Teens + Cocaine + Samurai Swords = Bad News!
Cocaine + Samurai Swords = Bad News!
Last week cops arrested a salesman after a Feb. 21 incident in which he accused a coworker of swiping one of his customers. Rajin Narain, 29, didn't stop with a simple "that wasn't very nice," according to the Post. Right there in the middle of the Flatbush Ave. store, he kicked the coworker in the back, grabbed his cell phone and ran. He later calmed down and returned with the cell phone. But he also returned with a lead pipe, with which he walloped the man. A period of calm followed, during which Narain still could not get past the awful thing this coworker had done. So he confronted him a third time, grabbing the cell phone again. But instead of running away with it, he snapped it in two.
He's charged with criminal mischief, assault, menacing and being a big baby.
On Feb. 28, Michael Desiderio, 19, came clean about hacking his homeless pal, Ricardo Richardson, to death with a samurai sword last June after they had a spat over a pillow, according to the Daily News.
Desiderio says he was on a booze and coke binge at the time, and that pillow business just pushed him over the edge. In exchange for dropping his nutty "self-defense" stories, he was sentenced to 15 years instead of the 25-to-life he could've gotten.
Meanwhile, several newspapers reported that a former NYPD officer was hacked to death with a samurai sword in his L.I. home on Feb. 27. (Do people mail order these things or what?) Word that 51-year-old Scott Nager had been part of the organized crimes unit got us to wondering, but in the end it was Nager's stepson, 18-year-old Zachary Gibian, who was charged.
The teen told friends that Nager beat him, and Nager's pals say the argument was over Gibian's drug habit and future plans. Who's to say they're not both right?
Speaking of teenage drug problems, early on the morning of March 1, 18-year-old Antonio Roque got a bellyful of angry juice. According to neighbors in Queens, he was hanging out on the sidewalk, picking fights with everyone who passed by.
Finding no takers, Roque decided to force the issue. Bad news for Jagat Balram, 52, who was on his way home at 1 a.m. after a hard day's work. Roque jumped Balram, pounded him to the ground, and kicked the poor man to death.
Police arrested Roque nearby, but reported that questioning him immediately was pointless, as he was too sloppy drunk.
The Post reported on March 2 that cops were on the lookout for a clever burglar with superhuman strength.
One dark, mid-February night, the thief snuck into a building still under construction on Columbus Ave., went downstairs and broke through the plywood wall that separated that basement from the basement of the deli next door.
Once inside the deli, he tore open a safe-possibly with his bare hands!-and grabbed $30,000. Then he went upstairs and tore open the ATM machine, grabbing another $20,000. Then he vanished into the night.