A Stolen Lexus and Big Time Identify Theft from the Scarsdale Police

Stolen Lexus: A 2013 Lexus RX450H, valued at $55,000, was stolen from the driveway of a home on Old Lyme Road between 1:30 am and 7:55 am on October 11. The owners neither heard nor saw anything unusual during the night.
Big Time Identity Theft: On 10-7 Cornell Street residents reported that someone had written a fraudulent check and withdrawn $93,350 from their Chase account. They noticed the missing funds when they went to the ATM machine. Chase traced the check and froze all further activity on the account. A real check with that same check number was in the owner's possession so they determined that the check that was cashed was a forgery. They did not know that name of the person to whom the fraudulent check was written.

A Fayette Road woman reported that someone had opened a Credit One Bank card account in her name in June, 2012 and charged $2,495 on the account. A report showed that the suspects actually made two payments on the account: on for $10 on July 8, 2012 and another for $1,040 on October 10, 2012.

Fraudulent phone charges, totaling over $2,000 were billed to the account of a Walworth Avenue woman.

Thefts:

Springdale Road residents reported that home health aids had been repeatedly taking funds from the wife's wallet for the past three months. Two aids admitted that they were in cohoots with another aid and had taken forty dollars a week.. The incident was reported on October 11 and the funds have been stolen weekly since mid-July.

An employee at Starbucks on East Parkway complained that he left his Samsung Charge cell phone in the bathroom at Starbucks at 6:30 am on October 5. When he returned to the bathroom an hour later to retrieve it, it was gone.

Vandalism:

Spray Paint: Graffiti that read "Fuck Scarsdale" and included a drawing of a dog was spray painted in black on the outside wall of Tengda Restaurant on Garth Road and on an exterior wall of 7 Popham Road overnight on October 8-9.

A Hampton Road woman reported that she found a village parking sign leaning against the front entrance to her house and also noticed that a light from the front of her home had been pulled out of the ground. The vandalism occurred overnight on 10/10 – 10/11. On October 12, another Hampton Road homeowner found two "No Standing" signs on his property.

A Crane Road man reported that someone had removed a decorative stone from an exterior wall and smashed it in their driveway. He called police at 10 am on 10/14.

Animals:

Downed Deer: at 6 pm on 10/10 police were alerted about a badly injured deer on Brookby Road at Mamaroneck Road. The deer had apparently been hit by a car and was lying on the sidewalk of Mamaroneck Road. Greenburgh Animal Control was called to move the deer to a safe place where police could shoot it. The Highway Department removed the body.

A Walworth Avenue woman was bitten by a dog around 3 pm on October 10 while she was walking her daughter home from the Greenacres School on Huntington Avenue. She spoke to the owner of the dog who said that the dog's vaccines were up to date and the owner provided documentation to the police.

A White Road woman complained that a neighbor lets his dog defecate on her lawn and does not remove the feces. On the afternoon of 10/7 she called police to report that the man and his dog were on her property. Police contacted the man and advised him to avoid the woman's lawn when walking his dog.

Disputes:

At 6:30 pm on October 7 a resident at Search for Change on the Post Road complained that she was having a dispute with another residents and felt threatened. Police stopped by and spoke to the one of the residents who appeared to be aggressive. Due to her previous history they sent her to White Plains Hospital for evaluation.

A Manhattan woman who was staying with her children at her sister's home in Scarsdale called police on October 11 about a problem with her ex-boyfriend who is the father of the children. He wanted to come to Scarsdale and take the children to the city for the weekend. She did not trust him with the children for that length of time. She said her lawyer was calling him and said she would call back if problems escalated.

A Sprague Road man called police at 12:30 am on October 10 when he could not get his daughter to go to sleep. By the time police arrived she was in bed. Since the father makes frequent calls to the police to discipline his daughter, police advised him to seek family counseling to help the family get along.

A Quentin Road man called police on the morning of October 10 to resolve a dispute about a property line and a fence. One neighbor had hired a company to remove the fence – but police told the worker that he could not remove the fence without the consent of the neighbor.

Found:

A Mamaroneck Road woman found a large red bag in the bushes at the upper pool parking lot at 4 pm on October 8.The bag said "Santa's Bag" and had a large Christmas Tree sticking out of it.

A sign for "Honey Do Men Gutters and Roofing Corp. was found in front of the Scarsdale Middle School at 7:45 am on October 9. The sign was removed and the company was issued a summons for posting the sign in violation of village code. Another sign for the same company was found on Greendale Road on the night of 10/9 and the company received a second summons.

Solicitors:

Police receive numerous complaints about solicitors going door to door in Greenacres after dark on the evening of October 9. Police advised the solicitors who were selling candy for the New York Youth Club that their permit only authorized them to solicit during daylight hours. They agreed to stop for the day.

Flagged Down at 5 am: A driver called police at 5 am on October 11 after he was flagged down by a man walking in the middle of Post Road. The man was wearing a white shirt and black pants. Police found Carl D. Lantz of Eastchester who said he was trying to get a ride home after having a few drinks in White Plains. Police helped Lantz get home.

Confused:

A woman from Cambridge Road complained that she had received several inquiries from a woman who was looking to rent a room in her house. She claimed that a woman came to her door and called her -- however when police checked her caller id that were no phone calls listed. When police contacted her son he said that his mother suffers from short-term memory loss.

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