Police Charge Driver, Passed out in Post Road Driveway, with DWI

Around 11:45 p.m., Aug. 1, police received a call about a driver who appeared to be passed out in his blue 2002 Acura sedan parked in a Post Road driveway. The driver's side door was open, and the keys were in the ignition when police arrived on scene. Patrol woke up the driver – Ryan G. McPherson, 33, from North Baldwin, New York – and he asked patrol, "Where am I?" He was unsteady on his feet and disoriented. A smell of alcohol was emanating from his breath. He was described as "wavering from excited to erratic." A "Leatherman" style knife was observed in McPherson's car; so police placed McPherson in handcuffs for safety. McPherson told police he had been drinking beer in Yonkers and the Bronx and wanted to get back to the Bronx. When asked why his car was parked in the Post Road driveway, he said, "I wanted to sleep it off." A sensor test revealed the presence of alcohol on McPherson's breath, and he was placed under arrest. A Datamaster test measured McPherson's blood alcohol level at .17. He was charged with driving while intoxicated (first offense) and operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level greater than .08 of one percent. According to the police report, McPherson was uncooperative with the arrest process and refused to sign for his property which had been inventoried at the police desk. He was released on his own recognizance and issued an appearance ticket for Scarsdale Village Justice Court, returnable on August 5.

Burglary
On July 29, a Brayton Road homeowner came home to realize her master bedroom closet had been burglarized while she was out. She estimated the burglary occurred between 2 pm and 3:30 pm that day. No further information was available at press time.

Car break-ins
On July 27, a Ferncliff Road woman reported someone rummaged through a Mercedes and a BMW parked in her driveway overnight. Papers, candy, gum, tissues and other items from the glove compartments were throw on the floor and on the seats, but the woman said nothing appeared to have been stolen. She said the BMW's driver's door might have been left unlocked, but she thought all four doors of the Mercedes were locked.

A girl's backpack was stolen from an unlocked car parked on Eton Road August 3. The driver said she parked her car in front of her friend's house and momentarily went into the friend's house to get something. She left he car unlocked. Ten minutes later, she returned to the car and discovered her backpack had been stolen. It contained a credit card, a debit card, $50 cash and an iPhone.

Identity theft
On July 27, A Heathcote Road resident reported someone cashed nine fraudulent checks written against his account for a total of approximately $5,000. The resident discovered it after receiving an alert from Chase Bank that his account was overdrawn. Shortly after the resident reported the incident to police, he received a call from the manager of a Publix grocery store in Alabama. She stated a "bunch" of checks with the resident's name and address were found in the store's parking lot. Police called her but were unable to reach her.

On July 29, an Aspen Road resident reported someone opened an online Social Security account in his name. He learned about it after receiving a letter fro the Social Security administration agency. He promptly called the agency to close the fraudulent account.

On July 29, a Lyons Road man reported he applied for an auto loan and was informed his Social Security number came back as being registered to a different person. That person apparently has a mortgage and credit card attached to the man's Social Security number. The man notified Experian, one of the three credit reporting agencies.

On July 31, an Elm Road man reported an online Social Security account, an online checking account with Gobank and a credit card from Gobank were opened in his name using his Social Security number. The man contacted both agencies, and asked them to close the accounts because they were fraudulent.

A Tompkins Road resident reported he was the victim of check fraud July 31. Apparently, unknown people have been cashing fraudulent checks written against the man's business account. One check for $3,690 was cashed at Curry Ford. Another check was rejected by a bank in Orlando, Florida.

Scam
A man who works in the village told police he has been receiving threatening calls from an unknown caller demanding money for repairs to a computer he does not own. On July 31, police searched the number from which the calls were originating and discovered the number was associated with a phone scam. The man was advised to block the number and ignore the calls.

Criminal mischief
On July 28, the owner of a vacant house on Myrtledale Avenue reported that two front bedroom windows had been shot out by a BB pellet gun. Tenants moved out of the house June 25, and a realtor confirmed there was no damage to the windows at that time. Police collected the BB gun pellets as evidence.

Lost watch
On July 30, a Fox Meadow Road man reported losing his white gold Cartier Tank watch after leaving it in the center console of a rental car he returned to the Enterprise location on Central Avenue in early July. According to the man, he placed the watch in the car's center console with the intention of getting it repaired in May; however, he never got around to taking it to his jeweler. He forgot the watch was there when he returned the car to Enterprise. When he called Enterprise to inquire about the watch, a representative said the car had been rented to another client and the watch was not turned in. The man estimated the watch's value between $15,000 and $40,000.

No one there?
An Evon Court resident reported a "persistent doorbell ringer" at 2 a.m., July 27, but upon looking outside, she did not see anyone there. Police checked the perimeter of the house and canvassed the neighborhood but did not detect anything suspicious.

A Fox Meadow Road homeowner heard someone knocking at her door around 8 p.m., July 27. However, when she went to the door no one was there.

A man wearing a white baseball cap rang a Dickel Road doorbell and rang away when he noticed the homeowner coming to the door to answer it around 10 p.m., July 27.

Are you home?
At 10:30 p.m., July 27, a Boulevard man asked police to help him find his daughter who lives in his house. with patrol's help, the daughter was located in a bathroom.

Lights on?
On July 29, police checked a Lincoln Road house after the homeowner came home to find lights illuminated that she did not remember leaving on. Police walked through the house and did not find anything unusual.

