Police Involved in Auto Accident and Car Thieves Sweep Crane Berkeley

On Friday April 29th at approximately 10:30 p.m. a Scarsdale Police patrol car was
involved in an auto accident at the intersection of Mamaroneck and Brookby Roads with another vehicle operated by a Scarsdale resident. Prior to the collision, the police car was driving on Brookby Road toward Mamaroneck Road and the resident was travelling east on Mamaroneck Road. The officer, who was on duty at the time but not responding to a call, failed to yield at the intersection, resulting in the accident. Both the officer and the other driver were transported to White Plains Hospital by Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance, treated and released later that evening. The Scarsdale Police Department requested that accident technicians from the Greenburgh Police Department investigate the accident. Once the investigation is completed, the NY State MV-104 Accident Report will be released.

Arrests:
Jerson Alexis Barragan, age 18 of Bronxville was arrested for jumping bail and remanded back to Westchester County Jail where he was sent on previous charges on April 13. The judge set bail at $5,000 and scheduled a court date of May 11.

Michael Sylvester, age 47 of New Rochelle was arrested on an active bench warrant at 6 pm on 4-27 at the Shell Station on Scarsdale Avenue. The Westchester County Police alerted the station staff that Sylvester was expected there and asked them to contact police when he arrived. Police found Sylvester inside the store of the gas station, handcuffed him and arrested him.

Dispute: A driver for Splendid Car Service came to police headquarters at 10:20 pm on 4/26 reporting that he picked up a drunk mane from Dunnes Bar in White Plains who asked to be taken to Rockledge Road in Greenburgh. But while he was driving, the passenger attempted to punch him from the backseat. He continued to drive the man who failed to pay him the $10 fare when he arrived.

Locked in: A Fox Meadow Road woman locked her keys and her baby inside her car on East Parkway on Tuesday afternoon. While her father watched the baby from outside the car police drove the woman home to retrieve the set of spare keys.

Police were called to Freightway Garage at 5:30 on 4/28 when someone got stuck in the elevator. Police were able to open the elevator door and get the person out. The elevator was shut down until it could be repaired.

Lost and Found: Police received a hotline message about a missing autistic male at 7:25 on April 28. An officer found him at the intersection of Boulevard and Nelson Road and brought him to police headquarters. .The man became irrational and violent until his mother and caregiver arrived and calmed him down.

Harassed: A woman complained that she was approached by a man in the Christie Place Garage about fixing her car on the afternoon of 4-26. He said he worked for Fiat and could fix the car for $300. After she said no, he told her to write a check or go to the bank for money to pay him. She walked away and he parked next to her car. When police approached him, the man said he was waiting for a woman regarding repairs to her car. Police asked him to leave and he complied.

On Thursday evening, a woman reported that when she was driving the previous evening she was stopped by a man and a woman in a white van on Garth Road. The man requested she pull over due to the damage on the front bumper of her car which he said was hazardous. The man identified himself as Steve and offered to fix it for between $130 and $180. He then started to apply a colored paste to the front bumper, damaging the bumper further. She asked him to stop and left the scene. Police looked at the woman's car but could not determine the cause of the damage.

Damage: on Wednesday afternoon a woman complained that her car was damaged by some debris from a jackhammer in use on Christie Place. Police asked her to have police take a photo of the damage.

On Thursday night a called reported that three teens were destroying property in a park on Boulevard. However, when police arrived the teens were gone and they did not see any signs of damage.

Suspicious: A Greenacres Avenue woman reported that her grill and chairs in her backyard were moved when she was away. Police found no signs that anything was amiss and determined that landscapers may have done the moving.

Dogs: Police checked on a dog locked in a minivan on Garth Road at noon on 4-27 after a caller said it was too hot for the dog. Police found that the windows of the van were open and that it was not too hot for the dog to be inside.

A babysitter on Herkimer Road called police to say a loose dog without tags was running in and out of a house on Herkimer road at 9 am on Thursday. The brown lab was friendly. Shortly after police arrived, the owner of the dog contacted police regarding his lost dog. Police returned the dog to the man who had been looking for it.

A Rock Creek Lane resident called police at 10:20 pm on Saturday night when it appeared that her neighbor was away and the dogs had been locked outside the house. Police tried to call the neighbors but could not reach them. The fence had been secured so that the dogs could not get out. It appeared that they might be able to get into the house through a doggy door. Police issued the dog owners a violation for unnecessary noise from the barking of the dogs.

