Rampage at Edgemont High School

A busy week for the Greenburgh Police: A 16 year-old Edgemont boy has been charged with criminal mischief after he went on a rampage with a sledge hammer, smashing 26 windows at Edgemont High School. A school custodian discovered the damage at 6:40 am on June 23rd, the morning of the high school graduation. The custodian found the sledgehammer on the gym floor, saw three broken windows in the gym and then toured the school and counted a total of 26 windows throughout the school that had been smashed. The total damage to the school is estimated at $11,000. On June 30, police announced the arrest of a 16 year-old Old Army Road boy whose name is being withheld due to his age. He was arraigned in Greenburgh Town Court on June 29th and released to his family, pending a court date on July 8th.

Fight: A Secor Road woman got into a fight with an ex boyfriend when he refused to leave the house on the evening of 6/20. The man was waiting for a cab on Longfellow Street in Hartsdale when he started to scream, kick and refuse to leave. He blocked traffic and cursed and screamed that he wanted to be arrested. When he refused to stop, he was placed under arrest, but flailed his arms, refused to be handcuffed and kicked and yelled. The man, identified as Paul Fisher, age 42 of Pleasantville was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Trouble at Hurricane Wings: Police were called to intervene in a fight at the restaurant on the night of June 23rd. Two customers, Robert W. Bracchitta and Jennifer Bitter both of Yonkers had gotten drunk and started a fight with another customer. When the managers asked the two to leave, Ms. Bitter slapped one of the managers across the face. Managers were able to escort the two out the door and blocked the entrance to prevent them from getting back in. Police interviewed Bracchitta and Bitter in the parking lot and they were loud and uncooperative. Police told Bracchitta to have someone pick them up and he called his mother. Though police decided not to press charges, Bitter continued to yell, and shouted, “those f XXX ers pushed me out the restaurant and touched my breasts, no man will ever touch my breasts."

Shoplifters: Police tracked down thieves who stole two digital cameras, an e-book and other merchandise from Best Buy on the afternoon of June 20th. The store alerted police that the men left the store in a white Nissan Altima and police stopped the car as it was travelling south on Central Avenue. The security officers identified the three men who were found with the stolen merchandise as well as magnetic devices that are used to facilitate larcenies. The three suspects were identified as Sharif N. Graham, age 36 of the Bronx, Trent Bernard Cook, age 31 of Brooklyn and Shondell Maurice Leach, age 33, also of Brooklyn.

After being alerted by Best Buy, police pursued and caught two shoplifters who had fled in a BMW on the evening of June 22. Security officers at the store stopped two men who were exiting when the security sensor was activated. One of the men fought off the guard and the two jumped into their car and drove north on Central Avenue. Police spotted the gray BMW on Tarrytown Road and saw one man jump out of the car on the entrance ramp to 287. Police were able to stop the car and another police unit found the other man on Randolph Road. The two men were brought to the station and positively identified by the Best Buy security guard. The men had stolen credit cards and had also taken a 32GIG sandisk memory card from Best Buy. The suspects were identified as Mamuka Chaganava and Archil Bugianishvili, both of Brooklyn.

Alyssa Congro, age 20 of the Bronx was arrested when she attempted to use stolen gift cards to purchase items at Denny’s Children’s clothes on Central Avenue on June 22. Congro selected merchandise and presented two gift cards, one for $75 and the other for $100 as payment. The store manager called the store where the cards were issued and found out that the cards had been reported stolen. Police then contacted the card’s owner who said that her purse had been stolen when she visited the Bronx Zoo on June 6th and she had notified Denny’s that the cards were taken. Congro was then arrested for criminal possession of stolen property.

Two Connecticut women were caught shoplifting at TJ Maxx on the afternoon of June 26. Natasha Nicholson and Ricky Nation took a pair of sneakers and cologne, together valued at $11.0.74. The women took the merchandise, attempted to return it for store credit and buy something else. They were charged with petit larceny.

Thievery: A home on Kaateskill Place, Scarsdale was entered and ransacked on the Wednesday afternoon June 22. When the resident returned at 3 pm, they found that a side entrance had been damaged and thieves had gone through the house and stolen jewelry and cash. The intruders attempted to open a safe in the basement but failed.

Residents of Columbia Avenue in Hartsdale saw and heard vandals trying to break into their car at 2 am on June 23rd. The residents heard banging noises, looked outside and saw someone holding a flashlight and looking into their s car windows. The residents activated the car alarm from a key ring and the intruder fled.

Two 23 year-old medical students were victims of theft while they were eating at CPK on Wednesday night 6/22. When they returned to the car after dinner, they found that computers, a digital camera, the charges and an iPod nano were gone. There were no signs of forced entry into the car.

While responding to a burglar alarm at 1:30 am on 6/22 at Woodlands High School, police learned that a group of girls had been hanging out in the back of the school. Police saw four girls run into the woods and found them on Dalewood Drive. The girls said they were hanging out and there was no damage to the school.

A shopping cart rolled into a Mazda minivan owned by a woman who lives on Murray Hill Road in Scarsdale while the van was parked in a Central Avenue parking lot on Monday morning 6/20. The cart caused scratches and a ding. The owner of the car agreed to work out the problem with a woman who had let the cart roll away.

Police came upon drinkers in a car in the parking lot at 336 Central Park Avenue on the night of June 24th. Two underage drinkers were issued violations and released to their parents and two others were booked for giving/selling alcohol to persons under the age of 21.

At 7:30 am on Saturday June 25, police found Freddy Hernandez, age 28 of Yonkers stopped in his minivan on Central Avenue in front of the Carpet Gallery. Hernandez was asleep, the car was in drive, and his foot was on the brake. Hernandez was drunk and had an open alcoholic beverage in the car. He failed sobriety tests and was arrested for drunk driving, drinking in a car and impeding traffic.