Runaway Girl Returns Home to Hartsdale: From the Greenburgh Police

A 15 year-old Hartsdale girl ran away from home on Thursday July 21 and went on an incredible odyssey before returning home the following Monday. Police received a call from her mother on Joyce Road in Hartsdale at 9 pm on July 21 to report that her daughter had run away from home at 2 pm that afternoon. Police called the number of one of the daughter’s friends but there was no answer and they also left a message on the girl’s cell phone. In a report dated Monday July 25, the girl was found and told police where she had been for the last five days. Upon leaving on Thursday she took a Metro North train to the city and then a bus to New Jersey with an 18 year-old friend from Ardsley. They both returned to Penn Station and then caught a train from Grand Central to Beacon, New York where they got on a bus to Poughkeepsie. From there they walked to New Paltz. On Monday 7/25, the boy called his mother and she drove to New Paltz to pick them up. The girl reported that during their trip they had slept in local parks and on bicycle trails.

Shoplifters: On the afternoon of July 19, an employee from Rite Aid on Central Avenue in Hartsdale called the police when they saw a man leaving the store with 3 containers of baby formula without paying. Police found a man matching the description at the intersection of Columbia Avenue and East Hartsdale Avenue. Battisto John Tomasetti of Ardsley, age 49 was arrested for petit larceny.

At TJ Maxx, Kareema Braxton, age 31 of Yonkers was confronted by store security when she tried to leave the store with 10 pairs of flipflops and a handbag valued at $129.99 on July 19. When Braxton was stopped, she dropped all the merchandise and her own handbag and fled. Police were not able to find her or her companion.

Missing: A Fieldstone Drive man reported that his 2000 Kawa motorcycle was stolen when it was parked in a spot on Fieldstone Drive. It disappeared sometime between Friday night 7/22 and Monday morning 7/25.An Irvington woman reported that her phone was stolen while she was at a doctor’s appointment at an office at 141 South Central Avenue on July 18th.