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An ousted OCME worker reflects on the catastrophic fallout in his life and career despite beating a petit larceny rap that had him standing accused of looting a lux accessory from a swank Midtown apartment. BY: M.L. Nestel Nearly three years after a city medical examiner driver faced a year in the clink for allegedly lifting a Louis Vuitton bag from a dead man’s Midtown posh sliver apartment — the acquitted man was formally sidelined by a city administrative panel, The Blotter has learned.
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‘It Is a Marriage Fraud’: Man, 93, Busted for Booting Wife Out of Queens Home
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‘Get The F— Off Me’: Schizophrenic Mom Lands Random Blows at Five Innocents After Brooklyn Meal With Daughter Abruptly Ends | The New York Sun
Justice ‘Get The F— Off Me’: Schizophrenic Mom Lands Random Blows at Five Innocents After Brooklyn Meal With Daughter Abruptly Ends The suspected attacker’s sister says the woman has been battling schizophrenia for years and when she’s off her meds believes ‘everyone is an enemy.’ Hilda Grullon, 44, was dining with her daughter at the Burrito Bar in Prospect Heights back on Jan.
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Illustration by Rob Weiss ⬛ MANHATTAN IT WAS A hellscape at the Heavenly Market. Two men squared off before lunchtime on Nov. 25, two days before Thanksgiving. The 34-year-old grocer was inside The Heavenly Market located on Third Avenue and East 23rd Street. He and a dissatisfied customer were volleying insults when things escalated. The worker took a knife and allegedly threw it at the other man.
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Illustration by Rob Weiss ⬛ MANHATTAN A PAIR OF piecers were fingered for marking their handiwork on Manhattan’s territory on two separate occasions. One suspect, 28, allegedly was recorded on CCTV back at around 3 a.m. on May 9 cloak-and-daggering around the subway station at East 14th Street and Union Square West. He was seen in the video in a black jacket, white shirt, green pants, and brown sneakers using a black paint marker that he jotted on an MTA pillar.
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Illustration by Rob Weiss ⬛ MANHATTAN A HATE-SPEWING ZERO was busted for felling an innocent man. The 42-year-old lout spotted a man walking along 14th Street and 4th Avenue back at around 10:15 a.m. “Are you Asian,” the accused, also 42, allegedly squealed. The man answered, “Yes.” His provocateur then threw a haymaker to the left side of the innocent’s face.
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Illustration by Rob Weiss Happy Holidays!!!! ⬛ MANHATTAN HE BREATHED SOME free air for a couple clicks. Then it was back to institutional strength floor cleaner in prison. The 27-year-old inmate was holed up inside Transit District 3 lockup located on 145th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue back at around 8 p.m. on Nov. 4. The suspect was pinched for holding drugs and was in the process of being moved to Manhattan’s Central Booking to get arraigned.
Crack-Carrying Sex Toy Thief Arrested for Lewd Act Inside Target Directly in Front of NYPD Employee
Since its inception in the 1830s, the Sun has chronicled crime in the mean streets of the City that Never Sleeps, and to this day, the police blotter – or its digital equivalent – offers fascinating snapshots into lives gone wrong in the myriad neighborhoods of the five boroughs. Our aim here is to chronicle the more curious criminal incidents across New York City that, with local news coverage in retreat, may not otherwise come under a spotlight.
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1065 — 12—12—25 -Car passenger asked cops when pressed about open tequila handle and undisclosed pistol Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ The Broadway Show Went On As ‘Rain Of Missiles’ Fell From Roof And Stage Collapsed Wounding Several Thespians (Wilmington, DE) ▀ Real Life ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ As Wolf Pack Devours 2 Girls (Vienna, Austria) ▀ Movie Projectionist Suffers Smoke Inhalation In Theatre Blast (Atlantic City, NJ) ▀ Trio Try Pushing Gentry...
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▀ Seedy Foodies (Washington D.C.) TWO GRIFTER GALS chowed down and imbibed top-shelf libations at a family-owned D.C. seafood bistro before allegedly bolting to skip out on the check. Murders, Mayhem & Malfeasance is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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Illustration by Rob Weiss ⬛ MANHATTAN SHE’S AN UNRULY patient. Back at around 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 8, a 27-year-old woman was suffering from protracted chest pains on a sidewalk along East 112th Street and Third Avenue. Someone dialed 911 and it was after medics arrived to care for the sickly woman — that she allegedly turned especially salty. One of the EMTs, a 66-year-old man, was in the process of comforting her when she suddenly switched into the red.
