By COLlive reporter
The African American male suspected in the repeated theft of parcels from the doorposts of Crown Heights homes was arrested by the New York Police Department on Monday.
Photos and surveillance video of the man stealing packages were posted on COLlive.com last week, leading members of the Shmira patrol group to spot the man walking down Kingston Avenue.
One homeowner, who had packages stolen, told COLlive.com: “This man lives in Crown Heights and has been doing this for a while. Police don’t know who he is but he has been doing this for a while now.”
When this man was seen on Monday, he wasn’t left alone. “We followed him for around 40 minutes,” said a Shmira member. They waited for him to commit another crime and so they could catch him red-handed, but when didn’t happen they called the police.
An NYPD officer said the arrest was made around 5:00 pm. “We identified the man as a suspect and he was taken into Central Booking for thefts he perpetrated yesterday and previously,” said Detective Vincent Martinos.
The man has been identified as David Burant, 49, a resident of Crown Heights. He will be charged with 4 accounts of petty larceny and 4 accounts of trespassing.
Martinos said COLlive’s report “led to the arrest” and that Burant is believed to have been acting alone.
Surveillance footage showed the alleged thief walking with a dog on Carroll Street between Kingston and Brooklyn Avenues, on Friday afternoon 3 weeks ago, and walking off with a package.
VIDEO: The thief in action
Im with you all the way
It’s actually racist to add “African American” in this article since there’s no journalistic reason to do so other than the fact that its “us against them”. Imagine for a second there was an article about a them catching a fraudster, molester or drug smuggler (yes our community has all of those) the article said “we caught the frum Jewish guy that…” we’d say its antisemitic. To not be racist does not mean you have to be in denial of the facts. Just because statistically most petty street theft in our area is committed by blacks, it does not mean… Read more »
my package was stolen think he sold it? or is it in his apartment
Shame of you. Hate of a Hashem’s creations created in Hashems image is the polar opposite of basic Yidishkeit. I am 100% certain that the Rebbe was a liberal on social issues. I hope you are clear in Tanya as you are on Rush Limbaugh’s diatribes.
Can he now return my 6 pairs of shoes he stole
Thank you Shmira. You guys did an amazing job this week.
It isn’t racism – it’s skepticism over everyone’s PC comments of “African American” instead of “Black”. FTR, most (if not all) of these criminal lowlives couldn’t find Africa on a map, let alone have ever been there. Secondly – the overt & not-so-overt racism shown by the great BLACK Commander in Chief has made commenting on race acceptable. Blacks do it all the time – we are crackers, honkies etc. Would I call one the N word (being PC again!!!) No, but THEY do! It is what it is. Crime in Crown Heights is probably committed by Blacks 95% of… Read more »
Good job 🙂
…is this the death of the UPS method?
Nicely spotted. Indeed that looks like the kinnus bag…
that looks like a different person
Thanks to the Shmira volunteers for making this happen!!
I’m not sure why people feel the need to write racist comments. Crown heights has a huge black community, any non Jewish crime will be perpetrated by black people. There simply are no whites. Move to other low income areas and the crime is committed by Hispanic or whites.
You have to come up with something different when Hillary is president.
Obama said if I had a son he would’ve looked like this criminal (though) younger, it seems there is a pattern of “certain” people doing crime.
omg he’s black I’m so surprised must be that he was framed
mazel tov they caught him! is that a kinus hashluchim bag?