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THE PHILISTINE ON a sacrilege bender has been nicking coveted statues from peoples’ homes.

And now he may want to seek penance.

That’s because the Johnny Law’s bringing more than crackerjack larceny charges.

“The police department is going to utilize all their resources and try to label this as a hate crime,” PJ Marcel, a local Queens man who runs a popular social media account chronicling goings-on in Howard Beach, told The Blotter. 

Indeed, we have learned that the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is is probing the matter. 

Four statues including Mother Mary, St. Anthony, Padre Pio, and Virgin Mary all suspiciously vanished from their outdoor domes. 

And Marcel is appalled. 

“I got the video of the guy stealing the statue,” he explained. “It’s wrong.”

Indeed, footage of one of the thefts shows a man in a dard SUV plucking one of the statues from the homeowners’ property. 

The St. Anthony statue was taken from its dome at 157th Avenue back at around midnight on June 11. 

The 77-year-old resident dialed 911 shortly after the disturbing loss. 

Then, the cops were called again when on the night of June 22, two more statues (Mother Mary and St. Pedro) were lifted from a home located on Bristol Avenue off Hawtree Street. 

On the morning of June 24, a Mother Mary statue was reported taken from the back of a home again on Bristol Avenue. 

The matter has drawn the attention of Council Member Joann Ariola. 

“My office has been made aware of the thefts of statues of the Blessed Mother and St Anthony from private properties in Ozone Park and Howard Beach,” reads a statement. “These cowardly attacks on people of faith are deeply disturbing and heartbreaking. 

“These are not merely decorative objects to Christians. They are sacred symbols of faith, hope and comfort for thousands of Christian and Roman Catholic families in our communities.”

She made it clear that she wants the matter “taken seriously”. 

“My office has been in touch with the residents who are the victims of this theft and the Captain of the 106 precinct,” she added, noting there is a hunt for the heister(s). “I will work to ensure that each theft is thoroughly investigated and that every available resource is used to identify those responsible.

AN EARLY RISING raider took a man for his wallet. 

It was around 5 a.m. on June 5, where the 44-year-old goon stepped to a man, 35, while inside a building on Nicholas Avenue and West 178th Street. 

The suspect allegedly was brandishing a kitchen knife in one hand and a pocket knife in the other. 

“Don’t move or I will cut you,” he seethed. 

He then swiped from the man’s pocket a wallet that contained $110. 

The victim quickly reported the mugging at double knifepoint to the authorities. 

A detail spotted the perp based on the detailed description and he was lassoed.

Cops learned that the suspect had been wanted for a Nov. 21 assault and petit larceny incident. 

Once taken into custody, he was charged in the previous case and robbery (with a knife) for the surly shakedown.

TWO TIRE KICKERS floating an offer to make a buy for several cell phones from a man and his brother were far more keen on grabbing the sellers’ cash and bling. 

Both bait-and-switch thugs met with the seller at around 9:30 p.m. on March 15 in front of a residential building on Cedar Avenue. 

They quickly broke character about hoping to scoop up the phones what with one of the scoundrels drawing a gun. 

“Give me everything you got or I will shoot you,” he barked as he pointed the gat at the seller. 

The 27-year-old defendant chimed in, "Listen to him!"

His armed compadre repeated the sentence two more times: "Give me everything you got or I will shoot you!"

He then ripped the chains (worth an estimated $23,000) dangling from the victim’s neck. 

Robber 1:‘Give me everything you got or I will shoot you!’

Robber 2: ‘Listen to him.’

-Two perps robbed brothers in a cell phone buying bait-and-switch shakedown that led to them snatching chains and cash.

They then ordered the stuck up victim to call his brother to swing by. 

When the brother rolled up in his car — the heavy with the gun gave him the same (albeit more succinct) business: "Give me everything you have!"

With both brothers facing the gun barrel, the brother forfeited his car keys. 

That had the accused and apparently unarmed suspect telling the brother, "Get out of the car and go!"

His gunman chum then used the said keys to unlock the car and pocket $2,600 in cash. 

Months went by until May 5, when cops took the one suspect (who didn’t pull a gun in the phone buying ruse holdup). 

He faces robbery (with a firearm), robbery (of a motor vehicle), grand larceny, and petit larceny.

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A DISASTROUS DRIVING elder was nabbed brandishing a blade after slamming into another car driven by a mom and her 8-year-old daughter. 

Whatever etiquette tricks the 71-year-old man might be able to learn at this point — they’re not gonna be taught at Cotillion. 

For his etiquette skills appear to be beyond the pale. 

The suspect allegedly crashed into a woman’s car while pulling out of a parking space in a lot at P.S. 6 on Snyder Avenue blade afternoon of June 9. 

Before she could even assess the situation or settle her disturbed child — the mother saw standing at her window the man who hit her and he was toting a kitchen knife. 

He then moved it to her neck and snapped, “I’m gonna stab you!”

Afterward he sauntered to the rear of her car still dangling the knife and all of it terrorized the crash victims. 

The knife man was swiftly pursued and cuffed. 

He faces menacing (with a weapon) two counts of weapons possession (with intent to use) one count of acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17 and two counts of harassment.

HE WAS A reckless speed demon in his Prius. 

The speed limit on Union Turnpike was 35 MPH and on the evenin gof May 24, the 22-year-old man behind the wheel of the 2013 hybrid was punching well past 75 MPH.

As he approached Francis Lewis Boulevard, the motorist blew a red light. That caused him to smash into a 37-year-old man’s Mercedes-Benz G Wagon (who had a steady green), the criminal complaint states. 

