Crime Blotter

PANTSLESS CAME THE KILLER Around 2:30 Saturday morning, 45-year-old James Pallonetti swaggered into the BR Stars tavern in Bay Ridge. Pallonetti worked at the bar, but washing glasses was the furthest thing from his mind. Instead, he pulled a gun and blew away 34-year-old James Trippett, who was tending bar. Apparently the proverbial "dispute over a woman" was behind the shooting.

Robert Zimmerman, 41, wasn't wearing pants when he wandered into the 75th Pct. in East New York early Sunday morning. Zimmerman, who had a taste for crack and hookers, informed police that he'd just stabbed a woman to death in his apartment. They checked it out, and sure enough there was a woman in his apartment with a knife in her chest.

Zimmerman claimed that Deanna Gray, the 40-year-old homeless woman on the floor, was his girlfriend, but nobody really buys that.

It's unclear right now what made Zimmerman so gosh-darn mad, but he's being charged with second-degree murder. He may also face indecent-exposure charges after walking four blocks to the police station without any pants.

Perhaps it was the unseasonably warm temperatures that allowed the 2004 Machete Season to be extended a few extra weeks. In one final hurrah, two teens in Crown Heights hacked away at each other in a mini machete-fest on Sunday afternoon, according to the Post.

The teens' stories differ almost comically. According to David Kellman, 18, he and neighbor Joel Savage got into an argument in Savage's apartment. Then Savage attacked him with the machete.

No, no, no, insists Savage. Kellman was the one who attacked him with the machete.

Whatever the case, both teens came away with hack wounds, which would seem to indicate that both youngsters took turns attacking each other with a single machete. Silly as that sounds, both are now being charged with attempted assault, menacing and harassment.

On Monday morning, a 28-year-old lawyer named Jemal DeShong walked into a courtroom in the New York State Supreme Court building while a hearing was in session and started raising a ruckus. He yelled and he cursed, which baffled everyone, since he had nothing to do with the hearing in question.

When court officers suggested he shut his piehole and sit down, DeShong sprang toward the judge. He wrestled with the officers for a bit, broke a table and was dragged off to Bellevue, where he'll likely find all of his future clients.

One of those clients might well be retired 66-year-old Brooklynite George Samuels. He got a little cranky earlier this month and started slamming doors in his apartment. This bothered his roommate, a 64-year-old woman, who asked him to stop. This he did, grabbing a few of his belongings and, in a huff, stomping out.

Then Samuels returned and stabbed the roommate in the belly, leaving her in critical condition with a collapsed lung.

The Post reported that he was arrested last Tuesday. It seems the police were holding some of his personal property as evidence, and he showed up at the station to try and collect it.