A TAXI CAB was rooked by a nomadic hood. 

At around 12:30 a.m. the hack was taking a breather in his cab while parked on West 33rd Street near 10th Avenue. 

Authorities say a 28-year-old opportunist allegedly opened the  front passenger door and sat down. 

The cabbie claims the amn drew a gun and barked for him to get out of the ride. 

He complied. 

The thief then slid over behind the wheel and took off on 10th Avenue. 

Scrambling cops had a visual on the hot taxi.

They pursued with sirens and lights engaged. 

But the deviant wasn’t slowing down. 

The cops plotted a roadblock as the suspect motored toward Lower Manhattan. 

As he reached Canal and Lafayette Streets he lost control and slammed into an unmarked cop car that was blocking the road. 

The suspect was plucked out and they searched for a gun, but found none. 

The suspect was uninjured. 

He was nailed for robbery, grand larceny, reckless endangerment and obstructing of governmental administration and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.

He listed his home as the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

TWO PUPILS CLASHED, with one using a scalpel to end the conversation. 

It was around 1 p.m. on April 13 when a 15-year-old boyt challenged a 17-year-old rival inside William H. Taft High School located on East 172nd Street. 

Their beef grew heated and had the younger kid pull a scalpel and gash the other in the forehead and neck. 

The hurt teen was rushed to Harlem Hospital where he was stabilized. 

Cops nabbed the 15-year-old boy at the school and inventoried the  scalpel weapon. 

He faces charges as a juvenile for assault, harassment, and criminal possession of a weapon (for possession of a scalpel).

It’s unclear what provoked the bloodletting.

THEY WERE DIVING out the windows for their lives.

A resident barely made it out of a tinderbox that had been allegedly set alight by a goon wielding a hammer.

The 35-year-old pyro, twice attacked the same second floor home. 

Early evening on Feb. 11, the hammer man first struck by taking out two front doors inside a brick residential building located on East 13th Street off Avenue R. 

Authorities say the perp was captured on CCTV breaking the door with his hammer whacking the frame of the door to the building and when he arrived the victim’s apartment — pounded the door several times and then kicked it repeatedly, according to the criminal complaint. 

The shattered frame gave way and the suspect entered. He then allegedly hammered the ceiling light. 

The demo man wasn’t done. 

He allegedly returned to the same building on the night of March 16. 

Again, he was seen on the security camera using the hammer to break into the flat. 

There, he rolled out with the residents’ scooter. 

He then allegedly started a fire, before slithering off. 

With the furious flames raging — the victim was trapped and with only one way out: the window. 

The man, already suffering several burns leaped for his life out of the charring home. 

The victim suffered a broken femur, “severe” burns about his body, and smoke inhalation. 

The suspect was brought up on a raft of charges, most notably attempted murder, robbery, arson, and criminal mischief (destroying a building).

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A GLUTTON WAS caught stuffing his mouth but then stiffing the owners on the bill. 

It was around 7 p.m. on March 22, when the 49-year-old was dining inside The Monster Crab located on Northern Boulevard near 39th Street. 

The suspect allegedly ordered grub at the fish eatery and washed it down with drinks. 

When he was brought the $41 bill — the perp allegedly decided he was extra special. And so he claimed he didn’t have to fork out any money. 

This didn’t go well over management. They called the cops and the freeloader was dinged for theft of services.  

HE REFUSED TO drop the knife.

A troublemaker was up to nothing good at the Ferry Terminal. 

The suspect was reportedly gripping a knife at around 7:15 a.m. on March 15. 

Authorities say the suspect was at the transportation hub on Richmond Terrace where he was approached by a police officer. 

When he was asked to forfeit the knife — the suspect sprinted away. 

And a chase ensued. 

When the officer caught up to him, the orders to drop the knife repeated. 

But the perp didn’t just refuse; he hurled mortal threats howling, “I am going to kill you!”

The suspect was snared and formally hit with assault, attempted assault, menacing, obstruct governmental administration, and harassment.

Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter

A RIKERS ISLAND jailer was axed for smuggling tobacco into the institution for a reputed “Bloods” gang inmate, the Blotter has learned.

NYC Corrections Officer Mackson Polidor was terminated by DOC Commissioner Stanley Richardson last month following his conviction of internal disciplinary charges for passing contraband between prisoners inside the jail complex on two separate occasions.

Dead to rites video surveillance footage showing the officer delivering two parcels to the cell of the gangster inmate in question was presented at Polidor’s Jan. 9 day in court before the NYC Department of Administrative Trials and Hearings.

Audio recordings of inmate-monitored phones inside the jail during the period in question in March of 2023 were also given heavy weight in evidence against Polidor.

In one recording between two inmates, one is heard "instruct(ing) a woman to pass along the message to ‘Jiggy’ that Rich said to be by the gate at around six seven o’clock.”

It continued, “That the Spanish guy is going to be over there waiting for him . . . and to have the finger ready for the Spanish guy.”

He clarified further, “The Spanish guy’s going to have the stuff ready for Jiggy [and] tell Jiggy to have the stuff he’s got to give Rich to have it ready for the Spanish guy.”   

An investigators with the DOC's Special Investigations Unit (which handles internal matters) testified against Polidor and tried to decipher the coded message for the OATH Judge.

The evidence, he deduced proved “some type of criminal enterprise going on within the facility.”

Referencing a "finger" was jailspeak for “tobacco” or other contraband secreted in the finger of a latex glove and secreted inside an envelope that Officer Polidor was seen on surveillance video delivering to a Bloods inmate inside the housing unit where he worked.

In a second incident Officer Polidor was seen delivering to the Bloods inmate what appeared to be a making a cell call. He hand delivered a half empty box of powdered juice packets. The same ones that inmates can purchase themselves at the prison commissary.

The contraband was allegedly passed to Polidor by a fellow corrections officer, who had retrieved the packets/”fingers” from another gang member inmate inside a specialized housing facility under 23-hour lockdown where he worked, video evidence revealed.

The investigators testified in court that passing contraband to inmates between housing units is prohibited.

While it remains unclear what was contained in the two packages , the possibility was raised that they contained messages or contraband of an unknown nature between a restricted housing unit to another gang member in the jail’s general population.

Officer Polidor, a eight year veteran of the NYC Department of Corrections, had been suspended for 30 days once brought up on charges for the two contraband courier incidents.

He has remained on modified duty since.

It's unclear if any other officers faced disciplinary charges for acting in concert with Polidor.

On March 18, 2026, the presiding OATH Judge, which handles disciplinary trials for city workers, recommended Polidor be terminated from the DOC following his January conviction.

The NYC DOC then signed off on his termination effective March 20, 2026.

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Antonino “Anthony”/“Fat Tony” Salerno was raking in $50 million annually, including his loan shark business.two others about an individual to whom Salerno had lent $150,000.

When “Fat Tony” finds out a debter spent his loan on something other than it was intended — he flips out.

"I told him, I says, what did I give you that money for? I said, I didn't give you the $150,000 to straighten everybody out, you cocksucker. If you don't bring me that money Saturday . . . I know he could give me the money now if he has got it, he has to get it out of all these big shots. . . . I says I will kill you right in fucking, you cocksucker. And I walked out."

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SYRINGES, COLORED CAPS and an assortment of stamped sleeves stamped with McDonald’s, Pepsi, Dunkin’ Donuts and two guns (not shown) were seized in a bust.

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