Pickpockets Caught in White Plains
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Dawn Boykin
Two female suspects had just left the Christmas Tree store on Central Avenue and were in a car driven by a third male suspect. Greenburgh Police stopped their 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe and found that all three occupants of the car matched the description of three pickpockets who were wanted. There were seven incidents reported in all, starting on March 19th and the three suspects are believed to be responsible.
Stephanie Pruitt
Nanny Arrested for Grand Larceny
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A Greenburgh nanny was arrested for Grand Larceny for the theft of thousands of dollars of jewelry and cash from her employer and her employer’s neighbor’s homes. Between January 2008 and March 2009 the woman took cash and jewelry worth more than $21,000 from the home of Patrick and Anna Regan of Greenburgh. In February, 2010 a neighbor of the Regan’s said her engagement ring was missing and she suspected the Regan’s nanny who had brought their four year-old to play there.
Mrs. Regan did some research and drove around the nanny’s Mt. Vernon neighborhood in search of pawnshops. Lo and behold, she found her neighbor’s ring at one of them. Regan contacted the Greenburgh police who interviewed the nanny, Latisha Stern, who incriminated herself. She is also accused of taking $15,000 in cash and jewelry from the neighbors.
Some of the jewelry that Ms. Staten allegedly stole was family heirlooms including their daughter’s birth jewelry, a chain from Mr. Regan’s late father and a bracelet that belonged to his wife’s grandmother. Since these items were not retrieved from the pawnshop they were melted down for their gold content.
Greenburgh police announced the arrest on March 26. If she is convicted, Ms. Staten could serve up to four years in prison.
Bleached and More News from the Greenburgh Police
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Woman Throws Bleach on Ex
Police interviewed the diners and one identified the assailant as LaShawn Frazier, age 53 of 25 Cliff Street in Hastings. Greenburgh Detectives went to the woman’s home and arrested her for Criminal Mischief in the 3rd degree, a Class E Felony. Ms. Frazier was arraigned at Greenburgh Town Court, released on $2,500 bail and is due back on court on Friday April 9th.
Here is more news from the Greenburgh Police:
Hungry? Bing Zhong Chen was in the process of delivering food from New Garden Chinese Food to a home at 105 Juniper Hill Road, White Plains, around 2 on the afternoon of 3/15 when the three black teens approached him. The bag was grabbed from his hands and the boys fled into a basement entrance of 105 Juniper Hill Road. Chen summoned the police who searched the area and found boys fitting the description walking into the woods. When the suspects saw the police they ran, hid behind some trees and began to take off their clothes and throw them to the ground. Greenburgh Police pursued them and stopped them in a wooded area behind 116 Taramar Way in White Plains. The suspects were identified as Kenneth Mirtil, age 19, Jose Campos, age 17 and Dion Beamon, age 17, all of White Plains.
Raccoon: Police removed a large raccoon from a bedroom of a Ravine Drive home in Hastings on the morning of Tuesday 3/19. The raccoon had been there since the previous night!
Theft at Marshalls: A man, wearing new sneakers was stopped as he walked out of Marshalls on Saturday March 20th. He was observed earlier taking off his old shoes and replacing them with a pair of Air Jordans. He also took several men’s shirts, but when store personnel attempted to catch him, a struggle ensued, and he fled. The shirts were recovered but the man escaped wearing his new footwear. Though police have not found the man, he was identified as Alphie Philmon, age 32, when store personnel reviewed the tape from the video camera.
12 Days No Phone
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Necmet and Suzan Morgul
Six days following the storm, Con Ed had repaired power lines and that same night the cable came back. Morgul credits village crews with clearing debris quickly to allow the repairs to take place. However, now 12 days after the storm, he still has no phone or internet service to his home. As he works out of his home he has been unable to communicate with customers and says that his children need the internet to do their work. Though several Verizon trucks are visible on the street, according to Morgul, little seems to be happening. As a result, Mr. Morgul has been sitting outside at the corner of Johnson Road and Boulevard with a sign that registers his dismay.
He has received three text messages from Verizon answering his pleas. Last Sunday they reported the problem was resolved (though it clearly was not), on Monday they told him they were still working on it and Wednesday they told him that crews had been dispatched to his street. For a communications company, Morgul doesn’t think Verizon is doing a very good job communicating!
Verizon Truck on Sprague Road
Storm Countdown - Friday March 19
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We are in the home stretch. As of 9 am today, just 43 homes are without power.
Con Ed must have worked through the night on Thursday because as of 10 pm on Thursday night 471 homes in town still had not power. Just seven outages were responsible for the loss of power in 370 homes and there were a total of 69 outages that needed repair.
Con Ed's goal was to have the major outages cleared up by 11:00 PM last night and it appears that they reached their goal. The other outages were affecting smaller numbers of homes and should be simpler and quicker to fix. Everything is targeted to be in order by Friday night.
