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Shomrim and Police Apprehend pre-Teen Vandals

Earlier this week a group of 8 or 9 thugs vandalized two of Beis Rivkas school buses, and were captured on surveillance video celebrating. Yesterday an alert Shomrim volunteer spotted them vandalizing cars and with the help of the police they were apprehended. Turns out they are all around 13 years old.

The incident occurred at around 2:00pm on Thursday, a Shomrim volunteer was passing by Clove Road behind the Associated Supermarket, when he spotted a group of young kids sneaking around parked cars and trucks in the parking lot. A few of them were dressed in the exact same cloths as they were when captured on the surveillance video.

Watching them for less than a minute, the Shomrim volunteers spotted the kids picking up rocks and glass bottles and began pelting parked cars and trucks.

Their barrage damaged three parked cars and a tow truck and left glass strewn all over.

After calling for backup a call was made to the police as the kids fled towards Empire Boulevard, then towards the police precinct where they ran right into the hand of a community affairs police officer – who had also identified them based on the surveillance video – which was posted here on CrownHeights.info, and proceeded to stop them for questioning.

Turns out the little vandal’s stand below 5 feet tall and range in age from 11 to 13 years old. When confronted about the vandalism of the school buses they quickly denied involvement, but snitched on others whom they claim did it.

The Shomrim volunteer identified 3 out of the 6 as one who had committed the acts of vandalism on Clove Road and due to their age an arrest could not be made, instead police took a ‘juvenile report’ and they were released into the custody of their guardians.

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11 Comments

    • Milhouse

      For what? That’s ridiculous. Parents don’t control their children, and are not responsible for what they do. That’s halocho, the law, and common sense. If parents had to pay for damage their children did, then children would rule the home! Every child could threaten his parents to bankrupt them if they didn’t do as he pleased.

    • sarah

      What??? That is ridicules! parents cannot control everything their children do! Parents should not be responsible for their childrens actions.

    • WHAT THE....

      What do you mean, parents aren’t responsible for their children? So anyone below legal age can be a thug because there isn’t any supervision? Are you both totally insane & clueless? I guess your kids are also animals.

      The parents, grandmothers or whichever useless idiots are supposedly responsible for their welfare need to beat the crap out of them then make them put the damage right. That can be sweeping out BR playgrounds, polishing the bus, whatever those pint sized vandals can do.

      Clearly they know how to throw rocks & damage property. Let them be punished. Nothing else works, certainly not this PC “poor little kids” attitude.

      What about Juvie? Why weren’t they dealt with appropriately? It has less to do with their ages & more to do with the cowards in 71st.

  • mob

    to #1:

    try the grandparents.

    80% chance the mother does not live with them, 95% chance no father either.

  • only the beginning...

    They start young, move on to worse crimes and end up together in the jails packed to the brim with their “brothers”.

  • Singapore

    Too bad we don’t live in Singapore.
    Over there, when kids commit vandalism , they publicly cane them.
    I wish we had that here. Then the hoodlums would learn a lesson and their friends could watch and see what happens when you act like an animal.
    We should also have public executions for murder or violent crimes. And then take their organs and use them for people waiting for organ donations.

  • Dr. S

    their communities and religious sources should be more active (idealistically) however the surveillance cameras can be a big help for “ipso facto”……
    I can’t argue with #9.
    their parents can’t be sued, and are not ultimately responsible once they are adults….however, a percentage of dysfunction (alcohol, abuse, drugs, lack of supervision ETC) can be traced to many of these criminals. There is a connection, how could anyone say there is not.