He’s a menace to society.
Timothy Bohler has been out and in of jail since he was a young person, with a prolonged rap sheet that features the demise of a most cancers survivor in Queens whereas on launch from state jail and a rape rap within the Bronx simply six months after he bought out, information reviewed by The Publish present.
At 31, Bohler has 45 busts in all on his rap sheet — 20 of them now sealed — however in some way slipped by way of the fingers of the prison justice system for many of his life.
His prison report dates to when he was a hard 16-year-old from the Bronx, and most lately consists of claims that he sliced off an MTA employee’s fingers with a machete over a canine dispute.
“There is no such thing as a longer any mechanism in regulation to maintain folks like this in jail,” one regulation enforcement supply mentioned this week. “With all this bail reform we’re releasing violent folks with zero supervision or any rehabilitation. Simply giving them one other probability to do it another time.”
As a result of a lot of his instances have been sealed, it’s unclear why Bohler remained free for years.
His newest case got here whereas he was already locked up at Rikers Island on the machete assault, when he was charged on Oct. 9 with hitting and killing pedestrian Lelawattie Narine, a most cancers survivor who was out for a stroll in Queens on March 22, 2024, when she was struck and killed.
Narine’s demise got here lower than two years after Bohler was first paroled from state jail.
The case that despatched him upstate was a chilling Nov. 10, 2016, incident at a Bronx bodega, throughout which he bought right into a dispute with a retailer clerk who refused to provide him beer on credit score, court docket information present.
In response to a prison grievance, Bohler threw a bottle of ice tea on the sufferer and struck him within the head earlier than storming out — however returned armed with a handgun, pointed it on the clerk and yelled, “How do you’re feeling now? I’m the person. Who’s the person now?”
Bohler pulled the set off, however the gun misfired and the bullet fell to the bottom, the grievance mentioned.
Cops picked him up and charged him with tried homicide, however he later pleaded the case all the way down to assault and weapons possession, and bought as much as six years in jail, information present.
He reported to the Ulster Correctional Facility on April 16, 2018, court docket information present — however was granted a conditional launch on Dec. 22, 2022, state correction information present.
He was free greater than a yr and a half when he violated situations of his launch and was shipped again upstate on June 25, 2024, staying locked up for only a week earlier than he was launched once more.
State corrections officers mentioned Bohler’s return to jail was for a violation of his launch, not a brand new conviction, so he needed to be minimize free on the finish of his conditional launch date.
What wasn’t recognized then was that, whereas he was on launch, Bohler was allegedly concerned within the Queens hit-and-run that left Narine mortally injured — a case he wouldn’t be linked to till this month.
Regardless, it could solely take just some months earlier than he was wreaking havoc once more.
Bohler was accused of assault in an alleged home violence incident in July 2024, however dodged jail when the costs have been thrown out, in line with regulation enforcement sources.
In October, he was picked up once more on a slew of expenses in an condo close to Crotona Park within the Bronx.
Bronx prosecutors gained’t expose particulars of the incident as a result of the case is sealed by regulation, however regulation enforcement sources mentioned Bohler allegedly held a girl in opposition to her will, threatened to “beat the s–t out” of her and raped her whereas she was within the bathe.
It’s unclear why the arrest didn’t ship Bohler again to jail as a result of the case was sealed.
Nevertheless, Bohler ran afoul of the regulation once more in January, when he was strolling his canine and bought right into a spat with one other man strolling his pooch — allegedly pulling out a machete and slicing off 4 fingers.
The stunning crime destroyed sufferer Tayquon Younger’s will to dwell, his mom mentioned.
“He was a powerful particular person nevertheless it was simply an excessive amount of,” Kimtreese Younger mentioned of his maimed son, a doting father of two. “When this particular person attacked him with the machete it took a very exhausting toll.”
Bohler was nonetheless in jail on the assault on Younger when prosecutors charged him in Narine’s demise. The sufferer had been out for a stroll on the intersection of of 114th Avenue and Liberty Avenue when she was struck by a 2023 Jiajue bike allegedly pushed by Bohler, prosecutors mentioned.
The driving force fled the scene and Narine died at Jamaica Hospital lower than three weeks later.
Her son, Darshan Narine, informed The Publish his mother had simply completed chemotherapy and had been declared most cancers free — and was out for a stroll that her physician had prescribed.
“I’m actually completely satisfied they bought him,” Darshan Narine mentioned. “He simply left my mother. It wasn’t proper. He may’ve simply known as 911. He may have tried to assist her … He simply ran.
“I didn’t know he was arrested 45 instances,” he mentioned. “How does he preserve getting out of jail?”
Bohler’s lawyer on the Queens case declined to remark Tuesday, and his lawyer on the machete slashing case didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Further reporting by Desheania Andrews
