Splattered Paint, Disputes and a Man in Camouflage from the Police

If you wondered why the district locked down three elementary schools last Thursday, here is the story. New Rochelle Police received a report of a man jogging on Grand Boulevard toward Wilmot Road around 11 am on 4/19. He was said to be wearing army fatigues, a bullet-proof vest and gloves. New Rochelle asked Scarsdale Police for assistance in locating the man, and when they were unable to find him, they made a precautionary call to the Scarsdale School district to let them know that the man had been sited. The school district decided to lock down the three elementary schools due to the location where the man was spotted.

The man was never found. However, the New Rochelle police later learned that a jogger, fitting the man’s description had been seen in the area for the past week. The “bullet-proof vest” was actually an exercise vest with weights.

In other news, paint contractors working at the Scarsdale Pool on Monday 4/19 splattered paint on 22 cars that belong to employees of Kids Base. Deborah Fine, Kids Base Director spoke with Nick Palmieri of All State Painting who agreed to compensate the employees for the damage to their cars.

Black spray paint was used to paint the words “NURSE 23” in the grass next to the baseball field at SHS. The graffiti was discovered on the morning of April 24th.

A dispute broke out between the manager and an angry patron at the Metro Diner on Scarsdale Avenue on the afternoon of 4/23. The man came to the diner to pick up his wife and asked the manager to refrain from serving his wife liquor. When the manager did not agree, the man raised his voice and began to upset the other patrons of the diner. The Manager then asked the man to leave at once and asked police to go to the man’s home and tell him that he would no longer be permitted to come to the diner.

Minutes later, police were called to remove an unruly Garth Road man from DeCicco’s Market on Spencer Place.

An unknown male described as “a black man with no teeth” attempted to get inside a Saxon Woods Road home twice on the night of 4/23. A healthcare attendant at the house said that the man rang the front doorbell and refused to leave the premises. He then went to the back of the house and tried to get in again. Later that night the attendant reported that the man had climbed onto a porch awning and peered into a second floor bedroom window.

Salvatore Carpanzano of Christie Place was stopped for a traffic violation on April 21 on East Parkway. He was found to have a suspended driver’s license and outstanding summons from Scarsdale and Yonkers. The car registration was suspended as well. Carpanzano was arrested and taken to Police headquarters and his car was impounded and towed. He was processed and released on $250 bail.

Car Break-ins:

A 2007 BMW was vandalized when the owner parked it in the pool parking lot on Saturday afternoon. The owner was watching her daughter’s soccer game on Boulder Brook Field and when she returned to the car she found that the passenger side front window was broken and her handbag, containing $100 cash and credit cards had been stolen.

A Spruce Lane resident reported that her Tom Tom navigation unit had been taken from the glove compartment of her 2004 Toyota Sienna during the night of 4/22. There were no signs of forced entry and the owner reports that she may have left the car door unlocked.

In a similar incident, the passenger-side front window of a Jeep Grand Cherokee was broken sometime between 4/17 and 4/20 when the car was parked at a Birchall Road home. A Garmin Nuvi GPS unit valued at $349 was taken from the center console.

The passenger side window of a car parked in the IHM parking lot was shattered on the afternoon of 4/20. The car belongs to a woman who teaches at the church. Nothing was taken from the car and the woman suspects that the window was broken accidentally by children who were playing in the lot.

A Fox Meadow Road woman asked police to check the area around her home for animals on 4/19. She said that an unknown animal bit her daughter and wanted police to take a look around. Police were only able to find two squirrels.

A truck took down a large wire at the intersection of Heathcote and Palmer Roads on the afternoon of 4/20. A car driven by a Mt. Vernon woman was hit by the wire and it damaged the rear bumper.

A feuding Heathcote Road couple summoned police when the ex-wife turned up at her former residence to collect some items. The woman was granted a little extra time to remove her things and place them outside for pick-up. She asserted that her ex-husband had taken some things without her permission and agreed to put together a list of missing items to give to the police.

A dispute broke out between two drivers on Griffen Avenue on Thursday morning 4/22. During the argument a removable window on the drivers side was dislodged and minor damage occurred. The two agreed to settle the fight.

The Fire Department had to break into a side door of a Sprague Road home on the afternoon of 4/23 when alarms went off. The resident had left ribs cooking in the oven.

A 17 year-old boy had his skateboard confiscated by the police when he was riding on the sidewalk of Spencer Place on Saturday afternoon. He had been told before that he was not permitted to ride his skateboard on the sidewalk. His father later came to the police station to retrieve the skateboard.

On Saturday night at 10 pm a resident of the Chateaux Apartments called police to report loud noise coming from Chat American Grill on Christie Place. The noise appeared to be coming from people dining outside on the restaurant terrace. According to the resident, the developers of Christie Place had agreed to plant trees along the property line to diffuse noise, but they have not done so, and some residents of the Chateaux are annoyed.

Hartsdale and Greenburgh Police Reports:

Someone shot a BB gun at a Cotswold Way home and shattered a window between 4/17 and 4/20.

Frieda Friedman, age 91 f East Hartsdale Avenue was pronounced dead on Wednesday April 21. Her body was found on the kitchen floor of her apartment by her brother and nephew.  The funeral was to be held in Hackensack, New Jersey.

A Bronx man contends that his Handicapped Parking tag was stolen from his car when he had it serviced at Curry Acura on 4/22.  Employees at Curry were unable to locate it.

On Friday afternoon, a Doris Drive woman had her handbag stolen out of her car when she left it unlocked on Seely Place. Credit cards and cash were taken, as well as her bag.

Also on Friday afternoon, Portchester resident Jacob Jennifer had her handbag stolen out of a shopping cart at Marshalls.

A Nyack man left his cell phone on the table at Red Lobster at 11:45 on Sunday night 4/25.  He returned minutes later to retrieve and it was already gone.