SECURITY INCIDENTS DISCUSSED AT OPEN MEETING IN CROWN HEIGHTS

After Maariv on Sunday night, a meeting was called to bring together residents of Crown Heights who are concerned about the deteriorating security in the neighborhood. Assemblyman Dov Hinkind came to the meeting to hear first hand the concerns of the residents and to give his analysis and suggestions.

More than a hundred men crowded into the living room, dining room and hallway of the house on Carroll Street near NY Avenue where the meeting took place. In attendance were Chanina Sperlin, Liebish Nash, Eli Slavin and Levi Huebner.

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Down syndrome boy attacked, Police let attackers go!

Sunday, May 18, 2008 at approximately 3:00pm a 15 year old Jewish boy, who suffers from Down syndrome was walking home from school when two African American teenagers approached him on Carroll Street between Troy and Schenectady Avenue and asked him for his money. When he replied that he had no money the perpetrators proceeded to move toward him in a threatening manner at which time the boy began running with the perpetrators close behind him giving chase. The Down syndrome boy running away from his attackers tripped and fell on the ground. Just as the two perpetrators were closing in upon the boy a passing motorist noticed the boy being chased from afar and immediately pulled over to help the boy. Upon his arrival the perpetrators got scared and ran away. The witness called Shmira and members responded within seconds. The Shmira members together with the witness took the boy into the vehicle where he would feel a bit safer and began questioning the boy for a description of the perpetrators. A block later on Carroll Street between Schenectady and Utica Avenue the boy noticed the perpetrators standing outside one of the houses. 911 was immediately dispatched and Shmira members kept an eye on the perpetrators until the Police arrived. Read more

SHMIRA NABS PUSHKA THIEVES

At around 9:15pm Monday night, two male blacks entered a restaurant on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Kingston Ave. and stole several pushkas. A crown heights Shmira member that was in the restaurant realized what was happening and immediately called for backup. Multiple Shmira units responded and started following the perpetrators until the Police would arrive. The Shmira units followed the perpetrators to Kingston and Lefferts Ave. were the perpetrators realized that they were being followed and split up. The Shmira units responded quickly by forming two teams to follow the perpetrators separately. One of the perpetrators ran to East New York and Albany Ave. where Police and shmira apprehended him and placed him under arrest and found that he was in possession of a weapon. The other one was followed until Crown St. and Troy Ave. where he was apprehended and arrested by Police and shmira.

photos by Zelig Shaul.

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Shmira Members ‘Rescue’ Livery Driver

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn – Shmira members assisted in possibly saving the life of an African American livery driver, who was being robbed at gunpoint this past Tuesday morning. The incident began at 1:00 AM on Maple St. and Kingston Ave. as Shmira members on a routine neighborhood patrol spotted a livery cab on rolling slowly in the parking lane and ramming the parked car in front of it.

Shmira members approached the oddly behaving vehicle, when the drivers’ door abruptly flung open as the cab driver attempted to flee the vehicle, but was being held back by a thug inside the vehicle weilding a handgun pointed at the drivers head. The driver, finally managed to break loose and fell out of the moving car, rolling on the road a several times, the car continued moving and smashed in to an additional parked car. The quick acting Shmira members grabbed the driver and put him into their patrol car, reversed out of the block, called 911 and brought him to the 71st Pct, the driver thanked the Shmira members profusely “for saving his life”.

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