of carnage with his pants unbuckled and his member exposed while he got his rocks off.
The swine then proceeded to fondle himself with his hand, inciting nausea to overcome the woman he was imagining the vilest of thoughts.
The grotesque simpleton was forced to pull up his pants and face public lewdness and harassment.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ SoHo, Manhattan / Morris Heights, Bronx / Mount Vernon, NY - Swindler Lassoed Going On Shopping Spree
A MAN WENT to town on other peoples’ money.
THe 60-year-old Staten Island man had a Visa debit card in someone else’s name and swiped it frivolously to buy phones and a new wardrobe.
On the afternoon of Jan. 7, the suspect was tied to upgrading his cell phone to the tune of $596.05 at a T-Mobile store on East Sandford Boulevard in the Bronx.
Shortly afterward he used the same plastic at a T-Mobile store on East Fordham Road where he was rung up on $598.80.
Then, the suspect bought $596.05 worth of clothes from Amiri in SoHo.
The perp might have thought he got away with the scam given he wasn’t caught until March 27. And when he was searched, the arresting officers found him holding crack.
Prosecutors charged the suspect for grand larceny (retail goods scheme,) criminal possession of stolen property, petit larceny, and criminal possession of a controlled substance (crack).
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Logan Roy Look-Alike ‘Menace’ Sought (New York, NY)
LOGAN ROY ONCE told his son life is “a fight for a knife in the mud.”
The fictitious conglom chairman’s doppleganger (played by actor Brian Cox) appeared to be riding the subway on the night of April 16 and allegedly pulled a revolver on the fellow straphanger and made the traveler fuck off.
The suspect is being sought after for the 11:30 p.m. gunplay inside the Jay Street subway station where he and the 20-year-old victim were arriving. The freaked victim bolted in fear of being pumped full of lead. Meanwhile the suspect stayed put on the train until it reached downtown Brooklyn and he exited at the Dekalb Avenue station.
Credit: HBO
Credit: HBO
Credit: HBO
▀ Strongarmed Robber (New York, NY)
A WOMAN WAS part of a tag team that walloped a man for his two bags worth $3,000.
The suspects, one of them a woman, confronted the 31-year-old man who was sitting in his car on 60th Street in Manhattan before 5 a.m. on March 7.
There was some nasty talk started and one of the perps pummeled the man to the face and when he was seeing stars — they ran off with two bags resting on the backseat.
The bags contained apparently were filled with swanky electronics and other possession worth around $3,000.
Both thieves took off on foot down 60th Street.
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⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ ODB (New York, NY)
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Pew Pews (Bronx, NY)
A COUPLE MORE bad hombres with bangs in their possession were neutralized.
▀ Greenhouse Gotcha (New York, NY)
THERE WAS A farm growing in a Bronx flat. Lots of ganja grown under lamplight.
And you have to give it to the NYPD… they decided to channel Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Triumph’ track while they uncover the bags of buddha.
Cops counted 299 cannabis plants thriving amongst the dingy barrels and chemicals.
The green thumbs were apparently siphoning both gas and electricity from the neighbors.
But back to the Finest’s choice of music. It’s hard to contemplate who was the one responsible for flipping on the record that rhapsodizes street life.
Not to mention glorifying the blissful effects of smoking MJ.
Marijuana-Laced Lyrics Wutang’s ‘Triumph’
It's court adjourned for the bad seed from bad sperm
Herb got my wig fried like a bad perm
What the blood clot? We smoke pot, and blow spots
You wanna think twice? I think not
The Iron Lung ain't got to tell you where it's coming from
Guns of Navarone tearing up your battle zone
Rip through your slums
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⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Mobster Frank Costello Enjoys A Smoke Break (New York, NY) - 1949
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▀ Hollowed Out Alphabet City (Lower East Side, NY) - 1978
Credit: Geoffrey Biddle
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Subway Bout: Metal Pole Swingers V. Foaming Snouted Pitbull (Bronx, NY)
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▀ Hoodlum (New York, NY)
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▀ Moped Morgue (New York, NY)
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▀ Angels V. Yankee Haymakers (New York, NY)
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▀ Security Dispatcher To Thieves: ‘You Don’t Have Any Business Here… Leave Now!’ (Fresh Meadows, 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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