THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00225 — 09-01-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
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⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Harlem: Homophobe Lobs ‘Faggot’ Epithets At Bodega Customer Before Shooting Him In Back
FROM THE FIRST, an especially charged goon wanted to instigate beef with a customer who had rolled up to the bodega in a car with his boyfriend.
Minutes before 4 a.m. on July 18, authorities say the 30-year-old was lingering around the deli located on Lenox Avenue and West 138th Street.
“Fucking faggot,” the perp blabbed as the one man exited the car and walked toward the Straight Path Deli Grocery.
The man didn’t take the insult to heart. In fact, he responded in kind, calling the hostile a “fucking faggot.”
That provocation was enough to send the shitstarter to the mats.
He allegedly drew a pistol and fired a cheapshot round and hit his target in the back.
The victim recalled hearing a “loud bang” and then a “tense knot” in his back, according to the criminal complaint.
CCTV footage capturing the confrontation and shooting helped investigators (and specifically the gunslinger’s parole officer) make the suspect.
He was pinched on Aug. 9 and facing attempted murder (as a hate crime) and criminal possession of a loaded firearm.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ West Farms: Woman Caught 2 Years After Walloping, Biting Other Woman Before Punching Holes In Wall, Shattering Lamp
A HOME WRECKER went full bore Godzilla while feuding with a woman inside her home.
The 21-year-old gal goon was said to have charged at the resident after midnight on Sept. 14, 2024.
The attack occurred when the suspect was inside the woman’s apartment located on East 179th Street and Clinton Avenue.
The perp punched her victim several times to her body and then bit her left ring finger.
She then decided to remodel the place with her fist.
First she punched several hols in the woman’s bedroom wall and as she was raging — she slammed the victim against he wall.
Then she took a lamp and struck it, causing it to become a shattered mess.
The victim was taken to a local hospital to be treated for several lacerations and bruising about her body.
Her adversary made a successful escape.
And she ducked capture for nearly two years before she was pinched on July 6.
Finally, she was before a judge to answer to the charges of criminal mischief (damage property), assault (causing injury), and harassment.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Prospect Park: Psycho Kidnapped Woman From Beauty Salon Chair Grousing ‘You Are Coming With Me!’ And Then Driving Her 12 Hours Out Of Town
SHE COULDN’T EVADE his evil grip.
A knave made a cameo noon cameo on July 17.
He entered a beauty parlor where a woman he was apparently hounding — was seated in a chair and getting dolled up.
You think you can get away from me?”
As the woman was lying down on one of the chairs, the creep allegedly grabbed the woman’s neck and started squeezing.
As he was getting rough with her, he hissed, “You think you can get away from me?”
With his prey in his grip, the 21-year-old perp pulled out a knife and brandished at the woman.
“You are coming with me,” he presumptuously ordered.
The woman was then led to a car where the suspect then took the wheel and started driving.
‘You are coming with me.’
And they would continue on this journey to nowhere for about 12 hours.
By this time, the suspect appeared to have gotten a kick in the conscience and dropped off the woman at a train station.
Authorities were reached and a manhunt was underway.
Three days later, the suspect was wearing bracelets and dinged with kidnap, coercion, assault, menacing with a weapon, and weapons possession (with intent to use).
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Jamaica: Loon Launches Scooter At Man, Destroys Security Cam With Plywood
FOR TWO DAYS in a row, a fiend threatened the life of a man at his job.
The 22-year-old bulleted toward his target outside a strip mall on Merrick Boulevard late afternoon on July 20.
The suspect allegedly spit, “I will kill you,” before taking hold of a heavy metal scooter and launching it at him.
The launched scooter struck a display case. But it also severely wounded the man’s foot.
‘I’m going to kill you!’
The next day, the same perp reappeared raring to tango again.
He darted toward the same victim and blabbed, “I’m going to kill you.”
This time he was wielding a piece of plywood.
Rather than do harm to his intended, the suspect destroyed a security camera with several swings of timber.
‘I didn’t hurt anybody.’
Coppers took hold of the hostile and when he was quizzed about why he went nutso on the man — he didn’t deny the accusations.
However, he believed that his actions were innocuous.
“I didn't hurt anybody,” he allegedly told investigators.
The suspect was formally charged with assault, attempted assault, criminal mischief, and weapons possession.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Dongan Hills: ‘I Gave Her The Lighter’: Toddler Mangled After Parks Worker Gave Torch To Ignite M-80
A CHILD LOSSED several fingers after a firework exploded in her hand.
The 10-year-old girl was asking adults for a lighter after she lucked on a forsaken M-80 inside a bathroom at General Douglas MacArthur Park back on Aug. 12.
She was denied by everyone save for a 24-year-old city parks worker.
He allegedly admitted to giving her a lighter.
I wanted to make them happy and have fun.
Moments later the girl tried to light the incendiary and after a loud boom in the bathroom — police were called because the poor child’s fingers on her left hand were blasted to bits and brutal burns to her left hand, right arm and stomach.
The suspect who gave her the lighter
"Yes, I gave her the lighter,” he told cops during questioning. “I didn't think this would have happened.”
He added: “She wanted the lighter to light a firework; I wanted to make them happy and have fun."
Despite the admission — he still pleaded not guilty to the charges of endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ E-Bike Toughs Wanted For Torturing Turtle (Babylon, NY)
A GANG OF biker brutes are being sought for caging a turtle, zip tying, and drowning it.
What’s more, on Aug. 23, when rangers pulled the cage out of the water, they found a fishook had been lodged inside the poor creature’s mouth.
▀ Python Captured (Rochester, NY)
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ Subway Map Canvas (Bronx, NY)
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ 590 LBS. Of Puro (Harlem, NY)
⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Beatwalkers (New York, NY)
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▀ Walk & Talk (Brooklyn, NY) - June 8,1988
LUCCHESE BOSS VICTOR Amuso and Gambino underboss Sammy Gravano, talking and walking nearby Walnut Bar at East 92nd Street and Flatlands.
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ With Friends Like These… (New York, NY)
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▀ Wild Ones (Bronx, NY)
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▀ Stabber Shot (New York, NY)
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▀ Wigging Out (New York, NY)
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▀ Push-Up Interruptus (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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