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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00181 — 06-30-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
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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⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Perps Bullseye Postal Workers For Master Keys (New York, NY)
By Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor the business end of a pistol stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
A uniformed US Postal courier escaped with her cash and her life after gazing down the barrel of a robber’s pistol.
All was swell while the female letter carrier was making her rounds outside a building on 87th Road near 80th Street in Woodhaven at about 11:30 a.m. on June 24.
And then she encountered a goon clad in a hooded sweatshirt pulled tight over his head, a surgical mask and aiming the gun at her while barking orders for her to cough up her dough.
When the postal carrier didn’t oblidge, the dejected bandit lost his nerve fled empty handed.
The perp’s attempted shakedown of the federal employee was captured on surveillance camera near the scene.
He remains outstanding.
Robberies in the 103 Pct, are trending down some 13% compared to the same period last year, according to the NYPD.
It might have been currency that the punk was seeking — however master postal mailbox keys that postal workers carry are highly sought after by desperados.
On Oct. 27 of last year, a unformed mail carrier was held up at gunpoint to fork over his master key outside a a building Lincoln Road near Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush.
The 28-year-old mailman was on his rounds that late morning when he was menaced by two men; one wearing a ski mask and the other wearing a black hood and sunglasses.
One of the men pressed a gun to the mailman's chest and ordered him to fork over his master key.
The bandits fled with the key, running southbound on Nostrand Avenue.
The incident came after a month prior when another mail carrier was robbed at gunpoint of his master key in the hallway of a building on near Ditmas Avenue in Kensington.
On Nov. 6, a 61-year-old uniformed postal employee escaped an attempted robbery while taking a respite in his personal vehicle parked on Avenue Z near West 3rd Street in Gravesend, Brooklyn.
The worker was then sidled up by a gray BMW 3 Series lacking a license plate.
Out popped a brute who opened the postal worker’s back door and brandished knife while demanding his master keys.
The postal worker was quick to skedaddle and took refuge in a nearby store.
The key-crazed suspects came up dry in that attempt.
⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Kingpin & Crew Caught Slinging Rocks To Undercover Cops For Over A Year
MAYBE HE WAS aiming to be the real-life Nino Brown.
A drug kingpin, charged with lording over an open air drug bazaar that peddled crack at a Harlem housing development was taken down along with several members of his crew.
Following a year-long probe, the NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan indicted Darryl Bullock, 36, along with five sidekicks, for pushing product out of the Lincoln Houses on East 132nd Street between 5th and Madison Avenues.
Undercovers amassed $26,000 worth of buys — transacting over a kilo of purchased crack cocaine from Bullock and company.
They also bought powdered cocaine, and heroin (mixed with fentanyl) during the course of a year.
Cops shuttered the recession-proof biz back in February.
They pulled over Bullock driving along 5th Avenue — discovering 550 grams of blow in the glove compartment, 100 oxycodone pills and a $3,500 in a stack of cash.
Narcos took the door at his Ryer Avenue home in Fordham Heights (where young kids neighbored), and where they inventoried two guns stowed in a closet, as well as more cocaine in a drawer and also a money counter and scale kept cool in the man’s refrigerator.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Port Morris: Repeat Trespasser Incites Knife Duel Versus Ousting Super And Neighbor
HE LEARNED QUICKLY that the basement of a building he had been scoring free shuteye was closed.
A 60-year-old opportunist who had been wandering into the underground domain of a brick building on East 135th Street to lay his head on several nights in June — was found out.
A fed up neighbor and the building super both approached the suspect turning in for another freebie night at the basement.
They demanded he quit turning their domicile into a hotel. The freeloader took umbrage with the eviction and allegedly drew a knife and sung it wildly at the both of them.
Fortunately the perp didn’t draw any blood.
Cops arrived and they collected the blade and put the suspect under.
He was charged with burglary with a dangerous instrument, criminal trespass, and weapon possession.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Boerum Hill: Banned Sleazebag Caught Offering Up Ex’s Secret Oral Sex Act To Online Voyeurs
HE WAS FORBIDDEN from having contact with his intimate partner.
But that only goated him to expose the person who fellated him while he secretly recorded.
The 24-year-old perp who had been ordered by a judge to keep away from the victim — brazenly shared a sex act that had been captured clandestinely on tape.
It was around 9 p.m. on May 9 when the pervy perp allegedly splashed video of the victim giving him oral pleasure to a group chat with 200 gawkers.
The victim informed cops it was the suspect because he used the handle “firsttwointhealphabet”. (According to court papers, the suspect had utilized same social media handle in the past)
The accused was taken down for criminal contempt, aggravated harassment, unlawful dissemination and unlawful disclosure of an intimate image, and harassment.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ South Ozone Park: Perp Cross At Ice Cream Vendor Claims He Returned Guns Blazing Because He Was ‘Angry About The Money’
HE ERUPTED AT a frosty confectionary. Then took off to recover his gun. Only to return to exact revenge.
The 22-year-old had been engaging in a beef with a vendor scooping ice cream at a parlor located on 111th Avenue off Hawtree Creek Road.
The suspect first confronted the sweet seller at around 8:30 p.m. on May 23, according to the criminal complaint.
‘I shot there because I was angry about the money.’
The victim claims the instigator wheeled away in a black Nissan.
Thirty minutes later, he was back.
But this time he was a crazed cowboy with a gun and he was seen squeezing off at least three rounds outside the shop.
He didn’t hit any person. But one aimless shot struck a freezer storing the ice cream inventory.
When he was collared and quizzed about why he went to war against the sweet spot — he was unarmed.
“I threw the gun into a sewer grate,” he admitted.
As for going for blood — the clash was over cash.
“I shot there because I was angry about the money.”
He was formally taken down for criminal possession of a loaded firearm, reckless endangerment, tampering with physical evidence, and criminal possession of a firearm.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Dongan Hills: Blade Brandishing Gal Roughed Up Woman Hollering ‘You Have To Leave!’
A LUNATIC WITH a knife decided she wanted some me time.
In the worst way.
She was caught late night on May 14.
Authorities say she lost a screw when she took a special disliking toward a woman inside of a home located inside the Berry Houses on Richmond Road.
She first charged toward her target, repeatedly kicking her leg.
Then she found a kitchen knife and took it.
She then announced her preference for being without company, declaring, “Your have to leave!”
The victim called the cops in the attack.
Officers took the bladerunner into custody and then she was arraigned on weapons possession, menacing, attempted assault, and harassment.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ Tattooed Town (New York, NY)
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ 5 Gats + A Musket?! Got (Brooklyn, NY)
PLENTY OF BANGS were taken off the street. And then there’s the threat of that musket also confiscated and shown off. After all, there might be a no-mess Davy Crockett rolling deep in the mean NYC streets, readying to bag some squirrels.
⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Colombo Crime Boss Shot At Columbus Circle (New York, NY) - June 28, 1971
BOSS JOE COLOMBO was gunned down at his Civil Rights League Rally.
The shooting sent the big into a seven year coma. He passed away in 1978.
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Siren Evader (New York, NY)
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▀ Grand Central Parkway = Going Crazy Pronto (New York, NY)
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▀ 12 O’Clockers (New York, NY)
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▀ Sideshow Revelers Sing Blues (Ozone Park, 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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