Shomrim Recover Stolen Vehicle Using OnStar

Sunday evening in the heart of Boro Park a car-jacking took place on 45th St. between 17th and 18th Avenues. A slim built male Black ran up to the car and pointed a gun at the driver and ordered him to exit the vehicle and fled with it.

The Boro Park Shomrim Division responded to the call along with numerous Police Officers from the 66th Precinct and began canvassing the area for the car, a 2007 Black GMC Envoy. All the other Shomrim Divisions including Flatbush, Crown Heights and Williamsburg were notified and requested to assist in the canvas. Police had issued a Level One Mobilization as well, notifying the surrounding Precincts of the incident.

Shomrim Apprehend Alleged Car Thief

Sunday evening at around 10:30pm Shomrim received a call from an alert resident that had observed a young white male in their backyard inside a car. The incident had taken place on Eastern Pkwy between Troy and Albany.

Numerous Shomrim members responded and surrounded the area and called police, many officers of the 77th Precinct responded and arrived on scene with the youth still inside the vehicle. Police arrested the youth and when questioned as to why he was in the car he answered that ‘he was being chased and was scared so he was hiding in the car’.

One Week, Two Incidents and No Suspects

Sydney, Australia — In just one week, Sydney Jews have had to face the brutal reality of a grisly murder and an alleged assault – with both victims in the heart of the bagel belt. Although there is no proof yet that either was racially motivated, Jewish officials are nonetheless concerned.

Wednesday afternoon, December 27, 2006: An elderly lady feels unwell, calls her doctor at around 3.30pm, and returns to bed.

That evening, at around 7.15pm, Katherine Schweitzer, an 81-year-old Holocaust survivor, is found dead, murdered, strangled to death.

Her body is dumped in a wheelie bin and left on the fifth floor of her Bellevue Hill apartment block.

New evidence casts doubt over allegations of Yeshiva student’s alcoholism

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New evidence has cast serious doubt over police allegations that an Israeli yeshiva student’s brain haemorrhage was due to a “drunken accident”.

Nitzan Zerach, 21, a student at Sydney’s Yeshiva Centre, was hospitalised last Thursday with a brain haemorrhage and facial injuries.

A police spokesperson told the AJN late on Monday: “New facts have come to light and we are keeping an open mind.

Accident or assault? Dispute over Yeshiva student’s injury

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Sydney, Australia — Was it an assault or an accident? That’s the contested question regarding Nitzan Zerach, an Israeli-born student at Sydney’s Yeshiva Centre who was hospitalised last Thursday with a brain haemorrhage and facial injuries.

Chassidic teens injured in attack

Police are investigating an alleged attack on two ultra-Orthodox teenagers, including one who was already on crutches, which may have been motivated by antisemitism or anti-Israel sentiment.

The boys, aged 16 and dressed in traditional black-and-white Orthodox garb, were waiting for a tram in Melbourne’s Chapel Street on Tuesday night when a car pulled up and one of its passengers allegedly shouted, “You killed our cousins in Lebanon”, in what is believed to be a reference to Israel’s war against Hezbollah last July.

Another Daytime Burglary in Crown Heights

The incident took place this past Wednesday at around 3:30 in the afternoon, one of the residents of the house on Carroll St between Schenectady and Utica entered the house and encountered the thief who pulled a knife on him and fled out the back door through the kitchen.

He described the perp as a Male Black around the age of 15 or 16 with a medium build. He had already been through the house and had stuffed various items in his backpack. The items ranged from silver candlesticks that were on the dining room table, wallets and some jewelry. The perp knew what he was looking for avoiding the things that weren’t of significant value, such as a knockoff watch and some real looking jewelry.

Police Search For Gunman In Brooklyn Roller Rink Shooting

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Detectives are searching for a man who shot four people at a Brooklyn roller skating rink in Crown Heights early Wednesday morning.

It happened outside the Empire Roller Skating Center in Crown Heights shortly before 1 a.m.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Police ‘Rough-Up Victim’ Was Cuffed

The off-duty sergeant and two cops charged with assaulting a suspect in Brooklyn knocked their prisoner to the ground and kicked him while he was handcuffed and down, police sources revealed yesterday.

The trio, assigned to the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights, allegedly roughed up the man after uniformed police had arrested him for breaking into the personal car of the off-duty sergeant.

Not content with having the suspect, Gaspar Alcade, in shackles, Sgt. Gregory Abrahams allegedly punched him in the face.

Murders Up City Wide

Harlem is bleeding – the murder rate doubled there this year.

Slayings spiked at least 100 percent in each of the neighborhood’s three police precincts, jumping to 40 this year from a total of 19 last year.

The increase in Harlem – the biggest among any adjoining precincts in the city – fueled this year’s 35 percent surge in homicides in Manhattan above 59th Street, police statistics through last Sunday show.

Cop Denies Beating Thug After Car Theft Try

An NYPD sergeant charged with pummeling a suspected car thief in Brooklyn while off-duty defended himself yesterday, telling the Daily News the assault charges against him are baseless.

“The truth will come out,” Sgt. Greg Abrahams said after being held for 15 hours in the alleged beating of an ex-con who police say was trying to steal the sergeant’s Ford Mustang. “This is so bogus. It’s really just being blown out of proportion.”

Abrahams was agitated outside his Nassau County home yesterday as he removed parts of the dashboard, allegedly damaged by Gaspar Alcalde, 48.

3 Off-Duty Officers Accused of Assault

Three off-duty police officers were arrested and charged with assault yesterday after they attacked a man who had broken into a car belonging to one of them, officials said.

The man accused of breaking into the car, Alcado Gasper, 47, of Park Slope, Brooklyn, suffered minor injuries in the attack, which took place in Park Slope, and received medical treatment after he was arrested and taken to the 78th Precinct station house, officials said.

Officers Greg Abrahams, 33; Mark Zajac, 25; and Chris Kirch, 27, were all charged with third-degree assault and are under investigation by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, the police said.

B’klyn House ‘Theft’

Brooklyn, NY — A devious cabal that included a pedophile rabbi stole a half-million-dollar home from a cancer-stricken woman, using a forged power of attorney to sell it and pocket the profits, Brooklyn prosecutors charged yesterday.

According to investigators, Margaret Franklin’s Crown Heights home was stolen in August 2004 after Nathen Farkas, 31, forged a power of attorney, signing Franklin’s name, that effectively handed control of her assets to co-defendant Russell Pitt.

Another House Burglarized on Union Street

Some time between 11:00am and 2:00pm on Wednesday a basement on Union between Troy and Schenectady where a few Bochurim stay was broken into and robbed.

Similar to the incident that took place on Friday night the point of entry was not immediately clear, the thief possibly picked the lock, and went for small items of value in this case it included an expensive camera and laptop, cash and other electronics.