Home and Car Break-ins, a Mysterious Helicopter and more from the Scarsdale Police
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Break-in on Saxon Woods Road: A Saxon Woods Road home was entered between 8:30 am and 3:05 pm on November 1. The front door was kicked open and the door, the frame and the lock were damaged. The home was rummaged through.
Missing Jewels: On October 28 a Mamaroneck Road woman told police that jewelry that had been stored in a cabinet in her bedroom was missing. An 18K chain with a pendant and Hello Kitty diamonds, together valued at $6,500 were missing from her home.
Identity Theft: On October 28 a Mamaroneck Road woman reported that someone had used her Social Security number to file a fraudulent tax return using her personal information. The woman did not know how the person obtained her SS# but said that contractors had worked in the house during the past two years and may have seen a copy of a prior tax return that was stored in the basement.
A Chateaux Circle woman reported that someone had opened an account in her name and changed $539.38 in merchandise from a company called Seventh Avenue between October 18 and November 1. The woman neither ordered nor received any merchandise from the company.
Car Relocated: A blue Ford Explorer that belongs to a Woods Lane man was found in the middle of Forest Lane at 7 am on October 29. The car was in drive and the keys were in the ignition. The car had been parked in the driveway of the Woods Lane man the previous night – but when he woke up in the morning it was gone. When he called police they said his car had been found on Forest Lane.
Missing Tesla: A Lockwood Road woman called police at 7:50 am on October 31 to say that her 2013 Tesla had been taken from her driveway. She had last seen it the previous night. Police broadcast the vehicle information to the force. Before police could complete the report, the car was found parked on East Parkway in front of Zachys. The woman said she had forgotten that she parked the car there the prior day.
Tossed: Two vehicles that belong to a Madison Road man were entered overnight on 10/28 and 10/29. Shortly after midnight on 10/29 the man heard his dog bark but assumed it was a raccoon. The following morning the man found that items were missing from two of the four cars parked in his driveway. A watch valued at $3,000 was taken from a 2013 Ford Explorer and hand and power tools valued at $1,200 were missing from a Dodge Dakota.
A 2004 Toyota Rav 4 that was parked on Woods Lane on the night of 10/29 was entered overnight. No items were reported missing.
Accident: A Bronx man lost control of his car when he was driving on Drake Road at 3 am on October 31. Cristian O Batista said he felt fatigue when he drove off the road, struck a utility pole and damaged both the pole and his car. The heavily damaged 2002 Dodge was towed away.
Fences: A split rail fence at Hyatt Park was damaged during the night of October 30. 15 individual wood rails of the fence were broken. The total cost of the damage was $500.
On Friday night 11/1 a Saxon Woods Road reported that the fence in his front yard was damaged by a car that left the scene. Police arrived and found a fog lamp bracket, grill parts and a white gas cap that belonged to a white BMW on the property. Police discovered that the car had been towed to a service station in White Plains. They contacted the car's owner who said that she did hit the fence but that her insurance company said that she did not have to file a report with the police. The woman said she did not tell the homeowners about their fence because she did not know where the accident occurred.
Arrest: At 3 am on 11/2, Brianallen Crow of Newburgh New York was stopped by the police in New Rochelle for a motor vehicle incident. A check of his NYS driver's license showed that there was an active warrant for him in Scarsdale due to a incident that occurred in 12/7/12. He was turned over to Scarsdale Police and released on $100 cash bail.
Harrassed: An Autenreith Road woman reported that she received unwanted emails from one of her husband's clients on October 30th. Police called the man who sent the email and told him not to contact the woman, who is a divorce attorney, again.
A Crossway woman reported that receipt of two threatening phone messages on the night of November 2. The woman's sister threatened to "take a bat or metal rod and beat the victim's fxxxxxing face. In a second message on the victim's cell phone the sister said she would "ruin" the victim's face and ""take out her eyes." The victim was surprised because she said her sister "she has never been diagnosed with any mental illness but has exhibited psychotic episodes in the past. " She attributed her actions to stress.