No visitors allowed
A man dressed in a jeans and a white hospital gown knocked on the front door of a group home on Post Road at 7:20 a.m., July 31. He said he was recently discharged from White Plains Hospital and wanted to visit a friend who resided in the group home. The supervisor of the home told the man there were no visiting hours that day, and police asked the man to leave.

Missing persons
A Dell Road woman told police an elderly man approached her on Black Birch Land and asked for a ride to his house at approximately 1:45 p.m., July 31. She told the man she could not give him a ride, and he headed east on Black Birch Lane toward Saxon Woods Road. Police canvassed the area and found the man sitting on a wall in front of a house in the jurisdiction of White Plains. The man identified himself and showed police his driver's license. He repeatedly asked patrol to drive him to his house Longview Avenue in White Plains. He did not appear to be in medical distress, nor did he ask for medical assistance. Patrol contacted White Plains police, and officers there said they had gone missing in June. Police contacted the man's son who picked up his father from the Scarsdale Ethical Culture Society's parking lot.

A woman from Hawthorne walked into headquarters at 10:30 p.m., July 31. She said she went to Thornwood town center and did not know how she ended up in Scarsdale. According to the police report, the woman presented as "highly confused and unaware of her surroundings." An Internet address search revealed she lived at an assisted living facility. Efforts were successful in arranging for a staff member of the assisted living facility to pick up the woman from headquarters or to arrange for a taxi. Since patrol believed it might be unsafe for the woman to continue driving her car, patrol drove the woman home. Patrol made nurses at the assisted living facility aware of the situation, and patrol notified the woman's family. They told patrol the wan had been lost for several hours and apparent cod nit find her way home. The woman's car was left in the police parking lot. Arrangements were made to pick it up on August 1.

Cars and roadways
A parked Toyota Corolla was left running on the top level of Freightway Garage July 28. Police contacted the owner who said she would not be able to respond to take care of the car for several hours. Patrol turned off the car's ignition and secured the keys at headquarters until the woman picked them up later that day.

Police called a taxi for a driver whose car ran out of gas on Post Road July 28. The driver wanted the taxi to drive him to his house to get gasoline to refuel his vehicle. The taxi arrived, and the driver said he would return within an hour.

Police issued parking tickets to cars parked in violation of a three-hour parking restriction on Cohawney Road July 30.

Police issued a summons to the driver of a vehicle that was blocking the driveway entrance to Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps on Weaver Street July 30. A check of the driver's license revealed a suspension from July 29 for failure to pay a fine in Queens County, New York.

Police paced a barricade over a small, but deep, hole on Black Birch Lane Aug. 2.
Seven car accidents were reported in the village this week.

Lost license plates
A Walworth Avenue resident reported losing one of her car's license plates somewhere in the village July 28.

On July 28, a Brookby Road man reported losing both license plates from his 2009 Nissan Altima. He said he never removed the plates when he sold the car to a dealership last November, and the plates are now missing.

Village code
An alarm was ringing in a Mamaroneck Road house while contractors were working in the garage with the door open July 27. The contractors told police they had called the homeowner and were waiting for instructions about how to silence the alarm. In the meantime, a neighbor complained of noise. The contractors offered to close the garage door in order to dampen the alarm sound.

Police dispersed two young men from a path behind a Rural Drive house around dusk July 28.

On July 30, police issued summonses to landscapers using gas-powered blowers on Brite Avenue and Harcourt Road, in violation of village code.
A driver with a car full of people pulled into a Boulevard parking lot at 3:40 a.m., July 31. The driver said he was driving home from White Plains when a friend advised he was going to be sick. Police told the driver he was on private property and would have to leave.

Police issued a summons to a contractor cutting stone with a power saw at a Graham Road house, in violation of village code on July 31.

On Aug. 1, an Overlook Road resident reported a man riding a bicycle was throwing fliers onto lawns. Police observed fliers on numerous lawns and attempted to contact the company responsible for the fliers. Police wrote a summons for the unauthorized public posting of notices, which would be distributed to the company.

Civil matter
A woman went to headquarters for assistance on getting one of her children's passports from her ex-husband August 2. She said her ex-husband had both children's passports even though she was supposed to hold one of the passports, as per their mutual agreement. Patrol advised her it was a civil matter but contacted her ex-husband as a courtesy. The ex-husband said he had no issues giving his ex-wife one of the passports, but he wanted it to be documented by police.

Fire
A Heathcote Road resident reported a gas odor in the basement, but firefighters thought the odor was coming from a dry trap in the basement July 27.

A hot water heater in a Hampton Road house malfunctioned and released carbon monoxide into a Hampton Road house July 28. Firefighters ventilated the house and notified Con Edison.

Con Edison red tagged a boiler in a Webster Road house after it was found to be releasing carbon monoxide. Firefighters ventilated the house and advised the homeowner on a course of action.

Firefighters notified Con Edison about gas readings at one of their excavation holes on Sprague Road July 30.

Firefighters disconnected a hot water heater in a Park Road house because it was releasing an electrical burning odor July 30.

Light smoke was found in the Christie Place garage July 31. Firefighters determined it was drifting in from a nearby restaurant. The fire inspector was scheduled to follow up with the restaurant to alleviate factors causing the smoke.

Firefighters stood by for Con Edison at the site of a natural gas odor at Scarsdale Public Library on Olmsted Road Aug. 2.

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