A PIZZERIA WORKER claims he’s being scapegoated for unleashing his gifted fists. 

The suspect was serving grub at Napoli Pizza located on Lincoln Avenue at around 4 p.m. on  Dec. 20 when he claims he was cold-clocked by his coworker. 

To hear the 19-year-old tell it, the man (authorities say it was his boss — but the accused maintains it was a fellow coworker) walloped him “from behind” while he had been gabbing on the phone. 

“He got hold of me and just like put me down with two punches,” the suspect, who said he had been employed at the pizza joint for six months, told The Blotter in an exclusive interview. “I said, ‘Are you serious? Like, what’s going on?’”

Seeing stars from the alleged unprovoked bushwhack — the young man remembers the raging counterpart didn’t back off after the first blows, and “started elbowing me”. 

The flurry made clear to him that his coworker wasn’t “joking” and was “getting serious”. 

So the accused says he counterpunched to fend off the brawler and mostly to protect himself. 

“I got up and it is true, I punched him,” he acknowledged. “But it was self-defense.”

The young man recalls how his counterpart had been wallowing in the romance department and also wasn’t too keen about sharing his things. 

“I had no beef,” he maintains.  

In fact, he says the two were palling it up the day before and the challenger had told him, “You’re my favorite!”

But on this day, he suspects the man took his anger out on him. 

“He was arguing with his girlfriend and was upset with me borrowing his phone charger,” claims the accused. 

Despite feeling free to discuss the details of his defensive posture, the suspect clammed up when pressed about details in the authorities’ rendition of things suggesting he tossed around the eatery’s chairs and also put the other worker in a chokehold. 

Instead, he deflected, “I cannot answer that right now.”

Authorities ultimately pinned the blame on just the suspect, despite him proclaiming it was self-defense. 

Officers collared him shortly after the dustup ducking at a nearby transit facility. 

The suspect was summarily charged with assault (with a weapon), criminal obstruction of breathing, and harassment. 

Reached by phone, a man who answered the phone at Napoli Pizza (he refused to give his name, but initially responded when prompted by The Blotter to speak to “the manager”) maintained the other person who tangoed with the arrested wasn’t charged and remains free from scrutiny. (He later played a kind of verbal version of three-card monte; suggesting that he could be either a “customer” or “delivery driver”.)

“He was the only one arrested in the case,” the man confidently pointed out to pin the blame on the arrested on. “So put in your mind how his story makes sense if what he’s saying isn’t correct, you know?”

For the suspect, he remains steadfast that the facts will prove his innocence and show he wasn’t the aggressor, but the victim. 

“They can say whatever they want,” said the now ex-pizza worker. “Just release the camera [footage] from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on that day… Just tell them to put it out.” 

Posed with the demand about the video recording from that day, the Napoli Pizza worker countered with questions of his own. 

“[He thinks] that would exonerate him,” the restaurant man wondered. 

Then he blamed his former worker facing the crimes for fibbing to make himself “potentially look good”. 

He stressed: “Respectfully, everything he’s telling you is bullshit.”

HE TINDERED HIS hoity toity home. 

A 39-year-old man was busted after intentionally kindling two blazes inside his home nested in the 26-story Victoria Tower Residences. 

At around 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 12, firefighters raced to the inferno inside the sliver built in the heart of Harlem back in 2021, where a monthly one-bedroom rental was recently listed for $3,695.

Two Bravest members attempted to enter the home and were met with resistance by the tenant “pushing on the door” from the other side, according to the criminal complaint. 

They finally gained entry and upon doing so discovered flames dancing in two spots: one consuming the door and another at the stovetop. (The tiles above the kitchen were “broken”, the papers say.)

Also, two windows in the flat were shattered. 

The blazes were quickly snuffed. 

Investigators determined the fires were intentionally set and also ticked up over $12,000 in damages. 

The smoked out accused was taken away to be charged with arson (multiple counts/ person present/intentional damage), reckless endangerment, and criminal mischief (damage property).

A 72-YEAR-OLD MAN started 2026 by getting shoved into a train arriving to the Yankee Stadium subway station. 

The senior was standing on a platform awaiting a northbound 4 train. As it barrelled into the station a goon, 29, came up from behind and minus any instigation — forced the innocent into the moving machine. 

The victim ricocheted off the side doors and tumbled to the platform. 

The man was rushed to Lincoln Hospital where he survived. 

Cops picked up the pusher at the scene and he was later arraigned on attempted murder, assault, and reckless endangerment. 

SHE ALLEGEDLY DEFIED an order to steer clear from a person and beamed a snap of herself in full Eve. 

On the night of Feb. 6, the 30-year-old woman allegedly uploaded the naughty image on the victim’s daughter’s social media account with their phone number and

Address” scrawled on it, the criminal complaint reads. 

The move disturbed the person and their daughter, especially given that they had secured an order of protection by a judge just three days earlier and remained in effect until Aug. 28. 

And the brazen move compelled the parent to ring the cops. 

They took it seriously and she was met with a stack of charges such as promoting exposure of a person, unlawful publication of an intimate image, public display of sexual material, harassment, and violating a court order. 

Reached by The Blotter to answer to the accusations, the suspect was hesitant to indulge any details. 

“It’s still going on right now,” she said. “So I’m not sure I am supposed to give out anything.”

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FOR A MONTH, a man allegedly had the temerity to forsake his brown pitbull tethered to a pickup truck. 

A perplexed neighbor living nearby the truck that routinely parks at the intersection of 111th Avenue and 166th Street, between Dec. 6 and Jan. 6, reached out to the authorities. 

That’s because the temps during those weeks dipped down to 20 degrees Farenheit and the neighbor feared the dog was left to fend with “inadequate shelter”, according to the criminal complaint. 

The pitbull owner was contacted and tried to assuage the situation. 

“I am taking care of the dog,” he allegedly claimed. “I am coming to get it. Someone just called.”

The pooch was taken away from him to be sheltered in a space with heat. 

Meantime, the suspect was given the business anyway and formally hit with failure to provide proper food, drink, and shelter to the poor pet.

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