We have received reports that a man is trying to pick up young children by posing as a “police officer” from a Cleveland. He is said to have approached children showing them a badge and asking them to “show him directions” to different local streets or avenues.
Description; white male, with a small beard and a silver tooth, wearing a blue and black cap, blue jeans, and a white T-shirt with a picture on it. (Be advised that while this is the clothing he was wearing when he was first spotted and it is thus worth nothing, he could easily change into other clothing – a different hat, a jacket covering his shirt, etc.). He was seen driving a dark-colored (dark blue, black, dark green, etc.) an SUV type vehicle.
COMMUNITY ALERT
The Crown Heights Shomrim urgently advises all community parents and educators of the following:
We have received reports that a man is trying to pick up young children by posing as a “police officer” from a Cleveland. He is said to have approached children showing them a badge and asking them to “show him directions” to different local streets or avenues.
Description; white male, with a small beard and a silver tooth, wearing a blue and black cap, blue jeans, and a white T-shirt with a picture on it. (Be advised that while this is the clothing he was wearing when he was first spotted and it is thus worth nothing, he could easily change into other clothing – a different hat, a jacket covering his shirt, etc.). He was seen driving a dark-colored (dark blue, black, dark green, etc.) an SUV type vehicle.
The Crown Heights Shomrim are asking all parents, (teachers and anybody who works with children) to please warn your children the dangers of talking to strangers who approach them, such as this phony “police officer”. Please explain to them that they are not to accept candy or other gifts offered by a stranger, and warn them not to even give him or her information in answer to a seemingly innocent question like “what’s your name?” (Child abductors often use such simple questions to “break the ice” with a child who is their target and to establish a rapport with him or her, while they pump for more information and try to get the child to treat them as a friend and to trust them). Children should be instructed to politely but firmly answer such questions from a person the child doesn’t know with “I’m sorry, but you are a stranger and I am not allowed to talk to you”. And walk away. The child should then notify his or her parent or another known authority figure.
The Crown Heights Shomrim, ask anyone who sees a man fitting the above description, (or any other suspicious activity), to please take down a license plate number, description of the car, and of the man involved, etc.. And call Shomrim at 718-774-3333 at any time during the day or night.
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THEY GAVE A LEDDER SIMELUR LIKE THIS IN SCHOOLS
Yiddish Advocate
Another reason why little children shouldn’t speak English. Yiddish speaking strangers of these type are fewer.
thats dangeris
thats secary
chaya
this has got to be stopped!!!!!!!!!!!! I was recently in CH for a wedding and ever since i started to check on this website and since i came back there has been at least three things like this a day1!!!!!! its not normal!
person
i thought they caught him
D.L.
when did this happen? what hapend?
God help us!
Gevald! what next?
cher
Is this the same guy who was in Boro Park?
curious
If this is the same perv terroreising the Borough Park / Flatbush area, then it should say so clearly in the letter, so as not to cry wolf. If not then you should tell us details of the incidents that happened here.
me
I heard it’s a whole group of guys going around and
that is really scary.