Peeing in the Road: Police received a call about a man wearing orange sweat pants and a white scarf on his head who was urinating at the bus stop near the Scarsdale library at 10 pm on October 28. Police found a man who matched this description. Though he denied urinating he was given a warning.
Helicopter: Police got several calls about a helicopter flying low above the Scarsdale Middle School at 1:30 pm on October 28. Police notified Westchester County Police who said that the helicopter had clearance to fly over Scarsdale to take photos.
Wanderer: The manager of CVS on Popham Road called police at 2:30 pm on October 30 to say that an elderly man had been wandering around the store for six hours. Police spoke to the man who wrote on a note pad and indicated that he could not speak. He identified himself as Chaim Leier and wrote that he was homeless and disabled. He also wrote that he would take a train to the city where he had a place to stay.
Scammed: An Edgewood Road man called police around noon on October 31 to say that he had receive a phone call asking him to wire money to the American Embassy in the Dominican Republic where his grandson was in trouble. Police called the embassy and spoke to a representative who said there is a worldwide scam going on, using the phone number from which the man was called.
Kids: A Bradley Road woman called police at 8:40 pm on Halloween night when kids threw eggs at her front door and then ran into Davis Park. Police searched for the kids but were unable to find them.
A Fox Meadow Road woman called police at 9:50 pm n November 2 when she was supervising a small party for her daughter at her house when a large group of uninvited kids showed up. Police dispersed the unwanted guests and send them on their way.
A Sprague Road man who often argues with his teenage daughter, called police just after midnight on October 31. His 14 year-old daughter and his wife were arguing because the wife would not sign a permission slip for a school trip. The mother refused to sign the slip because the girl had disobeyed the parent's rules that afternoon.
Who let the dogs out? Police got a call from Richbell Road at 5:40 pm on October 31 advising them that two black labs were running in the road. Police arrived and met the owner of the dogs who was holding onto one of them. She explained that her gardener left the gate open and the dogs got out. Police then spotted the second dog and secured it in the owner's car.
Found: A brown wallet containing cash, credit cards and a driver's license was found at the corner of Garth Road and Popham Road at 9 pm on November 2. It was turned over to Scarsdale Police who made several unsuccessful attempts to contact the owner of the wallet.
Police Report: The Burglars are Back
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Burglars entered a Cushman Road home on Friday night October 25 while the residents were out in the city and stole jewelry from the master bedroom. The suspects broke French doors in back of the house, went inside and opened drawers in every room. However it appeared that the only thing taken was an unspecified quantity of jewelry. The house alarm was not on at the time. Residents discovered the burglary when they returned home at 11:50 pm on October 25.
Arrests: Police have made another arrest in connection with an incident involving fraudulent checks drawn from Savona Restaurant's account. Traquan P. Johnson, age 21 of the Bronx was arrest for cashing four fraudulent checks from Savona's account at Chase branches in Manhattan on August 19. Police apprehended Johnson after examining the fraudulent checks, reviewing Savona's bank statement and reviewing surveillance from Chase. The suspect also engaged in similar activities in the city on September 11, 2013. Johnson is represented by an attorney from Legal Aid. He was brought before Judge Galloway who set bail at $5,000 cash or $10,000 bond. Since Johnson could not post the bail he was remanded to Westchester County Jail.
Ogedi Ohajekwe, age 55 of Mount Kisco presented himself at Scarsdale Police Headquarters on 10/21 in response to a bench warrant issued on August 1, 2013 for his failure to appear in court regarding a traffic violation. He was given a new court date and released on his own recognizance.
Identity Thefts:
On October 24 Taunton Road woman reported that someone hacked her email account and stole $30,760 from her. No further details were provided.
A Stratton Road man reported that someone had changed the password and billing address on his Verizon account. The suspect also had the Scarsdale man's social security number.
A Mamaroneck Road man complained that an electrician that he was referred to via Home Depot, presented him with forged invoices and he paid the man for work that was not done. The report was made on October 25.
