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Wednesday morning a Jewish family on Montgomery St. between Kingston and Albany woke up to find their home not exactly as they had left it the night before when they went to bed. Sometime during the night a thief had broken into their home from the side door and helped himself to a large sum of cash, jewelry, food from the freezer and more they had yet to discover.

The first thing they noticed was that things on the table wasn't the way they had left it, and while trying to put things away they noticed money missing from where they usually kept some loose dollars. After noticing this they went to look for the jewelry and items were missing from there.

Police were called and determined the magnitude of what had taken place. A burglar let himself into their home by breaking the lock on the side door of the home and while the family was asleep he silently moved about and helped himself to the various goods in the home. To describe the brazenness of this burglar, he helped himself to money and jewelry yet that wasn’t enough, he emptied the freezer which contained a few packages of frozen hotdogs and other frozen goods, into shopping bags and left it at the door so he can come back later and take it.

Cat Burglar Breaks Into Two Homes and attempts another

Wednesday morning a Jewish family on Montgomery St. between Kingston and Albany woke up to find their home not exactly as they had left it the night before when they went to bed. Sometime during the night a thief had broken into their home from the side door and helped himself to a large sum of cash, jewelry, food from the freezer and more they had yet to discover.

The first thing they noticed was that things on the table wasn’t the way they had left it, and while trying to put things away they noticed money missing from where they usually kept some loose dollars. After noticing this they went to look for the jewelry and items were missing from there.

Police were called and determined the magnitude of what had taken place. A burglar let himself into their home by breaking the lock on the side door of the home and while the family was asleep he silently moved about and helped himself to the various goods in the home. To describe the brazenness of this burglar, he helped himself to money and jewelry yet that wasn’t enough, he emptied the freezer which contained a few packages of frozen hotdogs and other frozen goods, into shopping bags and left it at the door so he can come back later and take it.

The next night around the block on Empire Blvd. between Kingston and Albany another home was broken into during the night and their computer had been taken. Another home on that block had signs of attempted entry by force through one of the windows which proved unsuccessful.

Thursday two detectives assigned to these cases of burglary spotted a black male lurking around Montgomery St . apparently ‘casing out’ his next target, the detectives picked him up and arrested him. Later they went to the suspects apartment, which is known to them as is this perp with a rap sheet for burglary in the Crown Heights area extending 20 years into the past, and found passports of the family members that became his first victim on Montgomery St. when questioned as to his possession of these items he stated that he found them.

This perp who had just been released from a prison three weeks earlier after serving a 3 year sentence related to robbery and is described as a very large Black male with broad shoulders and is tall. His rap sheet had no indication of ever turning violent.

Our congratulation goes to the detectives of the detective squad at the 71st precinct who took this serious threat seriously enough and apprehended this thief as quickly as they did.

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  • DL

    Congratulations for catching one out of of many robberies this summer.

    In general, is there a reason there arent cops stationed by various st. corners keeping an eye out ?

  • driven to sarcasm by MB

    They caught him red handed. Completely and utterly by mistake i’m afraid. You see they were actually on the way to the donut shop when the unthinkable happened, the two detectives got lost. Then the fury and rage began. You see the donut shop closed in a short 20 minutes……AND THESE AREN’T JUST ANY DONUTS. NO SIREE. ON THURSDAY THEY HAVE A DONUT SPECIAL. IT WAS ALL YOU CAN EAT NIGHT AT THE DONUT PLACE. Some cops went as far as missing their own son’s graduation just because the donut shop was starting to run low on their favorite kind of donut. It wasn’t something that City officials were proud of. Their problem was big and once THIS donut started rolling down the hill, there was just no stopping it.

    This was their taboo, their skeleton in the closet, if you will. Heaven Forefend if the terrorists would ever find out. Why, all they would have to do is plan a strategic (no need for violence for this one)devious plan and make sure that all of the city’s dunkin donuts simultaneously don’t open up on the same day and it would be catastrophic here in New York. The cops would just throw in the towel right then and there. Yes, that would truly be a blow below the belt that the world’s most powerful city would never be truly ready for.

    In any event back to our cat burglar scenario.

    AND HERE’S HOW THE WHOLE THING REALLY WENT DOWN:

    OFFICER ANTAI ("The new guy") : Why did I ever join the force. I’m on the job for a whole month now and all we have to do is serve and protect. That’s not what they taught in the Academy, at least not when I was told I would be assigned to Crown Heights.
    OFFICER SMITE ("The driver ") :Relax man we give out parking tickets every day man. Isn’t that good enough?

    OFFICER ANTAI: Yeah but these Jews man, their catching on. I was about to write a ticket for this old Jewish man the other day and he started arguing with me. Saying stuff like "but sir, i am parked 100 percent legally. I’m going to fight this. BLA BLA BLA

    OFFICER SMITE: S’whadja do?

