A Stolen Painting and a Threatening Pitbull on the Loose: Scarsdale Police Report

Stolen Painting: A $10,000 painting was stolen from an Innes Road home that is for sale, sometime between January 25 and February 1. In addition, a walnut sideboard that stood directly underneath the painting was damaged when someone tried to pry open the lock. Because the house is on the market, it had been shown several times from 1/28 – 1/30.

Stolen car found in Scarsdale Village: Police found a 2005 Mazda RX8 parked overnight on East Parkway at 5:30 am on 2/3. A check of the license plate number revealed that the car had been reported stolen on February 1st. The car had been damaged and was towed by Ted Hermann to the Police impound lot.

Break-in: There was an attempted break-in at a home owned by the Scarsdale Congregational Church on Woods Lane on the afternoon of January 30th between four and five pm. The resident retuned home and found the front door open, and determined that both the lock and the doorframe were damaged.

Identity theft: On 1/30 a Weaver Street woman was advised that someone made a fraudulent purchase using her American Express card number. The transaction was for a car hood valued at $1,020.00 which was to be shipped to an address in California.

On January 31, Tyrone Murphy, age 42 of Mt. Vernon was arrested for identity theft in connection with defrauding a 79 year-old man who lives at the ARC residential facility on Foxhall Road. After Murphy was booked he was given a court appearance date and released on $100 cash bail.

Damage: A tow truck damaged a Kingston Road lawn on the night of February 1, when it was sent to a neighboring home to repossess a car. The man who complained about the damage to his property was given the contact information of the repossession company to call.

Bad behavior at Balduccis: The manager of Balduccis called police on February 2 when a terminated employee continued to loiter in the store. A former employee in the meat department came into the store to pick up his knives, but then approached the store manager with the knives in his hand and argued with him. The manager asked him to leave, and the former employee complied but said he would be back. Police spoke to the employee who agreed to stay away from the store.

Neighbors on Edgewood Road and Hamilton Road got into a dispute about the placement of trash on February 4. Police spoke to both parties who then came to an agreement about the recyclables.

Pit-bull on the loose: Police tracked a runaway pitbull for 24 hours but were unable to catch it. The first report was received on the afternoon of February 4th about a pitbull without a collar on Crossway. Police tried to catch the dog but it was too aggressive. The Greenburgh Police animal control unit was called and they tried to sedate it with a dart but were unsuccessful as well. The following morning, at 7:30 am the same dog was spotted near the Crossway Firehouse but by the time police arrived it was gone. At 11:00 am, police got a call that a pitbull was found at the intersection of Saxon Woods and Mamaroneck Roads and at 2:30 pm the dog was reported to be at the back of Westchester Reform Temple. At 3:55 the dog was trapped in the temple play area but when police arrived it had escaped.

Update on the Pit-bull February 8: On Tuesday morning February 7 a Myrtledale Road resident called police when a pit-bull got trapped in the fenced-in area of her yard. When the dog saw the officer, he "charged at him with it's teeth exposed." The officer reported that the dog looked sick and he fired at the dog in self defense. However, the dog got away and police received numerous reports that the dog was running around.  They tracked him for a few hours, near Saxon Woods Road and through area yards. The dog eventually ran to the Heathcote Playground where children were playing outside.  The children were evacuated from the field and sent inside where the school was locked down.  Westchester Reform Temple was also locked down after the dog entered the property. Finally, on Myrtledale Road again, Officer Armando Nava was following the dog in his car, when the pit-bull charged at the driver's side door of the patrol car.  Nava was able to shoot him, and the New Rochelle Humane Society came to pick up the dead dog.  The dog had no collar or tags.

Disorderly kids knocked over a port-a-potty on Rochambea Road around 10:30 pm on 2/4. Four kids travelling in a car had driven past the site several times and finally knocked over the potty.


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