Another Burglary, Two Arrests and Potholes from the Scarsdale Police

Residents of the Grange continue to be plagued by burglars. This week residents at 14 Park Road returned home on the night of 3/11 to find that a rear glass door had been forced open. The glass was shattered and there was a pry mark on the frame. The owners believed they had turned the alarm on however police had not received an alert. The master bedroom was tossed and the owners completed a list of missing items. It appears that the vandals left the house via the front door.

Arrests: Jennifer Sledzinski age 24 of Yonkers was caught speaking on her cell phone while driving on Boulevard Road at 6:24 pm on 3/11. Police stopped her and checked her license and found that it was suspended due to her failure to answer a summons on three dates. She was placed under arrest for aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle. Her car was parked on Webster Road and she was taken to police headquarters for booking.

On January 5th the Westchester ARC (Association for Retarded Children) reported that $4,661.09 was missing from the safe at the WARC residence at 1 Foxhall Road. After an investigation, the Scarsdale Police Department determined that a former manager of the residence, Deborah Alexander, age 57 of Dobbs Ferry was responsible for the theft. Ms. Alexander had resigned from her position shortly after the theft. After Identifying Ms. Alexander as the person who took the cash, the management of WARC elected not to press criminal charges, and sought to have the funds returned. WARC later contacted the investigating detective to advise that Ms. Alexander had failed to abide by the agreement to repay the funds, and could no longer be reached. A warrant was issued by the Scarsdale Justice Court, and Ms. Alexander, who had disconnected her phone and moved, was located by Scarsdale Detectives and arrested on Grand Larceny charges on March 9.

Rice Anyone? A Paddington Road man found a plastic bag containing cooked rice on his doorstep on the afternoon of March 7. The man had only recently moved to Scarsdale and did not believe there was any ill intent behind the deed. Police spoke to his neighbors and there were no witnesses.

Damage: The windows of a blue Mazda pickup parked in the driveway of a Brook Lane home were painted on the night of March 9. The Brook Lane home has been vacant and the truck has been parked there for some time.

Graffiti was marked on playground equipment at Hyatt Field in five places with a blue marker. The damage was noticed on the morning of 3/10.

Water, Water: A backed up sewer line continued to cause trouble on Barry Road on the morning of March 7. A resident reported that water and possibly sewage were rising up through the manhole at the end of the street.

Water was also reported coming from underneath the street at the intersection of Winward Lane and Harvest Drive on the morning of 3/8. The water department was called to the scene.

A Brewster Road woman called police on the morning of March 12 when a steady stream of water was flowing from a rear yard into her yard and onto her deck. The complainant notified her neighbors as well as the water department.

Falls: A Wayside Lane woman fell into a pothole on Spencer Place in front of Candy ‘N Cards on the evening of March 7. She injured her right ankle, which was swollen and bruised, but she did not want to call an ambulance.

A 79 year-old Garth Road woman tripped on a raised piece of bluestone at 6-10 Garth Road at 5 pm on March 8. She cut her upper lip and was taken to White Plains Hospital by SVAC.

Potholes: A Tory Lane woman rode over a pothole on Mamaroneck Road on March 9 and damaged her front tire. The owner of the car wanted to file a report for insurance purposes. Police placed a cone on the pothole and notified the Highway Department.

A High Point Lane woman came to police headquarters on the morning of 3/11 to report that she hit a pothole on Popham Road on the previous night and damaged both her front and back tires.

A Kolbert Drive man struck a pothole on Mamaroneck Road while driving his 2001 BMW on the evening of March 12. He got a flat tire and called AAA to change it. It appeared that the frame or car axle was damaged so the car was towed to Ted Hermann’s Auto Body shop.

Identity Theft: On March 7 a resident of Chateaux Circle called police when she discovered that someone was using her personal information on a website, claiming that she was selling an R.V. for $27,000. An unknown person used her debit card to place a $70 ad on onlinervusa.com claiming that the Scarsdale woman was selling the R.V. The woman even received a phone call from an interested purchaser. Consequently she cancelled her bankcard and was refunded the $70 by the website.

A Stonehouse Road woman came to police when she received a letter from her auto insurance company advising her that a 2010 Chrysler Town and Country had been added to her insurance policy and that her car had been dropped from the plan. The woman had not purchased the car and traced the purchase to the Chrysler Dealer on Central Avenue. The dealer provided her with the name and phone number of the man who had purchased the car. However, the car was not registered to her name at the DMV. Her insurance company corrected the error and believes it was a clerical mistake.

Police received a complaint from Herkimer Road woman on March 9 about phone calls from a collection agency. The collection agency was trying to recover a debt from the woman’s adult son who no longer lives with her. She gave the agency her son’s contact information and asked them to stop calling her.

Lost and Found: A Sycamore Road woman found a small gray dog on the afternoon of 3/9 and reported that she was taking the dog to her vet to see if it had an implanted ID chip. A few minutes later, the dog’s owner called to say the dog was missing and police put her in touch with the woman who had found the dog.

Greenburgh Police contacted Scarsdale Police at 6:30 am on March 11 to ask them to notify a Colvin Road woman of her husband’s whereabouts. The man had been taken to White Plains Hospital and police wanted to let his wife know where he was.

A homeless woman came to the back door of a home on Walworth Avenue at 1 am on March 11 asking for help. The residents called police who found the woman on the corner of Walworth and Greenacres Avenue. She identified herself as Kenya Tiny Flax and told police she had gotten into a cab at the White Plains station and asked to be taken to the Tuckahoe Motel. The driver dropped off another passenger and proceeded down Walworth and then told Flax that he did not know how to get to the Tuckahoe Motel and pulled the car over. The driver reached over into the backseat and Flax fled the cab and ran to the backdoor of the Walworth Avenue home where she banged on the door. Flax was unable to offer a description of the cab driver or the passenger. Police took her to dispatch and a cab from Blue Bird Cab drove her to the Tuckahoe Motel.

Dispute: Sheldrake Road residents called police on the night of March 10 about a verbal confrontation with their neighbor. Police spoke to both parties and were unable to determine who started the fight but were able to get both parties to agree to steer clear of each other.