A man was arrested on Monday for trying to lure children in the vicinity of Avenue N and East 17 Street.
Sources tell YWN that people had called Flatbush Shomrim and the NYPD multiple times in the past few weeks reporting incidents of the same man attempting to give children candy and toys. The man did this at least five times in the past 4 weeks.
Thankfully, on Monday afternoon, Flatbush Shomrim spotted the man, and police took the suspect into custody.
Please speak to your children about the dangers of talking to strangers. This is a classic example of a strangers offering candy to children.
#JustNow: After receiving numerous complaints over the past few weeks for this perv driving around giving out candies and toys- attempting to lure children, he was taken into custody by @NYPD70Pct on East 17th Street. #HereForYou #FightingCrime #KeepingEveryoneSafe #ItsWhatWeDo pic.twitter.com/Fcc91Qjp93
— Flatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol (@FlatbushShomrim) April 8, 2019
This incident followed a night where four people were arrested in Flatbush.
In the first incident, three suspects were arrested on Avenue N and East 21 Street for graffitiing multiple construction sites at around 12:45AM.
At 12:30am, our members out on #NightPatrol in the area of Avenue N and East 21st Street, observed a trio vandalizing private property with graffiti. @NYPD70Pct was notified and all 3 were subsequently arrested. #EyesAndEars #AlwaysOutThere #CleanerStreets #GraffitiFreeNYC pic.twitter.com/vPJGhnn8h3
— Flatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol (@FlatbushShomrim) April 8, 2019
That followed by a man taken into custody for breaking into a vehicle at around 1:30AM.
This subject was arrested just after 1am by @NYPD70Pct, after our alert #NightWatch members that were on patrol #ColdBusted him breaking into a vehicle on Avenue I. #KeepingAnEye #WorkingTogether #FightingCrime #WhileYouSleep #ItsWhatWeDo pic.twitter.com/N1cHB0e77k
— Flatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol (@FlatbushShomrim) April 9, 2019
Shomrim has dozens of volunteers patrolling the streets of Flatbush while the community is asleep, and are responsible for many arrests that many never get to hear about.
Shomrim reminds the community to always call 911 immediately if you see something suspicious, and then call the 24 hour Shomrim hotline at 718-338-9797.
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Brooklyn isn’t so safe anymore. The Bronx seems better now. Lol
I’m not sure what is the “crime” to offer candy to children. Under what pretense was he arrested?
What was the guy giving out candies charged with?
just curious by law is offering a kid a candy in a park grounds for arrest? meaning assuming he didnt do anything YET how can they arrest him?
so what was the crime?
https://www.fox10tv.com/news/police-man-charged-with-prowling-after-offering-kids-cookies-and/article_c3e75e6e-28b5-11e9-a11d-5bd084af32bb.html
he was prowling in a place and in a manner not usual for law-abiding individuals, under circumstances that warrant a reasonable alarm for the safety of children.
@abenzev, you are quoting a newspaper in Phoenix Arizona i believe, here in NYC there are no laws against loitering and prowling unless its on or near school grounds, as a matter of fact there were uproars i the past against these kinds of rules, i mean do you really want police to regulate where you can loiter and who you talk to ?was this near a school?
see link
https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-240-35.html
Don’t be lulled into thinking the main threat is from “stranger danger” – statistics show that the vast majority of child abuse happens from people known to the victim ie friends family teachers etc. It’s time we face reality and make sure our children know the more likely scenario that it could be someone who they think is a friend, such as someone in shul, a Rebbe etc. It’s all about teaching children to identify abusive behaviours. Rabbi
Yaakov Horowitz has an excellent book to teach these skills in a kosher manner