Deranged vagrant slashes NYC store clerk with machete, tries to torch him in gum dispute — while out with no bail

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 […]
Alvin Bragg drops assault charges against man who fought back when vagrant attacked him with nail-studded chunk of wood

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) has dropped assault charges against a Chinatown landlord who fought back when a vagrant attacked him with a block of wood spiked with nails in late August. The New York Post reported. Bragg's office initially charged Harvard University graduate student Brian Chin, 32, with serious assault after the incident, […]
Brazen vagrant allegedly punches California mayor, city official in ‘random’ attack on street with police chief nearby

A homeless man attacked a California mayor and then punched a city council member in the head in broad daylight, a city council member said. Fox News Digital. On August 22, Mayor Chris Branscome, City Councilman Dom Belza, Police Chief Christian Sachs and two council staffers walked the streets of Marysville, California, a city of […]
NYC landlord accused of beating armed vagrant cheered by locals who complain ‘it’s like the wild west now’

A Chinatown landlord accused of brutally beating an armed homeless man is being hailed as a hero by locals who say the city’s lax crime policies have turned the area into a lawless zone. Manhattan building owner Brian Chin, 32, who was an enthusiastic anti-crime voice when a homeless man killed one of his building’s […]
NYC landlord who once spoke out against crime is busted for allegedly beating menacing vagrant

A Chinatown landlord who has been vocal against crime after the high-profile murder of one of his tenants brutally beat a man he believed to be homeless and had a makeshift weapon on Saturday, police sources said. The homeowner, 32-year-old Brian Chin, was charged with felony assault in the late-night attack, which left the homeless […]
NYC violent vagrant ‘Ice Pick Nick’ with 37 busts who terrorized East Village for years finally jailed

The wild man known as “Icepick Nick” who has been terrorizing the East Village for years has finally been arrested and jailed. Just before 6:30 p.m. Thursday, neighborhood tormentor Nicholas Babilonia Jr. threatened a person with what appeared to be a firearm on Avenue C and threw the victim’s bicycle, according to criminal court records. […]
San Francisco vagrant arrested for assault with deadly weapon after he was acquitted of bludgeoning man jurors didn’t like

A vagrant believed to be terrorizing a San Francisco neighborhood has been arrested again on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, just weeks after a jury acquitted him of violently assaulting the city’s former fire chief. As previously reported by Blaze News, in April 2023, former San Francisco Fire Chief Don Carmignani said three […]
Vagrant in brutal 2019 Hanukkah machete attack still unfit for trial — but DA’s office determined to prosecute

A deranged vagrant accused of a brutal machete attack on Hasidic Jews at a Hanukkah party in 2019 remains unfit to stand trial, an upstate judge has ruled. — But determined prosecutors have vowed to throw the book at him if he is allowed to face a jury. Rockland County Judge Kevin Russo last week […]