Theft:
A Mamaroneck woman was in the basement of the Harwood Building on the afternoon of October 21 where she had accessed her storage unit. She left her purse outside the storage rom on a pushcart and went to the storage room to reset the alarm. When she got back to her cart, less than a minute later, she found that someone had gone into her purse and stolen $110 in cash and two credit cards. She said she heard male voices in the basement.
Fight:
Police were called to Crossway Field on the afternoon of 10/26 when the coach of New Rochelle Little League team got into an argument with the umpire after the umpire ejected the coach and a player from the game. By the time police arrived, the coach was waiting in the parking lot for the next game to begin.
Found: A Maxpedition patrol bag that contained police equipment was found by the stream near 5 Cayuga Road on October 22. Inside the bag were handcuffs, a taser, zip ties, black tape and batteries.
A silver ring with a clear oval stone was found in Scarsdale Village on October 27 and turned over to the police.
Abandoned Bikes:
Two bikes were left on Scarsdale Avenue locked to a parking meter for a month. One is a black Trek bike model 820 with a gray baby seat attached to the back. The other is a white Next model PX 6.0. Police left a note on the bikes a month ago warning the owners that bikes cannot be locked to village-owned property but the bikes remain there today.
Cars Entered Overnight:
A car that was parked in the Christie Place parking lot was entered on October 21. A roll of quarters, woman's clothing and an iTouch were taken from the unlocked car.
An unlocked 2010 Honda Pilot that was parked in the driveway of Jefferson Road home was entered overnight on 10/25 -10/26. The glove box and center console were tossed and $37.00 was stolen from the car.
On Nelson Road an unlocked 2013 Mercedes Benz was entered that same night and $12.00 in quarters and pair of Rayban sunglasses were stolen. In addition, another car on Nelson Road was entered on 10/25 – 10/26 but nothings was removed.
A 2009 Jeep Wrangler and a 2008 Acura, parked in front of another house on Jefferson Road were also entered overnight on October 26. Approximately $20 in change was taken from the two cars. The man reported that he heard a car alarm sound at 2 am that night.
Hit and Run at DeCiccos:
A 2013 minivan that belongs to a Fox Meadow woman was badly damaged when it was parked at the DeCicco's lot around 6 pm on Saturday. The woman did her shopping and returned to the car to find that the back had been smashed. There was no note on the car but a witness told her that he watched a woman driving a black SUV back into her car and leave the scene. He noted down the license plate number and also called the police. Police were able to track down the driver, a New Rochelle woman who was driving a 2003 Acura.
Whoops:
A North Carolina man backed a zip car out of a spot on Tisdale Road, hit a village streetlight and cause it to fall on the property of a home on Tisdale Road at 8:40 pm on October 23.
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Brooklyn Woman Arrested For Defrauding Scarsdale Couple of $93,500
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Scarsdale Police have arrested yet another female suspect. Last week Scarsdale10583 reported that Cornell Street residents found that $93,350 was missing from their bank account. Chase Bank traced the transaction and found that a check for that amount had been written to Madeleine Katz and withdrawn from the account.
The couple did not know Katz or how she obtained their personal information. In addition, they determined that the check that was cashed was a counterfeit that had been printed with their account information on it.
Katz said she received the counterfeit check from "a guy in a bar in Brooklyn" who she "drinks" and plays card with." The check was payable to Katz and had the endorsement of the Scarsdale account holder on the back. Katz deposited the check in her own account at an ATM at a Chase Bank at 1180 Second Avenue in New York. She said she was doing the guy a favor because he did not have a bank account. She admitted that the plan was for her to keep a portion of the funds. She said that depositing the check was "rash" and not a "prudent decision."
On October 19, the Scarsdale Police announced the arrest of Madeleine Katz, age 22 of Brooklyn on October 16. She was charged her with Grand Larceny 2nd degree, a class C felony and possession of a forged instrument 2nd degree, a class D felony.
