A major demonstration unfolded late Motzei Shabbos outside the Lakewood Police Department headquarters, as hundreds of community members – including the BMG roshei yeshiva – rallied in support of R’ Binyomin Kubani, a respected yungerman and father of eight who was arrested on Thursday under deeply troubling circumstances.
The arrest has sent shockwaves through the Lakewood kehilla, with many accusing the police of acting recklessly, ignoring basic investigative protocol, and in general showing an increasing disregard for the overwhelmingly Orthodox Jewish population of Lakewood.
The controversy began when R’ Binyomin, who learns in BMG, stopped at a Route 88 car wash with his child after discovering leftover meat had leaked in his van from the previous Shabbos. He hoped to hire a day worker — as is common practice across Lakewood — to help clean the carpets. According to multiple witnesses, he approached a 15-year-old Hispanic youth he had previously hired around Erev Pesach for a similar job. He asked if the boy wanted to come to his house later to clean the van.
Instead of agreeing, the boy took a picture of R’ Binyomin, flagged down a passing Lakewood police patrol car, and claimed he had been “solicited.” Police immediately took the teen to headquarters for a statement, and, without interviewing R’ Binyomin or allowing him to present any explanation or evidence, arrested him and booked him into the Ocean County jail in Toms River. He remains held there, awaiting a court appearance that may only take place Tuesday.
Police in these situations typically interview both parties and attempt to establish a timeline of facts before making an arrest. Yet R’ Binyomin was denied the opportunity to make any statement or show supporting proof, even though he had an attorney present, sources told Lakewood Alerts.
Frustration with the Lakewood Police Department erupted into public anger on Motzei Shabbos, with protestors demanding the release of the yungerman.
Lakewood Alerts has confirmed through reliable sources that there is already discussion at the township level of a leadership shake-up at the police department, as confidence in current command staff has cratered.
Lakewood Alerts previously reported that the police chief had recently suffered a health emergency while away on vacation and had to be flown back by emergency medical helicopter — a detail the department tried to keep under wraps, and that on-duty Lakewood police officers have been sending a local news outlet photos from accidents and crime scenes, which is illegal.
Regrettably once the yid is r’l already in the county jail the LPD has no influence. Additionally this would be an opportunistic time to address women who make blatantly false obligations against their husbands to gain the upper hand in divorce. Too often the husbands get arrested and jailed (NJ has no bail) until they are seen by a judge.
10000% wrong.
LOD has zero evidence. That can tell the prosecutor that they have no evidence and it needs to be dropped
Once the person is in jail they have no recourse and must wait to be seen by a judge. Additionally, the prosecutor’s office is closed till Monday. I hope that somehow standard procedure can be upended however it’s not likely to be. Of course בורא עולם runs the world and can make anything happen.
That has no relevance here, seriously
This story never happened.
Even TLS didnt cover it
TLS unfortunately doesn’t cover anything slightly related to BMG. Old politics. It’s frustrating to me because I miss news sometimes because of it but that’s what it is.
The fact that TLS didn’t cover it is no proof of anything. TLS doesn’t cover any story that has anything to do with BMG or the Lakewood Roshei Yeshiva. Even if BMG or the Roshei Yeshiva is not ‘the story’ – such as in this story, but if they are somehow a part of it, TLS with their tremendous ‘love’ towards them won’t post the story..
Trying to comprehend this whole saga as I’m sure many others are; with the amount of power our community has in this town both within the township committee and within the police department and the powerful askonim in this town and the people who are close with many in the department, that the police from the chief and down would look away from all of that and would somehow believe a 15 year old illegal on his word, it just seems so hard to understand…
That’s because TLS doesn’t post stories involving BMG or their Roshei Yeshiva.
TLS works for LPD. Hes a disgusting dishonest bully.
He’s even worse. But I’ll stop here.
there is a Facebook page filled with so much hate, from commenters who don’t even know the full story. If you have fb please go on and comment to counter the baseless hate that is spreading go to:
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Shouldn’t you be protesting outside the prosecutor’s office? Also, something is not adding up here. This isn’t as simple as 1 of 2 cops deciding to arrest someone out of antisemitism. To book someone like that you need to go through like 5 or 6 people, up to a detective. Is the whole force rotten, or is something else going on here?
https://lakewoodalerts.com/mailbag-chabad-coverage-and-bmg-erasure-stop-with-your-garbage-and-stand-up-for-torah/
*MAJOR NEWSFLASH!*
THE OWNER OF TLS IS A PIECE OF TRASH!
Lazer personally sued Yeshiva Toras Chaim (Rabbi Slomovitz) from building a new dormitory. Despite the Yeshiva having been there for 20 years before Lazer made his money off the billboards (another Lakewood Township scandal that will send everyone to prison).
It seems this is the new norm in Lakewood. If you have an issue, you go to “Arkaos” and wreak havoc on our Mosdos.
REMINDER TO LAZER: “Yesh din, v’yesh dayan.”
please write what a reader can do about this, if not what is the toeles in posting here, and not to Lazer rov or someone that can influence him?
Here are the TLS headlines
Did You Know? Consumer Protection | Ariel A. Bivas, Esq.
Submitted: A Much Easier Way to Type in Hebrew on Your Computer
IN PHOTOS: The Signing of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ and July 4th Flyover of the B2 Bombers, F35s and F22s
Nesivos Shalom Chukas 5785: Today’s Holy Cow
Ben Inzelbuch
He’s going down.
TODAY
Where are all our elected askonim ????
The people telling the rabbonim what to sign & say,
Where are they on this story???????
Where’s Tress??
How come the vaad and the mayor weren’t there? We keep on re-electing the same people when we need change. In Shtat.
Because we act like sheep and keep electing the same old. Eventually the Chasidim will take over the township and the Yeshiva will have no influence whatsoever.
Reb Moshe was at the protest in the early morning hours. Where were you?!
He is actually in the pictures. Moishe Tress that is
Where is Lazer Scheiner now? After all his cronies trash-talked Rab Yankel Wenger?!
The only askan coming to the defense of a Adir of BMG is WENGER.
LOUIE WHERE ARE YOU?!?!?!?!?!?
Please be aware that female cleaning ladies can make up these blood libels too. It has already happened. They do it to win money from the victims.
video cameras all over house helps! and record all conversations with them + a good tip goes along way to keep lakewoods underworld happy,
your post and Chaya’s should actually be a post directly on Lakewood alerts, not just in comment section
OUTRAGE in the Lakewood NJ community as a man is jailed without ample justification stemming from alleged charges of a non Jew.
Now here is the million dollar question……….
Many husbands were incarcerated due to bogus charges brought by their former wives. Halacah is abundantly clear as to the דינים of a מוסר yet not only is there no outrage, some of the aforementioned wives get supported by “Rabbi’s” !!!!
This travesty must be called out. Fortunate is the מוסר who receives their due punishment in this transitory world! They may even have the opportunity to repent.
Any doable plans on how to have this travesty called out are welcome and appreciated.
This does sound very out of the ordinary but what does a previous medical emergency of the chief of Police add to or contribute to this story? Surely there is the possibility to appeal the police detention in the courts.