Menachem Mendel Asraf, grandson of the senior perpetrator, was arrested along with another young man when they possessed a loaded and ready gun • Police are investigating whether Asraf was linked to another shooting incident from May

• The gun the police officers seized

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  Police spokesmen

The grandson of a senior underworld continues to get into trouble:   Last night, police officers from the Ayalon district police in the Tel Gibor neighborhood of Holon, police stopped for a motorcycle test ridden by Menachem Mendel Asraf, Rosenstein's grandson, and another young man named Shay Harari and in possession of a loaded and ready gun. The court extended the arrest of the two to police as well as investigating whether the grandson was linked to a May shooting incident.

Zeev Rosenstein's grandson was arrested with a loaded gun // Photo: Police spokeswoman

In the initiating activity of the Ayalon district police, detectives tracked the motorcycle in which the two were driving at a certain stage. This morning, they were brought to the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, where police sought to extend their detention.

During the hearing, Deputy Police Lior Solomon said that Assraf's last conviction, 2018, for property offenses and violating legal instruction and 8 months imprisonment. He has another juvenile court and firearms conviction police say attributed to him last May His attorney said he underwent surgery a few days ago and asked for his release, stating that he was linking himself to the weapons offense and in one sentence he said in the investigation he referred to as his weapon.

Judge Anat Yahav, who extended his arrest for seven days, held that for the two offenses of carrying / carrying unlawful weapons and conspiracy to commit a crime there is a reasonable suspicion and, moreover, against the suspect for committing the offenses attributed to him. 

"The suspect is caught while riding a scooter and in his personal bag a loaded weapon and when the suspect himself decides one of his own motives and that the gun is his, then not. For the other two suspicions, it is a reasonable suspicion, probably for the first arrest, when the background to the same suspicion is expressed. In the investigation file and on its basis, warrants were issued, "Judge Yahav wrote, adding:" The grounds for arrest are a very high-intensity dangerous cause, a high-intensity disruption cause and investigation needs. This suspect, who is a young criminal, is now a serious criminal and very serious offenses, including failure to provide assistance after an accident, A demand for threats of property, injury and other offenses when, for his last conviction despite his young age, he served a 17-month prison sentence. "

Regarding the second suspect, Shai Harari was also alleged by defense counsel and Asraf that his presence there was innocent and all he did was give a friend to bounce him to a certain place and since he has no criminal record and this is a young guy Judge Yahav made a diagnosis between him and Asraf and extended his arrest. In three days.