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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00147 — 06-10-26
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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⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Midtown: Losers Blow Off Steam After Knicks Fall To Spurs
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THESE WATCH PARTIES turned into a melee.
At Bryant Park thousands congregated to cheer on the orange and blue.
The crowd was forced to relocate some blocks uptown from MSG as a preventative measure with President Donald Trump’s attendence.
The hoopers went down hard, so did the crowd.
Cops estimate some 7,000 interloping fans showed up to the park sans tickets; spilling into 42nd Street, blocking traffic, climbing atop scaffolding light poles, ambulances, and police cars.
The impromptu gather which quickly devolved into fistfights, bottle tossings and widespread damage to public property, which included uprooting a tree.
There were 21 people were taken into custody (13 were released with summonses for disorderly conduct and eight people were arrested including two charged with assault on a police officer).
A 20-year-old man from Stratford, Connecticut was charged with assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest along with another 20-year-old screw-off from Bayonne, NJ who faced the same charges for slugging a cop.
Five NYPD officers suffered minor injuries.
The action returns to Madison Square Garden (tonight/Wednesday) for game 4 of the NBA finals, which they lead two games to one. The president said Tuesday that he will not attend game 4.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Edenwald: Gun-Blasting Goon Bites Galpal, Shoots Good Sam
A MOPE WAS reeled in days after chomping a woman’s arm and sending a bullet into a man’s foot for trying to protect her.
The 31-year-old was raising cain outside a building on East 231st Street and Paulding Avenue late night on May 31.
The man was jawing with a 34-year-old woman and at one point their quarrel was interrupted by a concerned citizen.
That Good Samaritan was a 37-year-old man who was trying to defend the woman in the beef.
The suspect first punched the hero and then pulled out a pistol.
Clutching the iron, the woman rival fought back against him and he allegedly retaliated by chomping her left arm.
The wounded woman was no longer a distraction and the gun-toter pulled the trigger and struck the new nemesis in the foot.
He fled the bloody scene in a white BMW.
The cops arrived and collected a single spent shell casing. But as for the chomping gunslinger — he remains in the wind.
Meantime the gunshot man and bitten woman were both treated at Jacobi Hospital.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Sunset Park: Unwary Driver Caught Fibbing His Name, Possessing Several Stolen IDs And Credit Cards
A SLICK RICK was bagged after trying to hoodwink the cops.
The 33-year-old was stopped manning the wheel of a 2016 black Mercedes-Benz just before 1 a.m. on May 4.
Officers affected a stop at the intersection of 53rd Street and 7th Avenue once the driver skipped signaling while making a turn.
Once pulled over, the officers quizzed the suspect for his basic information and pedigree.
And twice the accused gave a birthdate and name that didn’t check out, according to the criminal complaint.
In fact, the suspect not only failed to answer their questions honestly — he also was found to be holding several pieces of stolen identification along with both credit and debit cards and a check belonging to others; four of them were from New Jersey.
The chameleon was formally nailed (under his real name) for forgery, possession of a forged instrument, criminal possession of stolen property (credit cards), and identity theft and false personation.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Elmhurst:: Thirsty Brutes Order Man To ‘Buy Us Beers Or We’ll Steal Your Stuff!’
THEY WANTED BREWSKIES on the house and were gonna get them through hook and crook.
A group of teens, led by their 21-year-old ringleader, attempted to shakedown a passer-by to score some por gratis suds.
The unsuspecting man was outside a bodega on Whitney and 43rd Avenues back at around 5:30 a.m. on May 10.
One thundered, “Give us beers or we’ll steal your stuff.”
They then rifled through his pockets.
The outnumbered innocent appeared to comply. He walked into a nearby bodega and brought three brews to the counter.
Once the menaced man paid for them — his bullies took off.
The elder of the beer looting lot was apprehended and brought up on various crimes including grand larceny (through extortion), grand larceny (property from a person), and petit larceny.
⬛ WANTED V. NABBED
▀ Mob Wrests Away Fan’s Spurs Jersey (New York, NY)
🚨GREEDY THIEVES GRABBED hold of a victim’s basketball jersey as he was returning to his hotel minutes after midnight on Tuesday. Cops say the fiends “surrounded him” and then punched and kicked him before taking hold of his jersey. It’s unclear if the jersey was the visiting finals foe in the San Antonio Spurs. After they took hold of the garment — the perps fled.
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⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ Graff Train (New York, NY)
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▀ Sparkly Walls (New York, NY)
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⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Roaring 80s (New York, NY)
⬛ ET. AL
▀ Grocery Grudge (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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