A Lightning Strike in Scarsdale and Shattered Glass at Loehmann's
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Lightning struck a Ridgecrest East home on Monday morning 5/21 and blew out a sprinkler control box causing light smoke in the basement. The homeowner called police when she heard a bang inside the house. The sprinkler control box was knocked off the wall by the strike. Fire Captain Saviano of the Scarsdale Fire Department said firefighters went to a few homes in the area due to calls from concerned residents but other than tripped circuit breakers it was a “non event.”
Shattered: Greenburgh Police responded to a burglar alarm at Loehmann's on Tarrytown Road at 1:40 am on 5/21 and found the front glass windows shattered. Police searched the area and found a man walking near the Wine Warehouse in the same shopping center. When they stopped him they found that he had kicked in one of the windows and then rammed a shopping cart through the front doors. He was identified as Stephen Donnell Muehling (pictured at right) age 28 of St. Louis and was arrested for criminal mischief.
Drunk drivers: An investigation by the Scarsdale Police led to the arrest of David M. Hill of New Rochelle on 5/16 for leaving the scene of an accident and driving with a suspended license. Hill is accused of running into the car of a Scarsdale woman shortly after midnight on 5/12 on East Parkway and fleeing the scene. Based on information from the victim, police were able to identify Hill’s car and his identity. Hill had previously been arrested for drunk driving and failure to answer a summons.
Just after midnight on 5/18 a similar incident occurred. Police came upon Franco Caputi of the Bronx on Garth Road who said he was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Popham and Garth Roads when he was rear-ended by another car. Police went to the scene of the accident and interviewed both drivers. They found that the man who had rear-ended Caputi was drunk. The inebriated man identified himself as James N. Maxwell of Garth Road and admitted to drinking beer earlier in the evening at the Brazen Fox in White Plains. When he failed sobriety tests he was taken to headquarters and booked for aggravated DWI with a BAC level of .18 or more. He was released on $250 to his brother and given a court appearance date.
A Volvo parked at a Bradley Road home was entered overnight on 5/15 and $50 was taken from the glove compartment. The owner believes it was left unlocked as there was no damage to the car.
On the afternoon of 5/18, the rear window of a car parked on Ogden Road was shattered. The damage may have been caused by a ball thrown by kids playing in the area.
Vandalism: A lamp post at a Tisdale Road home was damaged overnight from 5/14-5/15. This was the second time the lamp post was vandalized. The homeowner also reported that she found graffiti painted in red on a large tree in the backyard and on an outdoor wall. She believes this occurred sometime between 5/14 and 5/17.
Sometime between 5/14 and 5/16, a new wooden fence at a Taunton Road home was kicked numerous times and damaged. Police found footprints near the damaged fence which was dislodged.
A 2010 Toyota was scratched with a sharp object while it was parked in the Christie Place garage on the afternoon of May 18. The car belongs to a Rego Park man.
Bike Theft: A Northrock Mountain Bike that belonged to a Scarsdale man and was valued at $320 was stolen from the bike rack on East Parkway sometime between 7 am and 7:30 pm on 5/14.
Identity Theft: On 5/18, the caretaker for a 45-year-old Secor Road man reported that the victim received two letters indicating identity theft. One was from Discover Car noting a declined credit card and the other was a change of a address for the man’s life insurance policy to a Brooklyn address. The credit bureau and insurance company were alerted.
Unwanted visitor: A Brewster Road woman called police when a man came to the back door of her house at 8:20 on the morning of 5/14 and began to enter her house. She confronted him and he claimed to be a plumber who was told to come in the back door. However, he had the wrong address.
Ruth Frankel of Richbell Road called police on the morning of 5/15 to complain that her neighbor was having trees planted on the property line that will eventually grow over her property. She was advised to call the Building Department who explained that they do not deal with landscaping issues and informed her that this was a civil matter.
Police received a complaint about the volume of the music coming from Saxon Woods Grill on the night of 5/17. They spoke to personnel at the Grill who agreed to turn it down.
Lit up: Police got a call about a man lighting paper on fire and waving to cars at the corner of Popham and Tisdale Roads on the afternoon of 5/18. When police arrived they found a New Rochelle man who said that he was trying to light a cigarette and it became engulfed in flames. He also said he was lost so police drove him home.
Greenburgh:
An aggressive man tried to enter a Fort Hill Road home on the afternoon of 5/14. He knocked on the door and insisted that the housekeeper let him in, claiming that his elderly father was across the street and needed help. When she refused to let him in, he got into a red SUV and drove away. When police arrived, they found that another neighbor had the same experience when the man came to the door of a Spencer Court home and asked for money.
Playing Hooky: An employee of Best Buy on Central Avenue called police at 1 pm on 5/15 to report that a child had been playing video games in the store for hours. Police approached the juvenile who admitted he had skipped school. His sister came to take him home.
A set of golf clubs was stolen from the trunk of a Toyota 4Runner parked on Burns Street in Hartsdale overnight from 5/15 to 5/16. The clubs were valued at $5,000.
A 24-speed bike valued at $550 was stolen from the Hartsdale Station on 5/17. The bike belonged to a Walworth Avenue man from Scarsdale.
Missing: A 19-year-old woman who lives at a residential home on Old Army Road was reported missing by the director of the facility on 5/18.
