HIS STORY DERAILED. 

An underground crawler was busted trying to feign he was a city subway employee. 

The 42-year-old man was found lurking around a subway system substation on Main Street on Randalls Island at around 1 p.m. on Aug. 31, according to the criminal complaint. 

MTA police officers quizzed him about who he was and what he was up to loitering ignoring restricted areas with signage that reads “MTA Property: No Trespassing” and “For Authorized Personnel Use Only” — the suspect, clad in a baseball cap with “MTA” emblazoned on it allegedly wove quite the yarn. 

“I’m a cleaner for the MTA,” he boasted. “I work for the MTA.”

The officers ran his name after he was unable to show them an employee ID or even an ID number to prove he was telling the truth. 

Turns out the man’s name never showed up in the MTA database. 

The suspect was taken down for criminal impersonation, Criminal trespass, and plain old trespass.

A FRANTIC WOMAN begged cops to rush to her home fearing her son was going to be shot by a random assailant. 

The 46-year-old had been inside her home on Madison Avenue at around 11 p.m. on Aug. 27, according to the criminal complaint. 

When the fuzz reached the apartment — they discovered the mother, her 

son and daughter, 15 and 12, as well as her niece, 15, and nephew, 8, – all apparently safe and sound. 

The detail determined quickly that there gunslinger, specifically a woman “threatening to shoot her son” was the stuff of fiction. 

The cops then moved to take the woman into custody for dialing 911 to report a false incident. 

As they made their approach they asked if she was carrying any weapons. 

She reportedly replied that she “did not have anything on her."

Further, when she was ordered to surrender, the woman resisted by flailing her arms, tensing her body, and trying to avoid getting cuffed.

She also spit in the arresting cop’s mug. 

Charges were leveled on the woman for endangering the welfare of a child, resisting arrest, falsely reporting an incident, and aggravated harassment.

HIS SHORT CON was up. 

A trickster was outed after cops confronted him for duping unsuspecting participants out of cash wads. 

The 41-year-old hustler was captured on surveillance rooking comers for their coin by using sleight of hand. 

Authorities describe the suspect setting up shop along a sidewalk on 14th Street and Broadway dating back to April and well into June, according to the criminal complaint. 

In each case the suspect barked for customers and they ponied up cash with promises they would get it back if they played the game involving a ball and bottle caps. 

At least three gamers saw their cash go poof. 

Detectives tracked down the money vanisher and after showing him working targets for their cash from April 13, June 3, and June 10 — he confirmed he was the one dealing. 

The suspect was pinched on grand larceny and fraudulent accosting.

A ROTTEN SON profited off his dead mom by pocketing her retirement — even impersonating her voice. 

Yakik Rumley, 51, was nabbed on Sept. 23, and facing grand larceny, ID theft, criminal possession of a forged instrument, and falsifying business records.

The 51-year-old was caught milking his mom’s city retirement pension checks over a two-year period while masking the fact that his mother, a retired city employee had already passed away. 

The sucker apparently was so greedy that he went to depositing 20 checks between 2023 and 2025 forging her signature and even impersonating the dead woman’s voice 15 (count them!) times to the retirement system call center.

His greed bender came undone last year when he requested a re-issue of a lost check. 

That flagged check drew scrutiny from the Department of Investigations, who uncovered the fraud and referred the case for criminal prosecution to the Manhattan DA's Office.

HE COULDN’T HELP himself. 

A woman was disgusted to find out a former fling had been clandestinely chronicling their lovemaking. 

And then was splashing it on Instagram. 

The 21-year-old sicko beamed missives to the woman from his Fteley Avenue home back on the early morning of Feb. 25, the criminal complaint reads. 

The perv sent the woman a text featuring the woman (her tattoos and breasts in wide view) with the goon’s member in her mouth. 

He then followed up with another missive: “I have 36 more phones like that and I’ll post them.”

It wasn’t a bluff. 

The unsavory already made good on the threats by posting several of the erotic moments they shared in what she thought was intimate — had already appeared on an Instagram account under a “vanity name”. 

Cops closed in and on Aug. 24, the suspect was netted and he was brought up on public display of sexually explicit material.

A FRANTIC WOMAN begged cops to rush to her home fearing her son was going to be shot by a random assailant. 

The 46-year-old had been inside her home on Madison Avenue at around 11 p.m. on Aug. 27, according to the criminal complaint. 

When the fuzz reached the apartment — they discovered the mother, her 

son and daughter, 15 and 12, as well as her niece, 15, and nephew, 8, – all apparently safe and sound. 

The detail determined quickly that there gunslinger, specifically a woman “threatening to shoot her son” was the stuff of fiction. 