The Prius driver ricocheted and clipped a 2023 Nissan Rogue and that collision forced it to “spin and hit” two seniors (a 71-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man) in the crosswalk. 

Authorities say the Prius punk who allegedly caused the wreckage continued to mount the curb and then timbered a crosswalk signal. 

Rather than stay put and tend to the fallen (and one unconscious) walkers and crashed drivers — the suspect managed to bust out of his crinkled car’s passenger side door. 

He was witnessed turning on his Reebok turbos for an escape bid. 

Officers were able to catch up to him blocks away and forced him to surrender. 

‘I didn’t know what happened. I thought, ‘God forbid I die’ because yeah, the airbag hit my face.’

-22-year-old Prius speeder told cops after trying to run from near-deadly car crash scene-

During questioning, the suspect admitted to cruising around at speeds of “43, 44, 45 MPH” while smoking “a couple cigarettes” and playing tunes. 

Pressed on what brought on the wreckage and harm done to the two older innocents and he attempted to explain it all away. 

“I was alone in the car,” he told investigators. “I was driving with music, it’s kind of a blur for me.”

After trying to explain the speed he was going (far below the reported 75 MPH) he claimed his consciousness was obscured. 

“I don’t know what happened,” he told them. “It’s like a blur. 

“A car hit me, I hit a car.”

He continued: “I was going straight and the light was green. The other car was coming toward me, the opposite way.”

After the first impact with the Mercedes “I closed my eyes and tried to get out through the driver’s seat.”

He claims he tried to get out through the driver’s seat, but it didn’t budge. 

With the car smoking he fled out the passenger side door. 

He claims that he walked a few blocks and then started running when he saw “three guys chasing me.”

Those three turned out to be responding cops.

‘A car hit me, I hit a car. I was going straight and the light was green. The other car was coming toward me, the opposite way. I closed my eyes and tried to get out through the driver’s seat.’

-Prius driver recounted the blurry details of his smashup that he fled

But in the wake of the calamity, the suspect was “scared they were going to shoot me.”

He claims to have procured his driver’s license when he turned 18 and that he was well aware of the rules to standby after an accident and trade information. 

But he stated that the disarray clouded his judgment. 

“I didn’t know what happened,” he said. “I thought, ‘God forbid I die’ because yeah, the airbag hit my face.”

So he fled the car and claims he was innocently “walking away.”

ASked if he was inebriated on drugs or booze and the hit-and-run driver claimed he was sober as a priest. 

“I don’t drink alcohol, no drugs,” he said. 

But he does take meds… “nothing else.”

Yet, when he was prompted to give up the script, the suspect was braindead. 

“It’s from the doctor,” he explained. “I don’t know the name, I’m so sorry.”

The one who knows his meds is actually his sister because she “picked it up from the pharmacy for me.”

The 71-year-old woman that was struck in the crash suffered head trauma and was hospitalized in critical condition. The man also was taken to the hospital and listed in critical. 

The driver was busted for assault, leaving the scene of an incident without reporting serious physical injury, reckless driving, red traffic signal light violation, speeding, and speed restrictions.

A DASTARD SLUGGED a mom after sending a newborn baby boy to the ground and then launched a revenge porn plot.  

The 19-year-old ghoul appeared in the corridor of the woman’s apartment complex on the morning of April 7, and allegedly upper-cutted her in the face, causing her mouth to suffer extreme pain.  

Over a week later the same chump reached out to the woman to allegedly threaten to expose photos of intimate pics of the woman. 

And on April 16, he made good on the threats and splashed snaps of the woman’s genitals and her face to his Instagram account. 

Then, on May 7, the same young maniac allegedly texted the woman. But he was trying to be especially enigmatic by using an anonymous number. 

His ruse was futile because the perp referred to the ex in familiar terms that gave him away. 

And in that less-than-eloquent screed, he wrote, “You’re dead onna bros,” and added, “Change jobs. 

“I catch you — it’s that!”

He soon returned to the woman’s flat. 

That was on the afternoon of June 27. 

This time, cops say the suspect showed up at the woman’s apartment. 

They quarrelled and when she tried to exit the building, the teen “jerked” the mother’s stroller from her clutches and forced the three-month-old baby boy to the ground — causing him to tumble out of it and “land on his head,” according to the criminal complaint. 

The sucker’s cruel act caused the baby to suffer soreness to his forehead. 

It would prove his undoing. 

He was taken down for the whole shebang: publication of an intimate image, assault, aggravated harassment, and endangering the welfare of a child.

HE CAN’T CONTROL himself. Or keep his pants on. 

A 68-year-old perv was picked up for showing up for the second time in the last six months to put on a solo stroking show before a 28-year-old woman at her home. 

Cops say the sicko was busted (again) for returning to her home on Kramer Street and Mallory Avenue back on March 30 where he showed off his manhood and committed a lewd act. 

It was his repeat offense.

That’s because the same senior had been front and center in front of the young woman’s home back on Nov. 2 of last year where the stroker was pinched for the same masturbatory malfeasance. 

And he also took his lust on the road. For the same perp was captured on the evening of April 26.

In this incident the suspect readied himself on a subway platform in Manhattan’s Bryant Park station and then flashed a 23-year-old victim.  

He was nailed for public lewdness and exposure of a person for that crime. 

The most recent act before the same Staten Island woman adds to his 20 priors — many busts for public lewdness and forcible touching) that date all the back to 1983. (first arrest was for weapon possession.)

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