Police Report: Customer Leaves Without Paying After Eating at 7-Eleven

Stolen:On Feb. 27, a 7-Eleven employee on Scarsdale Ave. reported a customer ate food in the store without paying for it and left the location.

Identity theft
On Feb. 24, a Harwood Court resident reported four fraudulent transactions due to stolen credit cards.
On Feb. 26, a Parkfield Rd. resident reported fraudulent charges on one of his credit cards from Dec. 34, 2024 to Jan. 31, 2025. Four charges were in the name of a former gardener fired on Nov. 3, 2024, and two charges were in the name of an unknown person.
On Feb. 28, an Olmsted Rd. resident reported that numerous American Express accounts were fraudulently opened in his name. Cash was withdrawn from one of the accounts, and American Express was investigating.

Speaker
A speaker was abandoned on a resident’s property on River Rd. Feb. 28. The resident said he would dispose of it Feb. 28.

Windows
Broken windows were found on a second-floor property on East Parkway Feb. 28. Police accompanied a bank manager to investigate the broken windows.

Help
Police locked an Edgewood Rd. front door for a resident who was in the hospital Feb. 28.

Scofflaw
On Feb. 25, police encountered a driver with scofflaw status due to unpaid parking tickets on Scarsdale Ave. The driver thought the tickets had been resolved; however, Village Justice Court revealed otherwise. Police helped the driver contact court employees to clear the tickets.

Accidents
Two car accidents were officially reported in the Village this week.

Dog
A loose dog was dropped off at headquarters March 2. Police contacted the owner, who sent a neighbor to pick up the dog.

Village code
On Feb. 24, a Burgess Rd. resident reported noise from a neighbor’s construction equipment was keeping her and her family awake. Police issued a Village code summons for the noise violation.
On Feb. 27, noise from a generator used to operate a pump at the Burgess Rd. construction site was causing noise in violation of Village code. Police issued a summons.
On March 1, police removed an illegally posted sign from Brookby Rd. and issued a summons.

Firefighters
On Feb. 24, smoke from a cooking pot filled a Wayside Lane house. Firefighters removed the pot of burnt food and ventilated the house.
On Feb. 27, firefighters investigated a Sheldrake Rd. house for possible carbon monoxide. The resident said a chimney sweep company reported signs of corrosion in the exhaust vent for the water heater, which might allow carbon monoxide to escape. Firefighters determined that the corrosion had not fully penetrated the ductwork. They metered the areas while the unit was in operation and determined that no carbon monoxide was escaping. They advised the resident to contact an HVAC company to replace ductwork as necessary.
Firefighters stood by for Con Edison at the site of a carbon monoxide leak in a Fox Meadow Rd. house Feb. 28.
Firefighters assisted at a car accident on the Hutchinson River Parkway March 2.

This report covering police and fire department activity from Feb. 24 – March 2 has been compiled from official information.

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