Hawk Down on Post Road and more from the Scarsdale Police

Hawk hit on the Post Road: On the morning of 8/20 a caller reported that a car hit a hawk on the Post Road. Police found the injured hawk on the side of the road. They called the Weinberg Nature Center who told them to call Vincent Guanari to take the hawk to an exotic animal specialist.

Construction Problems:

On August 22 a Stratton Road woman complained that her neighbors were harassing her about construction work being done on her property. She said her neighbors have used fowl language around her children. Police spoke to the neighbors who said that the complainant also uses harsh language. Though they understand that the work needed to be done they asked that the construction people follow the rules and act courteously. Police advised both to try to avoid one another.

On Secor Road a man complained about excessive construction noise at his neighbors house at 8:49 am on Saturday 8/23. Police found a man operating a backhoe and told him to leave the area as he was not permitted to use it at that time.

Feud: A Lyons Road woman called police when her neighbor was watering her lawn and spraying water onto her property. She said she was unable to get into and out of her car without getting wet. Police corrected the situation.

Riding on the track: Police received a call at 10:30 pm on Sunday night about two kids riding their bikes on the high school track. The caller said the riders had no regard for the people walking the track. Police found the kids and asked them not to ride on the track.

Abandoned Home: A neighbor called police on August 22 when he noticed that a man and a 12 year-old child were mowing the lawn at 2 River Road. The house is condemned has been vacant for two years. Police spoke to the man mowing the lawn who explained that the bank plans to put the house on the market and hired him to mow the lawn.

Stray Dog: A woman found a stray dog wandering on Secor Road at 2:51 pm on August 23. She got out of the car and the dog led her to a home at 173 Secor Road where the door was open and the dog went inside. However no one was home. Police contacted a realtor whose name was on a sign at the house but she had not shown the house and did not know why it was open. The agent contacted the homeowner who returned home and confirmed that the dog was hers and said she was not sure if she had left the house open.

Grand Larceny: A Mamaroneck road woman reported that multiple fraudulent checks, valued at more than $1,000, were cashed against her business account. She received a call from a branch of Bank of America on 107th Street and Broadway where a woman with a Florida driver's license was attempting to cash a check written against her account. The teller grew suspicious and did not cash the check. However, the woman was successful at cashing two additional checks.

The Branch Manager at Bank of America on Wilmot Road called police on the afternoon of 8/19 when a man repeatedly asked that all the funds be withdrawn from his wife's account. The account was on hold and no funds could be withdrawn and the man did not have identification to show that he was the husband of the account holder.

Identity Thefts:

A Brewster Road woman reported that someone filed a tax return in her name on August 18th. The IRS informed her that they had received a joint return from 2013 in her and her husband's name and that it was incomplete. Her accountant contact the IRS and found that her husband's name and social security number had been used to file a fraudulent return. She was advised to report it to the police.

Another Brewster Road resident also reported that a 2013 tax return had been filed using his personal information. The returns were missing information and the IRS wrote to him. When they learned these were fraudulent returns, the IRS sent them to their fraud department.

On 8/20 an Old Orchard Lane man told police that the IRS contacted him and said that someone had attempted to submit a joint tax return for 2013 using his personal information. The man contacted the IRS and advised them it was fraudulent.

A Taunton Road man called police on the afternoon of 8/19 to report that someone had opened a credit card in his daughter's name.

Accidents:

Police received a call from Saxon Woods Golf Club on the afternoon of August 18th to say that a driver overturned in a golf cart. The golfer was taken to White Plains Hospital.

The driver of a rental truck called police on the afternoon of 8/19 when a child rode her bike into the truck and scratched the left bumper. Police went to Rodney Road and met the driver and the girl's parents who agreed to work it out.

The driver of a 2014 BMW said she was rear ended by a black Mercedes truck on the Post Road at 1:38 pm on 8/29. After hitting her car at the intersection of Crane and Post Roads, the truck driver fled. She attempted to follow the truck but lost sight of it.

Jose Lopez of Lexington Avenue in White Plains was driving his 2001 Volvo south on Greenacres Avenue at 4 pm on Sunday 8/24 when sun glare caused him to veer to the right and hit the island at the intersection of Greenacres Avenue and Berkeley Road and hit two stop/yield signs. Lopez refused medical attention.

At 8:20 pm on 8/19 a caller told police that someone had driven a car onto the basketball court at Greenacres Field and parked it there. By the time police arrived, the car was gone.

Paint: White paint spilled on Carman Road on the afternoon of August 19th. Police did not know where the paint came from.

Sign: Police found a sign advertising Woodraska Roofing Company on the Post Road on 8/22. They took the sign down and issued a summons for posting a sign to the company.

Arrests:

Khalid Mughal of 26 of Scarsdale surrendered to police in response to an active bench warrant for various driving violations at 7:55 am on 8/23. He was released on $250 cash bail and given a court date of 8/27/14.

Mark Grinhaus, age 25 of Scarsdale was stopped by police on Weaver Street on the morning of 8/23 for driving a car with a suspended registration due to a lapse in insurance. The plates were removed from the car and it was parked in Grinhaus' driveway.

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