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Delivering Mugging Justice

2006_05_pizzad.jpgWow - a pizza delivery man beat up a man who tried to mug him during a delivery. And what's more, police believe the mugger is behind four other deliverymen robberies. The Post says that Celiviano DeJesus was delivering lasagna and a Sprite to a West 93rd Street apartment building, where Charles Jones met him in the lobby. Jones said his money was in his apartment, and DeJesus followed him to the elevator, only for Jones to hit DeJesus in the face with a metal rod and demand his money. DeJesus hit Jones, who then ran to Central Park with the deliveryman on his heels. When the cops got there, Jones was too "disfigured" to be put in a lineup for the other crimes, so he was just charged with last night's attempted robbery. We wonder if Jones may be wanted in connection with the series of robberies targeting deliverymen: The deliveryman goes to a building, only for the supposed customer to attack him, demand money and take their clothes.

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  • zincink

    DeJesus 1 Mugger 0

    thats amore' LOL!!!! lololol!

    you guys are to funny today..



  • Yeah, Raza! And the gov't wants to kick these people out? Can we get De Jesus on the Illegal Immigrant Press Tour pronto? I smell a poster boy.

  • miss

    i clicked on Comments expecting...well, not expecting you funny people! so clever! more! more!

  • Navy Seal

    the guy makes steven seagal proud. Fuck muggers everywhere. We are going to take back the streets. Why don't we start a blogwatch? It seems we know when a mugging takes place like minutes after the fact on Gothamist. Why don't we start an internet security thing that reports wolf packs and miscreants doing suspicious things before they actually kill someone. That way police can harass their asses and they'll be wary to do anything stupid from then on.

  • You guys are on your A-game today. "navy seal style"...hilarious.

    Oh, and if you like mugging justice, you'll love this story:

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/31/veteran.robbery.ap/index.html

  • mickster

    (hit "Post" too soon):

    L&O: Pizza Guy

    In the Criminal Justice System there are two parts, the Pizza Guys who knock out muggers and the D.A.'s who prosecute the muggers. This is their story...chung-chung.

  • mickster

    Hey Brian,

    If this mugger was involved in other crimes you can bet the Pizza Guy will get a City Citation.

    I see a new Law & Order Coming:

    L&O: Pizza Guy

  • brian

    from the article:

    "I didn't go to work because I'm still sore. But I think I did a good thing because other people were attacked," DeJesus said.

    His boss, Gurnikh Singh, said, "I'm proud of him."

    HELL YEAH, give this guy an award...we need more people like him in this city

  • pb

    When the mugger hits you in the eye with a big pizza pie that's amore!

  • What Wouldn't [De]Jesus Do?

  • frank

    hah. was he holding his pencil navy seal style??

  • The Dude

    Whoops, I meant to put this link for the sound (scroll down the page on the link).

  • The Dude

    Damn, someone beat me to it. ("Nobody fucks with de Jesus")!!!

  • J

    Aw, poor guy was probably just practicing his Metrocard swipe.

  • Destin

    "Nobody fucks with DeJesus."

    -The Big Lebowski

  • jahole

    black guys mugging latinos? they should stick to robbing white's and asians.

  • Lasagna and sprite, my second favorite meal.

    The first? Red wine and fish sticks.

  • Especially if the lasagna was piping hot, (it was delivery, so it may have been lukewarm), but can you imagine hot ricotta to the face?

  • Jen

    Good question. Maybe a better story would have been that the deliveryman pelted the mugger with lasagna - pasta self-defense!

  • hr

    but what happened to the lasagna?

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