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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 0053 — 01-28-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
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
▀ Upper West Side: Knife-Wielding Murse Snatcher Fails In Getaway
SURRENDER YOUR DIOR!
A posh knave pocketing dope with a hankering for haute couture played the street boogeyman to bilk a man for his lux satchel.
The unflinching 42-year-old allegedly shadowed the man before he made him a sucker.
It was around 4 p.m. on Jan. 6 when he went in for the kill. He allegedly dangled a knife when the walker crossed along the northwest corner of Central Park West and West 103rd Street.
He made it clear the victim should hand over his Dior bag or face the butchery consequences.
The suspect took hold of the bag (worth $510) and tried to run for it.
But he didn’t get far.
Cops lassoed him nearby and recovered the fleeced bag, the blade, and a personal amount of drugs stowed in his pocket.
He was then taken away and charged with robbery (with a dangerous instrument) and criminal possession of stolen property.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Hunts Point / Longwood: ‘What Are You Going To Do About It?’: Road Warrior Terrorizing Motorists By Flashing Pistol
HE’S AN OUTLAW who hung an illegal Louie and now facing music for flashing firearms.
The 31-year-old was behind the wheel of a 2021 Audi Q5 riding along Bruckner Boulevard and Bryant Avenue back at around 10 p.m. on Nov. 20 when he flipped the U-Turn to the displeasure of a state trooper rule stickler.
And when the state trooper performed a traffic stop, they realized he was a wanted man.
'What are you going to do about it?’
The suspect was being pursued for similar armed conflicts where he had rattled drivers by showing he was packing heat.
One morning the week prior, under the elevated train, the suspect locked horns with a woman.
She allegedly became nonplussed at him for parking his Audi too close to her car.
The tough then showed the mother waiting to pick up her child who was the real boss of the road.
The perp brandished his piece and cooed, “What are you going to do about it?”
On Nov. 11, at the same location — the suspect tussled with an elder twice his senior.
He allegedly picked a fight with a 62-year-old man who allegedly passed by him on the street.
Yet again, the suspect pulled out his most trusted lethal force to preempt his hostile query, “What did you say?”
Then he pointed it at the innocent and rhetorically prompted, “What’s up? Watch yourself!”
When he was finally brought into custody after the driving infraction, the trooper searched the Audi and found in the glove box a loaded black Taurus 9mm G-3 pistol loaded with 16 rounds in the magazine.
⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Crown Heights: ‘They Actually Broke The Toilet!’: Alleged Slumlord Nabbed After Demolishing Tenant’s Apartment, Pilfering Wardrobe
THE APARTMENT WAS gutted and flooding from sledgehammered pipes.
A 33-year-old woman who lived with her boyfriend, 37, in the not-so-by-the-book basement apartment on Bergen Street off Utica Avenue for years was destitute.
And so they called cops when it seemed like Godzilla hosted a tea party inside her home.
The attack on the home occurred on Oct. 13, the day she returned home and knew something was seriously awry upon seeing the front door handles were completely pried off.
‘They destroyed the entire apartment. They flooded it. They took all of our clothes, our TV, ripped apart the refrigerator, the cabinets — they tore down the cabinets… they broke the sink. They actually broke the toilet.’
Inside, everything was soaking underwater from the cracked open pipes that she believes had been intentionlly broken with a “hammer or sledgehammer”.
As for her possessions? Everything seemingly disappeared by the vindictive hands of the building’s super and his cronies.
“They destroyed the entire apartment,” the tenant, who called the apartment home since 2019, told The Blotter. “They flooded it. They took all of our clothes, our TV, ripped apart the refrigerator, the cabinets — they tore down the cabinets… they broke the sink.
“They actually broke the toilet.”
The same wrecking crew “broke apart the stove” by ripping it open and broke every door handle.
Notably, was the fact that the couple’s WiFi was intentionally “disabled” and they calculatedly dismantled their apartment’s doorbell cam.
Luckily, the location is a stonesthrow to the 77th Precinct on Utica Avenue. That handy proximity helped investigators pore over their CCTV footage and ultimately help lead to the capture of the alleged assailants entering without permission.
Suspected super who caught after demolishing tenant’s Brooklyn apartment.
She claims their aggression was an overt message.