Katz was arraigned before Judge Galloway who set bail at $25,000 and remanded her to the Westchester County Jail. Scarsdale Police are continuing their investigation to determine how Katz obtained the Scarsdale residents' bank information.
A Burglary, More Thefts from Chase Accounts and a Bank Robbery: From the Police
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Burglary on Drake Road: Police responded to a burglar alarm at 10 pm on Saturday night October 19 and found that a home on Drake Road had been robbed. A glass patio door on the back of the house was broken and the master bedroom was tossed. When the homeowner returned he found that a pearl necklace with diamonds valued at $8,000 was gone as well as earrings, an amber heart, blue sapphire earrings and a ring, together valued at $3,000. A safe in the closet had not been opened. It appeared that the suspects entered and exited the house via a door in the family room.
Identity Theft:
Several incidents were reported involving large amounts of cash stolen from resident's bank accounts at Chase.
Arrest: Police arrested Madeleine Katz, age 22 of Brooklyn for stealing $93,500 from the account of a Scarsdale couple, using a counterfeit check. Read the entire story here.
In addition, the following incidents of identity theft were reported this week:
A Franklin Road man said that two fraudulent checks were written in his name and attempts were made to deposit them into accounts at Chase Banks in Brooklyn and Jersey City. Both checks were intercepted. The victim does not know who could be responsible.
An Olmsted road woman said that three fraudulent checks, valued at $10,000 were written against her recently closed back account at Chase. She was notified on October 15 of the incident.
A Lee Road man reported that four unauthorized withdrawals, together valued at $14,000, were made from his checking account on October 16. Chase is currently investigating. The victim did not know who could be responsible and said that no one except himself and his wife had access to his accounts, that they both had their debit cards in their possession and all checks were accounted for.
An unknown person incurred $2,400 in charges on the Verizon wireless account of a Secor Road man between 10/5 and 10/19/13.
Road Rage:
An Elmhurst man reported that he was involved in an incident of road rage on the afternoon of 10/16. According to the man he made a right turn from Crossway onto Mamaroneck Road and the car behind him tailgated him and the driver gestured for him to pull over. He made a right turn onto Harvest Drive and the other car followed him and stopped in front of his car. The operator of the other car got out and yelled at him and demanded that the Elmhurst man get out of his car. Then the tailgater returned to his car, pulled out a golf club and said "I've got something for you." He then got back into his car to leave and bumped into the man's arm with his car. The complainant took a photo of the man's license plate which police were able to trace to a resident of Sycamore Road. Police went to the man's house – and as he was not home they asked his wife to tell him to stop by headquarters. The man came in and gave a different account of the incident. He said the Elmhurst man cut him off and gave him the finger. He admits that he motioned for the man to pull over and did pull up in front of him on Harvest Drive where they exchanged words. He said that at no time did he pull out a golf club. Police told him that the man did not wish to file a complaint but said there would be consequences if he acted this way again.
Car Thefts:
A Fox Meadow road woman complained that a bag of clothing valued at $120 and a DVD Player valued at $195 were removed from her car when it was parked unlocked in her driveway overnight on 10/16 -10/17.
Another Fox Meadow Road resident called police on 10/19 to say that someone had entered his 2012 Chevy Traverse sometime between Wednesday 10/16 and Friday 10/18 and stolen $8.00 in cash and a company-issued gas credit card. The truck may have been left unlocked.
Stolen:
An iPhone that belonged to a 12 year-old Greenacres boy was stolen from his book bag while he was playing basketball at the school on the afternoon of October 18. He attempted to use the Find My Phone app to locate it but the phone was turned off.
Construction tools, valued at $1,800 were stolen from the garage of a home under construction on Nelson Road overnight on 10/18 – 10/19. A saw, hammer drill and a set of transit legs that had been left in the unlocked garage were missing when the site excavator returned to the home on the morning of 10/19.