    OFFICER ANTAI: I quickly wrote him a ticket and ran out of his garage as quick as i can.

    OFFICER SMITE: I HOPE YOU MARKED OFF SOME BOGUS REASON FOR THE TICKET, LIKE THEY TRAINED YOU IN THE ACADEMY.

    OFFICER ANTAI: Of course i did. I know the city has a quota to fill. I wrote that he was parked in a handicapped zone in Kings Plaza. They city’ll never argue with me. And what? you think he’s really gonna go down to stand all day in line just to fight it? Please! Nevertheless, they are catching on these Jews. Jews…..Jews…Jews…Jews….what’s that word mean anyway?

    OFFICER ANTAI: I THINK IT’S ITALIAN FOR THE WORD -BOSS-…….MAYBE IT’S PORTUGESE. Either way, Say, I’m hungry man and the donut shop is gonna close in 15 minutes. Where’s the nearest dunkin donut shop?

    OFFICER SMITE: Well the one that gives free donuts to cops just went bankrupt. And i don’t know where any other shop is located. HEY LOOK! That guy over with a 60 inch flatscreen television sticking out of his trunk is holding a dunkin donut shopping bag in his car.

    Oh and look, there, right across the street, there are a bunch of hassidic teenage boys and girls coming out of what appears to be a synagogue. Who should we ask for directions? Totally irrelavent, but interesting nevertheless.

    OFFICER ANTAI: let’s go to the guy with the shopping bag.

    (SIRENS BLAIRING AS THEY MAKE THEIR U-TURN ACROSS THE STREET AT 11:50 PM)

    Umm EXCUSE ME but do you know where the nearest dunkin donut shop is?

    TYRONE PERPSON: NA MAN I DON"T KNOW WHERE ANY DONUT SHOP BE.

    (OFFICER STEPS OUT OF VEHICLE)

    OFFICER ANTAI: YOU LOOK LIKE YOU COULD USE A LITTLE HELP. See we just thought because you had a donut bag you might be able to help us out with directions. Oh wait …yeah… now I see those aren’t donuts in the bag those are precious jewels and silver candle sticks. I’m sorry I’ll just get back into my car now…..Have a good night.

    TYRONE PERPSON: Thank you for keeping the street safe officer.

    OFFICER ANTAI: JUST DOING OUR JOBS.

    (2 minutes later in the cruiser)

    OFFICER ANTAI: HEY WAIT A MINUTE! DUNKIN DONUTS DOESN"T SELL JEWELRY! QUICK HT THE SIREN…. WE GOT AN ARREST TO MAKE.

    OFFICER SMITE: CAN’T WE JUST LET THIS ONE SLIDE? WE LET ALL THE OTHER ONES GO?

    OFFICER ANTAI: NO!

    …………………………………
    AND THE REST OF THE STORY COULD BE READ IN THE ABOVE ARTICLE.

  • CN

    Why do you call him a cat burgular? Did he take the cat too? The name sounds too good for him. I used to have a cat and it never took money nor jewelry.

  • OFFICER ANTAI

    [to add on]
    "OFFICER ANTAI:
    Of course i did. I know the city has a quota to fill. I wrote that he was parked in a handicapped zone in Kings Plaza. They city’ll never argue with me. And what? you think he’s really gonna go down to stand all day in line just to fight it? Please! Nevertheless, they are catching on these Jews. Jews…..Jews…Jews…Jews….THERE THE ONES WITH ALL THE MONEY, THEY CAN AFFORD A TICKET OR TWO ONCE A WEEK.

  • TO: driven to sarcasm by MB wrote:

    U ARE NUTZ..YET HYSTERICALLY FUNNY!!!
    LOL keep up the entertainment!!

  • Mordy

    to "driven to sarcasm"
    You are an embarassment to all Anash, if in fact you are one. Please leave town and take your sick sarcasm with you. Here the police did the job right, and all you do if bluff with idiotic comments.

  • The montgomery st. victum

    There is certainly no humor to the above story. Anyone whom can make a joke of such a situation has obvious issues on his own. The 71st pct. have been EXTREMELY helpfull in this situation and their hard work finding this thug payed off. Thank You.

  • driven to sarcasm

    Mordy, it wouldn’t hurt you to lighten up a little. If anything, we invite cops into our home on hot days and offer cool drinks etc. as well as thank them profusely for all of the good that they do regardless of when it is or isn’t done. As to my being an embarassment to all Anash, i truly believe that more can be done to ensure the safety of this community. And while it is a firm belief of mine that if we all lived with the mentality that you are demonstrating, we would all walk around with a bunch of these :-( on our faces…..not these :-)

    I’m not saying we should mock cops and make fun of them publicly. However let me ask you something Mordy? When speaking to your family and close friends, when you are referreing to something a black perpetrator just did (posibbly something that you read about online on this website) how do you, MORDY, refer to that person? Do you strictly and religiously always call him a black man? Or occasionaly, do you refer to him as "some Shvartza"?