The cops then moved to take the woman into custody for dialing 911 to report a false incident. 

As they made their approach they asked if she was carrying any weapons. 

She reportedly replied that she “did not have anything on her."

Further, when she was ordered to surrender, the woman resisted by flailing her arms, tensing her body, and trying to avoid getting cuffed.

She also spit in the arresting cop’s mug. 

Charges were leveled on the woman for endangering the welfare of a child, resisting arrest, falsely reporting an incident, and aggravated harassment.

A LUNATIC beat a mother in front of her daughter and then destroyed the home. 

The 26-year-old thug erupted inside the woman’s Honeywell Avenue home early morning on Aug. 30. 

The suspect allegeldy first slapped the woman several times on her arm and then started choking her. 

His actions compelled the victim’s daughter to start sobbing uncontrollably. 

The tears distracted the man enough for the mother to retreat to her bedroom. 

She slammed the door and locked it. 

But the brute broke through the door, knocking it off its hinges. 

He then trashed the television and Sony Playstation 5. 

Before he was through, the demon took a Corona bottle and hurled it at her, striking her knee.

The suspect was taken away and hit with assault, criminal mischief, criminal obstruction of breathing, assault, weapons possession, endangering the welfare of a child, and harassment.

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SHE PARKED IT on the wrong seat. 

A woman was walloped after grabbing a seat next to an incensed woman while riding on a city bus. 

The 35-year-old boarded the B46 bus back at the intersection of Utica Avenue and Avenue H at around 8:45 p.m. on Sept. 1. 

As she made her way through the bus, the woman chose a free seat next to a 47-year-old wanton woman — who was most displeased. 

She seethed, “I don't want to sit next to no white bitch.”

She then clocked the woman in the face. 

Cops were summoned and took the gal goon into custody. 

She was booked on assault (as a hate crime), aттеmpтted assault (as a hate crime), assault, menacing (as a hate crime), aggravated harassment, attempted assault, harassment. 

The woman has three open cases — two of them in May for shoplifting and assaulting a senior. 

In June, she also was busted whacking another senior. 

She pleaded not guilty and was sprung loose, only to now return for the “bitch” imbroglio.

A PERP WAS determined to not let a man leave a deli unless he heaped blandishments on him. 

The suspect, 45, was inside the small store located on Stockton Street and Marcy Avenue back at around 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 1. 

He and a man dressed in orthodox Jewish attire (dark trousers, a black coat, and either a fedora or velvet kippah-homburg hat) engaged in a verbal spat. 

That drew a left hook that landed on the religious man’s hand. 

When the defendant attempted to flee the pugilist, the unsavory allegedly blocked him. 

The only way he’d budge was on one condition. 

He exclaimed, “I will not let you go until you say I am a superior black man.”

By this point the calvary arrived and they took the superior bully into custody. 

He was hit with hate crime assault causing injury, hate crime aggravated harassment, hate crime menacing, and unlawful imprisonment.

HE REALLY WANTED that tin. 

A looter tried to be slick and make off with a can of something delightful (Chef Boyardee?!). 

The 45-year-old man was spotted grabbing the grub back on the morning of Aug. 19 inside the Food Line Deli and Grocery on Springfield Boulevard. 

The clerk was wise to the pull and she attempted to put the stops on it. 

But the thief went ballistic. 

“Don’t come near me,” he roared while pulling out a knife. 

But he didn’t use it.

Instead, the hungry bandit almost magicked a wooden cane and struck the woman’s arm. 

Cops caught up to the perp and he was taken down for robbery, attempted robbery, and criminal possession of a weapon.

A NO GOOD fella decided to show off his brawn by decking an elder nearly twice his senior. 

At around 11 a.m. on Aug. 26, cops say the 45-year-old tough first spooked a woman with a knife while was outside 125th Street and Jamaica Avenue. 

Then he pounded a man nearly twice his senior. 

“I’ll stab you,” he growled at the woman while holding a folding knife with all the hallmarks that he was willing to use it.

After that confrontation, the suspect then encountered a 75-year-old man and put a licking on him by splitting his lip. 

Authorities nabbed the suspect and he was nailed for assault (elderly person over 65), weapons possession, menacing, and harassment. 

HE LOST IT and then took a headshot. 

Whoever it was that was standing inside the 32-year-old man’s Colfax Avenue home — they were about to get the business. 

Tempers flared sometime around 8 p.m. on July 10. 

Or at least his did. 

The resident who apparently couldn’t keep his cool turned against the other person and belted, “Get the fuck out of my house!”

He added, “Mind your business before I kill you!”

And he was not exaggerating. 

For he immediately grabbed a hammer and started going for the man’s dome. 

But in his rage, he swung and missed. 

