One Of Crown Heights’s Most Prolific Thieves Nabbed Again By The NYPD With the Help of Shomrim

by CrownHeights.info

For years this Crown Heights thief has made a mockery of the Justice system. He has been arrested, released, and rearrested countless times, and local residents are demanding that the Justice system do its job.

According to reports, Crown Heights Shomrim received information on the most recent theft done by this thief just this week, a matter of days after he was arrested on a burglary charge and released by a judge. This time, he went big, stealing items worth thousands of dollars from a local resident.

A police report was filed and the volunteers of Shomrim joined the NYPD in actively searching for him. Interestingly, both Shomrim and the NYPD found him at exactly the same time.

“At approximately 5:30 p.m., Shomrim volunteers, working closely with @NYPD71Pct, apprehended this repeat burglar and thief who has plagued our neighborhood for years, cycling in and out of prison every few weeks,” Crown Heights Shomrim wrote on social media.

What was not explicitly written, though, was that both Shomrim and the NYPD were following the thief at exactly the same time, and neither was aware of the other. With both the NYPD and Shomrim at the scene of the arrest, the officers were able to see the thief’s crimes in real time, with Shomrim providing the evidence, victims, and surveillance video needed to put him behind bars for a long time.

Now it is up to the judge to keep him there.

“The NYPD has done a great job taking him off the street – now it’s on the justice system to finally keep him off the street,” Shomrim wrote. “For a long time.”

With justice reforms and cashless bail, the number of thieves, burglars, and career criminals roaming the streets has skyrocketed, and with them, has come an unending stream of petty theft, burglaries, and mental illness. Local residents, who have found their homes and businesses the front lines in the war on crime and mental illness, have become fed up.