11:00AM EST: Two troubled teenagers from Brooklyn have been arrested and are in custody in the Town of Fallsburg, YWN has learned.
The two teens were apparently standing in front of Gombos Bakery on South Fallsburg’s Main Street early Friday morning – and were displaying drugs to a vendor selling flowers in front of the store.
When the vendor told the teens to put the drugs away and kindly move away, the teens assaulted him.
The Fallsburg PD responded, and although the teens had fled the scene and dropped the drugs, officers located them – along with the drugs – and placed them under arrest.
Catskills Hatzolah responded for the victim assaulted, who was treated for facial trauma.
The two boys are currently in the Fallsburg jail-cell, and were arraigned by a Fallsburg judge a few moments ago. Sadly, the boys – who claimed that they are “homeless” – were not cooperative with the judge – who raised the $2,000 bail price for both boys. One was raised to $5,000, and one was raised to $2,500. The boys were charged with 3rd Degree Assault, and criminal possession of marijuana
Fallsburg Police Chief Simmy Williams tells YWN that he has reached out to a representative from Kosher Coaching, and other community ‘Askanim’ to ensure that the teens get the proper help they need.
“These are obviously troubled teens who need help getting their lives back together,” Chief Williams said. “The law was broken, and a judge will deal with that, but they still need help – and that’s why I made sure to reach out to the appropriate organizations.”
Additionally, Chief Williams told YWN that Main Street in the Town of South Fallsburg is under 24hr surveillance with cameras, which helps the police department with many crimes.
(Yehuda Drudgestein – YWN Sullivan County News Desk)
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28 Responses
this is extremely sad!
IS THIS WHEN THESE TEENS STOP, CANT ANYTHING BE DONE EARLIER TO SAVE THESE KIDS THEY SHOULD NOT GET THIS FAR
Now tell me there is “no drug problem” in the frum world..
People wake up..
Its very sad how some of our kids end up dealing with drugs beacuse they really dont have anyone else to help them.
It is about time that we all started to help all those lost kids that are regected from other Yeshivas in order to keep them away from all the drug s.
It’s sad that our kids could fall so low to be sitting in prison and homeless. But, I’m happy for them. This can often be a turning point in their confused lives. Hopefully, they’ll come to their senses and return home and to Hashem, their father.
Oy vey, this was me 12-13 years ago….
Hanging out in woodbourne etc
#3
You are 100% right and this has been a problem for a few years now and our leaders not only did not address the growing problem but ignored it!!
It’s so hard to understand how our kids could fall so low. I guess I just do not understand the mentality of a “troubled teen”. One would think, with all the messages out there about drugs, (and drinking to excess and smoking) they wouldn’t stoop to such things. I guess the messages aren’t getting through to them.
Some of your comments reflect the fact that you have no idea about the subject. A parent who focuses his/her life on his relationship with his children will find that if he is successful in forming a bond with his offspring, he will then discover that his children will do things not only because “that’s the right thing to do” but because they want to please their parents. Try it. It may save you a lot of agmas nefesh.
Good luck to the boys and will everyone please stop making comments. Yochi, I’m glad to see you’re back on track!
parents wake up and even if its beyond your dignity its time to take some shiurim in parenting classes you should still go…. also make sure that your kids know that you love them know matter what…… and never show that youre giving up hope on them ….
Juveniles do not just arrive at this state overnight . . . there most assuredly is a history of abuse or neglect, either of the kids themselves or of their environments . . . In addition to anything else, they need intervention from trained mental health/social service professionals.
If we would stop insisting that our boys all fit in a certain mold but rather love them and educate them according to their abilities,this could be prevented/
I can’t understand how people always find someone to blame it on except for the teens themselves. Ofcorse they go they go of the derech no one holds them responsible. Let’s help them but don’t forget in the end the ball is in there court.
#4 how can u say there is no one to help them, there are so many wonderful organizations that deal with teens at risk. They just need to want to be helped.
