An SUV belonging to a member of Crown Heights Hatzalah was stolen late Tuesday night. The vehicle contained the volunteer’s lifesaving equipment and emergency warning lights.
At around noon on Friday, two men entered Responsible Liquor on Empire Boulevard; the owner noticed that their behavior was suspicious and furtive, so he kept a close eye on them. Sure enough, one of them slipped a bottle of expensive tequila under his coat and they both ran out of the store.
A number of Crown Heightsers are concerned over calls they have been receiving asking for urgent assistance. In many cases the caller asked for a sum of cash to help prevent him from being evicted. The kicker? The caller addresses people by first name and poses as someone they “know by face from 770.”
A would-be-burglar was apprehended thanks to the resident whose apartment he tried breaking into and Shomrim for following the suspect.
At around 5:00pm on Thursday, a 14-year-old Jewish girl was walking on President Street near the corner of Kingston Ave. – mere yards away from her home – when she was assaulted by a group of four African-American teens.
Police have identified and are searching for a 16-year-old suspect in a string of robberies – some of them at gunpoint – in Crown Heights.
A gang feud has fueled a 38 percent spike in shootings in Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens amid an overall crime drop of more than 8 percent, the area’s precinct commander said this week.
This afternoon, a shoplifter who attempted to steal a pair of headphones from Sterling Electronics on Kingston Ave. was apprehended and arrested, thanks to the quick action of Shomrim volunteers.
A 19-year-old African-American man was shot and killed just steps from his home in Crown Heights Thursday afternoon.
A would-be intruder was apprehended and arrested after he was spotted climbing the front of a Union Street home. Once spotted him jumped from the window and fled into a nearby home only to be confronted and apprehended by Shomrim after a short chase.
When a family discovered that an envelope full of cash went missing, they asked their building’s management to review surveillance footage of the building. They were shocked to discover that an African-American woman had broken into their apartment a day earlier.
Police are searching for a group of four men who ordered a cab on Uber, then carjacked the driver at gunpoint. The incident occurred Monday, at around 12:45 in the afternoon, on Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights.
A Crown Heights family feels lucky that they were not harmed in a home invasion burglary, which surveillance video later revealed that the intruder was armed with a handgun. It was an alarm system and smart thinking by the homeowner that scared the gun toting burglar off.
A heartless crook ripped the tires off a ‘Meals-on-Wheels’ delivery truck, which is operated by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Wiener.
Police are hunting for the lowlifes behind the vandalism of a public menorah erected by Chabad in Queens.
A gunman shot two uniformed NYPD officers ‘execution style’ while they were sitting in a marked patrol car on the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins Avenues in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn at around 3:00pm. Both officers have died from their wounds.
Two men were taken into police custody while a third was taken to a nearby hospital after he was slashed with a knife inside of a Kingston Avenue building.
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