More Youth Crime: 15-Year-Old Arrested for Shoplifting
A 15-year-old teen was arrested this afternoon after stealing an umbrella from a Kingston Avenue store. The thief claimed it was a ‘joke’ and that she was ‘afraid’.
A 15-year-old teen was arrested this afternoon after stealing an umbrella from a Kingston Avenue store. The thief claimed it was a ‘joke’ and that she was ‘afraid’.
A Jewish man was punched in the face by an irate construction worker, who after asking to allow him to pull out of his driveway went berserk.
An alleged pervert who shot up four members of a Jewish patrol group when they cornered him following complaints of exposing himself claimed self-defense at his trial Tuesday.
A Jewish boy fell victim to a violent robbery on busy Kingston Avenue, when two Black teens shoved him off his bike and fled. Police managed to apprehend the pair – who were later released into the custody of their parents.
A senseless act of aggression followed by a mugging marred an otherwise beautiful Sunday. A man was struck in the head by a rock, while a woman had her iPhone snatched.
A passerby driving down Carroll Street witnessed the attempted mugging of a young Jewish girl and sprung into action, preventing the crime and apprehending the mugger – a 13-year-old. Police are asking for the victim to come forward.
A Lubavitcher owner of a Park Slope baby gear store fell victim to a cell phone robbery after leaving his phone on the counter.
A 39-year-old Chabad rabbi was attacked by a group of young men in the German city of Offenbach, near Frankfurt, according to media reports.
The collective power of the press, community and volunteers led today to the apprehension of the three individuals who assaulted young Jewish girls Tuesday afternoon, and the arrest of one of them – a 12-year-old who was charged with a hate crime.
Two young Beis Rivka students were beaten and had glass bottles thrown at them in two separate incidents as they were walking home from school. In one of the attacks the assailants – two teenage girls – called the victim a ‘dirty Jew’.
In response to a bloody weekend of gun violence that claimed the lives of seven people and left least 26 others wounded, the city police commissioner announced he would step up foot patrols in housing projects, increase plain clothes detectives in anti-crime units, add surveillance towers and monitor gang activity to curb retaliatory shooting, a police spokesman said.
Crown Heights Shomrim has sent out the following alert: An 11-Year-Old boy was walking home from school when a Black man driving a red car attempted to lure him into his car.
A bike thief made off with an expensive bike last week, and the entire incident was captured on surveillance video.
After months of slipping money out of charity boxes in synagogues around the neighborhood – some captured on surveillance video – the thief was busted by a student this morning. Police were called and he was arrested.
Last week officers from the 71st Precinct executed a search warrant in a Crown Street apartment, there they found four firearms and nearly a kilogram of illegal narcotics and cash – all of which were sized, and one man was arrested.
Surveillance video from Sterling Electronics captured the theft of an umbrella, and how a woman passing by alerted the store owner to the theft.
A 16-year-old high school kid was arrested after he was caught stealing an umbrella from a Kingston Avenue store. A group of angry shopkeepers apprehended the thug and with the help of Shomrim he was arrested.