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A 47-year-old woman was busted after attempting to slip the latch of a door inside a luxury residential sliver. 

The burglary attempt occurred at around 7:30 p.m. on April 2 inside the Corinthian, a swank high-rise peaking at 57 stories on the edge of the East River on East 38th Street and 1st Avenue. 

The woman allegedly was spotted using a credit card to jimmy the locked apartment door inside the building. 

The cops were called and quickly gave her a VIP cuffing replete with cushy Miranda rights. 

It’s unclear exactly where she was in the majestic rounded columned building when she was stopped and also vague as to what she was trying to snatch. 

A 77 square-foot one-bedroom, two bath apartment building on the 50th floor is currently on the market for $1,225,000.

IT’S BEEN A six year horror show for one family. 

Since 2020, a mother-in-law has apparently made it her mission to dog the family. 

The 35-year-old was a fixture from afar. And also up close and way too personal. 

She would make repeated and unannounced visits to the father and mother’s homes (located in both Fordham and University Heights)

While at each she often was tripping balls and trail the parents but also the kids’ comings and goings. 

Recently in the past months, the estranged mother-in-law would erupt in screaming fits — causing the kids to be especially perturbed. 

The woman recently showed up at the father’s home on Davidson Avenue and banged on the door. 

At one point she even slammed shut the front door so hard it “no longer can close”, the criminal complaint states. 

WHat’s more, the same deranged woman trailed the young girl to her school on Andrews Avenue North and stepped on campus, despite being told several times by the principal that she was banned. 

When cops finally introduced cuffs to the woman, she allegedly put up a fight and resisted. 

All this is to say the woman’s antics (combined with the drug use) ended with her saddled with a sobering dose of charges including menacing, stalking, and harassment.

A ROW AMONGST two women ended with one destroying the furniture. 

The human hurricane, 23, was warring with another woman on the afternoon of March 30 inside an apartment located on North Portland Avenue.

Authorities say the suspect wailed on the victim, landing several bodyshots. 

The furious one then grabbed the woman’s chair where she was suffering and then smashed it against the wall. 

The impact caused the lamp in the room to shatter. 

Cops took the tussler into custody and she was soon taken to the dance for assault, criminal mischief (damage property), and harassment.

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HE WAS DUMBFOUNDED by the carry-on being found to be loaded contraband. 

It wasn’t as if the 32-year-old who tried to board a flight from LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B forgot about the bottle of water or jumbo-sized sunscreen. 

No, the distracted blockhead claims that while packing his backpack with socks, a toothbrush, deodorant, and a snow globe souvenir — he lapsed on that loaded black Sig Sauer P365 9mm pistol with an extended magazine. 

The now grounded jetsetter was pressed by agents and airport cops about the weapon’s provenance (especially given that the man lacked a legitimate license) and he came back with a real doozy: “I did not know it was in there!”

The suspect then was taken to task for various counts of weapons possession.

A DIRTY HARRYETTE was ready to cap off. 

Back at around 3:15 a.m. on March ll, the 35-year-old woman was backed up by two others in front of a home on Chester Place near Cebra Avenue — a man and a teenager — when she allegedly stepped to a person and threatened to unload lethal force. 

Authorities say the woman pulled out a blue and silver gun and bellowed, “I will shoot you!”

Their target cowered and the woman stowed the piece in a bag and then handed it to the teen, according to the criminal complaint. 

The three then fled. 

But cops were quick to the jump and lassoed all three. 

They found the aforementioned gun tucked into the teenager’s crotch, the document reads. 

The authorities determined the gun was a 9mm SCCY CPX1 Semi-automatic filled with 10 rounds and one in the chamber.

Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter

A HOOPS PLAYER who went homicidal getting sprung from the clink.

Nearly two decades after felling a fellow baller dead during a basketball game inside a Brooklyn playground — the convicted 39-year-old slayer is walking free.

Kevin Townsend overcame two failed appeals of his murder conviction and last month the NYS Parole Board greenlit his return to become a civilian.

Townsend, then 20, was competing in a basketball tournament inside Bed-Stuy’s Lafayette Park back on August 13, 2006.

He claims he was knocked to the ground by a flagrant foul by opposing player Pleazoure Bonds, also 20.

The men quarreled and Townsend threatened to "pop" somebody, witnesses testified at trial.

Initially, their beef simmered and the game continued.

Towards the end, the hothead Townsend walked off the court, changed his clothes and repeated his threat to "pop someone.”

He then grabbed a gun from his bag and walked over to Bonds inside the crowded park and the two men struggled.

The gun in his mitt fired, hitting Bonds in the shoulder, killing him.

Townsend was nabbed months later on Feb. 3, 2007.

His first criminal ordeal ended in mistrial in 2009. He was then retired in 2010.

Among the four eyewitnesses to testify for the prosecution was Ryan Hernandez.

He claimed he was at the game, heard the "pop" threats and saw the gun-toting Townsend a second before the deadly shot fired; however he claimed he did not see Townsend fire.

Hernandez admitted during his testimony that he had been arrested for riding his bike on the sidewalk and when questioned by detectives, he identified Townsend as the shooter from a wanted poster.

This trial had Townsend getting convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 25 years hard time plus another seven years for gun possession.

Townsend twice appealed his conviction.

In 2021, the convict blamed ineffective legal counsel.

But that was shot down.

In June, 2024, the court granted a motion to hear new evidence in his case.

Key prosecution witness, Hernandez (who became a practicing Jehovah Witness) wanted to change his story and "do the right thing" he wrote in an affidavit to the court. It meant him wanting to "clear his conscience."

According to the appeal, Hernandez said he wanted to recant his original testimony, now claiming that he wasn't even at the basketball game in 2006 and claimed that he lied to police to avoid the cycling violation and to be set free from custody.

He said that he "told the cops what they wanted to hear."

The key witness who found religion claims he had heard about the shooting, heard "Fresh" [Townsend] was responsible but never witnessed it.

He admitted that he did ID a photo of Townsend from a wanted poster and said he never anticipated being called to testify at the trial, but he realized he had to do so after receiving a subpoena from the court, fearing he would be arrested if he didn't.

He told the appeals court he's a "pretty good liar" and he "lied and embellished what he had heard about the shooting" during the two original trials.

Last October, the appeals court shot down Townsend's request for yet another new trial based on Hernandez's come-to-Jesus, citing three other eyewitnesses who fingered Townsend as the triggerman.

The Appellate Court said they found Hernandez's new testimony to be contradictory and unreliable.

Months after the Appellate Court decision, on April 7, 2026, Townsend caught a break when he was granted early parole based on good behavior.

He went before the board at Wallkill prison and won them over for parole.

Townsend is slated to be released to a halfway house sometime in the next six months.

TWO SLINGSHOTS BOLTING down Elliot Avenue (off Woodhaven Boulevard) in eyeshot of cops.

They busted one of the drivers (the other was served a summons) and seized the Polaris slingshot machines.

104 PRECINCT:

COPS SPOTTED AN 18-year-old gangbanger inside a deli on East 183rd Street and Crotona Avenue making bets. The suspect inside the deli turned out to be a wanted fugitive in a shooting.

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