PHOTO LINK BELOW: Williamsburg Shomrim (WSPU) recieved a phone call on Tuesday afternoon, that 3 males were seen on a fire escape and attempting to pry open a window of an elderly resident on Ross Street.

Arriving Shomrim members arrived, and from their cars saw that a window on the second floor was in fact pried opened.

Numerous Shomrim units surrounded the entire block, and a few minutes later three perpetrators exited the window back onto the fire escape.

WSPU chased the three perps – in three different directions, and were able to apprehend them along with fast-responding officers from the NYPD’s 90th Precinct.

All three suspects were quickly apprehended by WSPU & the NYPD: Tyrone Smith (21) apprehended on Ross Street & Bedford Avenue; Phillip Smith (20) apprehended on Whyte Avenue & Clymer Street; Fayima Calloway (22) apprehended on Bedford Avenue & Williamsburg Street.

The three suspects were placed under arrest and taken to the 90th Precinct to be processed.

“Shomrim thanks the 90th Precinct under the command of Deputy Inspector Michael Kemper, and the rest of the NYPD for working closely with us. Together we can – AND DO – make a difference to keep the number of crimes in our neighborhoods very low,” a WSPU spokesperson told YWN in a statement.

Boruch Hashem, there was no one in the apartment at the time of the crime.

These three arrests brought the total number of arrests by Williamsburg Shomrim this week to eight.

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(Moshe Altusky – YWN)