CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday morning secretaries and principals were shocked to find their offices broken into and ransacked. Offices’ including those of Rabbi Lustig’s as well as Rabbi Shimshoni’s and some of the teachers offices as well.
CROWN HEIGHTS — A mugging victim was beaten and tossed into traffic after refusing to turn over cash in Crown Heights, cops said.
Lawrence Hoffman confronted the 21-year-old victim at 3:20 p.m. at Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue, cops said.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A young Bochur was viciously attacked and robbed Monday evening as he cut through Lefferts Park. The incident took place at around 5:30pm where a group of around five black teens pounced on the Bochur, punching him in the face a number of times and stealing his cell phone.
Beaten and severely injured the Bochur made his was out of the park screaming for help, and the first person he encountered, a Lubavitcher, called Shomrim and Hatzalah. “It was horrifying, [the victim] approached me gushing blood from all over his head and face and begged me for help” said the bystander, who asked not to be named.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — In response to the attack on a 10-year-old Jewish boy the NYPD deployed two watchtowers in the neighborhood.
MIAMI BEACH, FL — Police are investigating a scare which took place at south Florida Yeshiva.
Police said vandals shot at the door of the Lubavitch Education Center along 12th Street and Alton Road as children played inside. Glass shattered everywhere.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A young Jewish boy was attacked this evening while on his way home. The victim, a 10 year old was returning home from Yeshivas Erev. At approximately 8:15pm he was accosted by a large group of black youths near the corner of Kingston Ave and Lefferts Ave. Without uttering any words, one of them threw a basketball at the boy. It struck his face, smashing his glasses and injuring him.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — There has been a relative calm in our neighborhood, the calm referring to car owners not having to worry about waking in the morning to find one of their windows busted and their belongings stolen. But there were the isolated incident over the last month that bore the trademark or Terrance Nelson, Crown Heights’s bona-fide recidivist auto burglar.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Two Bochurim walking home late Friday night were shot at from a car with a paintball gun, striking one of the Bochurim in the face. The incident took place at around 11:00pm as they were walking on Eastern Parkway and Albany Avenue, right in front of two cops who refused to do anything about it.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A 4-year-old boy, his body severely bruised, was found dead Friday afternoon at his family’s apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and the police were investigating the possibility that he had been fatally beaten, the authorities said.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Motzai Yom Tov revealed a very disturbing scene for school administrators at Darchai Menachem, over Yom Tov one of their offices was broken into and the thief made out with tuition checks, now worth nothing after being canceled.
WILLIAMSBURG — A thief stole the fancy holiday hat off a Hasidic man’s head on Friday night, October 2nd, the first night of Sukkos.
The victim was walking from Shul at around 9:30pm and was near Wallabout Street and Throop Avenue when two young men approached him from behind. One of them lifted the man’s shtreimel, a fur hat with a $1,200 price tag, then both ran off.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Bochur was arrested just moments before Sukkos began Friday evening. The arrest took place following an accident he was involved in along with a friend, he was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and possession of illegal cigarettes.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Lubavitcher Yungerman was attacked on Shabbos morning on his way to Shul. The incident unfolded when a Black man passed the Jew and intentionally bumped into him, knocking him back slightly, then attempted to punch him.
The incident took place on Troy Avenue between Carroll and President Streets, and the assailant was described as being around 25 years old with an average height and build.
LONG BEACH, CA — A 30-year-old Los Angeles man pleaded no contest Wednesday to a charge that he killed a 61-year-old rabbi while driving drunk two years ago.
Willie Norton Jr., 30, entered his plea – considered the same as a guilty plea in criminal court – as jury selection was slated to begin in his trial Wednesday, said Long Beach Police Sgt. Hans Kohnlein.
After entering his plea Norton was promptly sentenced to 17 years in prison, said Kohnlein, who is in charge of the Accident Investigations Detail.
The victim, [Gedalia] Shaffer, was visiting from Brooklyn, New York, on March 7, 2007, when the fatal crash occurred.
To the Shomrim of Crown Heights:
I am writing this letter to express my thanks for what Shomrim did for me this week.
My phone was stolen, and I soon had given up hope on ever retrieving it. That was only until I decided to call Shomrim of course.
A confrontation between a black woman and a Lubavitcher girl on a subway ended with the theft of a cell phone, and a later attempt to retrieve it yielded a ransom request by the woman from the earlier confrontation. The victim thought of calling Shomrim, but didn’t at first thinking that it wouldn’t be right to trouble them with such a trivial matter, but later called and together they retrieved the phone. The following letter was sent to us by the victim:
To the Shomrim of Crown Heights:
I am writing this letter to express my thanks for what Shomrim did for me this week.
My phone was stolen, and I soon had given up hope on ever retrieving it. That was only until I decided to call Shomrim of course.
Cutler Bay, FL -Rabbi Yossi Wolff and members of the Chabad of Cutler Bay and Homestead found themselves scrambling an hour before the start of sundown services to find a new place to worship Friday. “This was on the floor; it’s a cover to the ark,” Rabbi Wolff tells CBS 4’s Gwen Belton. “That thrown on the floor is a desecration right before the high holidays.”
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Friday afternoon, a duo of not-so-bright muggers snatched a shopping bag of frozen chickens from two Jewish girls. The incident took place on Crown Street when the two muggers, a Black man in his mid 20’s and a Black girl in her late teens, walked passed the two Jewish girls and snatched one of their shopping bags.
Turns out the bag they stole contained frozen chickens.
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