IT WAS HIGH noon at Cha Barber Shop.

A duel broke out between a barber and a customer. It ended with the barber nearly cutting off a rival’s left ear and one hell of a bloody mess to clean up.

Minutes after 2 p.m. on Nov. 10, the 58-year-old coiffeur was inside the shop dotted on Anthony Clayton Powell Boulevard and West 137th Street.

Authorities say he and a 24-year-old customer were jawing. But this wasn’t the kind of robust, freeform banter that has come to define the oasis that is the barber shop. A hub for musings and idea percolating. Pushing discourse. Good old fashion ribbing.

This kind of disagreement was unsavory and nearly could have ended in curtains for someone.

For the customer allegedly drew a knife to ward off the unflinching barber.

But the barber lunged at him to wrestle it away.

The barber seized the blade and then allegedly used it to slash the younger man’s left ear, according to the criminal complaint.

The bleeding man with his ear dangling by whatever cartilage wasn’t cleaved bolted for help.

Outside a witness saw the man gushing blood from his ear and neck and scream, “He cut me! He cut me!”

Cops took the barber into custody.

They spirited the one-eared man to Harlem Hospital where he was treated.

The barber was charged with assault (with a weapon causing serious injury). But so too was the wounded customer hit with a weapons possession charge.

HE HURDLED A turnstile and then had to explain away the cocaine, and knife. 

The 59-year-old is a tad old to be taking the MTA for a free ride. 

But that’s exactly what this winner did.

Snagging a lift on the B/D line.  

By 12:30 a.m. on Nov. 5 when the suspect exited his free subway ride and reappeared on River Avenue and East 161st Street. 

Cops swooped in to give him a pat-down on his back. 

They discovered a switchblade knife in his right pants pocket, another in his right front pocket, and also a glass pipe in his left jacket pocket. 

That pipe was still laced with freshly puffed cocaine residue.  

He now faces drug possession, weapons possession, theft of services, and criminal trespass raps. 

SHE CALLED HIS blackmail bluff. 

A woman was put in a compromising position when a fling attempted to shame her with explicit photos of their lovemaking. 

At around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 3, the woman was inside of her home on Herkimer Street near Brooklyn Avenue and forced to sweat bullets all morning. 

That’s because the 24-year-old man, she used to be romantically involved, allegedly called her several times and sent her a barrage of untoward text messages. 

The suspect allegedly threatened her that he would “publish sexual images of [her],” according to the criminal complaint. 

To show he meant business, the man sent her an array of pics of the two them “engaging in sexual intercourse,” the papers say. 

The move was enough to be considered actionable and cops went on the pursuit and nailed the pervy perp for among other charges public display of offensive sexual material and aggravated harassment.

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IT WASN’T THE shoes that got him inside a collector’s home. It was his quickness and nifty gift of gab.

A man walked out of his home in a residential building located on Union Hall Street near Archer Avenue around 10 a.m. on July 6.

He left behind $3,000 in cash and various authenticated items of hoops living legend Michael Jordan. 

An hour later when he returned to the flat — the man was in distress because both the money and the memorabilia were missing. 

Investigators probed the situation and took a close look at CCTV footage. 

They weren’t dealing with some ghostly cat burglar. Their thief was front and center in the frame being escorted by staff to gain access to the victim’s apartment. 

The security guard in fact opened the door and let the suspect into the home. The man was seen three minutes later walking out of building with “a bag in his hands,” the criminal complaint reads. 

Months past by until the suspect was captured. 

On Nov. 10, under questioning at the 103 Precinct, cops showed the accused the footage of the burglary. 

And he allegedly didn’t deny it was him. 

“Yeah, I had them open the room; thinking it was my room,” he said. “I was only in there for 15 seconds.”

But it was enough time to pilfer the place of its funds and valuables. 

The man’s candid nature earned him burglary, grand larceny and criminal trespassing raps.

IT MUST HAVE been a mean cold. 

A 35-year-old woman with a penchant for freebasing cocaine was caught swiping cough medicine from a Walgreens. 

Back at around 7:45 p.m. on Oct. 25, the suspect was spotted by a clerk shoplifting the bottled elixir and other “property” from the shelves inside the pharmacy chain store located on Forest Avenue near Jewett Avenue, according to the criminal complaint. 

Cops arrived and attempted to arrest the woman. 

But authorities say she put up heavy resistance by twisting her body and forcing officers to pin her on the ground. 

They finally were able to subdue her and took her to the local precinct. It was there that she was searched along with her backpack. They pulled out a pipe with burnt cocaine in the bowl. 

The woman was charged with petit larceny, criminal possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest, and obstruction of governmental administration. 

BBQ’D EDIFICES BACKDROP a less-traveled Bronx artery. A couple pals take a load off in their convertible. A ditched dresser awaits a treasure-hunting scavenger that might swing by any day now.

NO WAY WAS he waiting for the cops to track down the hit-and-run prick.

The man went vigilante, taking measures into his own speedy hands.

A fast and extremely furious driver chased a driver who allegedly sideswiped him in the South Bronx.

All the while, a passenger is filming the exploits as the driver is on the horn with police dispatch trying to formally make a report of the affront to him.

Here is a portion of their conversation as the aggrieved motorist goes on a redlight blowing tag-along to keep eyes on his assailant. He even pitstops twice to inform cops in marked NYPD cruisers with their lights on that he was in pursuit to avenge the wrong done unto him (and his ride)…

DISPATCHER: Okay, what's going on? Is this a car accident?

DRIVER: Yes, he hit me [sic].

DISPATCHER: Where are you?

DRIVER: I'm on -- the Major Deegan [Expressway]...[passenger speaks]… I'm by Mott Haven.

(Mott Haven is a neighborhood in the South Bronx, over the Harlem River from Manhattan)

DISPATCHER Mott Haven? Are you on the highway?

DRIVER: No, I'm on the street.

DRISPATCHER: You’re not on the highway? Sir, what avenue and what street?

DRIVER: I'm on Willis -- and 137th. ... 139 and Willis [Avenue].

DISPATCHER: What's all that background noise? What's going on?

DRIVER: I'm chasing the car.

DRIVER (TO A COP PARKED ON THE SIDE DRIVER): HE HIT MY CAR! HE HIT MY CAR! He's trying to run. He crashed me.

VROOM - VROM … back on the prowl to keep eyes on the sideswiper. Then he sees another cop car parked with its lights flashing.

DRIVER: (TO OTHER COP): He hit me. He tried to run. He hit me!

DISPATCHER: Hello, caller?

DRIVER: Oh my god?

DISPATCHER: Are you able to give a description of the vehicle?

DRIVER: It's an Acura. ... He's trapped. He's trapped. Oh no!

WATCH:

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