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ISSUE № 00193 — 07-16-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Hell’s Kitchen: Sap Tenderized Man’s Face With Fallen Tree Stick
A DAY AFTER Uncle Sam’s 250th birthday, two men exercised their freedom to scuffle.
It was around 3:15 a.m. on July 5 when the challenger, 60, and another man, 36, were engaged in a war of words on 8th Avenue and West 39th Street.
Their jawing went on for a while until the older man grabbed a stick on the ground.
The perp then used nature’s timber to wallop the man’s face and head.
Cops arrived at the unsanctioned bout and summarily took the man into custody.
Medics checked on his competitor and he refused attention.
Cops took the stick smasher away and he was then brought up on assault with a weapon and assault causing injury.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Morrisania: Reject Refused Apartment Entry — Destroys Tenant’s Car
IF HE HAD brought along with him boxes of fine chocolates and warm cheers as a how of his admiration — we’ll never know.
Because when the 37-year-old visitor sop desperately sought to be let into a home on 162nd Street early on June 1, he was overcome with rage.
The no-answer left him in fits.
First he banged repeatedly on the flat’s front door while “yelling” from the corridor, the criminal complaint details.
CCTV also captured the suspect rudely thrown in the towel on getting an answer at the door.
It trailed him going on a tear against the tenant’s parked car.
Footage showed the perp “throw” a blunt object at it and then strike the ride “11 times.”
The damage he wrought resulted in two shattered windows (the rest were cracked), the front and rear bumper along with the tail light — both caved in, the hood dented and the body of the car scratched up like a loser lottery ticket.
The home and car wrecker was then taken into custody and booked on criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Sunset Park: Scooter Crack Fiend Caught Downing Brews, Leading Cops On Chase Where He Hopped Sidewalk
IF ONLY HE had a brown paper bag.
A parked moped rider was confronted at around midnight on June 11 about getting his drink on outside 58th Street and 4th Avenue.
They quickly detected a heavy waft of alcohol emanating off his breath.
And rather than continue fielding an inquisition about his public intoxication with all his beer on hand — decided to get lost.
So he took off (mind you sans a helmet) on the moped and attempted to elude the pursuing officers.
They attempted to yell at the beer lover to pull over. And he allegedly refused.
What’s more, the perp hopped the sidewalk and forced throngs of people to flee to avoid being run over before he finally came to a halt.
The cops searched him and found some crack.
All of it ended up adding to his charges which included several motorized scooter infractions for riding on the sidewalk and going helmet-less, as well as reckless driving, and resisting arrest.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ South Jamaica: Heat-Pulling Gal’s Gunplay Later Cops ‘It's Not Real.’
SHE WAS ALL gangster until the law came for her arms and found her Glock was fugazi.
Albeit a damn good lookalike.
The 58-year-old woman appeared to menace a rival in the open street on 116th Avenue and 140th Street at around 7 p.m. on June 21.
‘I will kill you!’
It was there that the tough with the iron in hand allegedly growled at a man, “I will kill you!”
An officer responded to the scene and found the pistol pulling perp.
He found the said gun but determined it wasn’t an actual Glock 9mm pistol but a black BB gun that mimicked one.
She then cowered, “It’s a gun. It’s not real.”
No matter the potency of the pistol — authorities brought real charges for possession of an imitation/toy gun, menacing (with a weapon), and harassment.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Midland Beach: Middle-Aged Woman Busted For Offering Herself For A C-Note
FROM THE NAKED eye Moreland Street might appear like any slice of Americana.
Boisterous kiddos hopscotching on the chalked street, mom or the au pair heating up Joey’s favorite salisbury steak TV dinner — and then an enterprising woman striking not-so-G-rated deals.
A stranger was more than willing to do the dirty in exchnge for greenbacks.
It was around 7 p.m. on April 15 when authorities say the woman, 52, was making overtures to a random man at a home on Moreland Street near Hunter Avenue.
The man, who was working a sting with the boys in blue appeared willing to get busy for a cost.
The working woman allegedly asked for $100.
And the answer for the man was hell yes.
However before they could get it on, cops swooped in and took away the woman where she was formally charged with prostitution.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ Clean Lines (New York, NY)
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▀ Movable Feast (New York, NY)
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▀ Bubbly (New York, NY)
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▀ Yard Coloring (New York, NY)
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Fetty Hustler Busted Trying To Toss Bricks Near Daycare (Bronx, NY / Manhattan, NY)
A FLEEING FETTY slinger was captured after tossing kilos of his poison at a window — forcing the evacuation of a daycare.
A July 13 afternoon raid on inside an Morris Avenue apartment building in Fordham sent Antonio Cabrera, 62, fleeing in a huff.
He allegedly didn’t have much trouble parting ways with his 4.5 kilos of fentanyl.
With a dragnet on his tail led by NYPD’s K9 Mulk — the suspect took off and tried to dispense the powdered evidence toward a nearby window.
He was quickly lassoed.
But the evidence tossing caused authorities to take extra precautions. And that meant clearing out 14 kids from a day care within the first floor of the building to ward off potential exposure to the deadly drug.
Once the kiddos were deemed safe, investigators took a looksee inside Cabrera’s abode.
There they seized all sorts of wares and another five pounds of fentanyl product (some of which was wrapped in grocery market circular mailings).
The fentanyl big apparently was also doubling as a branding genius with several stamps seized featuring a variety of musing names like “Glizzy,” “Da Fox,” “Black Mamba,” “Blue Magic,” “Shot” as well as lesser appetizing ones like “Pandemic,” “Covid-19.”
“This was not simply drug trafficking; it is blatant disregard for human life and could have become a death sentence for the innocent families living in the building,” DEA New York Task Force Division Special Agent in Charge Christopher Roberts exclaimed.
Cabrera was arraigned in a Manhattan court for criminal possession of a controlled substance, reckless endangerment, and criminal use of drug paraphernalia.
▀ Seized Mopeds (Flushing, NY)
A SWEEP OF unlicensed and uninsured mpeds were seized.
▀ Gat Got (Bronx, NY)
⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Peeping Power Lunch (New York, NY)
Credit: Bob Fingerman
Credit: Bob Fingerman
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Smash And Dash? (New York, NY)
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▀ Fast And Furious Pt. 27 (New York, NY)
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▀ PSA Of The Day
▀ ‘Hood Uber’ (New York, NY)
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▀ Cruddy Cruiser (New York, NY)
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▀ Camera Shy (Queens, NY)
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▀ Driftmarker (Brooklyn, NY)
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▀ Timbered (New York, NY)
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▀ Century Demon (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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