Detectives made an arrest Wednesday night in the brutal murder of Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark.
26-year-old construction worker Kendel Felix, who resides at 921 Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY, was charged with murder in the 2nd degree, the Yeshiva World News reported.
Two friends the Brooklyn man identified as accomplices were also being questioned by cops, sources told the NY Daily News.
Felix “admits they wanted to rob him,” one source said. “They weren’t thinking about killing him. It looks like a straight up robbery.”
All three were linked to the crime by evidence found in the van that police believe was used to kidnap the 39-year-old Stark and carry him to his death, the sources said.
Two of the suspects were also linked to a cellphone that was found attached to the undercarriage of Stark’s car in the days after the murder, a source said. The phone belongs to one of the suspects, and there were calls made to it by another of the suspects, the source told the NY Daily News.
The trio of toughs apparently believed Stark was loaded — unaware that he was actually up to his ears in debt.
The men knew the Hasidic businessman because they worked for a contractor he had hired, according to the source.
Stark owed more than $20,000 to a contractor, and detectives are still investigating whether the suspects kidnapped the victim in an attempt to collect that money — or if they were simply looking to rob him because they knew he carried a lot of cash.
Felix told cops he and his cohorts accidentally suffocated the father of seven as he fought to escape, a source said.
We need a 24 hour patrol on all streets in Crown Heights .On Shabbas we can hire retired jewish police officers.
Jewish people are not for sure better. Levi Aaron killed Leiby kletky. With everything in life you need to pray to Hashem. A Jewish nanny is for sure more responsible than someone else.
this is crazy
“kan tziva Hashem es habrocha”
So true and sad!!
us to be more active in spreading the 7 mitzvos and tzedek v’yishor (morality) starting with our neighbors
may it just be good for everyone from now on
moshiach now
Please hire our own Menchen to work in our homes. So many of us hire polishers, and Gd knows what else, to work in our homes with the precious yiddishe children. Why doesn’t the yiddishe world open schools for builders and plumbers amount the yeshiva students, we all can’t be Rabbis, for goodness sakes, we must have our own workforce. Hire jewish people to clean, hire jewish people to build, hire jewish people to be in the homes and pay them properly. There are loads of good jewish people who would love a job working in the building trade or… Read more »
But just so you know: An average person passes by a murder 36 times in ones life. So, its all in Hashems hands and we must beg him to protect us!
In Crown Heights there is always a murderer in your midst
Why did it take them so long to arrest these busters if they found his cellphone shortly after the murder?
Hope they will get the highest punishment and CH will be more safe place to live in …
Moshiach now!
a murderer in our midst. Hashem yishmor!
yes this is unfortunately the people in crown heights live with. why don;t their priests and teachers and mntors teach them right from wrong?????? it starts at the top!!!
How comforting
That murderer is living in the heart of Crown Heights!!!!! Thank G-D they nabbed him!!!!!