Actor Douglas Drucker was slashed on an E train Downtown on Oct. 8.
CELEBRITY SLASHING
A knife-wielding whacko attacked an actor best known for his appearance as a facially tattooed gang leader in “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” on a World Trade Center-bound E Train on Oct. 8.
Douglas Drucker told police he was aboard the train as it neared the World Trade Center at 6:05 pm, when a crazed man with a scraggly beard burst into the subway car, mumbling incomprehensibly, and then turned to the actor and barking, “What are you looking at?”
Drucker decided it was best to distance himself from the nut, and started making his way towards the opposite end of the car, he told the New York Daily News.
“I was trying to play it cool, but then I realized he was out of his mind,” Drucker told the tabloid. “He was like pacing back and forth, and he came out with a knife.”
That’s when the wacko went berserk, charged Drucker from behind, and slugged him, according to police.
The actor tried once again to flee from his deranged attacker, but the fiend brandished a knife and slashed Drucker’s shoulder and hand, before fleeing between cars, according to police.
Drucker is perhaps best known for his role as gangster Angel Rivera on “Law and Order: SVU” in 1999, and has since appeared in roles on numerous television and film productions, including “Scorned,” “Urban Tarzan,” and “Kung Fu and Titties,” according to his IMDB page.
OFF THE HOOK
A 31-year-old woman learned the hard way not to leave her valuables unattended inside a Battery Pl. watering hole on Oct. 4, after a thief made off with more than $11,000 worth of the victim’s swank belongings.
The victim told police that she’d hung her valuables on a hook underneath the bar of the lounge near the Korean War Memorial at 11 p.m., and there they stayed as she went to the lady’s room. Upon returning, she discovered to her horror that the ritzy jewelry and designer accessories she’d left unattended had vanished, cops said.
UN-SAFE
Burglars looted a West St. marina on Oct. 3, cleaning out a safe, but for a paltry amount.
A rep for the marina told police that the thief had slipped into the boat yard near Liberty St. sometime after 8 p.m., and at around noon the next day the safe was discovered empty — of the $150 it had contained.
PICKED
A pickpocket nabbed a woman’s iPhone inside a Vesey St. mall on Oct. 7.
The victim told police that she was dining in the upscale shopping center near Fulton St. at 3:15 p.m., when somebody bumped into her, and she discovered her cellphone was missing a few moments later.
The victim was able to use a phone tracking application that traced the cell’s location to somewhere in Queens, cops said.
OCULUS STIFFED
A thief looted a woman’s purse inside the Oculus shopping center on Greenwich St. on Oct. 8.
Cops managed to obtain surveillance footage that shows the crook, wearing all black and with a gold marijuana leaf medallion dangling from his neck, inside the mall between Liberty and Cortland Sts at 4:08 p.m., when he can be seen dipping into the victim’s purse and removing her wallet and cellphone.
His loot in hand, the thief then immediately made his way out of the mall in the direction of the Fulton Street Train Station, cops said.
BOTTLE BASH
Some kook nailed a 22-year-old man in the face with a glass bottle on Grand Street on Oct. 9.
The victim told police that he was between West Broadway and Wooster St. at 4:08 a.m., when he’d become embroiled in an argument with another fellow.
The dispute climaxed when the other man took up a glass bottle and sent it hurling at the other man’s face to strike him in his left check, opening up a nasty gash, cops said.
— Colin Mixson