Vandalism:
On Crane Road a resident reported that someone removed a stone from a rock wall in front of a home and broke it in the driveway at 9 am on October 14. The homeowner was sitting in the backyard when she heard a noise in front and found the rock in the driveway and the hole in the wall.
A Boulder Brook Road woman found that someone had thrown a cup of coffee on her front door and window overnight on October 15-16.
Animals:
Missing Dog: Heathcote Road residents called police on the morning of October 18 when they thought that someone had entered the house and stolen their Yorkie (dog). Police arrived, searched the house and found the dog inside.
A pigeon flew into Great Stuff on Spencer Place at 12:20 pm on October 20. Police arrived and attempted to pick it up to remove it but it walked out of the front door without help.
Teen Trouble:
Parents of a teen on Sprague Road called police again this week at 7:30 pm on October 17 when their daughter refused to turn down music that was playing on her cell phone. The mother and daughter were arguing and the mother started to throw her daughter's belonging around in an effort to locate the phone. The phone was located and returned to the daughter and police asked the mother to seek counseling. The father called police again at 9 pm on October 20 to say that his daughter has not been following their rules. She is not allowed to play music on her computer while doing homework and as a result the parents took away her computer. Police again told the couple that parenting issues are best handled through family counseling.
Car Trouble:
Gordon Locke of New Rochelle was stopped by police at 7 pm on October 19 when scanners showed he was driving with a suspended registration due to a lapse in his car insurance. The plates were removed from the car and it was towed back to Locke's home. He was given a traffic summons for driving with a suspended registration and suspended driver's license.
Bank Robbery in Elmsford:
Greenburgh Police report that they caught a man who robbed the Chase Bank at 324 Saw Mill River Road in Elmsford at noon on Monday October 21. According to the report, a man entered the bank and handed a teller a note that said "Give me money," written on a bank payment ticket. The teller complied and handed over some cash to the man who walked out of the bank. At 12:20 pm an undercover officer noticed a man in the parking lot at Sportime and detained him. He was later identified by a witness as the person who had allegedly robbed the bank.
The man, who was identified as David C. DeLaurentis, age 25, with a last known address of 117 East 118th Street, New York, New York was arrested and charged with Robbery in the third degree, a class D Felony. Around $4,000 in cash from the robbery was recovered from the suspect by the officers on scene. Mr.DeLaurentis has 72 prior arrests, with 17 felonies, 46 misdemeanors, and 9 otherwise classified arrests, with a total of 27 convictions.
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A Stolen Lexus and Big Time Identify Theft from the Scarsdale Police
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Stolen Lexus: A 2013 Lexus RX450H, valued at $55,000, was stolen from the driveway of a home on Old Lyme Road between 1:30 am and 7:55 am on October 11. The owners neither heard nor saw anything unusual during the night.
Big Time Identity Theft: On 10-7 Cornell Street residents reported that someone had written a fraudulent check and withdrawn $93,350 from their Chase account. They noticed the missing funds when they went to the ATM machine. Chase traced the check and froze all further activity on the account. A real check with that same check number was in the owner's possession so they determined that the check that was cashed was a forgery. They did not know that name of the person to whom the fraudulent check was written.
A Fayette Road woman reported that someone had opened a Credit One Bank card account in her name in June, 2012 and charged $2,495 on the account. A report showed that the suspects actually made two payments on the account: on for $10 on July 8, 2012 and another for $1,040 on October 10, 2012.
Fraudulent phone charges, totaling over $2,000 were billed to the account of a Walworth Avenue woman.
Thefts:
Springdale Road residents reported that home health aids had been repeatedly taking funds from the wife's wallet for the past three months. Two aids admitted that they were in cohoots with another aid and had taken forty dollars a week.. The incident was reported on October 11 and the funds have been stolen weekly since mid-July.
An employee at Starbucks on East Parkway complained that he left his Samsung Charge cell phone in the bathroom at Starbucks at 6:30 am on October 5. When he returned to the bathroom an hour later to retrieve it, it was gone.