He struck a wall instead. 

That swing and miss ended with him getting pinched for menacing, weapons possession, attempted assault, menacing, and harassment.

A CRAFTY CROOK hooked New Yorkers for several songs.

Hihai Enescu, 39, of Brooklyn adulterated parking meters to snooker folks into obliviously forfeiting their monies.

Prosecutors argued Enescu affixed stickers on parking meters with phony QR codes, which directed sensitive credit card information to himself.

City parking is squared away by utilizing an on-site payment or a mobile phone app. Rlectronic QR codes are not used an option nor authorized by cuty, prosecutors said, alerting the public to the fraud.

The scheme came to light after an unsuspecting motorist tried to pay electronically by scanning the mobile QR code sticker on a parking meter on Manhattan's East 10 Street near Cooper Square last year. The code took him to a landing page with the "ParkNYC" logo but he grew suspicious when the system was slow to respond and requested unnecessary, sensitive personal financial information.

After a closer look — he found the QR code was a sticker placed on the meter and he immediately altered his bank to the potential fraud.

The Department of Transportation, which owns and operates public street parking meters, "ParkNYC", was notified. An investigation found a total of 64 other fraudulent QR code stickers on parking meters throughout Manhattan.

Prosecutors said the QR code would lead the user to a phony website, which required personal information that included the credit card user name, billing address, credit card number, expiration date and phone number, personal information.

None of these specifics are required under the legitimate "ParkNYC" app payment system but can be used to access personal credit card accounts and make unauthorized withdrawals.

The scheme not only put users in the cross hairs for identity theft but also the potential for a parking ticket for non-payment of parking they believed they had already paid for.

The Manhattan District Attorney's Cyber Crimes Investigation Unit was able to link Enescu to the phony "ParkNYC" website and learned he had purchased four-inch by six-inch shipping labels and printed his own phony QR code on them and pasted them on public parking meters.

The extent of the theft or momentary gain by Enescu was not disclosed by prosecutors. They are asking anyone who suspects they have been victimized to contact them.

A PERP RIDING a moped has been on a tear ripping off baubles, cash, and mobiles from 11 innocents.

He string of scores occurred between August 19 and Aug 26 he has hit mostly elderly ladies for their valuables.

A MASKED TRIO swarmed a car at around 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 28 as it approached West 17th Street and Neptune Avenue. The crew flashed a piece and forced the driver out of the car and then took off with it.

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THREE MEN WERE nabbed for moving weapons and blow throughout Manhattan and the Bronx.

Dwight Flowers, Terrence Porter, and Taleak Harris all were taken down for the hustle by selling to undercovers in several rips.

A PERP WAS determined to not let a man leave a deli unless he heaped blandishments on him. 

The suspect, 45, was inside the small store located on Stockton Street and Marcy Avenue back at around 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 1. 

He and a man dressed in orthodox Jewish attire (dark trousers, a black coat, and either a fedora or velvet kippah-homburg hat) engaged in a verbal spat. 

That drew a left hook that landed on the religious man’s hand. 

When the defendant attempted to flee the pugilist, the unsavory allegedly blocked him. 

The only way he’d budge was on one condition. 

He exclaimed, “I will not let you go until you say I am a superior black man.”

By this point the calvary arrived and they took the superior bully into custody. 

He was hit with hate crime assault causing injury, hate crime aggravated harassment, hate crime menacing, and unlawful imprisonment.

A NO GOOD fella decided to show off his brawn by decking an elder nearly twice his senior. 

At around 11 a.m. on Aug. 26, cops say the 45-year-old tough first spooked a woman with a knife while was outside 125th Street and Jamaica Avenue. 

Then he pounded a man nearly twice his senior. 

“I’ll stab you,” he growled at the woman while holding a folding knife with all the hallmarks that he was willing to use it.

After that confrontation, the suspect then encountered a 75-year-old man and put a licking on him by splitting his lip. 

Authorities nabbed the suspect and he was nailed for assault (elderly person over 65), weapons possession, menacing, and harassment. 

HE LOST IT and then took a headshot. 

Whoever it was that was standing inside the 32-year-old man’s Colfax Avenue home — they were about to get the business. 

Tempers flared sometime around 8 p.m. on July 10. 

Or at least his did. 

The resident who apparently couldn’t keep his cool turned against the other person and belted, “Get the fuck out of my house!”

He added, “Mind your business before I kill you!”

And he was not exaggerating. 

For he immediately grabbed a hammer and started going for the man’s dome. 

But in his rage, he swung and missed. 

He struck a wall instead. 

That swing and miss ended with him getting pinched for menacing, weapons possession, attempted assault, menacing, and harassment.

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