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1064 — 12-09-25 Illustration by Rob Weiss ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ Fishy Flusher (Brockton, MA) THIS DIDN’T GO down well. Edmund Kelsey, 26, allegedly saw a brigade of cops rush his home. They weren’t asking for directions. The man, who was on house arrest, allegedly beelined it to his home’s basement. Specifically, the bathroom. There, the feds say he attempted to make disappear a motherlode of dope.
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Illustration by Rob Weiss ⬛ MANHATTAN A poor parker is likely going to pay out his nose for his alleged misdeeds. The 25-year-old road warrior from Delaware was clearly reeling by the sight before his eyes: his Mercedes-Benz sedan was illegally parked and about to get towed away. It was a few minutes before 3 a.m. on Nov. 8 when the out-of-towner rushed to his ride parked on Dykman Street near Nagle Avenue, according to the criminal complaint.
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⬛ MANHATTAN A CASH-STRAPPED CROOK tried to shakedown a man after he withdrew funds from an ATM. It was shortly before 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 9 when the 42-year-old opportunist allegedly cased a man enter and then exit a Citibank ATM located on First Avenue and East 117th Street. Flush with cash, the 47-year-old man headed back to his car and once he entered to sit in the driver’s seat — the thief sided up to him brandishing a box cutter, according to the criminal complaint.
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Illustration by Rob Weiss ⬛ MANHATTAN He should have taken the ticket. For 10 months an Audi driver must have thought he had scored a pass from the road gods. Not so. The 29-year-old was initially pulled over on 9th Avenue near West 18th Street back on the morning of Jan. 22. Cops say it was a run-of-the-mill infraction. But the driver of the 2023 Audi wasn’t chancing it that day.
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Illustration by Rob Weiss ⬛ MANHATTAN She pressed send 50 times. And she wasn’t sharing fuzzy cat gifs. A 30-year-old put klieg lights on herself for allegedly going on an email maelstrom, waging mortal threats against a man who had put in place a protection order to “cease all communications with me." Between Sept. 10 and Sept. 23, authorities say the 44-year-old accused woman blasted the man’s inbox with 50 missives. “Fuck all of you,” one, jotted to the man back at around 2 a.m. on Sept.
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Illustration by Rob Weiss ⬛ MANHATTAN Go-Go Gadget belt snatcher! A suspected postal pilferer was busted deploying a glue contraption from his belt. The 28-year-old accused was eyed back at around midnight on October 9, hovering over a U.S. Postal Service mailbox standing on Third Avenue and East 90th Street. The accused was seen engaging in what’s known as “fishing,” plucking mail from the latched slot “using a glue trap attached to the end of a belt,” according to the criminal complaint.
The Police Blotter: Botox Bilker and Beau Cheated Beautician Out of $3K Worth of Injections
Since its inception in the 1830s, the Sun has chronicled crime in the mean streets of the City that Never Sleeps, and to this day, the police blotter – or its digital equivalent – offers fascinating snapshots into lives gone wrong in the myriad neighborhoods of the five boroughs. Our aim here is to chronicle the more curious criminal incidents across New York City that, with local news coverage in retreat, may not otherwise come under a spotlight.
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⬛ MANHATTAN HE DINED LIKE a sultan. But when the bill arrived — he acted appalled they would charge someone so imperial like him. A 61-year-old glutton was chowing down at the P.J. Clarke’s for an early dinner back on Nov. 2. The dimwit allegedly refused to square away the $125.21 bill and tried a harebrained getaway. That’s because the man lives blocks away from the Empire Hotel West 63rd Street spot — on 54th Street and was quickly caught and indulging on cheese and crackers behind bars.
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Illustration by Rob Weiss ⬛ MANHATTAN HIS LOVE FOR tomes got carried away. A 67-year-old man was pinched for scrawling a forlorn missive on the facade of the Aguilar Library. Cops say the accused traipsed around the property (that is “temporarily closed for building improvements”) used spraypaint to write the phrase: “We Want To Read”. Cops reeled in the overzealous bookworm and brought charges of both making graffiti and possession of a graffiti instrument.
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⬛ MANHATTAN A MOPED OWNER was menaced out of their ride by a big blade toting bandit. At around 9:45 a.m. on Sept. 9, authorities say the owner of the moped was forced to step away from the ride when a machete-wielding hoodlum commandeered it. Police were called and netted on the suspect. He was hit with using a deadly weapon in commission of a robbery. At his arraignment the accused pleaded not guilty. He is expected back in court on Dec. 18, records show.
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⬛ MANHATTAN A FULL ADAM menace tried bashing bicycling commuters off their morning routes. Back at around 9 a.m. on Aug. 25, the 26-year-old unclothed provocateur was spotted trying to kick riders on bikes while hanging onto a crosswalk pole at the intersection ofChyrstie and Broome Streets. Cops approached the suspect and when the suspect saw them and heard their protests to get down from the street crossing pole — the naked ninja allegedly leaped on top of a car and grappled with them.
