Refusing to Press Charges Results in Perps Walking

Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 3:35AM: An alert Crown Heights resident noticed  two suspicious males walking on Albany Avenue near Crown Street trying door handles of vehicles.

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Midnight Break-in

Tuesday August 5th, 2014, two Shmira CHSP volunteers were on night patrol at 3:45am when they heard a car alarm begin to sound from inside the alleyway on Albany avenue between Carroll street and Crown street.

They entered the alley and found a grey 15 passenger van with its door open, interior lights on and alarm ringing.
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UNRELENTING THIEF

Sunday, December 23, 2012 approximately 2:00 AM A black male was spotted trying to break in to cars parked on Carroll Street, between Brooklyn and New York avenues, in Crown Heights.

Shmira members responded and kept a discreet eye on him from a distance. After observing him breaking in to one of them, owned by a recognizable Jewish resident, volunteers of the Shmira patrol group began a hot pursuit until President Street, where he was apprehended and held until police arrived.
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