Vandalism:
Spray Paint: Graffiti that read "Fuck Scarsdale" and included a drawing of a dog was spray painted in black on the outside wall of Tengda Restaurant on Garth Road and on an exterior wall of 7 Popham Road overnight on October 8-9.
A Hampton Road woman reported that she found a village parking sign leaning against the front entrance to her house and also noticed that a light from the front of her home had been pulled out of the ground. The vandalism occurred overnight on 10/10 – 10/11. On October 12, another Hampton Road homeowner found two "No Standing" signs on his property.
A Crane Road man reported that someone had removed a decorative stone from an exterior wall and smashed it in their driveway. He called police at 10 am on 10/14.
Animals:
Downed Deer: at 6 pm on 10/10 police were alerted about a badly injured deer on Brookby Road at Mamaroneck Road. The deer had apparently been hit by a car and was lying on the sidewalk of Mamaroneck Road. Greenburgh Animal Control was called to move the deer to a safe place where police could shoot it. The Highway Department removed the body.
A Walworth Avenue woman was bitten by a dog around 3 pm on October 10 while she was walking her daughter home from the Greenacres School on Huntington Avenue. She spoke to the owner of the dog who said that the dog's vaccines were up to date and the owner provided documentation to the police.
A White Road woman complained that a neighbor lets his dog defecate on her lawn and does not remove the feces. On the afternoon of 10/7 she called police to report that the man and his dog were on her property. Police contacted the man and advised him to avoid the woman's lawn when walking his dog.
Disputes:
At 6:30 pm on October 7 a resident at Search for Change on the Post Road complained that she was having a dispute with another residents and felt threatened. Police stopped by and spoke to the one of the residents who appeared to be aggressive. Due to her previous history they sent her to White Plains Hospital for evaluation.
A Manhattan woman who was staying with her children at her sister's home in Scarsdale called police on October 11 about a problem with her ex-boyfriend who is the father of the children. He wanted to come to Scarsdale and take the children to the city for the weekend. She did not trust him with the children for that length of time. She said her lawyer was calling him and said she would call back if problems escalated.
A Sprague Road man called police at 12:30 am on October 10 when he could not get his daughter to go to sleep. By the time police arrived she was in bed. Since the father makes frequent calls to the police to discipline his daughter, police advised him to seek family counseling to help the family get along.
A Quentin Road man called police on the morning of October 10 to resolve a dispute about a property line and a fence. One neighbor had hired a company to remove the fence – but police told the worker that he could not remove the fence without the consent of the neighbor.
Found:
A Mamaroneck Road woman found a large red bag in the bushes at the upper pool parking lot at 4 pm on October 8.The bag said "Santa's Bag" and had a large Christmas Tree sticking out of it.
A sign for "Honey Do Men Gutters and Roofing Corp. was found in front of the Scarsdale Middle School at 7:45 am on October 9. The sign was removed and the company was issued a summons for posting the sign in violation of village code. Another sign for the same company was found on Greendale Road on the night of 10/9 and the company received a second summons.
Solicitors:
Police receive numerous complaints about solicitors going door to door in Greenacres after dark on the evening of October 9. Police advised the solicitors who were selling candy for the New York Youth Club that their permit only authorized them to solicit during daylight hours. They agreed to stop for the day.
Flagged Down at 5 am: A driver called police at 5 am on October 11 after he was flagged down by a man walking in the middle of Post Road. The man was wearing a white shirt and black pants. Police found Carl D. Lantz of Eastchester who said he was trying to get a ride home after having a few drinks in White Plains. Police helped Lantz get home.
Confused:
A woman from Cambridge Road complained that she had received several inquiries from a woman who was looking to rent a room in her house. She claimed that a woman came to her door and called her -- however when police checked her caller id that were no phone calls listed. When police contacted her son he said that his mother suffers from short-term memory loss.This police report is sponsored by Scarsdale Security who does more than just security. Contact them about remote video for your home or business. Call 914-722-2200 or visit their website.
