Hoaxed and Harassed: Report from the Scarsdale Police

Hoax: The 91 year-old grandfather of a Scarsdale girl drove up from New York City with his driver and his aide after he received a phone call stating that his granddaughter had been arrested on the afternoon of March 17. The man explained that he had received a call from his granddaughter and a public defender who asked him for his credit card number. Fortunately he did not provide the credit card number because police had no record of the girl’s arrest. They contacted her father who confirmed that his daughter was in school. The grandfather was the victim of fraud.

Leave Please: A member of the clergy at IHM in Scarsdale called police for help when a disruptive man refused to the leave the premises. Gregory Brown of the Bronx came to the church on the afternoon of March 14 seeking money and after the Father gave Brown a donation Brown refused to leave. When police arrived he left the area.

Arrests: On the night of March 19, police responded to call about disorderly kids at Greenacres Field. When they arrived, the kids fled. However one 17 year-old boy was found hiding in the backyard of an adjoining home. The boy had been drinking and was in possession of beer. He was brought back to dispatch where his father was contacted come to pick him up. The boy was issued summonses for unlawful possession of alcohol and for being on the school field after operational hours.

John Braile of East Setauket, NY went to Village Hall on 3/15 at noon to take care of an outstanding arrest warrant for a vehicle violation. The man was placed under arrest, booked and processed. He was given a court date of 3/23 and released on $200 bail.

Car in Flames: A car owned by Eli Wachtel of Shaw Road caught fire when it was parked on Garth Road on the afternoon of 3/14. Police used three fire extinguishers to put out the fire.

Accidents: As the car fire was being extinguished, a police car collided with a car driven by a Garth Road man at 5 pm on March 14th. The driver of the civilian car left the scene because of the car fire on Garth Road. A traffic cop instructed the man to turn onto Ardsley Road.

A Scarsdale sanitation worker reported that his pick-up vehicle had hit a parked car on the morning of March 18. The worker left the pick-up facing east on Kingston Road in Greenacres and went to the back of 16 Montrose Road to pick-up garbage. When he returned, he found that the vehicle had travelled across Kingston and collided with a car parked in the driveway of 14 Montrose Road.

Damage: The front hood of a 2005 Audi was scratched on the evening of 3/18. The owner believes the damage may have been done with the car was parked at the Scarsdale Middle School for a performance.

Trouble: A woman got into an altercation with the parking attendant at the lot behind HSBC in Scarsdale Village on the morning of March 16th. The woman had a doctor’s appointment on Overhill Road and rather than park in the lot under that building she wanted to use the outdoor lot. However, since the outdoor lot is reserved for customers of businesses on Scarsdale Avenue the attendant instructed her to park across the street. The angry woman called the police to complain but was gone when police arrived.

A concerned 20 year-old Scarsdale boy came to police headquarters at 3:30 am on 3/19 to report that he had been in a fight at a Post Road home earlier in the night. Though he was not injured he did admit to drinking and wanted advice from the police. Given that he was underage, police called the boy’s father to pick him up and no action was taken.

An Overlook Road woman reported the receipt of upsetting emails from her son’s girlfriend who in Hong Kong on March 16th. The girlfriend went to Hong Kong to visit the woman’s son. Police said that the emails were not criminal in nature and told the woman to stop contacting the girlfriend.

Locked Out: A Fox Meadow Road woman locked herself out of her house on the afternoon of 3/16. Police were unable to find any way to get in and called a Garth Road locksmith who was able to get into the house.

Animals: Police received a report that a dog had been hit by a car on the Heathcote Bypass on the morning of March 18. However, when they went to investigate they found a dead possum.

Noise: In the early morning hours of 3/19, police received reports of loud kids on Hyatt Field and in Davis Park. At Hyatt Field, the kids fled when they saw the police and at Davis Park police asked them to disperse and they cooperated.

Harassed: On March 16 the father of a Wildwood Road girl came to police to complain that his daughter was receiving harassing posts on her Facebook account. She was named on the “Westchester smut list” with three of her friends from SHS.

A Fox Meadow woman called police on the afternoon of March 20th to complain that she had been verbally harassed by her husband while they were driving. The two got into a fight about putting their children in car seats. Police told the woman that this was not a police matter and the woman agreed to contact her therapist for help.

Fall: Arlene Kolbert, age 68 of Irvington tripped and twisted her ankle on a curb in front of Great Stuff in Scarsdale Village on the afternoon of March 17. She was taken to White Plains Hospital by SVAC for treatment.

Signs: Police removed two signs posted on Village property for a company named “iDriveyourCar.com from Post and Fenimore roads on March 19. The company, which is located in Westport, CT, was issued a citation for violating Village code.

A Stratton Road woman awoke on the morning of 3/19 and found a street sign and a traffic cone on her front lawn. She also reported that she heard the doorbell ring at 2:15 am the previous night, but did not answer it.

The stop sign at Burgess and Richbell Roads was defaced. The word “ZOOTING” was written on it with a black sharpie. The damage was discovered on March 19th.

Found: A postal worker found a black purse when she was delivering mail on March 14. Police found the name of the owner insider the purse and her father agreed to come in and pick it up.