SHE NEEDED SOME new threads. 

A 65-year-old fugitive was stopped at the front sliding doors at Target on West 34th Street. 

It was around 2:30 p.m. on March 29 when the woman allegedly hoarded several garments off a rack and tried concealing them before beelining it out of there. 

A store security member intervened, calling the cops and also informing her that she was supposed to pay for the selected attire.

When officers appeared, they ran the shoplifting suspect’s name into the system and found she had an outstanding warrant for a drug pinch that had been gathering dust for 20 years.

In the vintage possession hit the woman pleaded guilty (paying the $160 fine) and was cut loose. But she was a no-show for a follow-up court appearance and a judge issued an arrest warrant. 

She is now dealing with the old baggage from that case and also the fresh raps for petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

IT MUST HAVE been quite the rager. 

A boozy driver was caught trying to steal away from rear-ending a car. 

It was around 8:45 p.m. on Feb 1, when authorities say the 70-year-old perp was behind the wheel of a black 2010 Ford Explorer, bearing New Jersey plates, the criminal complaint details. 

The impact from the crash that occurred at the intersection of Jerome Avenu and East 171st Street caused his SUV’s bumper to partially dislodge and dangle on the ground. 

The rear bumper of the car that he crashed into  was badly concaved and scratched, the papers say. 

He allegedly sped off from the crash spot and that’s where he was found — conked out in the idling Explorer. 

Officers responded to the incident and quickly approached the suspect’s SUV. 

They noticed his bloodshot watery eyes, slurring speech, and whiff of potent drink on his breath. 

When he stepped out, they observed him “swaying on his feet.”

Pressed if he had imbibed anything, the suspect retorted, “I had an event and I was drinking.”

He was formally taken away and submitted a Breathalyzer reading of .20 — more than double the legal .08 limit. 

He was then given a sober dose of charges including driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident.

A FIEND THREATENED to delete her during a phone call. 

The 64-year-old diabolical one was allegedly speaking on the phone with a female acquaintance. 

“I am going to kill you,” he told her. 

The deeply disturbing call occurred on the afternoon of Dec. 29 and allegedly placed by the suspect from his Avenue Z home. 

The suspect was able to keep scot free until March 26. 

That’s when authorities moved in and collared him. 

He faces charges of aggravated harassment (as a hate crime), aggravated harassment (threat by phone, and harassment (physical contact).

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IT’S A STORY of a hitched man with a roaming eye getting lucky with a woman in his minivan. 

The minivan was supposedly rigged with a camera and recorded their tryst. 

The Casananova’s galpal gets wind of it — and she’s none too pleased.

So instead of blaming the beau, she goes after mistress.

And for now, authorities believe siding with the cheating man caught in the coitus act and accusing her of posting video of their affair on Instagram. 

“I have never posted anything,” the 36-year-old woman stated in an interview with the Blotter. “I don’t have him on social media. I don't even know his full name until the day I went up to see the judge.”

What’s more, the woman covets her privacy and denies that she would ever expose something so intimate in the public space. 

“I'm a mother,” she explained. “I'm private. My kids was on social media. I would never do anything like that.”

Moreover, the woman claims to have been mystified about the photo posting claim. 

“They didn't even tell me what I did,” she said. “They just said I harassed him. So I didn't even know exactly what I was being accused of.”

And as for the footage of them getting it on? 

“I've never seen anything like that because I never had any images,” she said, adding, “I just learned this from the police report.”

Before their hookup, the pair apparently knew each other through a mutual pal. 

Each was involved with someone else when the minivan lovemaking occurred in the parking ride that January morning.

“It was a caravan; like a minivan,” she recalled. “I'm not sure the color, either white or silver. I’m not too sure the make or model, but it was a minivan.”

“We had intercourse,” the hospital worker bluntly admitted.

And she said he was forthcoming with his relationship. And she was too. 

“Yeah, I mean, like, he did tell me he had a situation,” she said. “I was going through some things and had a situation.”

But the mother of two children regretted it afterward, saying, “It was just something that happened. It was a brief intercourse session and that was just it.

At least she thought so. 

“Of course, it happened in his vehicle,” she said. “But then his girlfriend, or wife found out about it — and she's the one that told me that there was a video.”

The shock of their sex being caught on camera freaked out the accused. 

And she claims she was then the victim of a smear campaign leveled by the cheating man’s scorned woman. 

After their one time fling, she claims that she immediately “blocked him” on her phone to ward off future offensive calls and texts.

But that same day, she said the randy man “”came home drunk and his girlfriend went through his phone.” 

And together they allegedly went so far as to challenge her at her doorstep where she lives. 

“There were voicemails that I was receiving around Valentine's Day from him and his spouse also telling me to ‘Come outside!’ 

“They was calling me from private numbers.”

It’s been an incredible shame to carry along with the fear of reprisals. 

“I have been harassed,” she explained, noting she is terrified to even go outside fearing the couple might ambush her. 

“I have been, um, receiving things… like his spouse or girlfriend, whatever — she did a background check on me and this is how she found out all my information.

“She came to my home and she told my partner that I was currently involved with, what I did, and that's how everything came to the light.”

But if she was the one being menaced, why didn’t she come forward to the cops? 

Much of her reticence stemmed from overwhelming guilt. 

