Scarsdale in the News: Sanderlin and Spierer

Andrea Sanderlin, who put Scarsdale in the national spotlight in May, was freed from prison on Monday July 1 when she posted a $500,000 bond as bail. Sanderlin was arrested in May after officers from the DEA discovered she was running a large pot-growing business and selling the plants. However, according to news reports, the $500,000 bond she posted as bail was backed by a group of acquaintances who she barely knew, including a train engineer, a secretary and two workers at a hair salon.

Sanderlin was indicted on two charges; manufacturing and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute and maintaining a drug-involved premises. She pleaded not guilty and will return to court in mid-July.

Sanderlin lived in a rented home on Saxon Woods Road in Scarsdale, ostensibly paying $10,000 per month. The house is now back on the market for $13,500 per month and the landlord is seeking a new tenant for the large home that was built in 2009. Though no one knows where she will relocate with her two daughters, Sanerlin's connection to Scarsdale could soon be severed when she moves out of the home.

The parents of Lauren Spierer a 20 year-old Edgemont girl who has been missing since June, 2011, have filed a lawsuit claiming that the three students who last saw their daughter contributed to her "disappearance, injury and death." The complaint names Corey Rossman, Jay Rosenbaum and Michael Beth and alleges that they were negligent in supplying her with alcohol and failing to see her home, leading to her injury and likely death. According to the suit, "Spierer's abandonment in an intoxicated and disoriented state in the early morning hours of June 3, 2011 in an area known for criminal acts contributed to her disappearance, and presumed injuries and death." The suit was filed in Monroe Circuit Court, a federal court in Indiana, the state where the Indiana University student went missing.

This is a civil suit that seeks compensation for damage. The three men have not been named as suspects in the case; however they have not been forthcoming about what happened that night and Spiere's parents, Robert and Charlene Spierer, hope that the suit will pressure the men to shed some light on what may have happened to their daughter.

June 3, 2013 marked two years since Spierer vanished. Intensive and widespread efforts to find her have been unsuccessful.