Nelson Confirmed Breaking Into Cars

Friday at around 12:30pm Shomrim received a call from an alert resident about a Black male lurking around cars on Malbone St. Shomrim immediately responded and spotted the perp breaking into a car. When the perp noticed he was being watched he attempted to flee when one of the members grabbed the perp while another member confirmed that he had infact broken into the car.

While more members were arriving on the scene, the perp, who is well known both Shomrim and Police, managed to break free and get away. The perp known as Derrick (Terrence) Nelson, about 35 years of age, has a long history of breaking into cars in Crown Heights and even served a few sentences related to such crimes.

More in the Extended Article! Plus a picture of the perp!

His Method of Operation [MO] used to be him searching for cars not properly locked, which made it very hard for police to charge him since there was no visible damage. He now has a new MO in which he uses a flat head crew driver and wedges it between the widow pane and the window and pries till it breaks, with minimal noise and minimal damage. This leaves pry marks on the window frame.

Police responded to the call and filed a report with this perps name and said that when detectives spot him they will ‘pick him up’.

This would be more then five times this year alone that he was picked up with 100% evidence and eyewitnesses against him and he still roams the streets freely and terrorizes our hardworking community, how long will our community have to suffer from this type of petite crime? Until one car break-in victim will catch this perp and break his neck?

This gross lack of protection is calling for it. It’s only a matter of time.

The perps jacket
The tool marks left on the window

31 Comments

  • Ruchie

    Will the community council post this perps photo on wanted posters all over the community? With a reward for finding the creep?

  • Yossi

    If we break his nads I dont think hell be using them to break our cars any more!!! We need ACTION agaist these aminals…

  • unknown

    wow! also whoever writes theese articals can you stop calling them blacks and niggers call them african american the same way were called white!

  • Itzik_s

    Derrick? Is that pronounced Dreck? If this guy is known to police, how in the world does he keep escaping arrest?

  • Say it as it is

    To Unknown (though I hope you know who you are):

    "…call them african american the same way were called white!"

    Um…. didn’t you just mention that "we’re called white"? wouldn’t that be equal to "calling them blacks"? I mean black is opposite to white not african american unless it’s a new color that I havn’t heard about, which is I guess off-black).

  • BLOURIAP

    B"H

    IT’S CRAZY: IT IS NORMAL FOR THIS STINKING SOCIETY!
    ESAV IS GOOD AT MAKING MONEY, FANCY BUILDINGS, AIRPLANES—TECHNOLOGY.
    A SAFE AND JUST SOCIETY? A HEALTHLY SOCIETY?
    NO WAY!
    ESAV (BUSH & CO.) SUCCEED IN 1 OUT OF 3 AREAS—A FAILURE! A FAILURE AT THE REALLY IMPORTANT ISSUES: ADEQUATE AND AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE FOR A L L CITIZENS. SAFE STREETS AND JUST COURTS. IF YOU’RE RICH YOU’LL GET JUSTICE IF NOT—GO TO H_ _ _ _!
    THIS EVIL AND ROTTEN MAN HURTS PEOPLE BADLY. THE GOVERNMENT IS COLD-HEARTED. GRAB NELSON AND BEAT THE LIFE OUT OF HIM!
    HE WAS ARRESTED PREVIOUSLY ABOUT 18 TIMES. THE SPIDER BURGLAR IN MANHATTAN WAS ARRESTED AND RELEASED 18 TIMES.
    PERHAPS THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS IN CAHOOTS WITH THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY?

  • on

    our car has been broken into and now i realize that it must have been this guy bc the metal part is bent… it is really terrible that this is happening to soo many people. unfortunatly we were away and didnt report it.

  • Brook Ave

    He looks like the same trash that lifted a gallon of Wisk at the Shuk on E. NY Ave. I guess he needs to have his undershirts clean when they book him for his mug shot. There could be movies and book deals…one never knows do one.

  • Listen up- important

    Okay, you all listen up here-
    -Firstly, instead of everyone running around like a chicken without ahead because of these crimes and complaining about someone not doing something (We look like whimps from an out-of-towners view), We should put our heads together and work TOGETHER (the entire Kan Tzivah and don’t let politics be included in this, or it won’t work) with all the Rabbonim. If we all run around like a chicken without a head, our enemies will eventually be able to seep through all cracks and crime will pour in. Try braking 1 pencil, then try braking a few together (a bit harder) and try braking a whole bunch all together (impossible). This is what the community needs. Also, the blacks don’t have a great history, so feeling persecuted, they feel the need to persecute a nation persecuted as themselves and be stronger than a nation.
    * i suggest everyone (including the 90 year old ladies and 2 year olds in CH to start learning self-defense/karate. There should be mens classes and womens classes. If nobody will do it, the city should bring someone in
    -When passing a black area by, DO NOT look them in the eye- look straight ahead and walk confidently and power walk. They are less likely to attack, unless you are distracted or vulnerable looking.
    -elect new police or start another police. These ones are obviously not helpful, so there is no point of complaining. Get rid of them.
    P.s. i dont know who to go to with this, so go to the Rabbis or city council (i haven’t been home in a while, so i don’t know who to contact)

  • Annonymous

    You know why this stuff doesnt happen in williamsburg, and bp?? Because a Derek Nelson would have had his head kicked in a long long time ago if it was going on in Chaptzem land!! We need to stop being suckers….. People dont respect the weak, and the fearful, they respect authority, and power.

