Police Report: Vandals Break Windows and Damage Cars

Vandals: A Hampton Road woman reported that someone threw a beer can through a window of her home overnight on July 10 – July 11. Five empty beer bottles were found outside her home in a cardboard carrier and the sixth bottle was found near the broken window

A River Road woman told police that her car was damaged overnight when it was parked in her driveway on 7/7 – 7/8. Around 12:45 am on 7/8 she heard her dogs barking and looked out the window to see a car driving by. In the morning she found that the rear windshield was shattered and the passenger side mirror was cracked. It appeared that there was a hole from a BB gun in both. The car is a 2011 Mercedes Benz ML350.

A Claremont Road man reported that his 2008 Toyota was also damaged that night. The front driver side window was broken when the car was parked on the street in front of the house overnight. Nothing had been removed from the inside of the car.

A Greenacres Avenue man found that his car was damaged overnight on 7/13 – 7/14 when it was parked in front of his house. When he went outside at 10 am he found that the driver's side mirror was dislodged and the sideview mirror was on the ground.

Identity Theft: On July 9 a Ferncliff Road couple reported fraudulent activity on their checking out. They were unable to access the account online and called the bank who was able to stop a $5,300 fraudulent transfer from their account. However it was too late to stop another $5,700 transfer that had been made on July 5. Both transfers had been made online.

Holy Cow: A Wynmor Road man called police at 1:22 am on July 10 when he found a large animal on his lawn. When police arrived they found a plastic ornamental cow on the front lawn – and had no idea how it got there.

No Fare: A driver from Central Taxi reported that at 6:30 am on July 11 a man got off the train and asked to be driven to Hutchinson Avenue. The driver took him to 15 Hutchinson Avenue and asked how much the fare was. The driver told him $9 and the man said he needed to go into the house to get the money. The driver waited but the man never came out of the house. The driver had previously driven the man to 11 Hutchinson Avenue so he waited there too but the passenger never emerged with the fare.

Accidents:

Pedestrian Hit: A pedestrian from Lenox Road was hit by a car driven by an 82 year-old woman from Hampton Road in front of the Post Office on Chase Road in Scarsdale around 4:00 pm on July 11. The driver was attempting to park and hit the pedestrian who came to headquarters to report the incident.
An 18 year-old driving a 2011 Audi on Mamaroneck Road near Colonial Road lost control of his car and ran into a fire hydrant at 4:44 pm on July 12. The young man said he was in a daze when his car went off the road, hit the hydrant and caused it to gush.

An 86-yeaar-old Tory Lane man was driving his 2005 Mercedes on Woodland Place on Saturday afternoon July 13 when he tried to avoid a car that was backing out of a space and hit another car that was parked on the street. He left the scene but then returned afterwards.

Harassment: The General Manager of Quaker Ridge Golf Club told police that a former employee of the club was sending unwanted emails and text messages to staff and club members. The employee had been dismissed after he had an argument with the caddy master and was now alleging that he was let go due to discrimination. The manager asked police to contact the former employee to tell him to stop the communications and handle the dispute through a lawyer. Police attempted to reach the man but were unable to contact him.

A Crossway man told police on 7/14 that he and his wife are being repeatedly threatened by his brother-in-law who calls asking for money. The brother-in-law made the harassing calls from a cell phone that the couple had provided to him so they temporarily suspended the account. Then they started receiving calls from the brother-in-law's home number. The brother-in-law used threatening language and told the man he was "going to take care of him" and previously mentioned that he had a gun. Police call the brother-in law and told him that charges of aggravated harassment had been filed against him and police urged him to cease contact.

Disputes: A young man from Park Road came to police on the night of July 8 to discuss a verbal disagreement he was having with a former friend. The two were previously in a band together. Since that time both parties have been hearing "trash talk" about the other via third parties. Police spoke to both boys and they agreed not to talk about each other or to each other in the future.

A feuding couple got into an argument at Starbucks around 7 pm on July 11. Police spoke to the woman and her fiancée and they decided to leave the scene and spend the night apart.

Stephen Greenberg of Fox Meadow Road called police to document an issue he had with a Village employee on July 8.

A New Rochelle woman called police at 3:15 pm on 7/9 from the Golden Horseshoe Shopping Center. She said she was being followed by a man in a black car. When police arrived they spoke to both parties who said they were having a dispute about a driving incident. Both agreed to leave the scene.

Missing: A 37 year-old woman who resides at Search for Change on the Post Road in Scarsdale failed to return to the home on July 14 by the 1 am curfew. According to the counselor at the home the resident in question may have been using alcohol the previous afternoon and after she was questioned, she left at 5 pm without notifying the staff. The counselor reported that the woman was missing at 2 am on July 14 and said that the resident was in danger because she had not returned to take her medication. Police contacted the missing woman's mother and a friend of the woman and neither knew her whereabouts.

A concerned son called when his elderly mother left her Cayuga Road home at 3:50 am and could not be found. Police canvassed the area, found the woman and brought her home.

Animals: Police were alerted to a badly injured raccoon on Southwoods Lane on the morning of July 8. Since the animal could not walk, police dispatched it and called the highway department to remove it.

A Sprague Road woman found a dog tied to her front steps by a leash at 9:30 am. The dog had no collar and was attached to her house with a 15 foot cable. Police searched the area and found the owner who said she did not realize that she had not tied the other end to her house.

A Sheldrake Road woman called police on the evening of July 9 when a raccoon was trapped in her garbage can. They had heard a noise in the garbage can earlier in the day and put a rock on the lid to keep it closed. When police arrived they removed the rock and the lid of the can and found a dead raccoon inside.

Locked in: A Concerned Fox Meadow Road mom called police at 8 am on July 11 when her 2 year-old son locked himself in the bathroom and could not get out. By the time the fire department arrived, the boy had unlocked the door himself and emerged unharmed.

Locked Out: A Wynmor Road mom inadvertently locked herself out of the house on the afternoon of July 12 while her baby slept upstairs. The fire department was able to get inside and unlock the door for the mom.