On Saturday evening December 11th, Flatbush Shomrim received a call of a person trying car handles to find an open car. After about an hour, Shomrim members observed this individual breaking into a car at the corner of Avenue L & East 22nd Street. Flatbush Shomrim immediately notified 911. Responding officers apprehended the perpetrator and found [...]

3:45PM EST: An individual was just robbed at gunpoint, and the NYPD & Boro Park Shomrim are canvassing the streets looking for the suspects. According to a reliable source, a service supplied by a bank to pick up large deposits from customers, had just exited the offices of a Jewish real estate company on 14th Avenue [...]

Even before the sinking economy and high unemployment rate, there were those who took on gambling as their prime source of income. Now, with jobs scarce and despair rising, even more people are putting their resources and future at risk for a chance to turn a quick, illegal buck. Flatbush Shomrim, the volunteer safety and security patrol [...]

[The following story has been posted in the YWN Shomrim Blotter as well.] Members of Williamsburg Shomrim (WSPU) successfully apprehended a suspect on Tuesday who was wanted for numerous residential burglaries which plagued the Chasidic community during the past few weeks.   At approximately noon on Tuesday, WSPU recieved a call from a frantic person claiming that someone is breaking into [...]

One individual seemed to think that money in a Bonei Olam Pushka belonged to all the children in the world, including himself. Julio Ortiz walked into a Flatbush store wearing a Borsalino hat while posing as being Jewish. He told the clerks that he came to collect the Pushka money and will leave them a receipt. When one [...]

Flatbush Shomrim received numerous complaints of a man driving in the vicinity of Avenue L & East 31st street exposing himself to young girls. Responding members urged the victims parents to make police reports. After another occurring incident one keen victim got a plate number and description of the vehicle and perpetrator. Shomrim gave this [...]

Several people found themselves lost where to go, when they realized their cars were ransacked and GPS missing. Flatbush Shomrim received several complaints about cars being broken into. After a week long search the members of Flatbush Shomrim found success arresting eight individuals on three different occasions for GPS theft. The areas were on Avenue [...]

The growing importance of the Stamford Hill Shomrim was recognized this week at a groundbreaking meeting with local police. Dayan Dovid Grynhaus of the Rabbinate, the President of the U.O.H.C Rabbi Dovid Frand and Chairman of the Community & Police liaison committee Joe Lobenstein were among those attending Tuesday’s deliberations at Stoke Newington Police Station. Two senior [...]

On September 19, 2010, at approximately 11:30 pm, Baltimore Shomrim received a call for a suspicious individual entering a residence on W. Strathmore in the Park Heights neighborhood of Northwest Baltimore City. Shomrim dispatch put out the call, multiple Shomrim Units responded to the scene. Shomrim Units responded within two minutes of the communication alert [...]

When a petty thief turned burglar got caught red handed, we could only hope he learns his lesson and quits his criminal profession. On Thursday morning September 16th at approximately 1:00AM members of the Flatbush Shomrim trailed Filipe Walthrust, an East New York resident for nearly two hours. After checking several homes for unlocked doors, [...]