  • to Unknown

    You write: "can you stop calling them blacks and niggers call them African American the same way we’re called white!"

    How is calling someone with dark skin "African American" the same as calling someone with light skin "White"? What is the similarity between the two titles?

    If we are called "White", why can’t people with dark skin be called "Black"? Or perhaps we should be called "European Americans"?

    And you are the first one to mention the N word on this page.

    With regards to this article, how indeed did the perp get away from Shomrim? Perhaps you guys need to use more force?

  • Yossel

    B"H

    Keep in mind: While this thug roams the streets freely, you all are getting stopped by the cops because you aren’t wearing a seat belt. You are getting harrassed by the cops becuase you forgot to move your car 1 minute after ASS (Altnerate Side of the Street) Parking takes effect. You are the ones getting a ticket becuase there’s a paper cup on your front lawn.

    ThIS IS JUSTICE??!???!!!????

    When will this community learn???

  • lw

    well dont expect the community council to do anything about it. what we need to do is gather all these articles and write a strong letter to the governer, attorney general, police commissioner and all the media, with as many signatures as possible. the problem is not the writing of the letter or getting info, its getting people together to get it done. and thats hard when the community council will go the the rav put their slant on it and the rav will say you cant, then they come out and say ‘the rav said you cant’ and no one will do it.

  • david

    Yossel: "getting stopped by the cops because you aren’t wearing a seat belt. You are getting harrassed by the cops becuase you forgot to move your car 1 minute after ASS (Altnerate Side of the Street) Parking takes effect" – don’t break the law and you won’t get tickets!

    OK the cops may be doing a bad job, but don’t break the law and then complain you get a ticket!

  • be alert

    listen up: yes, you should look at them so that you can identify them…

    Also: Would it be possible for more oganizes and visible Shomrim patrols of the neighborhood?

  • meir rhodes

    Isroel ShemTov. bring back the Red Devil.He knows quite well how to deal with these chevra.

  • to unknown

    if we are calld white b/c of our color so it maks much sence to call them black for thar color,
    plus people who act like animals dont deserv to be tretad
    like people

  • BORUCH HAKOHAINE HOFFINGER

    B"H

    I GREW UP IN NEW YORK, BORO PARK, BROOKLYN TO BE PRECISE. I WENT TO PUBLIC SCHOOL 192 ON 18TH AVENUE AND 47TH STREET. I SAID THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, WITH TEARS IN MY EYES, WHEN ONLY A LAD: "…ONE NATION, UNDER G-D, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL."
    THEY SHOULD END THE PLEDGE WITH AN UPTURNED VOICE INDICATIVE OF A QUESTION.
    A TERRIBLE DISGRACE. CRIMINALS CAN BE DANGEROUS. SUE THE CITY FOR MARKETING A DANGEROUS AND DAMAGING PRODUCT! CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT! CHEMICAL WARFARE AGAINST THE CITIZENS OF CROWN HEIGHTS!
    IT’S A WONDER ELOQIM ONLY VISITED US WITH ONE 911 WE’RE WORTHY OF A FEW.

    THE NEW PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (THE TRUE ONE): "I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, TWO NATIONS (THOSE IN POWER AND THOSE NOT), UNDER THE BUCK, DIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME."

  • Yosef Avrohom

    The leadership in our community has been very quiet recently (boruch Hashem no stupid statements). If you cannot help our neighberhood with a simple topic as crime. Nothing at alll! Then it is time you resigned and said all I did was to bring in more machlokes into the community then we ever had. But we cannot help the community become safer. In fact on our guard the shchuna has became more crime ridden then ever before.

    At least you will be credited with finally making a truthful statement.

  • I know what I am talking about

    I have asked one of our elected officials for special government funding for Shomrim, so they can buy more equipment and pay for gasoline. This was a serious request and I am hopeful that this elected official will deliver. And if we are fortunate, it will be posted here.

  • DID YOU NOTICE

    did you notice this happened on MALBONE STREET right next to the police station- LITERALLY THEIR BACK YARD!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Itzik_s

    Is that guy on crack or what? He sure looks out of it.
    ——————————————–
    Is crack or some other cheap drug popular again among the human refuse of Brooklyn? That could explain the rise in crime here.

  • Noah

    "African American" is certainly not the correct terms for the blacks in this community since most of them are from the Carribean Islands.

    That being said, my mother used to work in a school in downtown baltimore and began the schoolyear refering to "African Americans" but the students corrected her stating that neither they nor their parents had ever been to Africa (and, unlike the blacks in CH, that’s where they originated from).

    So if you want to call some white dude who emmigrated from South Africa "African American", be my guest, but the "African Americans" in this community are anything but!

  • Yossi

    The NYPD 71st Precinct Council meeting is Thursday at 7:30 in the public junior high at Empire and NY Aves.
    Inspector Vega will be there. To hear your comments, concerns, and aggravations.

    Will you be there?

    Every month, all these yidden show up and say NOTHING.

    Make this a real new year. Talk up like a mentsch.