NY Post and COLlive reporter
An unhinged man was nabbed for hatching a plot to rob a Brooklyn synagogue and then fight off cops with pipe bombs and guns, the New York Post reported today.
Elias Narvaez, 21, allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks as he crafted his plan, explaining he was targeting “an Orthodox synagogue on Montgomery Street in Crown Heights because its gold-colored front doors suggested the congregation was wealthy.”
“He wanted to rob Jews,” a law-enforcement source told The Post.
Narvaez’s idea was to use a bomb to knock out the lights, and then enter the darkened building to hold up the congregation with a Glock semiautomatic pistol and a revolver.
Narvaez reportedly believed the darkness would help him ambush responding cops. “When they come, we will start shooting at them,” he told an informant. “I’ll throw a pipe bomb at them . . . If I die, I’ll die.”
Seargent Bobby Troice of the 71st Precinct confirmed to COLlive.com that the shul was in fact Bais Binyomin at 680 Montgomery Street between Kingston and Albany Avenues.
Troice said the 79th Precinct in Bed-Stuy had arrested the individual for possession of handguns and had made the statements to the New York Post.
Cops were seen patrolling the shul today and speaking to one of the shul’s gabboim, Laima Minkowitz.
They told him there will be police protection all throughout the day (Friday) as a precaution, even though the individual was arrested.
They did not say whether the patrol will be there on Yom Kippur which begins at sundown on Friday and ends on Shabbos night.
Either way, Minkowitz told a COLlive reporter: “We’re not scared and the davening will continue as planned.”
@ beis binjomin !
what do jou say ?
the guy needs glasses becuse the doors are made of wood and not gold?!
and what is with all this crime in ch?
this shul?
the yungerlite that got beaten up last night?
and the policestand there to get there picture taken!?
As was the custom in Jewish history,such problems were dealt with by incresing the Sanctity of Davening (no talking during davening no Lashon Hara) fhis the best defense against our enemies.
what if people live close to this shul and FARRR away from 770? Walk for a half hour? Whats wrong with small shuls? U have a big nerve to critisize this shul.
the Rebbe encouraged people to daven in these small shuls.
Hinei lo yonum velo yishan shomer YISROEL
So now we learn that we should say something even if we just hear something; we shouldn’t limit ourselves to saying something ( to the authorities) only about suspicious things we can actually see.
daven in 770 there the rebbe pertects you
White? Black? Moslim? How come there’s no info about the would-be perpetrator?
when did they hear him talking about all this?
at worst, he would have taken all our possetions, witch, on yom kippur, is NOTHING (no one brings money to shul)
hes in jail
\bless them
is bad
I lived on that block when I was a child! No shul then, or at least, no fancy doors.
if you want to hear the best baal tfilah for kol nidrei, musf, and neila, come to beis binyomin, harav Sholom Brochshtat davens real nuach Chabad from the old school, a real inspiration.
he might of been hanging incrown heights
alot of us might recognize him from somewhere
Thelma and Loiuse don’t inspire much confidence in security!! 🙂
I think that only bitachon will get us through this.
my father davens there!
thats realy scary!
is the best!