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⬛ MANHATTAN IT WAS MAGIC time on Lafayette Street. A suspected hustler was caught allegedly hosing a woman mark out of over $1000 by incorporating a short con. The 40-year-old was said to have entreated the woman to a game of chance at around 6:45 p.m. on Sept. 5, according to the criminal complaint. The woman was seen on CCTV placing a wager on the “shell game” operated by the accused on the street. She was then encouraged by the suspect to “make another wager”.
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Illustration by Rob Weiss ⬛ MANHATTAN SHE ASKED HIM to leave. But he wanted his gifted jewels back first. A 49-year-old man was crashing at his lover’s home when he was told he needed to get lost. It was around 5 p.m. On Sept. 28, when the couple was inside a flat located in a high-rise located on Lexington Avenue and East 98th Street. The 54-year-old galpal tenant wanted some alone time and ordered her man to shake a tree.
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Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ Sullen WWI Vet Aims Shotgun At Brother But Shoots Sister-In-Law, Then Kills Self (Butler, NJ) ▀ Mexican Sent To Penitentary For Puffing Potent Weed (Astoria, Queens) ▀ Fugazi MD Caught Trying To Get Pills At Rx (Tacoma, WA) ▀ >$17K… Hermes Birkin 30 Dark Blue Alligator With Gold Color Hardware (Pflugerville, TX) - AGENCY: U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky Includes rain jacket, dust bag, clochette, key and lock with bag, in box.
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1048 + 1049 — 11-04-25 ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ Geysers Going Full Monty (Hutchinson Island South, FL) GET THESE ELDERS some fig leaves stat. Sunbathers expecting G-rated days at the beach were forced to endure a XXX show at Blind Beach Creek.
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1047 — 10—31—25 -Stickup man asks accomplice if he should slay payroll exec during heist -NY Supreme Court Justic Harry E. Lewis told William Truckenbrodt while sending him away to Sing Sing Prison for nearly three years for aiding thieves score riches ***If you’re not a paid subscriber, perhaps you might share this newsletter so that I can grow the readership.
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1046 — 10-30-25 -Stephen Wixted, 36, boasted the cocaine he allegedly had bulging in his underwear and intended to sell to his pals (so they wouldn’t get blitzed on fentanyl) was part of creating badass music ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ Rocker Claims His Coke Is ‘Rock And Roll’ (Gainesville, FL) HE’S LIVING LIKE it’s 1985. Stephen Wixted missed a gig because he was pinched with blow and buddha.
‘People Don’t Care About Other People Here’: Wife of Israeli Man Severely Beaten in Antisemitic Attack Denounces Passersby Who Did Nothing
Two days after he was attacked by a stranger in front of a Manhattan kosher restaurant in what police say was an antisemitic attack, an Israeli tourist remains bruised but undaunted. In fact, Rami Glikstein, 59, returned on Wednesday to the restaurant, Mr. Broadway, the same grub establishment where he was blocked from entering and then punched out on Monday.
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1045 — 10-29-25 -Wisconsin policeman’s response to parents asking if their son could shoot a large snake ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ King Me! (Austin, TX) A WOULD-BE MONARCHIST inflicted a bruising tune-up on a random stranger for picking up a crown that was lying on the ground.
'What Religion Are You?' Thug Attacks Israeli Tourist Outside New York Kosher Joint, Spits on His Yarmulke, Bashes His Face and Vanishes
A bigoted brute is being sought after for sending an Israeli tourist to the ER for a brain bleed after roughing him up and desecrating his yarmulke outside of an upscale New York City kosher eatery. The victim, identified by an official as 59-year-old Rami Glikstein, was allegedly blocked from entering the Glatt Kosher eatery Mr. Broadway, in midtown Manhattan, just before 12:45 p.m. on Monday.
The Police Blotter: Crack-Smoking Couple Caught Canoodling Inside Stranger’s Van
Since its inception in the 1830s, the Sun has chronicled crime in the mean streets of the City that Never Sleeps, and to this day, the police blotter – or its digital equivalent – offers fascinating snapshots into lives gone wrong in the myriad neighborhoods of the five boroughs. Our aim here is to chronicle the more curious criminal incidents across New York City that, with local news coverage in retreat, may not otherwise come under a spotlight.
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1044 — 10—24—25 -Jacob Marshall, 21, allegedly taunted Alabama cops while allegedly urinating at several public places with sureveillance cameras Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ Wealthy Wife Of Swindler Hubby Forfeits Pilfered Possessions (Washington D.C.) ▀ Robbing Brutes Face Music (New York, NY) ▀ Grocer Slain By Blackjack Whacking Robber (New York, NY) ▀ Forlorn Ex-Airbnb Renter Unleashes Boozy Attack Versus New Tenant (Lyndhurst, OH) «SOURCE» ▀ Rolex...
