Saturday, November 03, 2007
Boro-Park Shomrim help apprehend 'water company' scammers
A team of five con artists believed to be responsible for a slew of burglaries throughout the borough were rounded up and arrested in Bensonhurst Friday moments after they scammed their way into an 87-year-old woman’s home and robbed her blind, cops said.
Police said that the arrest of the suspects – three men and two women – has stopped up the “water company” scams that have plagued the area for the time being.
Captain Jonathan Sprague, the commanding officer of the 62nd Precinct said that before the October 19 arrest at least six area seniors had been robbed by swindlers who conned their way into the elderly resident’s home by pretending to be water department inspectors or plumbers dispatched to see if their pipes were leaking.
Police allege that suspects Tommy Steve, 28, Samantha Vwanawich, 23, Jeremy John, 35, Michelle Harper, 41, and John Steven, 55, had just completed a similar burglary at a home on 84th Street near 21st Avenue when they were taken into custody.
Cops from the 62nd Precinct were tipped off to the con artists by members of the Shomrim Patrol, Orthodox volunteers who patrol Borough Park.
The Shomrim reportedly spotted the scam artists trying to con their way into homes in Borough Park and followed them from their neighborhood into Bay Ridge and then finally into Bensonhurst.
http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=18961734&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=551971&rfi=8
A team of five con artists believed to be responsible for a slew of burglaries throughout the borough were rounded up and arrested in Bensonhurst Friday moments after they scammed their way into an 87-year-old woman’s home and robbed her blind, cops said.
Police said that the arrest of the suspects – three men and two women – has stopped up the “water company” scams that have plagued the area for the time being.
Captain Jonathan Sprague, the commanding officer of the 62nd Precinct said that before the October 19 arrest at least six area seniors had been robbed by swindlers who conned their way into the elderly resident’s home by pretending to be water department inspectors or plumbers dispatched to see if their pipes were leaking.
Police allege that suspects Tommy Steve, 28, Samantha Vwanawich, 23, Jeremy John, 35, Michelle Harper, 41, and John Steven, 55, had just completed a similar burglary at a home on 84th Street near 21st Avenue when they were taken into custody.
Cops from the 62nd Precinct were tipped off to the con artists by members of the Shomrim Patrol, Orthodox volunteers who patrol Borough Park.
The Shomrim reportedly spotted the scam artists trying to con their way into homes in Borough Park and followed them from their neighborhood into Bay Ridge and then finally into Bensonhurst.
http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=18961734&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=551971&rfi=8
Comments:
Finally Shomrim doing something useful for a change. Mazel tov!
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: November 04, 2007 1:56 AM
: November 04, 2007 1:56 AM
To the post, about finally shomrim doing something useful, I suggest that you look in the mirror, and understand why is it that you have such hatred against such an organization.
Before you speak, you should find out what it is that they really do as an organization. Do you know the number of arrests the shmorim make? Do you know how many lost seniors/children they find? Do you know how many people they help with navigating police issues?
Before you speak get the facts. This sounds like a very famous Baal Tshuva (Uri Zohar) who used to criticise the frum people, until someone told him that to be intelligent he should investigate. When he started investigating, he became frum!
Before you speak, you should find out what it is that they really do as an organization. Do you know the number of arrests the shmorim make? Do you know how many lost seniors/children they find? Do you know how many people they help with navigating police issues?
Before you speak get the facts. This sounds like a very famous Baal Tshuva (Uri Zohar) who used to criticise the frum people, until someone told him that to be intelligent he should investigate. When he started investigating, he became frum!
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : November 04, 2007 10:23 AM
: November 04, 2007 10:23 AM
shomrim actually are pretty incredible. i was shocked to read someone 'complaining' about them. i don't understand why we are in a community that knocks everybody else
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : November 04, 2007 3:07 PM
: November 04, 2007 3:07 PM
Does anybody know if the perpetrators were Schvartzes? Or were they Porta Ricans?
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : November 05, 2007 2:18 PM
: November 05, 2007 2:18 PM
The alleged perps were Italians.
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : November 06, 2007 9:02 AM
: November 06, 2007 9:02 AM
Do you know how many lost seniors/children they find?
????? Maybe if Chassidiche women would learn how to stop having so many kids, there wouldn't be so many LOST CHILDREN running in the street by theirselves.
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????? Maybe if Chassidiche women would learn how to stop having so many kids, there wouldn't be so many LOST CHILDREN running in the street by theirselves.
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : November 06, 2007 10:18 AM
: November 06, 2007 10:18 AM