“They wanted to make sure that we would not come back,” said the woman.
Before the demo, the woman said she and her boyfriend suffered through three years of neglect.
‘They wanted to make sure that we would not come back.’
The apartment that she paid $1,200 a month was riddled with rodents and leaks. (The tenant believes the space was illegally subdivided. It’s unclear if this is the case.)
“Like, from the moment we rented it from him — we had nothing but problems,” she explained. “And he basically kind of had us like stuck, you know, that's why we had to fix our own things and like and was still wanting money.”
Not long before she recalled seeing the landlord make a cameo after firefighters staunched a flood that poured into her home.
“The landlord, he came to the apartment building, saw everybody upset and mad, and everything and literally just left us,” she recalled.
And since then, every request and asks (including critical needs like a water pump) she said fell on deaf ears. Her neighbors, she said, starting moving out in droves.
Brooklyn building landlord who allegedly ignored his basement tenants’ requests and major issues, letting the place go into disrepair.
But she and her boyfriend tried to stick it out.
Police filed formal charges against the super.
He and another suspect are formally up against it to deal with the charges of burglary, criminal mischief (hate crime), grand larceny third degree, and criminal possession of stolen property.
Attempts by The Blotter to reach him or his attorney were not immediately returned.
The criminal complaint detailed gaping holes in the walls, broken pipes with excessive “water damage”, the sink, and the fridge all decimated.
Further, the footage from the woman’s doorbell cam recorded the men fleeing her home with duffel bags and items that she recognized as her property.
The couple have since been forced to find refuge.
“I’m living at my mom’s now,” she said.
*TB (01/28/26): This story was updated with additional photos and new details.
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⬛ QUEENS
▀ Fresh Meadows: Correction Officer Busted Burgling Woman’s Apartment Told Cops Where ‘Stuff’ Was
AN OFF-DUTY CITY correction officer was busted breaking into a woman’s apartment and stealing away with a Luis Vuitton bag filled with critical documents and valuables.
At around 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 28, a civil servant allegedly “pushed his way” into the woman’s home.
A place he purportedly wasn’t welcomed.
The 40-year-old jailer allegedly navigated to the bedroom closet and snatched the Luis Vuitton bag that contained key documents and other possessions, according to the criminal complaint.
The woman alerted cops the accused took off with the bag that was filled with four U.S. passports, four social security cards, perfume, and jewelry.
Officers approached the suspect in his car and when probed about the lifted bag and looted contents — he allegedly came clean.
“The stuff is right there in the car,” he told them.
The woman’s property was returned and authorities raked the man over burglary, grand larceny, and criminal possession of stolen property.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Tompkinsville: Perv Caught Kissing, Fondling, And Fleecing Woman’s Necklace
A HALLOWEEN SEX fiend preyed on a woman for her flesh and jewelry.
The 21-year-old was lurking around Victory Boulevard and Bay Street back at around 5:45 p.m. on Halloween.
The suspect frightened the woman into a “physically helpless” and “incapacitated” state.
From there, he allegedly “placed his face against the [woman’s] breasts”, then kissed her “about the mouth”, and then repeatedly “touched” her breasts, the criminal complaint reads.
After apparently getting his jollies off, the scumbag took off the woman’s necklace and placed it in his jacket pocket.
He then scurried away.
Investigators tracked down the suspect and on Dec. 4, they formally took the sicko down with a host of charges including grand larceny from a person, sex abuse (victim helpless), petit larceny, and criminal possession of stolen property.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK
▀ FOMESTER + KASHMIRE (New York, NY)
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▀ East Broadway (Brooklyn, NY)
▀ FAUST (New York, NY)
▀ 191st Street Station (New York, NY)
SOURCE: Reddit
⬛ NYCTALGIC
▀ 41 St. Marks Place (East Village, NY) - 1989
Credit: Matt Weber
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▀ Girls, Girls, Girls (New York, NY) - 1977
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▀ Essex Street Market (Lower East Side, NY) - 1986
Credit: Tom Duncan
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▀ Lexington Ave (New York, NY) - 1989
Credit: Todd Jacobson
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Zenith Chasers (CONT.) (New York, NY)
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▀ Stripped Vett (New York, NY)
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▀ Multitasking (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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