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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An enraged man struck a woman in the back of her head then proceeded beating on her, until a passing Shomrim member intervened. The incident took place Motzai Shabbos at around 10:00pm on Carroll and Schenectady in front a building where the woman lived and the man was trying to gain access.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Shomrim “save woman’s life” in Domestic Violence Incident

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An enraged man struck a woman in the back of her head then proceeded beating on her, until a passing Shomrim member intervened. The incident took place Motzai Shabbos at around 10:00pm on Carroll and Schenectady in front a building where the woman lived and the man was trying to gain access.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Shaya Lipsh (Brooklyn, NY) to Devori Golomb (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana
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Simcha Vogel (London, UK) to Mussa Junik (Crown Heights)
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Shmuel Brook (Brooklyn, NY) to Nechama Leah Greenberg (Solon, OH) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Shneur Zalman and Yehudis Futerfas from Dnipro, Ukraine had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Zevi Rotter (Crown Heights) to Miriam Elkins (Chicago, IL) L’Chaim: Sunday, March 22nd, 8:00pm at The JCM
New Engagement!

Mendel Minkowitz (Montreal, Canada) to Mushka Lewis (Brighton, England)
Baby Girl!

Zalman and Bella (nee Lifshitz) Brook from Brooklyn Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Chaya Sandhaus from Philadelphia, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Menachem Brody (Chicago, IL) to Chaya Horowitz (Canton, MA)
New Engagement!

Chaim Eliyahu Sternberg (Crown Heights) to Yocheved Wilhelm (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, 8:30pm at The Simcha Hall 571 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Levi Shuchat (Kingston, PA) to Chana Raizel Rachel Banin (Venice, Italy)
New Engagement!

Sroly Goldstein (Crown Heights) to Brocha Klein (Miami, Florida) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Albany Manor
New Engagement!

Shmuli Dalfin (North Bay Village, FL) to Chayale Groner (Calgary, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at the JCM
It’s Twins!

Yossi and Leah Feller from Freedom, PA had twins, a boy and a girl!

Woman Mugged in Broad Daylight on Montgomery

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Earlier this week a woman was mugged in broad daylight on a Crown Heights street. The incident took place at around 12:45pm Tuesday on Montgomery St, between Kingston Ave and Albany Ave, where a black man described to be around 30 years old hit a lady knocking her to the ground and stealing her purse.

More in the Extended Article!

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [WABC] — Police say an off-duty Sanitation worker was fatally shot in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn Wednesday morning.

32-year-old Edward Hunt was shot in the chest outside 857 Lincoln Place at around 5:30 a.m.

He was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital.

Sanitation Worker Fatally Shot

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [WABC] — Police say an off-duty Sanitation worker was fatally shot in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn Wednesday morning.

32-year-old Edward Hunt was shot in the chest outside 857 Lincoln Place at around 5:30 a.m.

He was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital.

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Pervert Strikes Again and Shomrim Catch Him!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Monday morning at around 9:30am a call came into the Shomrim hotline about a Black man who exposed himself, the description given matched that of the perp wanted in connection of the incident which took place this past Friday. Scores of Shomrim members responded and succeeded in apprehending the perp.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Erev Shabbos a Shomrim member was alerted to a Black man who exposed himself to a Jewish woman on East New York Avenue near the Shuk, the member called for backup and police assistance in locating the pervert.

Perv Exposes Himself to Jewish Woman

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Erev Shabbos a Shomrim member was alerted to a Black man who exposed himself to a Jewish woman on East New York Avenue near the Shuk, the member called for backup and police assistance in locating the pervert.

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NY Times
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A teenage girl was arrested on Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of her 16-year old cousin in her family’s apartment in Crown Heights the day before, the authorities said.

The girl, Tiana Browne, 15, of East 21st Street in Brooklyn, is being charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the killing of Shannon Braithwaite, the police said.

Shannon’s mother, Marva Braithwaite, discovered her daughter’s body about 4:30 p.m. near the entrance of their apartment on Empire Boulevard near Troy Avenue. When she tried to open the door, the path was blocked by her daughter’s body.

Cousin Is Charged in Brooklyn Death

NY Times

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A teenage girl was arrested on Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of her 16-year old cousin in her family’s apartment in Crown Heights the day before, the authorities said.

The girl, Tiana Browne, 15, of East 21st Street in Brooklyn, is being charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the killing of Shannon Braithwaite, the police said.

Shannon’s mother, Marva Braithwaite, discovered her daughter’s body about 4:30 p.m. near the entrance of their apartment on Empire Boulevard near Troy Avenue. When she tried to open the door, the path was blocked by her daughter’s body.

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Shomrim Apprehend Youth for Racial Graffiti

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Shomrim received a call earlier today, Sunday, alerting them to 2 Black youths spraying graffiti in an alleyway, a responding member spotted the two while still ‘tagging’ two garages, and called for backup and gave chase.

