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THE BLOTTER

ISSUE № 0022 — 12-09-25

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.

⬛ MANHATTAN

East Harlem: Bottle-Swinging Woman Attacks EMT After Treating Her Chest Pains

SHE’S AN UNRULY patient. 

Back at around 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 8, a 27-year-old woman was suffering from protracted chest pains on a sidewalk along East 112th Street and Third Avenue. 

Someone dialed 911 and it was after medics arrived to care for the sickly woman — that she allegedly turned especially salty. 

One of the EMTs, a 66-year-old man, was in the process of comforting her when she suddenly switched into the red. The woman allegedly grabbed a bottle and went after the medic. 

Soon cops were summoned as reinforcements and restrained the incensed woman. 

She was taken away and brought up on assault, menacing, weapons possession, and harassment. The rap stacks on top of a prior brush with the law involving a weapons charge from August 27, records show. 

Meanwhile, the EMT had to be tended to himself for the harm done to his right arm after attempting to fend off the crazed, bottle-swinging attacker.  

⬛ THE BRONX

Soundview: Boozer Went Ballistic After Cops Interrupted Miller Time, Then Hatched Escape Plan

IF ONLY HE used a brown bag. 

A 31-year-old sot was enjoying a bottle of something strong enough before he was interrupted. 

See, it may come as a shocker — but the law frowns upon anyone boozing it on public streets. The suspect was allegedly outside on Watson and Wheeler Avenues back at around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 23. 

A cop noticed the drinker and asked him to produce identification. 

The ask ticked off the accused who allegedly took his bottle and thrashed it on the ground. 

That provoked his arrest. He put up a struggle and had to be rear-handcuffed. Simultaneously, another combative arrest took the officers’ focus away from the drunkard. 

That gave him an opportune chance to make a dash and try to scamper off. The officers gave chase on foot for two blocks and quickly netted him at the corner of Bruckner and Colgate Avenue. 

The suspect was hit with resisting arrest, obstruction of governmental administration, and escape. It tacks on to a Sept. 2 disorderly conduct bust.

⬛ BROOKLYN

Bay Ridge: Man Rings High School 80 Times Threatening To Kill Faculty Or A Pupil Unless His Ex-Lover Teacher’s Fired

HE COULDN’T MOVE on.

A lover turned lunatic dialed Fort Hamilton High School 80 times in one day.

It was around 10 a.m. on Oct. 29, when the suspect allegedly made threats to unless the administration terminated the job of his former fling teacher.

The 31-year-old loon, who had an intimate relationship with the teacher at the school, allegedly made the unhinged calls claiming to shoot a teacher or student unless his demands weren’t met.

Cops treated the threat as actionable and reeled in the suspect on Nov. 4.

He was nailed after making terroristic threats, making threats of mass harm, and aggravated harassment.

Authorities determined the same man had already been dealing with three other aggravated harassment incidents.

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⬛ QUEENS

Queens Village: Goon Walloped Girl With Combination Lock, Took Cell Phone

A craven maniac unleashed a tirade on a young girl and then took off with her cell phone. 

It was around 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 1 when the girl was confronted by the 31-year-old man at the intersection of 218 Street near 97th Avenue. 

Authorities say the suspect wielded a combination lock and used it to bash her face. 

The attacked woman staggered and her phone fell from her pocket. Her punisher allegedly swooped it up and took off. 

Cops caught up to him and he’s since been charged with reckless assault of a child, petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, and weapons possession.

⬛ STATEN ISLAND

Arlington: Cell Phone-Snatching Ruffian Caught With Galpal Packing Heavy Heat 

THEY WERE EITHER readying for a rhino to stamped them or prepping for a zombie apocalypse. 

A duo, both 25, found themselves in law enforcement’s crosshairs after roughing up a person for their cell phone. 

At around 5 p.m. on Halloween, authorities say the 25-year-old menace was inside an apartment in the Marinser’s Harbor Houses on Brabant Street off Lockman Avenue, according to the criminal complaint.

He allegedly pummeled a victim for their cell phone and then took off with his crime partner. But the cops were hot on their trail and an hour later they stopped them at the intersection of Castleton Avenue and Alaska Street. 

A search of their running white Hyundai Elantra turned up a loaded 

Mossberg International 75IT semiautomatic rifle with a telescoping stock inside of a bag resting on the rear seats alongside 175 rounds of .22 caliber ammunition, a magazine (capable of holding 25 rounds)

Their names were checked out in a database and it was little surprise that neither suspects secured a permit for the weapon or the ammunition.

They were slapped with criminal possession of a loaded firearm, criminal possession of a weapon (an assault rifle) possession of an ammo clip, and possession of ammo. 

Each pleaded not guilty at their arraignment. They are due back in court beginning January, records show.

⬛ SEPIA NYC

▀ Times Square - 1988

Photo by Andrew Breeden

A LONE PATROL car parked at Times Square and a passerby heading northbound.

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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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