Accidents and Strange Doings from the Scarsdale Police

Accidents: An 80 year-old driver crashed his 2005 Lincoln into the Parkway Diner on Spencer Place in Scarsdale shortly after 2 pm on Wednesday afternoon. Louis Bauman of Boulder Lane in Scarsdale was pulling into a parking space on Spencer Place and hit the accelerator, causing the car to crash into the building. Miraculously there were no injuries!

According to an email from the Scarsdale School district, on Tuesday morning 12/11, a Scarsdale School bus headed for the Middle School after picking up students in Greenacres and Fox Meadow had a minor accident with a bus from another company. When the bus arrived at school, the nurse evaluated the passengers and took 11 students to the Health Office for further examination and to contact their parents. The other students were upset because they were late for school but enjoyed having a police escort.

A 17 year-old Scarsdale girl got into two car accidents in one week. Around 3 pm on Monday 12/3 she was driving her 200 Acura east on Mamaroneck Road behind a 2012 Toyota. The girl was "momentarily distracted" and ran into the Toyota. On Tuesday December 4th at 6:46 pm the same 17 year-old was backing a 1999 Honda out of a driveway on Mamaroneck Road and a car going south on Mamaroneck Road hit her car. They did not see one another due to the fog.

Thefts: An 82 year-old woman from Ridgedale Road was arrested for the theft of a framed newspaper article valued at $500 from a home in Scarsdale. She surrendered to police accompanied by her attorney.

A woman from Purchase reported that she left her iPhone at Soul Cycle in Scarsdale on December 4 and when she returned there later that day the phone was gone. The manager said she had searched for it but was unable to find it.

A dad from Wildwood Road came to police to report that his daughter's iPhone had been stolen from her backpack while she was at school on the morning of 12/5.

Identity Theft: A woman from Secor Road reported that on 12/7 a clutch for a BMW was delivered to her home though she never ordered it. She refused to pay for it and later learned that someone posing as an employee of her company may have ordered the part and used her address for billing.

Stranger at the Door: Police got a call from a concerned resident on the afternoon of 12/4 to say that a suspicious man keeps knocking on the door and upsetting his children who are home alone. Police found the man in question and he turned out to be a tax assessor working on the revaluation for Scarsdale Village.

Rifle? On the morning of 12/9 a White Plains man called police when he saw two teenage boys walking on Cushman Road and one appeared to be holding a rifle. Multiple police cars searched the area but they were unable to find the boys or determine whether or not it was a real rifle.

More to the story? A Mamaroneck Road man called police around 10 pm on 12/9 when a yellow taxi with a passenger inside refused to leave the Scarsdale man's property. The resident spoke to the passenger who claimed he was there to buy the man's house through foreclosure. The resident explained that his house was not for sale and went back inside. At that point the passenger, who was described as a large man in a fur hat, rang the doorbell. The resident activated the alarm and the man fled. Police searched the area and later that evening found the taxi driver. He confirmed that he had driven a man to Mamaroneck Road and then to the Central Motel on Central Avenue.

Dropped keys: A woman from Ardsley dropped her keys into the storm drain near Rothmans on Boniface Circle on the afternoon of 12/4. A man from the Highway Department attempted to recover the keys but was unable to get them.

Found purse: A purse was found at the intersection of the Post Road and Sunset Drive on the morning of 12/7. Police were able to identify the owner by the contents of the bag and returned it to a woman from Birchall Drive.

Help: The staff at Search for Change on the Post Road called police on the morning of 12/4 when one of the residents was agitated and shouting and disturbing other members of the house. The upset resident was sent to White Plains Hospital for evaluation.