Nelson Road House Burglarized While Homeowner Was Out of Town

A Nelson Road house was burglarized while the homeowner was out of town from March 4 to March 9. Upon coming home from the airport on March 9, the homeowner first noticed her dining room cabinet wide open. Further investigation uncovered an open window in the dining room and a broken window shade. Upstairs, a light was on in the playroom, and the master bedroom was ransacked. Dresser drawers and nightstand drawers were open, and the small drawers of a jewelry box were taken out. The homeowner told police jewelry and a laptop computer were missing from the master bedroom. Detectives investigated the house and found several open and unsecured windows in the dining room. An exterior check of the house uncovered signs of force on a secured window; however, this window did not appear to be the point of entry. While police were investigating, a key holder was called to the house. The key holder said he picked up mail at the house on March 6. At that time, he noticed the front door ajar and the dining room cabinet open. He called the homeowner's husband, and notified him of his findings before he secured the house and left. Police are following up.

Telephone fraud
On March 12, an Eton Road woman advised that her online Verizon account was fraudulently accessed, her number was changed and all calls were being forwarded to a landline number in Florida. She learned about it by an automated call from Verizon, advising her that her account pin number had been changed.

Anti-Semitic message
A Heathcote woman reported her college-age son came home and received an anonymous and unidentified cell phone call from a man who made anti-Semitic statements March 12. Detectives are actively investigating the incident through cooperative work with the Westchester County District Attorney's Office Bias Crimes Task Force.

Disorderly conduct
A Jefferson Road man said a group of kids stopped their car in front of his house and started honking the horn for no legitimate reason around 9 p.m., March 13. The man said he went outside and "had a few words" with the kids about the honking. The kids drove away, heading north on Jefferson Road.

Around midnight March 14, a caller reported a white, slightly overweight man tore cardboard signs from the ground that had been posted by Alcott Montessori School. Police canvassed the area and found a man matching the description of the suspect. There was blood on his hands, which he said had been caused by falling into rocks after slipping on ice. He told police he had been at Chat in the village and was walking home. He did not admit to pulling signs from the ground. Police examined the signs and saw little evidence of damage. Police put the signs back in place and picked up a few rocks that had fallen out of a crumbling rock wall near school property.

Shelter
Police drove a homeless man to a New Rochelle shelter around 3 a.m., March 14.

Who's that?
While a Claremont Road resident was away, video surveillance equipment was monitoring her house. On March 10, she noticed a white man on her property, captured on video. She notified police, and officers went to her house. The man was no longer there. Police noted fresh footprints in the snow leading to the exterior meter box on the side of the house. According to the report, there were no signs of criminality.

Pursuit
At 2:28 a.m., March 12, Harrison police advised Scarsdale police about an active vehicle pursuit, possibly headed toward Scarsdale. Scarsdale police mobilized to assist and to monitor jurisdictional borders. The pursuit by Harrison police quickly shifted to a more southward direction, and by 12:31 a.m., further assistance by Scarsdale police was no longer needed.

School bus accident
On March 13, a man reported a school bus drove down Rectory Lane, smashed the mirror of his parked car and kept going without stopping to address the accident.

Road sign
A "No Left Turn" road sign fell onto a passing car on East Parkway March 15. Based on weather conditions, police believed a gust of wind might have blow the sign over.

Cars and roadways
The dispatch desk notified the water department about flooding on Madison Road March 9.

Patrol set up flares around a disabled car at Post and Crane roads March 9.

The water department assisted with a water condition on Greendale Road March 9.

A parked car was blocking a Bell Road woman's driveway March 9. She could not get in her driveway; nor could her son move his car out of the driveway. Patrol contacted the owner of the car, and he promised to move it within a few minutes.

On March 10, police stood while a Mamaroneck Road driver waited for a towing service to help her with a flat tire.

On March 11, police saw 23 cars parked in violation of village parking ordinances on Wayside Lane. Appropriate summonses were issued.

Police met with Westchester County police to examine a depression on Weaver Street at the Hutchinson River Parkway northbound exit ramp March 11. Officials thought the depression was a large pothole – not a sink hole. Orange cones were placed in the depression to alert motorists, and the highway department was notified.

