From Greenburgh - Another Drunk County Employee

Another inebriated off-duty County employee did some damage in the wee hours of 12/27.  Yancy Johnson, age 48 of Yonkers who is a corrections officer in Valhalla, was driving south on Central Park Avenue near Ardsley Road when she veered into the right lane and struck a southbound police ambulance that was responding to a call for medical assistance. Johnson refused the breathalizer test, but was swaying and having trouble standing up. She was taken to Greenburgh police headquarters and charged with driving while intoxicated. Her car was towed and she was ordered to appear in court on January 5th. There were no injuries as a result of the accident.

In other police news from Greenburgh this week, a group of thieves stole over $1,000 in merchandise from Pathmark on Central Avenue on 12/24 at 1 a.m .  Seven to eight suspects, working together took a large amount of merchandise out of the store without paying and drove off in two cars, heading south on Central Avenue. The store manager called the police who located two cars fitting his description on Central Avenue. Police  pulled the cars over and saw the merchandise through the car windows. The employee was able to identify the suspects who were taken to headquarters and charged with possession of stolen property, possession of burglar tools and operating a vehicle without a license.  The car was impounded and towed and when it was inventoried by the police they found another $3,500 in stolen merchandise in the trunk.  The identified suspects include Milton Simon age 21 of Staten Island, NY, Mahogany Abney age 23 of Jamaica, N.Y., and Said Hammam, age 22 of Rochester, NY.  Four  unknown black men who were involved in the larceny remain at large.

An off-duty policeman at the Best Buy parking lot on Central Avenue on the afternoon of 12/23 saw a man walking around the lot pulling on car door handles in an effort to find an open car. When the man left the lot in his car, the officer summoned the Greenburgh police to follow him.  They pulled him over and found the passenger sweating profusely with tools on his front seat. The man, identified as  Luis Castillo of the Bronx, was unsteady on his feet and said, “I’m sorry I needed the money” and “I just took the methadone 30 minutes ago.”  The man was booked for driving under the influence and for possession of burglar tools.

Harry Stone of New Rochelle reported that his truck, containing over $24,000 in mink coats was stolen from a parking lot on Central Avenue sometime between 12/18 and 12/20.  The 1995 truck is valued at $10,000.