Car Vandals:

Overnight on 4/29-4/30 vandals swept through town and entered many cars. They did no damage but tossed interiors and made off with what they found:

Two unlocked cars parked at a Lockwood Road home were entered and tossed overnight on 4/29-4/30. Only $5 was missing from the Range Rover and Infiniti but the contents of the glove boxes were found on the floors of the cars.

Tisdale Road residents that they were awaked by their dogs barking at 3 am on 4/30 and looked out the window and saw that the parking lights of their car were on. The next morning they found that the glove box and console were open and that loose change and a pair of Ray Bans were missing.

$35 in quarters were missing from a 2014 Porsche parked on Taunton Road when the owner entered it on the morning of April 30. He found the center console open.

A 2014 Jeep, also parked in a Tisdale Road driveway was entered and rummaged overnight on 4/29-4/30. Thieves made off with $40, a mobile phone charger and a flashlight.

Loose change was taken from a 2013 Volvo along with $10 from a Mercedes Benz, both parked on Taunton Road that same night.

Identity Thefts:

On 4/25 a Popham Road woman reported that she was the victim of identity theft when she provided her bank account number to someone claiming that they owed her a refund for a cancelled Dell service contract. A caller claimed he meant to deposit $399 in her account but accidentally deposited $3,399 and asked her to go to Walmart and send the extra $3,000 to his company via Western Union. Though she did not send the money, several days later she notices that large sums were being withdrawn from her bank accounts, in the amounts of $2,000, $1,900 and $3,000. She alerted Chase Bank who changed her account numbers.

On April 28 a Stonehouse Road man reported that someone had attempted to file a tax return using his social security number three times.

On April 30, Tunstall Road residents reported that the IRS had received two fraudulent tax returns using their personal information.

Noise: A Claremont Road man called police at 7 am on Monday 4-25 when his neighbor was using power equipment. Workers said they had cut down trees on Saturday and were cleaning up today. Police saw a chain saw but no activity.

A telephone line was reported down at 6:50 pm on 4-25. Verizon was on the scene to make a repair.

Accidents:

The driver's side mirror of a car that was parked on Parkfield Road was damaged sometime between 4 and 7:30 pm on April 25.

A driver who was pulling out of a parking space on Depot Place collided with another car that was waiting to park on Tuesday April 26 at 7 am. No one was injured.

Two cars driving north on the Post Road on Tuesday April 26 at 11 am got too close. One car skimmed the other and damaged a side mirror of the other car.

On car rear-ended another on Popham Road at 4:20 pm on April 26. A driver had stopped to make a turn from Popham onto School Lane when the driver behind her said his car skidded and he was unable to stop before driving his 2015 Jeep into the 1998 Jaguar.

A three-car accident occurred at the intersection of Fenimore Road and Brite Avenue on Tuesday April 26 just before 5 pm. Two cars were on Fenimore, stopped and waiting to turn onto Brite Avenue when a third car came up from behind and hit one car which then ran into the one in front of it. No one was injured.

A man sitting in a parked car in the DeCiccos parking lot on Wednesday afternoon 4-27 said that another car, driven by an 87 year-old man, hit his car. Though the second driver denied it, both cars had marks where the collision occurred.

On Saturday April 30 at 4 pm, the driver of a 2016 Volkswagon Passat reported that her car had been hit by 2008 BMW parked in the next spot at DeCiccos. Police observed paint and scruff marks indicating that the accident had occurred.

A driver drove over the curb on Nelson Road and then into the curb of a driveway on Wednesday at 5:30 and left the scene without reporting it. Police tracked the driver from liquid that was dripping from the damaged car.

Two cars collided at the intersection of Fenimore and Tompkins roads at 9:30 am on Thursday morning.

Also on Thursday morning, a car backing out of a Montrose Road driveway hit another car that was parked on Montrose Road.

At five pm on Thursday, an accident occurred at the intersection of Mamaroneck Road and Crossway, when one driver failed to yield to the other who had the right of way.

A White Plains woman backed her car into a telephone pole on Crossway on Saturday around 5 pm. Con Ed was called to repair the damage and the woman complained of head pain was taken away for to be treated.

A 2011 Buick hit a 2005 Toyota at the intersection of Church and Wayside Lanes on Sunday at 5:30 pm.

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