A crew of men robbing neighborhood businesses at gunpoint hit up two more spots in Crown Heights, bringing the total number of stick-ups in one week to five, police said.
Jewish students and alumni at the University of Southern California (USC) expressed shock and rallied around the Chabad Jewish center after an overnight burglary earlier this week. Dozens of supportive messages were posted on social media, while benefactors immediately contributed several thousand dollars to help recoup the damage.
Gun-toting thieves robbed a laundromat, restaurant and smoke shop in Crown Heights this week in a series of commercial robberies that police believe are linked.
A suspect was wounded after being shot by police officers in Crown Heights early Sunday morning. Police were responding to calls for shots fired and upon arriving on scene observed a man with a gun in his hand.
Surveillance video has emerged in connection with a tire slashing spree, which is being investigated as a possible hate. In the video the suspect is seen brazenly stabbing at the tires of multiple cars, even as people walk by.
Over two dozen vehicles in Crown Heights – mostly belonging to members of the Jewish community – had their tires slashed late on Friday night. Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
A Crown Heights homeowner sent us this video, captured by a surveillance camera, of a package being stolen off the porch of his Montgomery Street home.
Dion James, 30, was trying to protect his wife from an angry gunman when he was shot twice in the back on Sunday morning in Crown Heights.
In a harrowing surveillance video released by the NYPD, a woman is seen walking alone at night on the western edge of Prospect Park, when she is attacked from behind by a man who proceeds to assault her and attempt to rape her.
An apartment building which is home to many large Jewish families has been the scene of repeated gun violence in the last few days, and residents feel it’s only a matter of time before a major tragedy occurs – one which can be averted should police act.
A video that has gone viral showing a man in Lefferts Park behaving in a ‘creepy’ manner around children prompted a number of concerned parents to call Shomrim after observing the same man in the park once again today. He was taken into custody.
A turnstile-jumping teenager slipped police from custody inside a Crown Heights precinct. After an hours-long search, the suspect turned himself in to a different NYPD precinct.
The 71st Precinct has released a warrant for the arrest of a man who is alleged to have burglarized several homes in the vicinity of Carroll Street between Brooklyn and New York Avenues in Crown Heights.
On Sunday afternoon, a teacher at the Ohr Menachem Boys’ School took his class to Lincoln Terrace Park (AKA Rochester Park) for recess. While there, a man walked over to the teacher and assaulted him in a completely unprovoked attack.
A group of young teenagers who were ‘playing hooky’ from a local public school walked past the Oholei Torah Mesivta Boys High School and started an altercation with the students there, which escalated until one Yeshiva student received multiple blows to the head. To make matters worse, police officers refused to take action and as of this moment have still not charged the assailant – citing fear of riots. UPDATE: Police have charged the assailant with assault as a hate crime.
Two bumbling criminals were arrested after plainclothes police officers observed them showing each other how to hide a handgun in their pants.
The Crown Heights father of two who was killed early Tuesday morning on St. Johns Place near Schenectady Avenue was murdered by an ex-con over his ‘Air Jordan’ sneakers, the New York Daily News reports.
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