    Because to us, it’s just using yiddish. To them, it’s highly offensive. Are you careful with all the things that fall into that same category.

    My point is be open about the things at home. We are at home now. If they don’t have problems taking their dear sweet time when responding to muggings, tire slashings, breakins that’s ok. For them to ticket us for sanitation and parking ticket’s (two seperate govt orgs.) is perfectly ok.

    We can sometimes beg for mercy because we can hardly afford insurance for the car or gas to get to work let alone another $150 ticket. And it’s even better when that car later gets towed away CV"S.

    Mordy, I have never once, NEVER ONCE spoke my free mind to police officers. Because in all honesty, not all officers are corrupt as many are. Many are very decent workers. And we as a community appreciate that.

    The bottom line MORDY? It is their job to serve and protect and many times, as can be read in the articles on this website, it takes up to a full 15 minutes at times for them to respond to horrible predicaments which ANASH find themseleves in at times. If they use their sirens, they are a mere 30 second drive to any point in (frum) crown heights from their precinct. IT IS THEIR JOB!

    And the ABSOLUTE BOTTOM LINE,

    LIVE WITH A SMILE. AND DON"T PUT DOWN ANOTHER YID FOR EXPRESSING HIS FRUSTRATION THROUGH HUMOR.

    -driven

  • Mendy

    Mordy:

    I support the police, like you do, but once in a while, we can make fun of them. It’s OK. When push comes to shove, you know we’ll support the cops, and you know it, and they know it.

  • Itzik_s

    CN wrote:
    Why do you call him a cat burgular? Did he take the cat too? The name sounds too good for him. I used to have a cat and it never took money nor jewelry.
    ————————————————————–
    I had a cat named Assad (both because it is Arabic for lion and because his habits reminded me of a certain kleptocratic dictator in the Middle East). Assad’s idea of fun was either jumping from my bookcase to my monitor, or stealing as much as one kilo (2.2 pounds) of sliced meat. Assad was a cat, basically a miniature lion as all cats are. He knew no better, and he jumped not to vandalize my monitor or to somehow scare me so he could steal it for resale but to do what his instinct commanded him to do – jump. And he stole meat (and fish) because he was a rescue, who learned to take food wherever he could find it – but in order to eat, not to buy drugs, or gold chains, or whatever these burglars buy.

    While "cat" burglar does come from the way these criminals climb into windows like cats (I think it also refers to stealth – I managed to lose an entire young turkey to another old feline felon of mine and I did not even see him get into my kitchen – that guy was a gilgul who used to read the Kfar Chabad with me as he lapped up kiddush wine and chicken soup late Friday nights!!), it is an insult to cats to call burglars by this name. If these lowlifes are similar to any animal, it is to the lowly rat, which does nothing for anyone and spreads disease as it chews through pipes, wiring and other infrastructure.

    As for the satire, it is very funny, but we need to have hakoros hatoiv for the many good beat cops who do their job very well while putting their lives on the line. From what I’ve read here, the problem seems to be a few bad apples including a precinct commander. Most of the regular, as opposed to traffic, cops whom I have seen (except 2 schlemiels who pestered me on Purim for the crime of dressing up in a tinfoil hat and Lipa Schmelczer style tish bekeshe) quietly do their jobs and are decent with us.

  • not impressed customer

    If all of anash will be that way and say that the cops are doing their best then they will keep on giving out tickets and eating donuts but if we complain or something more extreme than that maybe they will get up and actually fight crime the way it should be faught and not let these criminals loose.

    P.S. and no i dont think we have to give these cops credit for something their supposed to be doing the same way i dont give the sanitation credit for taking the garbage because thats their job but yes i do think we should thank them but not give them credit because they definately arent going out of their way to help us.

  • Itzik_s

    To Itzik_s

    But the rat does do one good thing. It tells on the others.

    ————————————————-

    So does the (stool) pigeon – and while a pigeon is pretty dirty too, he is not as bad as a rat. And then there was good old Sammy the Bull (Gravano)……………

  • not one of the chikens #1

    to not impresed wy dont we just taik turnes inviting the n……ers to come over and have what thay want remember the makabes

  • CN

    To Itzik_s

    The Torah doesn’t consider a pigeon dirty, and in fact it is kosher and fit to be offered on the mizbayach.

    You may eat any clean bird.

    Deut. 14: 11

    If his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, he shall choose his offering from turtledoves or pigeons.

    Lev. 1:14