Sly pick-pocketing teens caught in the act

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:57pm. A woman and her baby were walking down Eastern Parkway, between Brooklyn and New York Avenues, when she was approached by five female blacks. They seemed to be acting friendly when they asked her what the baby’s name is. When the woman started responding, they cut her off by immediately asking another question. This made the woman apprehensive and as this was taking place she saw one of the females pick pocketing some money out of her back pocket. The woman immediately turned and grabbed her money away from the perpetrator. The group tried to make light of the matter by laughing it off and they walked away.
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Shmira helps nab local drug addicts for grand larceny

Monday, April 26, 2010 at around 9:15pm the Shmira hotline received phone calls from 2 different callers. Both gave the same description of a male white trying car doors in what seemed like an attempt to gain entry. The suspect started from Union Street and Kingston Avenue, made his way to Brooklyn, and from there walked up to Eastern Parkway and began to head east, all the while checking car doors. It did not take long until the suspect chanced upon an easy target, in front of 763 Eastern Parkway. Unbeknownst to him, a passerby, keeping an eye on his suspicious behavior, witnessed him entering a green minivan and leaving shortly thereafter with a shopping bag filled with miscellaneous items that he took from the car. The witness called Shmira while discreetly following the perpetrator. Shmira members responded and continued following the perpetrator until he was observed entering an abandoned house on Union Street between Kingston and Brooklyn Avenues. At this point, Police arrived  and entered the house. After searching the premises, the Police could not find the perpetrator; instead, another man (who had been previously arrested for attempted murder of his wife) was arrested for Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance.
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Shmira makes an Arrest

Tuesday April 20th 2010 at approximately 1:40 pm Shmira received a call that a Bochur was punched in the face by a fleeing shoplifter on Union street between Kingston and Brooklyn Shmira members responded to the scene within 2 minutes and were pointed in the direction to which the perpetrator fled, but he managed to disappear on President St. between Brooklyn and New York.
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Safety Alert

Throughout this past week there have been both attempted and successful robberies/burglaries. The first 2 incidents happened on Saturday night. A young man was walking home when he was approached by two male blacks. One pointed a gun at him and demanded money. The young man notified them that he does not carry money on Shabbos and therefore he has nothing on him so they patted him down to verify his claim. Shortly thereafter two male blacks approached a couple as they were entering their apartment and showed them a firearm demanding that they hand over their money. The woman was pushing a stroller with her baby inside and at one point the gun was aimed toward the baby. The man handed over close to $300.00 in cash and the pair went on their way.
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Shmira apprehends burglar

Saturday, January 2, 2009 at around 9:30pm, a Shmira unit was sitting in his neighbors house, on Crown street between Troy and Albany Avenues, when family members keeping an eye on a live video feed from security cameras in the back of their house saw a black male attempting to gain entry to the house via the basement door as well as the garage. They immediately notified the Shmira unit and continued observing as the black male moved on to the house next door, the Shmira units home.
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BURGLAR APPREHENDED FOR MULTIPLE HEISTS

Sunday, December 13 2009, 9:00PM: A crown heights resident spotted a suspicious male black on Eastern Parkway near Kingston Avenue pushing a baby stroller full of Judaica items, including Chanuka Menorahs and a bag from Hamaifitz. The resident called the Shmira hot-line. The first Shmira members on scene spotted the suspect approaching Albany Avenue. The members approached the suspect and attempted to start a dialogue however the suspect immediately dropped the stroller and began to flee down Albany Avenue toward St. Johns. In the interim the suspect removed his jacket and hat, attempting to make it difficult for him to be identified. Shmira members gave chase and flagged down an NYPD patrol car. Read more

Another positive result produced thru the working relationship between the 71st Precinct and Shmira

This past Thursday a Crown Heights resident returned home located on President near troy Ave. and realized that his basement apartment had been burglarized, his laptop computer and other personal belonging were stolen. The victim called 911 and made a police report. The victim and the police determined that the burglar must have been very small in size because the only possible point of entry was a very small window.
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Young Jewish girl attacked

Friday, September 11, 2009 12:50pm: On Friday afternoon, a Crown Heights resident happened to be looking out of a window and witnessed two African Americans attacking a young Jewish girl. They knocked her to the ground, grabbed one of her shopping bags and ran away. All this occurred outside the girls’ house on the corner of Crown Street and Albany Avenue. The girl had been running an errand for her mother when this occurred. The witness immediately called Shmira and Shmira members responded right away.
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Shmira Helps Nab a Burglar

Last week, a concerned neighbor called  Shmira when he saw a black
female attempting to gain entry into his  neighbor’s house. Upon arriving,
Shmira members observed the women trying to  open the basement door with
burglar tools.  When approached, the woman  claimed that “she just left a
shelter and that the house was really hers.”   The house was a newly renovated
house on eastern parkway-whose owner was known  to Shmira. Read more

Shmira Helps Nab Thug Involved In Hate Crime At Chovevei Torah

This past Sunday as Bochurim were sitting and Learning in Choivevei Torah On Eastern Parkway near Albany Avenue, a large brick came crashing in to the first-floor classroom, striking a Bochur in the head. The Bochur sustained deep cuts and lacerations to his head, requiring multiple stitches to control the bleeding.

A group of three Black teens came onto Yeshiva property, brick in hand and threw the brick through a low window at a Bochur, who was sitting a mere 3 feet from the window. Read more

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