In the past few weeks, the Baltimore Jewish community has been on high alert as multiple cars have been broken into and pillaged – with many cars broken into each night.

Baltimore Shomrim volunteers had undertaken to work through the night to try to identify the perpetrators and assist the police department in stopping this crime wave.

But while last night’s search for criminals came up empty-handed, the Baltimore Shomrim’s efforts did yield one substantial result:

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania state police in Gettysburg issued a Missing Endangered Person Alert (also called a “Silver Alert”) for a missing elderly couple from Aspers (Adams County), with the search going into the night.

Shomrim volunteers, at 1:39 AM on Cross Country, noticed a vehicle that was driving slowly, and seemingly aimlessly. Shomrim alerted City police, who responded and discovered that the occupants were the same elderly couple who had been reported missing.

Heshie Klein, The Shomrim volunteer,  who found the couple also ensured that Pennsylvania state police were informed.  Shomrim also messaged the granddaughter that was doing most of the social media postings to help find them and this was her reply. 

Kudos to Baltimore Shomrim for another job well done!