Thursday, Dec 26th

From the Police - Child Pornography Found and More

Disturbing photos of child pornography were found scattered on the lawn of a Heathcote Road home on January 6th.  The property owner found one image as well as a list of contact names from a local school when he was picking up trash that had blown onto his lawn. When police arrived they searched the property and found five more photographs in the bushes and along the road.  As the material was found on top of the snow, police suspect they were scattered there sometime after the last significant snow storm on January 1st.  Police spoke with neighbors who were not able to supply any additional information. The materials were taken to the Westchester County Crime Lab for DNA testing.

A customer at CVS on Popham Road on the evening of 1/10 saw three men enter the store, and put merchandise in their pockets. They left the store quickly, without paying.  The manager replayed the video surveillance tape that showed three black men enter the store carrying nothing, and two minutes later, leaving with a duffel bag.  The store reported that almost $300 of merchandise was stolen.

Another CVS customer was parked in the underground lot beneath the store and misplaced her parking ticket on January 7th.  She was unable to get the car out of the garage without the ticket and called the police for assistance.

Beer cans were found on the lawn of a Rodney Road home on January 7th and the residents heard noises during the previous night.  There was no damage but police agreed to drive by and monitor the house.

A Cambridge Road woman reported that her platinum wedding ring, valued at $7,100 was missing from her home and had been taken sometime between December 19th and December 23rd.  There was no sign of forced entry to the house and nothing else was missing.

Raymond Christopher Brown of Sayre, PA turned himself in at Village Hall on 1/6. There was an outstanding warrant for his arrest for driving without a license and he had missed his court appearance on 12/30.  At Village Hall he was searched and placed in custody. Police arrived and transported him to Police Headquarters where he was processed and released on $250.00 bail. A new court date was set for 1/13.

A Brite Avenue resident was issued a summons for leaving the scene of an accident.  The man was backing out of his driveway on January 6th when he struck a parked car, but he did not stop to investigate or report the accident.  He claims he thought he hit a utility pole but in fact he hit another car.

A woman who lives on Reimer Road locked herself out of her home on January 5th.  She called a locksmith to help her get back in, but the locksmith refused to open the door without seeing proper identification from the homeowner.  Police vouched for the woman’s identity and the locksmith let her back in.
Police were summoned when a Greenburgh man told a Brite Avenue woman “he was going to kill himself tonight.”  The Scarsdale police notified Greenburgh police.

Just after midnight on 1/10, a Kingston Road man was dropped off at home by a cab he had taken from the White Plains Station.    When the man paid the driver, the driver did not give him back his change.  When the passenger asked for the change, the driver got angry, grabbed the man by his jacket and told him "to get out of his “f***ing cab.” The driver was described as black male with an accent, possibly Jamaican, about 5’9”, dressed in black with short-cropped hair.  The passenger provided a license plate number but a check by police found no plate on file with that number.  The passenger does not wish to press charges.

A Hillview Road resident got stuck in an elevator in her own home on January 11th.  Police arrived on the scene and were able to get her out.