The NYPD’s Special Victims Unit is investigating a report that a young woman, who is visiting from Israel for the month of Tishrei, was assaulted while sleeping in the women’s section of 770. With the help of Shomrim, police have successfully apprehended the suspect, who has since been charged with the crime.
After a hiatus of several months, the wheel thieves are back in business.Their latest victim: a brand-new Honda Accord parked on Carroll Street between Kingston and Albany Avenues, whose wheels were stolen in middle of the night and the car’s body left resting on crude cinderblocks.
A Brooklyn man was indicted for a daring crime spree near the corner of Utica Ave. and Lincoln Place in Crown Heights, in which he allegedly impersonated a police officer, pulled over a van, brandished a gun, and threatened to kill its driver.
A 29-year-old Queens man has been indicted by Brooklyn’s D.A. for an armed carjacking that he allegedly committed on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave. in Crown Heights this summer.
A minivan parked on Troy Ave. between Eastern Parkway and Lincoln Pl. was broken into this morning. The thief made off with a pair of Tefilin that were inside the vehicle, though, oddly, he left the Tefilin bags behind.
Returning home late one night last week, a young Lubavitcher father was accosted by two teenage thugs, one of whom pulled a gun on him as he was walking into his president street apartment building.
A white tenant recently moved into a mostly black apartment building on President Street in Crown Heights, not long after threatening hate graffiti was found scrawled on a hallway wall.
Police are searching for two men who are suspected of brutally beating a 45-year-old man inside the Utica Ave. subway station in Crown Heights.
About an hour ago, shortly after 10:00am, a Crown Heights father was walking his five-year-old son to his first day at school, when they were both brutally – and randomly – attacked and injured by an assailant. A vigilant bystander heroically chased the man down and delivered him to the hands justice.
Two Lubavitchers were arrested in London’s Stamford Hill neighborhood in connection with a global law enforcement operation targeting a ring peddling counterfeit medicine.
Five people were shot – and one of them killed – in several shooting incidents that occurred this morning in Crown Heights, as celebrations were underway for the Caribbean-American / Labor Day Parade on Eastern Parkway.
A Jewish-owned minivan, parked in front of Empire Shteibel, was broken into at some point during the night.
A pistol-packing thug who robbed and shot two people in Crown Heights last week was apprehended by detectives, after he committed a third such robbery in the neighboring 73rd precinct.
ALERT: Hundreds of Lubavitchers and Crown Heights consumers are reporting that their credit cards have been fraudulently used to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Two people were killed and 21 injured in more than a dozen separate shootings in New York City over the weekend. The gun violence, scattered around four New York boroughs, is part of a recent increase in shooting incidents in the city, despite a sharp decline in crime over the past two decades.
A Jewish boy was attacked on President Street by a group of 4 black teenagers, the assault bore striking similarities to last night’s incident. A Jewish man was assaulted on Nostrand Avenue by 4 or 5 black men, one of them sprayed the victim with mace.
Three teenagers attacked a Jewish man on an Albany Avenue street corner Wednesday night in a suspected ‘knockout’ attack. Police are investigating the assault as a possible hate crime.
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