A violent vagrant with a series of big apple attack busts on his rap sheet is finally behind the bar after police say he slashed the clerk at a Brooklyn discount store with a machete and tried to burn him .
Because he couldn't afford a stick of gum.
Joaquin Hidalgo, 35, was unable to come up with gum cash at two 99 cent stores in Brooklyn, Bushwick on Monday, so he pulled out a machete, threatened workers, slashed one, and lightly. It was burning as he escaped after it was soaked in liquid, police and prosecutors said.
The career criminal was ultimately ordered to be released on bail when officers caught up with Hidalgo, who was on the street despite open cases in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island.
“He's locked up now – for now,” a law enforcement source told the Post. “But we need to make sure he stays there, or this time bomb will continue to carry on these random acts of violence. And now arson?”
Police said Hidalgo entered the Broadway discount store before 1pm on Monday and grabbed gum, but had no money to pay.
Instead, he said he pulled out a machete, threatened the staff at the store that was stunned, and cut it down with his left hand. Then, pull out a lighter liquid container and pour it onto the injured man.
Police say Hidalgo escapes but lights a flag that lit outside the store and then stumbles into a subway station on Chauncy Street, where officers later catch up with him.
He was arrested Wednesday at Brooklyn Crown Court and ordered $25,000 in cash bail or $50,000 in bonds on assault, arson, robbery and other charges, prosecutors said.
Hidalgo has remained freely without bail up until now despite a string of arrests. Because the less attack charge he continues to suffer is not eligible for bail under the state bail reform laws.
Court records show that when his last arrest was attacked in Brooklyn on Thursday, another man was loosened within the cell of a train house at a NYPD 73rd District station when he was charged with assault. He attempted to assault and harass the allegedly committed.
He was in the precincts the previous day after being arrested for possession of a knife and disorderly conduct at a subway station on the sea hill.
He was arrested in both cases on Friday and released without bail.
On February 2nd, he was arrested in Manhattan for alleged attacks on Halloween and for allegedly attacking Halloween, while he was accused of hitting a woman in his head with a bottle at Blood Harlem's Avenue, and the film was accused of hitting a woman in her head. There are complaints about the case.
Manhattan prosecutors said they demanded that Hidalgo be released under supervision and sought a protective order to keep him away from victims approved by the judge.
Hidalgo was caught in a conflict on Tompkins Avenue on November 11th, stricken up with assault, weapons and harassment charges on Staten Island after attacking a chest victim with a “silver headline with brown handles.” It was already facing. case.
Records show that he was released without bail again in that case, but after blowing a court appearance on January 7th, a warrant for his arrest was issued.
“Several arrests are arrested one after another, and violence arrests violence in addition to violence,” a law enforcement source said. “The wise outcome seems to circumvent our courts, and the mental health care system cannot provide satisfactory outcomes that will not only roam unabated with people who are confused.”
He is currently in custody on Rikers Island in Brooklyn's latest arrest.
