He’s a menace to society.
Timothy Bohler has been in and out of jail since he was a teenager, with a lengthy rap sheet that includes the death of a cancer survivor in Queens while on release from state prison and a rape rap in the Bronx just six months after he got out, records reviewed by The Post show.
At 31, Bohler has 45 busts in all on his rap sheet — 20 of them now sealed — but somehow slipped through the fingers of the criminal justice system for most of his life.
His criminal record dates to when he was a troublesome 16-year-old from the Bronx, and most recently includes claims that he sliced off an MTA worker’s fingers with a machete over a dog dispute.
“There is no longer any mechanism in law to keep people like this in prison,” one law enforcement source said this week. “With all this bail reform we’re releasing violent people with zero supervision or any rehabilitation. Just giving them another chance to do it all over again.”
Because many of his cases were sealed, it is unclear why Bohler remained free for years.
His latest case came while he was already locked up at Rikers Island on the machete attack, when he was charged on Oct. 9 with hitting and killing pedestrian Lelawattie Narine, a cancer survivor who was out for a walk in Queens on March 22, 2024, when she was struck and killed.
Narine’s death came less than two years after Bohler was first paroled from state prison.
The case that sent him upstate was a chilling Nov. 10, 2016, incident at a Bronx bodega, during which he got into a dispute with a store clerk who refused to give him beer on credit, court records show.
According to a criminal complaint, Bohler threw a bottle of ice tea at the victim and struck him in the head before storming out — but returned armed with a handgun, pointed it at the clerk and yelled, “How do you feel now? I’m the man. Who’s the man now?”
Bohler pulled the trigger, but the gun misfired and the bullet fell to the ground, the complaint said.
Cops picked him up and charged him with attempted murder, but he later pleaded the case down to assault and weapons possession, and got up to six years in prison, records show.
He reported to the Ulster Correctional Facility on April 16, 2018, court records show — but was granted a conditional release on Dec. 22, 2022, state correction records show.
He was free more than a year and a half when he violated conditions of his release and was shipped back upstate on June 25, 2024, staying locked up for just a week before he was released again.
State corrections officials said Bohler’s return to prison was for a violation of his release, not a new conviction, so he had to be cut loose at the end of his conditional release date.
What wasn’t known then was that, while he was on release, Bohler was allegedly involved in the Queens hit-and-run that left Narine mortally injured — a case he wouldn’t be linked to until this month.
Regardless, it would only take just a few months before he was wreaking havoc again.
Bohler was accused of assault in an alleged domestic violence incident in July 2024, but dodged jail when the charges were thrown out, according to law enforcement sources.
In October, he was picked up again on a slew of charges in an apartment near Crotona Park in the Bronx.
Bronx prosecutors won’t divulge details of the incident because the case is sealed by law, but law enforcement sources said Bohler allegedly held a woman against her will, threatened to “beat the s–t out” of her and raped her while she was in the shower.
It is unclear why the arrest did not send Bohler back to prison because the case was sealed.
However, Bohler ran afoul of the law again in January, when he was walking his dog and got into a spat with another man walking his pooch — allegedly pulling out a machete and slicing off four fingers.
The shocking crime destroyed victim Tayquon Young’s will to live, his mother said.
“He was a strong person but it was just too much,” Kimtreese Young said of his maimed son, a doting father of two. “When this person attacked him with the machete it took a really hard toll.”
Bohler was still in jail on the attack on Young when prosecutors charged him in Narine’s death. The victim had been out for a walk at the intersection of of 114th Street and Liberty Avenue when she was struck by a 2023 Jiajue motorcycle allegedly driven by Bohler, prosecutors said.
The driver fled the scene and Narine died at Jamaica Hospital less than three weeks later.
Her son, Darshan Narine, told The Post his mom had just finished chemotherapy and had been declared cancer free — and was out for a walk that her doctor had prescribed.
“I’m really happy they got him,” Darshan Narine said. “He just left my mom. It wasn’t right. He could’ve just called 911. He could have tried to help her … He just ran.
“I didn’t know he was arrested 45 times,” he said. “How does he keep getting out of jail?”
Bohler’s lawyer on the Queens case declined to comment Tuesday, and his lawyer on the machete slashing case did not respond to a request for comment.
Additional reporting by Desheania Andrews
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