Thousands of dollars in lifesaving equipment was tracked down Monday morning after a unabashed thief broke the back window of a Hatzalah vehicle, making off with the equipment inside.
It’s not J’Ouvert in Crown Heights without violence, and despite there being no official parade, J’Ouvert did not disappoint. An early morning shooting in Crown Heights left five people shot, including a six year old boy.
With Labor Day weekend just around the corner, the Violence Suppression Team of the 71st Precinct kicked into gear, taking seven firearms off the streets of Crown Heights in under a week.
It’s always important in Crown Heights to make sure that no packages or valuables are visible when you park your car for the night. But with labor day weekend happening, it’s twice as important.
A terrifying incident took place Friday afternoon after a man pulled a knife on a school bus blocking traffic in Crown Heights. The ensuing 911 call confounded the issue with a wrong address.
We are back today with another game of “What Is This Thief Thinking!”, after this man decided that stealing this reclining lawn chair in Crown Heights was worth a brush with the law.
A bike riding package thief in Crown Heights struck again Friday, lifting merchandise left unattended on a porch.
Police made an excellent catch Motzei Shabbos, after tracking down and arresting a gunpoint robber in Crown Heights just minutes after the crime.
A word to the wise, thieves will steal anything not bolted down, and some stuff that is. This thief didn’t seem to care that he had triggered this Hawthorne Street homes motion sensor, or that his face would be plastered across the internet showing as he stole the bike just after midnight last night.
Over a violent weekend in which New York City saw tens of shooting incidents, the 71st precinct made two gun seizures from the streets of Crown Heights.
A fatal shooting took place in the early hours of Sunday morning at the Parkside entrance to Prospect Park. Police rushed to the scene where they found one person shot in the head. He was pronounced dead on scene.
Another fatal shooting took place this afternoon in Lincoln Terrace “Rochester” Park, sending children scattering and adults ducking for cover. According to the police, the suspected shooter shot the 53-year-old victim in the head before fleeing on foot towards Rochester Ave.
A Crown Heights father had their fears realized Friday morning, after a mentally disturbed man grabbed his sons arm while on his way to school, attempting to take him away.
Shots were reported having been fired in Crown Heights at approximately 9:45pm Thursday evening near the corner of Schenectady Ave and Union Street. No injuries were reported.
Three joyriding teenagers made the perfect theft for New York City, then dumped it in a Crown Heights alley. The teenagers had lifted a pickup truck from the New York City Housing Authorities location in the southern part of Crown Heights, and decided to take it on a joy ride.
The 71st Precinct, which covers a majority of he Crown Heights Jewish community, announced the seizure of two guns taken off the streets. The guns, Sig Saur and Bretta model handguns, were seized with ammunition.
After a short hiatus, the relative calm of Crown Heights was again broken with a shooting Wednesday afternoon. No victims were located on scene.