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1041 & 1042 — 10-20-25 + 10-21-25 ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ Until the next ones… -MMM -Jerrad Childs aka heavyglockusa text sent to an associate accompanied by a snap of a large rifle resting on his lap. NOTE: *Yesterday’s issue was delayed due to server woes. So today’s is a double issue.
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1040 — 10—17—25 -Nina Haygood, lashing out over her house being attacked by an especially diabolical trio Support MMM artist Rob Weiss… https://www.instagram.com/robweissart/ Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ New York Aristocrat Robbed Of $100K Gems In Italy (Rome, Italy) ▀ Judge Cracks Fashion Conspiracy (London, England) ▀ She Was Flasked (Manhasset, NY) ▀ Judge Ridicules ‘Weak-Keed’ Jurors After They Exonerate Grand Larcenist (Long Island City, NY) SOURCE:...
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1037 — 10-15-25 ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ Until the next ones… -MMM Murders, Mayhem & Malfeasance is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. ▀ ▀ ▀ 105 MPH Speedster Claims He Was Late For Work While Outrunning Fuzz 3 Times (Little Rock, AR) A TROOPER CLOCKED a driver in a Chrger punching 105 MPH in a 60 MPH zone. It didn’t end well for Willie Smith.
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1036 + 1037 — 10-13-25 ▀ -Accused shoplifter appeared to grow a conscience after a clerk dialed the cops claiming he swiped items from a gas station mart in North Texas. ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ ‘Taken By Force’ (Wichita, KS) A WOMAN WAS recorded on a doorbell cam apparently being kidnapped. Cops say the victim being bearhugged by an assailant back at around 2 a.m. on Sunday on North Volutsia vanished shortly afterward.
Heartstruck Stalker Spends Nights Sleeping on Woman’s Brooklyn Rooftop To Win Her Love
Since its inception in the 1830s, the Sun has chronicled crime in the mean streets of the City that Never Sleeps, and to this day, the police blotter – or its digital equivalent – offers fascinating snapshots into lives gone wrong in the myriad neighborhoods of the five boroughs. Our aim here is to chronicle the more curious criminal incidents across New York City that, with local news coverage in retreat, may not otherwise come under a spotlight.
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1030 + 1031 — 10—03—25 Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ Killer Prisoner Sings Ditty Out Of Sing Sing ▀ Bogust Dentist Thrice Convicted (New York, NY) ▀ Ms. Bling Slammered (New York, NY) ▀ Pool Hall Proprietor’s Cryptic Shooting (New York, NY) SOURCE: THE NY TIMES ▀ Rogue Mooner (Grass Valley, CA) ▀ Spook Thinks Halloween Already Started (Grass Valley, CA) ▀ ‘I’ll Have The Grand Slammer (Grass Valley, CA) «SOURCE» ▀ Frat Flasher (East Lansing, MI) «SOURCE» ▀...
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1028 — 09-30-25 ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ Crowned Dope (Bakersfield, CA) HIS STUFF WAS imperial. At least that was the table-top takeaway. Dario Ramos-Ibarra, 51, was taken into custody on Sept. 25 following a shakedown and collected five pounds of fentanyl (at least one brick emblazoned with a five-point crown), ten grams of meth, 11 ounces of black tar H, meth, more than $5,000, a rifle, a pistol, a silencer, and rounds.
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MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE ISSUE № 1025 & 1026 — 09-26-25 Until the next ones… -MMM ▀ Dope Henchman Found Slain In Limo Over Stool Pigeon Vengeance (New York, NY) ▀ Craven Husband Gifts Wife To Lodger (Mansfield, England) ▀ Thieves Ditch Stolen Gems (Vienna, Austria) ▀ Seasick Brit Cited Contraband (Dover, England) SOURCE: THE NY TIMES ▀ Ronald’s Coffee PCP Stirrers ▀ Police V. Sheriff’s Car (Kearney, NE) A COP CRUISER tumbled after banging into a Buffalo County Sheriff’s wheeled counterpart.
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MMM faithful… The Blotter launched this month. I am hoping to grow readership. So offering a sample below. Please consider patronizing to get the weekly NYC skinny. -M.L. «Subscribe» «Share» September 25, 2025 | Read Online BY: M.L. Nestel ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ A loose cannon walloped three people and racked up two raps. In the early evening of June 26, the 32-year-old tough was first cuffed after he allegedly tackled an 80-year-old and tripped a 76-year-old.
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