Burglar Arrested and a DWI from the Greenburgh Police

In response to a 911 call, police went to 4 Homewood Road in Hartsdale on the morning of November 28, 2011 at 10:00 am. The resident reported that he heard a loud crash at the back of the house and walked out onto the back deck.  There he found a man dressed in black, attempting to pry open the basement door. When the suspect saw the resident he fled and got into a silver car.

A short time later, the City of Yonkers Police Department and the Village of Hastings Police Department apprehended a man for the burglary of a residence in Hastings. A follow-up investigation conducted by the Town of Greenburgh Police Detective Division in conjunction with the Hastings Police Department and Yonkers Police Department resulted in the arrest of Phillip Shand, age 24 of 134 Morningside Place, Yonkers for attempted burglary 2nd degree, a Class D felony in connection with this case.

Shand was arraigned and is currently remanded to the Westchester County Jail. He is scheduled to appear in Greenburgh Town Court on Tuesday,

December 13, 2011, at 9:30 A.M.

Greenburgh Police received numerous complaints about aggressive solicitors going door to door for the NY Youth Club.  At 5:30 pm on 11/13 a resident at Byway in Hartsdale complained that a solicitor from the NY Youth Club was pounding on the door and ringing the bell.

At 6 pm, a solicitor for the NY Youth Club went to a home on Evandale Road. When the resident said he was not interested, the solicitor said, “You can’t even give me a dollar?” and refused to leave the premises. The resident said he was going to call the police, and the solicitor invited him to “go ahead and call the cops.” When police stopped the man he denied doing anything and his supervisor stepped in an also threatened to sue the police.

At 6:23 pm that same night a Kingwood Road man called police when another solicitor, this one wearing a santa hat, became upset and irate when the man said he was busy. And at 8 p.m., police got a call from Withington Road about the same solicitor going door to door.

Missing truck: A Hartsdale man went to Scarsdale Ford on 12/1 to get his pick-up truck which had been serviced there. However, when he arrived, he found out that the truck was gone. It had been left in the lot and the manager had the keys, but the2008 truck, valued at $5,000, was nowhere to be found.

Missing girl: Castle Walk residents called police at 2:40 am on 12/2, when Caroline Ninganga, an 18 year-old girl who is staying with them failed to return to the house. The girl was last seen at 8 am the previous morning when she left for class at Westchester Community College. She usually returned by 9:30 pm and could not be reached on her cell phone.

Drunk: At 2 am on 12/3, a Scarsdale woman was arrested for DWI, driving while impaired by drugs and failure to obey a traffic device. She was stopped by the police on Old Army Road for speeding, and they determined that Victoria Abramov, age 30, of Grand Boulevard, Scarsdale was drunk and uncooperative. She also denied knowing the passenger in the car, Garfield Payne of the Bronx, thought Payne said they had known each other for over ten years. Payne had a glass pipe with crack cocaine residue and Abramov admitted that the pipe was hers and that she had been smoking crack. She was arrested and searched, and police found a bottle of hydrocordone pills, cutting pliers, a screwdriver, jewelry, coins and two pawn shop receipts. She was released on $250 bail.