{"id":19310,"date":"2025-10-28T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19310\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:51:11","slug":"nyc-crook-who-set-laundry-on-fire-in-bizarre-burglary-now-tied-to-series-of-random-slashings-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19310\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC crook who set laundry on fire in bizarre burglary now tied to series of random slashings: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An accused burglar and firebug may be linked to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/26\/us-news\/random-serial-slasher-suspected-in-three-weekend-nyc-attacks-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">random Brooklyn slashing spree<\/a> that sent three victims to the hospital over the weekend, law enforcement sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Odyssey Head, 27, was nabbed Saturday and charged with setting a fire inside the laundry room of a Flatbush building \u2014 and is now a person of interest in the weekend assaults, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Head, who was charged with burglary, trespassing in criminal mischief, could face more charges in the slashing attacks \u2014 although he has not been officially linked to them, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Odyssey Head was arrested for setting a fire inside a Brooklyn laundry room. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>Head is also a person of interest in a series of slashings in Brooklyn last week. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>Police said the knife attacks began around 6:30 a.m. Saturday on a northbound Q train at the Church Avenue station, when a 37-year-old straphanger was slashed on the left side of the face.<\/p>\n<p>At 9:40 p.m., a 53-year-old man was attacked at the intersection of Foster Avenue and New York Avenue and left with a similar injury, followed by another assault on a 56-year-old man shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday in front of 3311 Newkirk Ave.<\/p>\n<p>All three victims were rushed to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>A surveillance photo of the suspect in the Brooklyn slashings. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>Head has four prior arrests on his rap sheet dating back more than a decade, most recently on a Brooklyn armed robbery bust on Oct. 7, 2014. <\/p>\n<p>In his arrest on Saturday, police said Head snuck into the New York Avenue building in Flatbush around 5 a.m. and set fire to clothes that were inside a washer and dryer, then fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting by Larry Celona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An accused burglar and firebug may be linked to the random Brooklyn slashing spree that sent three victims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,98,10394,57,9,56,63,65,64,104,361,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-19310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-burglaries","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-police","18":"tag-slashings","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}