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Burglars Attempt Friday Night Break-in While Family Sleeps

With the aid of a car jack, burglars attempted to break in to a Carroll Street home sometime Friday night, while the family was fast asleep. Apparently they were scared off before they could get into the home.

The attempted break in occurred sometime between Friday night and Shabbos morning on Carroll Street between Troy and Schenectady Avenues. The family was fast asleep on the floor above and only discovered the attempted break in the following morning when they found a discarded car jack on their front porch, and their window bars spread apart.

It appeared that the would-be burglars were scared off before they could complete the break in.

Since there was no imminent danger once the attempted theft was discovered, the homeowner sought out a Shomrim member in Shul rather than making a phone call, and was advised to call the police once Shabbos ended.

Police officers arrived once called on Motzai Shabbos and filed a police report. Additionally a shovel was discovered to have been used in attempt to pry open the window.

The homeowner told a Shomrim volunteer that he had debated with his wife if they should leave the window open. “Now I will be leaving it closed” he said.

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16 Comments

  • YW

    B”H

    Which block of Carroll Street?

    And it must have taken the would-be burglars a fair amount of time and noise to work on the window bars this way. Was this window in the front of the house?

    What’s next???

  • Spooked

    So even with bars we are not safe in our own homes. What animals these thugs are. What animals.

  • resident

    Perhaps more homeowners should install video cameras.
    Did they dust for fingerprints?

  • Where's the surveillance video

    We must look at all neighbors surveillance video.

    We put one behind bars, there are more out there.

    We need to pool our resources and help each other to make this community safer!

  • Shmuli

    That was the same method used to burglarize my cousin’s house.
    People! Get stronger bars for your windows and/or set up an alarm system, the thief is on the loose!

  • NO PROBLEM!!!!

    All they need to do is take an electrical cord, wrap the bare wires around the metal bars, plug it in, (go to sleep..)and when they touch the gate, POOF!
    The only problem you will have to attend to next, is the clean up on you front porch!
    But PLEASE, research this properly BEFORE you do this! So YOU don’t get shocked!!!

  • oh my! :-o

    terrible scare for the family. B”H nothing was taken, and they are safe. Any security cameras in the area? Every home needs at least one

  • declasse' intelelctual

    Another benefit of living in Bloomberg’s city. No police patrol because they were exhausted from ticket writing quota patrol

  • Kudos

    Lets vote for Chanina Sperling to partition some of that counsel money towards shomrim so that they can do their job properly.

  • deena

    Same thing happened to me two friday nights ago. They got scared off somehow and I’m on the other side of Eastern Parkway. We did not report it thought, because nothing was taken.

  • declasse' intelelctual

    #12: You have to report it, because that way you may get more spot patrols in the area during the night

  • anon

    Some window bars have horizontal bars going across the top, middle and bottom of all the vertical bars. Ours didn’t have a horizontal bottom bar and someone pointed that out to us, so we had a company come and add a bottom bar going horizontally across our vertical bars. The point of the horizontal bars is so that no one can pry open the vertical bars. It is also important to notice if the bars are thin or thick enough to be hard to pry.