A car got a flat tire after striking a pothole at the intersection of Palmer Avenue and Wynmor Road March 11.

A gray Mercedes-Benz was blocking the entrance to Christie Place garage March 12. Police were unable to contact the owner; so a tow truck was called. While waiting for the tow truck to arrive, the owner returned and moved the car. Patrol issued a summons for the parking violation.

On March 12, a caller reported an elderly male driver was stuck at Hutchinson Avenue and Meadow Road, with numerous traffic cones wedged beneath his car. When police arrived, the driver was gone. However, police noted numerous traffic cones scattered across the road. Patrol placed the traffic cones back in their appropriate places to warn drivers of large potholes in the roadway.

Twelve car accidents were reported in the village this week.

Dogs
At 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., March 14, police received reports of a loose dog at Drake and Post roads. Around 11:40, they received a report of a barking dog behind a Drake Road house. Patrol notified the homeowner who did not realize the dog had gotten out of the house. He brought the dog back inside, and police advised him of village code regarding loose dogs and noise.

On March 15, police contacted the owner of a loose dog found at Oak Lane and Cohawney Road. The owner said her parents had been watching the dog, and the dog must have gotten out through a hole in her parents' backyard fence.

Village code
After a Greenacres resident complained of early morning noise on the street, patrol advised a contractor of village code regarding noise and construction work in the village March 10.

Lost and found
On March 9, a man reported losing an orange Velcro wallet in the village. The wallet contained his driver's license, gift cards, $100 cash and credit cards. Since losing the wallet, the man noticed $500 in fraudulent charges on one of his credit card accounts.

A person found an American Express credit card on Fox Meadow Road and brought it to headquarters March 9. Police notified American Express, and a representative said the company would attempt to notify the cardholder.

On March 11. Police found a children's jacket and gloves in the lobby of the public safety headquarters building. They vouchered the coat and gloves at headquarters for safekeeping.

A Boulevard woman could not find her cell phone in her house March 14. She believed she misplaced the phone somewhere in her bedroom. Police found the phone under her bed.

Fire
Firefighters shut water to a leaking hot water heater in a Park Road house March 9.

A Secor Road garage door was frozen to the ground March 9. Firefighters used a shovel and hand tools to remove ice from the base of the door, so the homeowner could open it.

A nephew checking on his uncle's vacant and unheated Greendale Road house discovered a broken water pipe in the basement. Firefighters, with the help of the water department, shut water to the house. The nephew already had a pump in place to pump out accumulated water.

Firefighters helped White Plains fire department attack and extinguish a bas fire in the parking lot of the Saxon Woods pool, on Mamaroneck Road, March 10.

Kids coming home from school were accidentally locked out of their Carstensen Road house March 10. Firefighters checked their IDS and helped them get into their house.

A resident reported a strong rotten egg smell on Greendale Road March 10. After confirming the odor was not related to a natural gas leak or other hazardous condition, firefighters advised the resident to contact the highway department if the odor did not subside.

Con Edison was already on the scene of a reported gas leak on Penn Blvd. when firefighters notified them about a resident's complaint about an outdoor gas odor March 12.

Firefighters stood by for Con Edison at the site of positive explosive gas readings in a sanitary sewer on Montgomery Road March 12.

A gas odor on Edgewood Road was possibly coming from a recent Con Edison excavation March 13.

Firefighters stood by for Con Edison at the site of a gas leak on Chase Road March 13.

The report of a burning odor in a Popham Road building was unfounded March 14.

Smoke accumulated in a Springdale Road house due to the use of a fireplace with a closed flue March 14. Firefighters opened windows for ventilation and instructed the resident on proper fireplace use.

Firefighters stood by for Con Edison at the site of a gas odor coming from a recent Con Edison excavation on Wilmot Road March 14.

This week, firefighters assisted three car accidents in the village and on parkways. They responded to six false carbon monoxide alarms and 12 false fire alarms caused by device malfunction, blown-in insulation, cooking smoke, steam from a dry boiler, construction dust, floor sanding and maintenance work.

This report covering police and fire department activity from March 9-14 was compiled from official information.

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