Land Rover Stolen from Murray Hill Home
- Monday, 27 January 2014 16:10
- Last Updated: Monday, 27 January 2014 16:28
- Published: Monday, 27 January 2014 16:10
- Joanne Wallenstein
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Stolen Land Rover: A 2013 Land Rover, valued at $50,000, was stolen from the driveway of a home on Murray Hill Road overnight on January 25. Surveillance cameras on the property show a 4-door sedan on Murray Hill Road at 12:19 am on January 25. At 12:22 am the film showed a man wearing a hat, gloves and hooded sweatshirt walk up the driveway, enter the car and drive away at 12:23 am. According the owners, the car was left unlocked and the key may have been inside the car.
Stolen Purse: A Walworth Avenue woman told police that her purse was stolen from Savona Restaurant while she attended a fundraiser at the restaurant on January 23. At 9:45 pm she left her purse on the back of a chair and went to the restroom. When she returned, it was gone. Her husband was able to track her phone and determined that it was near Depot Place. Police checked the area and were unable to find it however the woman and a friend continued to search. Shortly thereafter, they found her phone behind a parking meter but there was no sign of the purse.
Stolen bike: A green 27-speed Huffy mountain bike was stolen from Depot Place on January 24 when the owner left it unlocked, leaning against a fence around 10:30 pm. The bike was left at the fence near the construction site adjacent to the Scarsdale Train Station.
Identity thefts: On January 20 a Sharon Lane man reported that someone had stolen 15 personal checks from his home and cashed them between January 1, 2012 and October 30, 2012. Altogether, $2,437 was withdrawn from his account without his authorization.
A Rugby Lane man reported that someone changed the contact phone number for his Chase account. When the man's wife called the number the person on the other end hung up. Police were not able to identify the phone number and Chase could not tell the man what security question the identity thief had responded to in order to make the change. Chase also told the Scarsdale man that someone had attempted to withdraw $7,500 from his account at a Chase Branch in Illinois. Chase subsequently changed the man's account numbers.
Wallet found: A wallet that belongs to a White Plains woman was found on the fourth floor of the Freightway Garage and turned over to police on the afternoon of January 21. Police were unable to reach the owner of the Coach wristlet and it is currently at police headquarters.
Thin ice: A Taunton Road woman called police on the afternoon of January 21 when she saw kids walking on the pond in Crane Berkeley and feared they would fall through the ice. By the time police arrive the kids were gone.
Broken elevator: Police responded to a 911 call from a man who was stuck in an elevator at the Christie Place garage at 2:40 pm on January 23. When police arrived the man had gotten out of the elevator and repairmen were on the scene fixing the elevator.
Alone in the car:Police got a call about two children who were left alone in the backseat of a car parked on East Parkway in Scarsdale on the afternoon of January 23. Police found the children's mother at Heathcote Tailors and warned her not to leave the children unattended in the car.
Water leak: A caller alerted police that water was coming out of a garage on Boulder Brook Road at 10 am on January 26. The water department was called to turn off the water main to the house and a realtor arrived to open the garage door.
No heat: Police escorted a Church Lane man into a Walworth Avenue house on the afternoon of January 26. The resident was away and the heat was off. The man turned the heat back on and left the house.
Coyotes: Police got a call about two coyotes or wolves at the intersection of Carthage and Lincoln Road on the afternoon of January 26. By the time police arrived the animals were gone.
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