BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — After apprehending a perpetrator that was lurking in a Jewish building on Friday night (Click Here for that story), the Shomrim member that observed the crime along with the arresting officer spend a day in court last week where they testified against the perp before a grand jury.

Vingal Carter, a 46 year old career criminal who has been in and out of the system for offences ranging from drugs to assaults, and later the most serious offence, rape, was released from prison just 5 days before he was apprehended by Shomrim inside a building with a pry bar in his possession.

Prowler Apprehended by Shomrim, Indicted

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — After apprehending a perpetrator that was lurking in a Jewish building on Friday night (Click Here for that story), the Shomrim member that observed the crime along with the arresting officer spend a day in court last week where they testified against the perp before a grand jury.

Vingal Carter, a 46 year old career criminal who has been in and out of the system for offences ranging from drugs to assaults, and later the most serious offence, rape, was released from prison just 5 days before he was apprehended by Shomrim inside a building with a pry bar in his possession.

CrownHeights.info would like to thank Shomrim for their great work and dedication to the matter, by later following up and taking the time to peruse the matter in court.

Also, we would like to thank and commend Police Officer Gonzalez who made the arrest and aggressively charged Mr. Carter with burglary. Thanks to officers like you, dangerous criminals are kept off the streets.

8 Comments

  • BigBen

    Great job Shomrim and PO Gonzales. May G-d bless you all and give you power to continue this great work.

    I will take 10 officers like PO Gonzales instead of 500 officers like Pablo Rivera and Sgt.Signal any day.
    Now Vega got something to report in the next meeting.

  • Mendy

    Let no one say that “the Jews” don’t give our NYPD credit when and where credit is due. To all you 71st Finest in blue who read CrownHeights.info: We support you. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work–especially to PO Gonzalez.

  • Rabbi Mendel Shagalov

    great story

    but would like to make all aware that going in and out of a building and just not caring could have resulted very very diffract RLZ

  • TRS

    “Aggressively” charged Mr. Carter with burglary? How else would would one charge someone, passively?

  • boruch ben tzvi(A H)hakohaine hoffinger

    B“H
    Thanks to Shomrim!
    ”Thanks to officers like you, dangerous criminals are kept off the streets?“
    What about the weak criminal-justice system?
    Rapists are released in a short time? Society doesn’t respect women.
    Career criminal? Perhaps the criminal-justice system (Esav’s) should send him to school to further his career?
    ”One nation, under G-d (who’s G-d?) with liberty and justice for SOME.”

  • Lax Policing

    to TRS:

    Unfortunately in Crown Heights there is this precedent in which officers don’t care and are lazy. When apprehending a criminal they become unsure what to charge them with, and seldom show up to grand jury to testify. This happens to be something I heard coming out of the District Attorney’s office.

    Lately though some of our relatively new officers have been perusing their cases and arrests with more vigor and actually getting some of the criminals processed and booked for longer sentences, something which is instilling hope for a brighter tomorrow around here.

    I hope, wish and pray that other officers take the cue and follow PO Gonzales’s step.

  • Kop Doktar

    Chevra, although a yasher koach is due for a job well done, let’s not count our eggs before they are laid. WE need to follow this story, and all other crime stories, to the point of conviction, sentence, and then continue to follow it while we oppose any parole eligibility. The crooks need to know that in C.H. the community will create pressure on the justice system and demand that the court send a message of general deterrence to all potential criminals.

    So let us be vigilant by following the story and demanding justice – the kind that places a fear and creates deterrence.