Losses, Thefts and a Death from the Scarsdale Police

Found $2,000? A Greenacres man lost his wallet when he went to the school on the evening of March 7. He reported that the wallet, valued at $40, contained $2,000 in cash as well as his drivers license and credit cards.

Anyone see Beyoncé? On Heathcote Road, the search for Jay-Z and Beyoncé continues. A 15 year-old boy who lives at 15 Heathcote Road found a man and a woman on his property looking for the celebrity couple on the afternoon of March 4. When he told them that Jay Z and Beyoncé did not live there, they left.

Missing Generator: On 3/10, an Oneida Road man reported that a temporary generator, valued at $600, had been taken from his yard on the previous afternoon. When the resident returned home at 4 pm on 3/9 he found the gate to his backyard open and the generator gone. A second generator of the same make and model was left in the yard.

On March 4 a Mt. Kisco man came to Scarsdale Police to request help getting his car back from his son who has been using it for the past three years while living in Scarsdale in with his grandfather. Police contacted the grandfather. The car was located in White Plains and arrangements were made to turn it over to the complainant.

Death: Seymour Ruderman, age 86 of Quentin Road was found unresponsive on the stairway in his home at 9:54 am on March 9th. Ruderman's son had come to the house to check on his father when no one had heard from him and he was not picking up the phone. Ruderman was pronounced dead by Paramedic Stephanie Foley.

Car Thieves Interuppted:  An observant nanny on Greenacres Avenue caught a car thief in the process of entering her car.  She looked out the window of the house around 9:30 pm on Saturday night and saw a man with a flashlight trying to open the door of her car which was parked in front of the house on Greenacres Avenue.  She opened the window and heard a man say, "this one is locked." She yelled, "Hey" and saw the man and two others jump into a parked car and leave.  She said two of the men were wearing black hoodies and they were driving a black sedan, possibly a Saturn. Police canvaased the area but were unable to find the car.

Identity Thefts: A Walworth Avenue man reported that someone had made a fraudulent purchase on a Best Buy credit card in his name. He received a bill for $2,841 for three Apple iPads and a year of tech support for one of the iPads, all purchased in Westbury, N.Y. The man had opened the Best Buy account a year ago but never activated it.

A Brown Road man reported that on 3/3/13 an imposter used his personal information to create an account on billmelater.com and to make a $2,936.66 purchase from Hewlett Packard. He did not suffer any financial loss.

Erratic Bus Driver: On the afternoon of March 7 a man from Carman Road called police to say that a school bus driver was driving erratically on Heathcote Road near Brookby Road. The man followed the school bus to get the license plate or bus number. Police stopped the bus and spoke to the driver who denied driving erratically and said that she was contacting her supervisor about being followed by a Subaru. She said she was alarmed when she realized she was being followed.

Summons: Police issued a summons to workers on Dickel Road on Saturday morning 3/9 at 8 am when they were using power equipment to build a house before 10 am, in violation of village code.

Parents: A divorced dad called police on March 9 at 4 pm when he was supposed to drop the children off at his wife's home on Brite Avenue.. Though he called and said he was coming and waited with them in the driveway, the mother saw them playing basketball in the driveway and drove off.

An upset father from Scarsdale Avenue came to police headquarters at 1 am on 3/10 to ask police for help with his daughter who was drunk and agitated. Police calmed her down and got her to agree to go home with her folks.

A two year-old boy was locked out of a home on Madison Road at 4 pm on 3/7. The fire department came and was able to get into the house

Unwanted Visitor: A Colonial Road woman called police on the evening of March 10 when an unwanted visitor from Connecticut showed up on her street. The Scarsdale woman asked police to tell the friend that she no longer wanted to have a relationship with her and to ask her to cease all contact. The CT woman agreed to leave the area.

Damage to a garage door on Circle Road was reported on 3/5. Sometime between 2/24 and 3/1 the garage door windows were shattered and the framing was damaged. It appeared that the damage may have occurred when the doors suddenly flew open and was jarred by an automatic opener.

Hit and Runs: On Tuesday 3/5, a 2013 Volvo parked in front of 104 Brewster Road was hit by a car backing out of a driveway at 101 Brewster Road. The driver left without reporting the accident.

A Dolma Road woman reported that she parked her car on Depot Place for a few minutes on Tuesday afternoon March 5. When she returned, an unknown driver had hit her 2011 Infiniti. No note was left.

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