While fleeing one of the teens attempted to discard a can of spray paint, and was apprehended by a number of Shomrim members and a resident on Union Street between Albany and Troy Avenues. Shomrim member’s recovered the spray paint can, and found a second one in his possession.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Congregation Khal Anash Shul Ransacked

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] –- Congregation Khal Anash Shul on Carroll and Schenectady was ransacked earlier today, Wednesday. The incident was discovered at around 5:30pm with Talis Bags lay strewn on the floor alongside a few Seforim and the Poroches pulled from the Aron Kodesh.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Miami Herald
BOCA RATON, FL — A self-styled investment guru accused of recruiting clients from a synagogue where he worshiped was charged with using ''abusive sales practices'' to cheat them of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The 17-page enforcement action accuses Gary J. Gross, 56, of churning clients' accounts with unauthorized and unsuitable trades, reaping $700,000 in the scheme, including buying risky penny stocks and other investments, the SEC said.

To cover up what he was doing, Gross doctored account records to make clients think they had more than they actually did, the agency said.

SEC: ‘Guru’ Bilked Faithful, Chabad Goers

Miami Herald

BOCA RATON, FL — A self-styled investment guru accused of recruiting clients from a synagogue where he worshiped was charged with using ”abusive sales practices” to cheat them of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The 17-page enforcement action accuses Gary J. Gross, 56, of churning clients’ accounts with unauthorized and unsuitable trades, reaping $700,000 in the scheme, including buying risky penny stocks and other investments, the SEC said.

To cover up what he was doing, Gross doctored account records to make clients think they had more than they actually did, the agency said.

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NY Post

ORTHODOX CREW: A crowd in Williamsburg forms a ring around aman who they said threw watermelons, yelled “I hate Jews!” andknocked a Hasidic boy's hat off.

Don't mess with Exodus.

A group of Hasidic Jews meted out swift street justice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to a man they say threatened to shoot a neighborhood storekeeper.

VIGILANTE OYZ IN THE ‘HOOD’

NY Post

ORTHODOX CREW: A crowd in Williamsburg forms a ring around aman who they said threw watermelons, yelled “I hate Jews!” andknocked a Hasidic boy’s hat off.

Don’t mess with Exodus.

A group of Hasidic Jews meted out swift street justice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to a man they say threatened to shoot a neighborhood storekeeper.

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Suspected in a Gun-Run, Arrested for Dis-Con

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Late afternoon Wednesday, girls walking home from school and mothers watching their children play in the park witnessed how the intersection, of Lefferts and Albany Ave flooded with scores of police cars and vans, and subsequently the arrest of a Black teen. Then as quick as they swamped the intersection, they were gone, leaving everyone wondering what happened.

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Unidentified Man Beaten to Death on Kingston

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A man was beaten to death on Kingston Avenue earlier tonight, Tuesday. The incident took place in front of, then inside 451 Kingston Ave. at around 9:00pm.

Witnesses told CrownHeights.info that they saw one Black man knock down another Black man then drag him into the building located on the corner of Kingston and Lefferts where he proceeded to beat the man until he died.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Jewish woman who was visiting a friend was accosted and harassed by a drunk black male. The incident took place at around 8:45pm Thursday night on Empire Boulevard where a woman was sitting at the front door of a friend’s house when the perpetrator walked up the steps and sat down beside her and began harassing her.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Shomrim Apprehend one for Harassment and Trespassing

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Jewish woman who was visiting a friend was accosted and harassed by a drunk black male. The incident took place at around 8:45pm Thursday night on Empire Boulevard where a woman was sitting at the front door of a friend’s house when the perpetrator walked up the steps and sat down beside her and began harassing her.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — 5 Mezuzahs were torn from apartment doors inside of 1690 Union Street, a relatively small building with 31 residential units, most of whom aren’t Jewish, located between Schenectady and Utica Avenues.

The vandalism was discovered at around 6:30pm on Wednesday. Police along with Shomrim were called and immediately responded to the scene. Police quickly deemed the incident a bias crime and brought down a Crime Scene Unit to dust for fingerprints. Additionally detectives from the Bias Crime Squad responded and began investigating the incident.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Five Mezuzahs Torn from Apt. Doorposts

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — 5 Mezuzahs were torn from apartment doors inside of 1690 Union Street, a relatively small building with 31 residential units, most of whom aren’t Jewish, located between Schenectady and Utica Avenues.

The vandalism was discovered at around 6:30pm on Wednesday. Police along with Shomrim were called and immediately responded to the scene. Police quickly deemed the incident a bias crime and brought down a Crime Scene Unit to dust for fingerprints. Additionally detectives from the Bias Crime Squad responded and began investigating the incident.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Minister Beaten with Hand-Gun during Robbery

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A black minister on his way home on Balfour Place was attacked when a perpetrator confronted him at the corner of Lefferts Avenue and demanded his money while pointing a handgun at him.

The incident took place at around 12:15am, and the lone perp was described as a Black male. After demanding his money the minister refused, the perp began beating him with the pistol in the middle of which the gun discharged, but thankfully the bullet did not hit anyone.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

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Nelson out for two Days, Re-Arrested

Nelson being arrested last year – Illustration Photo.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Crown Heights’s most known and notorious car thief Terrance (Derrik) Nelson was arrested yesterday after he broke into a car and pulled out a knife on the owner.

More in the Extended Article.

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