Car Thieves Continue to Prey on Scarsdale Residents

For the second week in a row, many cars parked in Scarsdale driveways were vandalized overnight. Windows were broken, cars were tossed and a host of personal items were reported stolen. Police urge residents to put cars into the garage when possible and to lock them. Here is the report:

The front passenger window of a 2011 Honda Pilot was broken early on the morning of 4/23 when the car was parked on Franklin Road. The car was not entered and nothing was taken. Also that night on Franklin Road a 2011 Acura MDX was entered, but nothing was taken.

The driver's side front window of a 2007 Toyota Camry was smashed when it was parked in a driveway on Heathcote Road overnight from 4/22 to 4/23. Nothing was taken from inside the car.

A North Face backpack and loose change were taken from a Volkswagen parked unlocked in an Ardmore Road driveway early in the morning on April 23. At around 5 am the dog heard someone outside and growled. After the incident the resident's found a pair of women's sunglasses in the car.

At another home on Ardmore Road two cars were entered that night. A GPS and an Android phone charger were stolen from a Honda Accord and the glove box and center console of a Chevrolet Suburban were left open but nothing appeared to be missing.

A 2010 Infiniti parked at a home on Crossway was also entered and tossed overnight on 4/22-4/23. The following morning the owner found the car trunk and driver's side door open and the contents of the glove box strewn around the car. Missing was $520 in cash and a Blackberry phone charger.

Missing Clothes: A resident who lives on Boulevard called police on the afternoon of 4/22 to report that some clothing was missing from a plastic bin in the basement. The items had disappeared sometime since June and she thought that her former housekeeper may have taken the items. The woman was having trouble walking and asked the same questions over and over. Police advised her granddaughter to call the adult advocate for assistance.

On White Road police received another report of the theft of clothing and handbags. The items vanished between January 20, 2013 and now. Missing are a pink Kate Spade coat valued at $70.00, an $800 Gucci bag, a Louis Vuitton bag worth $2,300, and an $800 Burberry coat. The woman suspected that either her housekeeper or babysitter may have taken the missing items.

Threats by Text: A Fox Meadow girl and a Heathcote boy reported the receipt of threatening text messages between 4/15 and 4/24. Neither of them recognized the phone number from which the texts were sent but from the content they believed the person knows both of them. The texts warned the girl not to travel to Colorado to visit the boy. Police tried to call the phone number but it was not accepting calls.

A Post Road woman called police on the morning of April 27 when she received a disturbing letter at her home address in response to a comment she made in the Daily News about the Holocaust. The letter was from a NYC man at P.O. Box and contained articles about mass murder, communism and genocide. She found the tone of the letter to be aggressive.

Disputes: A Heathcote woman called police at 1:27 am on 4/24 when she was having a fight with her husband. Police went to the house and spoke to husband and wife who agreed to separate for the night in order to calm down.

A mother and her son got into a dispute about gas money on Tunstall Road on the afternoon of April 25. When police arrived everyone had settled down.

Stranger at the Door: At 5 am on 4-24 a woman from Richelieu Road called police when someone attempted to open the door to her house. She asked who was there and the person replied "it's me" before walking away from the house.

Locked In: Police were called at 8:40 am on 4/25 when an elderly man got locked inside a bathroom at a home on Fenimore Road. The man was also stuck in the tub. The Fire Department arrived and they were able to open the door to the bathroom.

Homeless or Home Shopping? Police received a call about James William a homeless man who is often seen pushing a shopping cart in Scarsdale. This time he was found at a house on Mamaroneck Road at 8:30 am on April 24. He told police he was in the process of purchasing the house and he was here to start moving in. However he was unable to substantiate the claim that he had purchased the house and the current homeowner did not want him on the property.

Mysterious Moves: Traffic cones continued to be moved overnight at Shaarei Tikvah. The cones are placed at the entrance to the parking lot to slow traffic and someone has been moving them between 9 pm and 6 am.

Leaks: There was a fuel leak from a pool heater on Stonewall Lane on the afternoon of April 22. The County Department of Health was notified and took over the investigation. Madison Road residents reported a leak in the water main to their house at 7 pm on April 22.

Post No Bills: The owner of GTec Kids received a summons for posting a sign on a telephone pole at the intersection of Post road and Popham Road on April 25.

Found: On April 28 a set of keys was found on the lawn of a Continental Road home and a car key was found on Sage Terrace.

Bronx River Parkway Closures:

The northbound lanes of the Bronx River Parkway will be closed between Harney Road (Exit 10) and Crane Road (Exit 12) on Monday, April 29 and Tuesday, April 30 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. According to Westchester County the parkway closure is necessary to conduct subsurface investigations for the west abutment of the new bridge as part of the Crane Road Bridge Replacement Project on the Bronx River Parkway. A detour will be posted for traffic heading to the northbound parkway using eastbound Harney Road to northbound Scarsdale Avenue to northbound East Parkway and then back onto the northbound parkway at Crane Road.  Delays are expected and drivers are advised to seek alternate routes. The project began last summer and will take three years to complete.

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