HE WAS FLEEING flames and bringing a banger of a party to the Big Apple. 

A 36-year-old, already being pursued for arson, was picked up on Feb. 25 for trying to truck scores of nitrous oxide canisters in Manhattan. 

Port Authority cops confirmed a sighting of the suspect driving a U-Haul truck around Manhattan and pinged their NYPD brethren. 

A detail spotted the truck parked on 28th Street and Madison Avenue at around 7:45 p.m. 

The Bomb Squad was summoned and they determined the truck wasn’t a mortal threat.

But they made quite a find: 52 canisters of nitrous oxide in the cargo. 

The manhunt intensified and by 11:30 p.m. the suspect was picked up. The officers found a crack pipe on his person. 

He was summarily charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of noxious material.

The suspect was already on the run.

He had allegedly set his Uncus Lane townhome ablaze earlier int he week in what cops in the Pocono Mountain region say was to destroy all the spiders.

He allegedly started the fires and then would put them out again and again.

In one of the fires, the suspect set a love seat in the pyre as kindle. Shortly afterward the home was engulfed in flames.

ARMED WITH TWO blades in her hands— a man's ex-girlfriend unleashed a vicious attack. 

It was around 10 p.m. on Jan. 17 when things became severely tense inside an apartment located on East 176th Street and Third Avenue. 

The 32-year-old woman initially engaged in back-and-forth with neighbors. 

At one point the woman entered her ex-beau's home where she grabbed hold of a serrated knife and also a steak knife. She then allegedly began "waving" them and "yelling and cursing" at her former lover. 

She then cracked, "You never defend me!"

The woman exploded and slashed the unarmed man as he was seated on a bed. 

He suffered several cuts to the left side of his body and was found collapsed on the ground as blood puddled beneath him. 

The woman rang a confidant over FaceTime and allegedly confided, "Me and [sic] got into a fight and I stabbed him."

She then showed the person on the receiving end of the call a visual of the bleeding man that she had slashed. 

The victim was rushed to a local hospital where he was treated for wounds to his left torso and a collapsed left lung and staples on his left arm. 

Authorities rushed in and cuffed the woman. She was brought before a judge and arraigned on attempted murder, assault, burglary, menacing, criminal trespass and weapons possession.

THE DRIVER WAS too frightened to stay put.

A 70-year-old man was allegedly behind the wheel of a 2004 Mercury Grand Marquis on the first hour of New Year’s Day. 

He was driving along Linden Boulevard and Ashford Street just as a 68-year-old was crossing the street. 

The driver was seen on CCTV footage smashing into the street walker and screeching to a halt. 

After the impact of the car, the victim was seen to “fly off the hood” of the car and fall to the street along with other severed car parts. 

Authorities say the driver never exited his car. And ghoulishly motored away from the scene. 

Medics arrived and transported the struck man to Brookdale Hospital where he was pronounced. 

The driver’s attempt to steal away didn’t last long. 

At around 9 a.m. on Jan. 1, officers tracked down the damaged Mercury on Vermont Street and took the man into custody. 

He was questioned and allegedly “got scared” in the moment where he took a life and then “left the scene”.

He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death. 

The suspect wasn’t foreign to driving troubles. 

In 2023, he was busted for driving without a license.

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HE WENT ON a long wardrobe looting spree. 

A 31-year-old was busted after racking up nearly a dozen scores worth thousands of dollars targeting a variety of boutique shops the likes of Polo, H&M, Old Navy, Gap, and Marshalls. 

From mens and womens threads to kids’-sized outfits — the accused was brazen about the boosts; entering the establishments with an empty brown bag and filling it with various pieces of clothing.  

His alleged gluttonous grab-bagging began back in June of last year and culminated in mid-December. 

*June 2 - He hit H&M at the Queens Center mall for nearly $1,200 worth of men’s jeans. 

*Aug. 18 - The target was Polo and the take was sumping a bunch of wares into his bag from a display table and sprinting away. 

*Oct. 19 - The Old Navy at the Shops at Skyview lost $200 worth of T-shirts swiped by the suspect. 

*Nov. 2 - Same Old Navy but the perp went for tank tops and more jeans to the tune of $1,418. 

*Nov. 10 - Again, back to the same Old Navy for more tank tops and other merch racking up $1,189 tab that he skirted out on. 

*Nov. 14 - Gap at the Queens Center where he a couple pairs of khaki pants worth $60. 

On Nov. 18, the alleged shoplifter was forced into retreat.

That’s because he was sighted before he could get his mitts on any garb. He was pursued. 

In his four-door Chevrolet, the perp was at the Queens Center and then upon being spooked when security made him — he tried to flee. He wasn’t about to get caught empty-handed.

The fearless fleecer allegedly bashed through a parking lift gate, the criminal complaint reads. 

He allegedly returned for more. 

This time at a Marshalls, authorities say he pilfered the store shelves for various underwear worth $1,250. 

He was finally brought into custody and nailed for a heaps of charges including grand larceny, petit larceny, criminal mischief, and unlawful fleeing of a police officer.

HIS BEEF WENT ballistic.

An unhinged man was trading insults with an acquaintance when things escalated into a fight or flight scenario. 

The suspect was especially tasty over something or other when he was quarreling with the 55-year-old man in the back of a building on Hyland Boulevard and Penn Avenue back on Feb. 20. 

The suspect allegedly decided talking was over and took hold of a metal bar and went gunning for first blood. 

He chased down the other man, forcing him to duck into a parked car for safety. 

That didn’t do much to protect him. Because the maniac swing the metal bar and shattered three car windows. 

Luckily for the petrified occupant — he was unhurt. 

The perp was hauled away and hit with criminal mischief, weapons possession, and menacing. 

IT WAS A warant bonanza in the Boogie Down.

Cops collected several pistols and a wad of powder sleeves stamped “HELLO” with a skull insignia.

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A MOCKED UP Public Service Announcement — put out by a paint supplier (and surely aimed at joshing the cliched tells that clueless parents might use to determine if their kiddo is marauding to get up their pieces around town in the shadows.

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Vanessa J Gonzales: The spray paint on my hands was one of the best parts like battle wounds lol

Cos Cain Couch: Never wore a mask or a bandanna.
But I had ink & spray paint on my hands, and ink stains on the waistband of my draws from concealing my markers.

Han van Ooijen: Nowadays its the opposite around. My sons telling me not to tag around town because they feel embarressd.. 😂😂😂

Mike Gatlin: I never wore masks & bandanas HOWEVER ...All my school books were bombed, tagging my sister's books, my backpack looking like train insides, ink stains on my jeans, and God forbid my moms seeing the inside of my room door where I tested my markers & jiffs

Manuel Perez: It was the crates of paint that gave me away

Mason Mcmillan: Is your grandfather a tagger !? Lol

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