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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00120 — 05-06-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Illustration by Rob Weiss
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
▀ East Village: Pest Blackmailed Woman To Pay Up Or Sex Tape Would Go Online
SHE WAS GIVEN a despicable ultimatum.
A 34-year-old spooked the bejesus out of a woman by threatening to expose a sex tape of them if she didn’t give him cash.
The woman claims she received a flurry of unsettling texts messages at 1 a.m. on March 7.
The sender allegedly threatened her that videos of them engaging in sex would be public consumption if she didn’t supply him with $200.
The woman kept fielding the text threats and turned them over to the police.
On April 2, the alleged extortionist was taken down for grand larceny (get property though extortion) and unlawful publication of an intimate image.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Fordham Heights: Beefing Passenger Sucker Punches Bus Driver
A LIVID BUS passenger punched the lights out of the driver.
The 41-year-old man’s conniption reached its zenith while the BX 3 bus was stationed at University Avenue and West Fordham Road back on the afternoon of March 19.
Didn’t take long for the cross passenger to clock the driver and leave him nursing a fat lip.
He then took off running.
Medics whisked the driver to St. Barnabas Hospital where he stabilized.
Officers caught up to the slugger on April 9 and he was formally hit with assault.
⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Borough Park: Octogenarian Roughs Up Woman In Home
AN GEEZER GOON turned extra churlish with a woman he lives with (and shares the same surname).
His temper flared back on the night of March 18 when the 85-year-old suspect was inside the apartment he and the woman share located on 60th Street off 9th Avenue.
The woman attempted to leave to get away from him — but the bastard grabbed the woman by her right wrist and yanked her back inside, the criminal complaint states.
The woman was left to suffer the pain in her wrist, as well as her left shoulder and her back.
Cops were called and the suspect was nailed for assault, harassment (physical contact), and assault causing injury.
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⬛ QUEENS
▀ Long Island City: Scoundrel Caught Secretly Recording Him And Woman Having Sex
SHE WAS AGHAST.
A woman staking a spin through an unlocked phone belonging to a man whom she had relations — took keen interest in one of the saved videos.
The crestfallen woman discovered the footage, time-stamped 11:32 a.m. on Feb. 23 of last year captured their lovemaking.
Only she hadn’t signed off on recording the sex tape.
She claims the 33-year-old man had freelanced the XXX filming, according to the criminal complaint.
How did she know it was her in the clip?
Her mole on the backside was ever so distinct. As was the side profile of the woman’s face.
The suspect was busted on April 2 of this year and charged for unlawful surveillance.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Rossville: Dope Ditches Blade But Keeps Backpack Filled With Smack And Blow
CLOAK AND DAGGER he ain’t.
A deviant jaywalker with a knife in his palm brought heat to himself while skipping along on the street; skipping the sidewalk entirely.
The 48-year-old was pacing along Woodrow and Foster Road back at around 1 a.m. on Feb. 28.
The sidewalk shirker suspect with a backpack drew cops’ suspicions.
When approached, the perp allegedly tossed the knife. And the officers asked the man for ID.
He couldn’t provide it. Only offered a Freehold, New Jersey home address.
They affected an arrest.
And then they took him to the 123 Precinct.
That’s where his backpack was searched.
In it, they found 1,401 glassine envelopes filled with heroin and 31 plastic twists with crack inside two Ziploc baggies.
And there was also a small scale.
⬛ [SIC] CITY
Illustration by Rob Weiss
▀ Butcher Uncle Bites It In Prison (Malone, NY)
Sean O'Dubhghaill, Special to The Blotter
KARMA CAUGHT UP with the butcher of Queens.
He died less than year into his six year prison stint for hacking his nephew to death with a machete inside their shared Jamaica home.
Mahadeo Sukhnandan, 54, was found dead inside Franklin Correctional facility in on May 1, authorities said.
The cause of death is pending an autopsy.
Sukhnandan had been living in a home on 187th Place near Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, while his 29-year-old nephew, Neraz Roberts, was renting the basement apartment. The family was at loggerheads over ownership of the home in lieu of an elderly family member’s sudden death.
The clock struck 4:30 a.m. on June 12, 2002 when they got into a heated argument in the home’s basement.
It was Sukhnandan who was armed with a machete and he used it to ginzu the younger man.
"I chopped him up, he wanted to kill me," Sukhnandan confessed to investigators after he was arrested, court papers read.
"After everything I do for him his whole life, he wanted to kill me," he added.
"I got my cutlass, it's a machete with a wooden handle. I kicked open the door, I chopped him three times. I paused between the second and third chop and I said ‘You want to kill me?’
“I leaned back for leverage for the third chop."
Originally charged with murder and weapons possession, Sukhnandan was sent to prison on a lesser manslaughter charge. He had arrived at Franklin Correctional on August 27, 2025. After credit for local time served in jail following his arrest, he would have been up for a parole in May, 2027.
⬛ GOTHAM, INK.
▀ Brick Drip (New York, NY)
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⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ 2 Illicit Smoke Shops Raided For Too Many Questionables (New York, NY)
TWO SMOKE SHOPS were padlocked after narco task force members took them down and seized guns and illicit wares.
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⬛ NYCTALGIC
▀ Scribbly Subway Ride (New York, NY) - 1986
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Reinforcements (New York, NY)
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▀ Two Wheel Drifters (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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