“I didn't report anything when everything happened because I knew I was wrong from the beginning for even doing anything with the person when I had my own situation going on,” she said. “So when things escalated, when I got arrested, and there was a warrant out for me, is when I realized that, you know, things was really, really bad, and I should have, you know, said something because I'm being set up now.”

The woman maintains that she remains in the dark about any kind of Instagram posting accusations. 

“I have never posted anything,” she stressed. “I don’t have him on social media. I don't even know his full name until the day I went up to see the judge. It was nothing like that. I had no idea.” 


HE CAME TO SLICE.

A punk with a large knife charged into Brother’s Pizzeria and taunted an employee before swinging a blade at them several times.

The attacker entered the eatery dotted on Port Richmond Avenue off Willowbrook Road at around 7 p.m. on March 22.

The fiend was gripping the kind of knife that could skin of a crocodile.

He proceeded to swing at the staffer several times.

Without drawing blood — the knife man fled.

Cops caught up with him a few blocks away and took him into custody and disarmed him of his dagger.

He was then taken away and arraigned on attempted assault, menacing, weapons possession amongst other raps.

Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter

C'est la vie.

A French-speaking African man is going to need some comfortable walking shoes.

The Ivory Coast immigrant got a harsh lesson in American justice when a judge ruled the NYPD can permanently impound his vehicle following his drunk driving bust.

Gregoire Nongpanga, 42, was arrested at 1:30 a.m. on Feb 6, after police found him nodding off behind the wheel of a 2018 Toyota Rav-4.

They say the snoozer was idling at a stoplight at the intersection of Bruckner Blvd and East Tremont Avenue in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx.

Once he was rousted, cops took notice of several emptied beer bottles littered all over the car.

He also reeked of booze.

Despite the language barrier (the man speaks only French) cops still administered a Breathalyzer test.

They determined that his blood alcohol level was .18, more than twice the state legal limit.

The driver was charged with DWI and possession of a forged instrument.

That tacked-on charge was based on the shoddy piece of cardboard coated printer paper that was posing as a legitimate license plate.

Nongpanga attempted to explain how he spoke only French and two dialects of the language from his home country. In court, he testified that he only understood the word "car" when presented paperwork by the arresting officer, which he refused to sign.

He admitted however, that he did possess a valid NYS driver's license and that had to pass the written test in english.

The NYPD impounded the vehicle and sought to permanently seize it as the instrument of a crime.

Nongpagna, through his lawyer filed an appeal to reverse the vehicle's seizure through the NYC Officer of Trails and Administrative Hearings.

Appearing via video link with a French interpreter for a one day trial on March 26, the NYPD presented bodycam audio and video footage of the traffic stop and subsequent arrest.

The city argued that this not his only foul-up with driving while liquored up.

They say it was his second DWI arrest.

Indeed, Nongpagna had been arrested in the Bronx on Feb 3, 2022, on charges of driving with ability impaired after cops found an yet another open bottle of beer in the cup holder when they stopped his 2015 Toyota Camry after a traffic accident.

But the Breathalyzer test from that incident showed a reading of .02, well below the .08 legal limit.

Nonetheless, in that case, Nongpagna was convicted on Sept. 27. His punishment involved paying a $300 fine and dealt a 90-day license suspension.

His vehicle was spared seizure in that case.

But in current legal tangle, the judge sided with the NYPD ruling they can keep Nongpagna’s Rav-4 in the name of “public safety”.

"This represents a significant degree of intoxication and is sufficient by itself to establish a heightened risk to public safety,” the OATH trial judge stated. “The risk to public safety, however, is further aggravated by the respondents conviction four years ago for driving while ability impaired by the consumption of alcohol.”

Meanwhile, his criminal DWI and forgery case remains pending in Bronx Criminal Court.

He has pleaded not guilty to both.

As for his driving privileges? His driver's license was suspended and he was ordered to participate in a treatment program.

He’s due back in Court May 14.

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BRAVEST KNOCKED DOWN flames through brick cold.

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DECIBEL DEVIANTS — SIX of them lost their rides after failing to pipe it down near Citi Field.

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A FREESTYLING SAVANT (think he goes by “Flacco”) — showed off his lyrical swords…

I'm sliding through your hood like shit sad and n—a laugh up in your face, and they go behind your back and speak your name out of place.

I know the game. I watch you, n—a, I know it very good. Gunsmoke, throwing up double lemon every hood… Only time I took the stand was me leaving y'all, I done seen way more money.

So for me, this shit was best off. 23 at one made me tough. DC gave me green, and I was chasing blue faces in the sun. I had bank in my city, sweat soups in my boots. Ran through Sandy with the dome smoking, runs for the troops…

They took my freedom and told us another time. Said I was hot. I wrote another rhyme. Look, they released me from them because I prayed that God has told mommy it's my fucking time, and then he n—s standing in my way. They gonna have to meet this fucking nine. It's all players to play with mine, n—s, fraud. That's why I stay with mine, bulletproof the truck and go to war. That'd be my state of mind.

"Two straps, no holsters… Any n—a standing in my way — they're gonna have to meet this fucking nine. Bulletproof, go to war — that be my state of mind.

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GREASY GOONS SNATCHED the rims off an SUV that was parked in Pelham back on April 6.

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