A Hot Week in Greenburgh: Police Report

Tempers flared during a hot week in Greenburgh. Here’s the report from the police: Ex-husband Assaults Ex-wife: Around noon on Thursday, July 5th a 33-year-old Manhattan woman was assaulted by her ex-husband, Manuel Gomez of the Bronx, during a personal dispute in a car on Hartsdale Avenue. Police reported that Gomez, a 52-year-old lawyer, grabbed the woman’s hair, punched her in the left side of the face, and pushed her into the driver’s side door. Gomez was charged with assault and held for arraignment.

Busted at McDonalds: On July 6th at 10:00 am, Alim Epps, an unemployed Yonkers man, age 31, was searched after being reported for refusing to leave the McDonalds at 407 North Central Avenue. When police arrived on the scene Epps did not provide proper ID and kept changing his story about who he was and where he was going. After finding a bag of marijuana in Epps’ pocket during a weapons pat down, police searched his bags and found 40 Ziploc bags of marijuana, 24.3 grams of powder cocaine, 16 caffeine pills, and other plastic bags used for packaging narcotics. Epps was carrying the drugs in a brown paper bag, inside a black plastic bag, with an A&P bag as the outer bag. He was charged with criminal possession of marijuana and narcotics.

Drunk Driver Drives Into Pole: At 11:30 pm on July 4th police responded to a report of an accident at the intersection of Ridge Hill Road and Hillcrest Road in Hartsdale. They arrived to find a 2004 Nissan that had been driven into a telephone pole. The driver appeared to be drunk and admitted to drinking beer. He also said he hadn’t slept all night. The driver, who was identified as Josue Franco of Hartsdale, had a BAC level of .08. Besides Franco, there were five other passengers in the car. Two of the passengers were sent to the hospital, two reported no injuries, and the other refused transportation to the hospital. Franco was arrested for DWI and released on bail at Greenburgh headquarters this morning.

Neighborhood feud: There seems to be no end to the feud between neighbors Michael Marom and Audrey Pierot on South Healy and Elizabeth Street in Scarsdale. This week Marom called police at 7 am on July 2nd to complain about the placement of his neighbor’s garbage can, with Pierot claiming that the can is actually on her own property. She countered by saying that Marom had placed orange construction barriers in their shared driveway that prevent here from getting in and out of her property.

An hour later, at 7:52 am, Pierot called police to say that Marom was spray-painting their shared driveway, and complained that he was spraying her portion of the driveway. Police took photos of the paint job to give to the Building Department. Police don’t know the location of the property line and the Greenburgh Building Department is looking into it.

Drinking bareback: Just before midnight on July 4th police found a man lying down on the pavement in the parking lot of 80 East Hartsdale Avenue dressed in only his underwear. He appeared to be drunk and had a cut on his knee. The 27-year-old man from Boats Landing, NY said that he was staying with his sister at 100 East Hartsdale Avenue but could not provide an apartment number. He became aggressive and combative and was handcuffed and taken to WP Hospital. Police later found that the door to 100 East Hartsdale Avenue had been pulled off the track and also found a pair of flowered shorts and raybans in the vestibule which were returned to the man at the hospital.

Tomato Attack: At 9:40 pm on Friday, July 6th, a 42-year-old Scarsdale male living on Central Ave reported several tomatoes thrown at his front porch. The victim reported that he has an ongoing dispute with his upstairs neighbor and believes he may be responsible for the tossed tomatoes.

Scratched at Trader Joes: A Florida woman parked her cars outside Trader Joes on Central Avenue on the afternoon of July 2nd and came back out to find a large scratch on the passenger-side front and rear doors of her 2011 Nissan. The scratch appeared to be made by a sharp object and was estimated at $400.00.

Car Hit: A Yonkers woman who works at Hurricane Wings on Central Avenue reported that her car was hit by a SYSCO food truck making a delivery to the restaurant on the afternoon of 7/2. Her 2007 Eclipse was hit by the 18-wheeler but the driver did not report the accident initially but later claimed that he tried to notify the manager but couldn’t find him.

July 4th Shopping Mistake: A White Plains woman went to Klaff’s on Central Avenue to shop on the afternoon of July 4th. She opened the front door of the store, the alarm went off and she realized that there was no one inside. The store was closed but the door had been left unlocked.