Brooklyn, NY – Two days after four Torahs were stolen from a locked Flatbush synagogue, a Borough Park synagogue was the scene of another robbery, as $10,000 in cash was removed from a wall safe.
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Police said that two men entered the Beis Medrash Zichron Mordechai D’Tosh on 14th Avenue between 45th and 46th Streets at approximately 3 AM on Thursday morning. There were no signs of forced entry at either of the two doors to the synagogue or at the wall safe.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind said that he had been informed by the commanding officer of the 66th Precinct that the safe was unlocked at the time of the robbery.
According to Hikind, police see no connection between the two synagogue robberies that took place this week. As previously reported on VIN News (http://bit.ly/2e4PHsA), the stolen Torahs were returned to the Avenue O Synagogue early Friday morning.
An investigation into the incident is currently underway and police are currently reviewing footage taken from the building’s surveillance cameras.
An UNLOCKED safe with $10,000 CASH inside?!!!!!!
Sorry, but either this was an inside job, or one of the dumbest things I read today.
Inside job
It was both
Why would a shul have ten thousand dollars in cash on it’s premises?
this story stinks to high heaven,sounds like some kind of fraudulent claim might be perpetrated,well what else is news
10 grand for a busy shul isnt that much after yomtov this is their biggest income month , plus the mikva yid/ shamas w all the farkoifen…
where else should he put it?
why its unlocked is a good q