12- that sounds so wishful, but sadly, a little out of touch. today’s youth do not turn to drugs because of abuse or neglect, but rather a whole host of reasons including the developmentally normal teenage drive to conform (for better or worse), or it could be emotional turmoil, wrog crowd, and sometimes- just from sheer bordem (ask frum social workers who deal with these kids- sorry- it’s not abuse and neglect some come from fine homes with excellent dedicated parents. there’s a lot more involved.) But I do think there is a much bigger drug problem within our yeshivos then we would like to admit to and I only hope that our embarassment and pride will not keep us from dealing with the problem… cuz it can get to the point where they are R”L holding where these two boys are…
i get these boys, because im in this spot, i grew up as a good kid but i went through a lot of hard things that werent my fault but the way the frum community handeled things and hurt me made me go off, i started hanging with the worse kind of people because i thought they would accept me for me, got involved with bad things, anyway im not on here to tell my life story but during that time (and still now) i emailed rebeim and “experts” in at risk teens whcich was hard for me 2 do, but from each one i either got ure to far off, or i have worse, i cant help u, or im to busy, nobody helped me so i just slipped further and continue to fall, but im not so concerned about me i’ve met hundreds of kids like me and we need help not to be rejected, we want help. the one thing that keeps me going is i want to be able to help other kids when im older, otherwise… thanks
to #16 Thank you for sharing.
#16
Hang in there. Soon someone will shlep you out and you’ll make your long treck back. Chazak veematz!!
You never know why Hashem does things. I’m convinced from listening to your quiet cry that you will come back . And when you do you will be able help and be mechazek other yidden who are going through youre matzav.
Say tehilim every day no matter what you did or didn’t do that day and keep reading theyeshivaworld!
Got the message; try to find me make one comment on this place again. bye bye
Parents who haven’t been on the inside don’t get it, parents on the inside get that they can do everything right but each child has individual needs – that don’t always fit in our narrow box, and the lure of the street is unbelievably great, and no matter what you say to your child they sometimes they have to make your own mistakes.
We can only daven that with our love and encouragement their mistakes don’t hurt them too badly.
# 16 teenageer
i want to help you and i think i could help you please submit online if you would be willing to talk to me and then i would leave you my number online. im serious i really genuinely want to help
#23 yeshivaguy123
yea i want help, i wouldnt have posted and kept checking if i wasnt looking for help, i’ve gotten my hopes up to many times that someone could help me and was always dissapointed, but i will try. i really appreciate it. btw i am a girl. if u could post your number and what time zone you are in and how late i could call that would be great, but dont feel pressured. thanks
I’m sorry if you misunderstood me. I didnt mean that it helps everyone. I just see from my experience that it’s a great start; meaning, a parent’s relationship with his/her child.
#23 yeshivaguy123-
If you help this girl, you are saving a life. Girls need mentors to talk to also. i find that there are a lot more ppl who deal with guys off the derech and guys going through life’s rollercoasters but i find a lack of it for girls….
whatever, I’m used to not getting help. everytime theres a post about about at risk teenagers you have 2 groups of people, one saying why dont adults help kids and another saying people do, but i dont see that and why doesnt the first group try to help. we kdis just fall deeper and deeper the more you wait
i love how people, especially ones that write for yeshivaworld, can be so judgemental on these kids. just because the article said that there was drugs, who really knows, maybe you, the reader, want to assume that drugs were involved. just like last years issue with the pool hall in monticello, the article on yeshiva world said that there were drugs being used right outside the pool hall. whoever believed that one was duped. im not saying that kids dont have a yetser hara, but when you blow stories out of proportion and ruin these kids lives, they will do drugs.
#27- teenager-
I really wish I could help you and show you the good in yourself and the good in life. If there is any way that we could get in touch, it would be nice.
what’s a kid who is bored or not suited to full time learning supposed to do?