{"id":20207,"date":"2025-10-28T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20207\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:01:07","slug":"unhinged-thief-caught-torching-laundry-in-bizarre-burglary-charged-as-nyc-serial-slasher-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20207\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhinged thief caught torching laundry in bizarre burglary charged as NYC serial slasher: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unhinged man busted in a bizarre Brooklyn burglary<\/a> where he ended up torching someone\u2019s laundry was accused in an unsettling series of unprovoked slashings, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Odyssey Head, 27, was arrested Monday in connection to the string of senseless attacks on strangers that began Saturday morning and ended more than 24 hours later, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the first attack around 6:30 a.m. Saturday, Head allegedly slashed a 37-year-old man on the left side of his face on board a northbound Q train approaching Cortelyou Road, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Odyssey Head, 27, was charged with attempted murder in connection to the weekend random slashing spree targeting three men in Brooklyn, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n

Several hours passed before he targeted his next victim \u2013 a 53-year-old man who he allegedly cut on the left side of his face at the intersection of Foster Avenue and New York Avenue around 9:40 p.m., police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then the next morning just before 7 a.m., Head allegedly cut a 56-year-old man on New York Avenue near Newkirk Avenue, causing a similar injury, authorities said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before the series of slashings, Head allegedly began his criminal spree around 5 a.m. Saturday, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Head was also charged with allegedly slashing a customer at a Burlington Coat Factory last month, police said. NYPD<\/p>\n

In that incident, he allegedly barged into a residential building on New York Avenue near Avenue D and damaged the plumbing pipe and electrical wires of a basement washing machine, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He lit some clothes of fire in the washer and dryer before fleeing, police said.<\/p>\n

No one was home at the time, and Head \u2013 who lives in Sheepshead Bay several miles away \u2013 has no relationship to that address, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Head is also accused of allegedly intruding into a Brooklyn building and setting some clothes on fire inside a washer and dryer, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n

The NYPD also linked Head to a random slashing from around 12:50 p.m. Sept. 14 inside a Burlington Coat Factory on Tilden Avenue near Flatbush Avenue, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In that attack, he allegedly cut a 30-year-old male customer on the back of the neck with an unknown object, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The victim was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Head has four prior arrests, the most recent for a Brooklyn robbery more than a decade ago, police said. NYPD<\/p>\n

In addition to attempted murder, Head also faces burglary, arson, assault, menacing, weapon possession, criminal mischief and criminal trespass charges in connection to the string of crimes, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He 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

His arraignment in the new cases was pending Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unhinged man busted in a bizarre Brooklyn burglary where he ended up torching someone\u2019s laundry was accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,3094,357,98,10394,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,361,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-20207","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-arson","10":"tag-assaults","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-burglaries","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-headlines","19":"tag-nyc-news","20":"tag-slashings","21":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20207","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=20207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}