Scarsdale Police Report: Harassment, a Death and a Car Break-in
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A Scarsdale teen reported that the father of a former friend harassed her on the night of May 9th. The girl was outside Westchester Reform Temple at 8:40 at night when the man drove up and said to her, “Do you have any plans tonight?” She replied “no,” and the man said, “why don’t you just shut the fuck up.” The girl was fearful and alarmed and reported that the man’s daughter, the former friend, was in the car and laughing at the time her father made the remarks. The man, who lives on Bobby Close, was accused of harassment.
A 26 year-old Crawford Lane woman was arrested for criminal contempt on 5/11 when she returned to the home of her mother in violation of an order of protection. Since she was ordered to stay away, her mother called the police.
Death: Jaegene Hwang, age 81 of Penn Boulevard died at home on the night of May 7th. Hwang’s wife called police when she found him unresponsive. The man was a registered DNR patient.
Car break-in at Scarsdale Middle School: A car belonging to a Greendale Road woman was vandalized when it was parked at the Scarsdale Middle School on the afternoon of May 8th. The rear driver’s side window of the 2012 Mercedes Benz was broken and a purse that was on the back seat was taken. A pry mark was found near the broken window. The bag contained $400 in cash as well as id’s, credit cards, ATM cards and sunglasses.
Missing: An unspecified amount of cash and 2 keys to a safe deposit box were reported stolen by a Garden Road woman. The money and the keys had been in a small wooden box in a locked closet in her upstairs bedroom. She said the theft took place between 4/15 and 4/30 and she made the report on 5/13.
A Black Birch Lane woman reported that two checks, totaling $440 were drawn from her account on March 30, 2012. A checkbook was missing from her box of checks and someone wrote two without her authorization.
Vandalism: The address sign at 1113 Post Road was stolen overnight from 5/12- 5/13.
A Walworth Avenue man called police to report damage to his front lawn. He heard noise at 3 am on 5/13 and when he awoke the following morning it appeared that a car had driven over the Belgian blocks that line his property and dislodged the blocks, damaged the lawn, shrubs and a storm drain.
Angry Cats: At 12:36 am on 5/8 a Harcourt Road woman called police to say that an unknown animal was screaming and howling in her basement. When police arrived they found two cats in a basement window well. The cats ran off when the police arrived.
Decorating Dispute: A Secor Road woman called police on the morning of 5/9 about a dispute with her decorator. She had paid the decorator 92% of the bill, pending completion of the job but the unhappy decorator sent the Scarsdale woman a text that said, “I will take any legal action necessary to collect the amount owed to me.” Police advised her that this was a civil matter.
Tree Trouble: On 5/7 a Harvest Road man complained that workers from a tree company were on his property. They were in the process of removing trees from a neighbors property that overhung onto his property. The tree company agreed to leave his property.
At Church: The initials GiK, written with a red marker, were found on a shed door at Scarsdale Community Baptist Church on 5/11.
The Monsignor of IHM called police at 5:41 pm on 5/9 when a group of young men was making noise in the parking lot. When police arrived, the men left without incident.
At St. James the Less the remains of a cigar and two empty glassine envelopes were found in the parking lot on Sunday morning. The Church will check their video tape to see who may have been in the parking lot the prior night.
Identity Theft: A Boulevard resident came to police headquarters on May 8th to report multiple incidents of identify theft. Home Depot called to discuss a recently opened credit card account in his name that he did not open. When he called Citibank to let them know about the Home Depot account he learned that an account had also been opened at JC Penney in his name. When he contacted his bank he found out that someone had attempted to access his credit card account and requested a replacement card. As a result, he incurred a fee of $15.
A Greenacres Avenue woman also reported fraudulent transactions on her credit card – one from a toupee shop and another for a Dell computer. The report was made on 5/10 and the incidents occurred between 5/5 and 5/10.
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Ladies of the Night Arrested and More from the Greenburgh Police
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Greenburgh Police announced the arrest of three women for prostitution at two Central Park Avenue spas in Scarsdale this week. Responding to tips from Edgemont residents, police investigated suspicious activity at the Aroma Spa at 698 Central Park Avenue and at Charming Spa Massage Therapy at 390 Central Park Avenue.
Undercover police officers posed as customers and went to the Aroma Spa on Friday April 20, 2012 where, according to police, a woman offered to engage in “a sex act in exchange for money” with the officer. The woman, identified as Jizi Piao, age 39, of 144-22 34th Avenue, 3B, Flushing NY was arrested for prostitution, which is a class B misdemeanor. She was released and returned to court on April 27th. The spa was also cited for providing massages without the proper licensing.
An internet search for Aroma Spa in Scarsdale yielded ads for their services in the Village Voice Classifieds, and the image at left also appeared.
On Thursday April 27, 2012, undercover police, again posing as customers went to Charming Spa Massage Therapy, at 390 Central Park Avenue, Scarsdale, where two employees offered to engage in a sex act in exchange for money. The women were also arrested and charged with prostitution, and the spa was cited for a violation. The women, both from Flushing, NY were identified as Bokja Park, age 47, of 143-43 36th Avenue, 3A, and Mei Xian Piao, age 39, of 136-43 37th Avenue, 2F. Both were released and are due back in court May 4th. Police will continue their investigation.
This is not the first time that police arrested prostitutes at Central Avenue spas. In October, 2010, a similar incident occurred at the King Spa at 100 North Central Avenue , where the masseuses were offering more than a massage.
New Camaro stolen from Curry: The sales manager at Curry Chevy on Central Avenue in Scarsdale called police at 10:15 pm on 4/26 after someone took off in a $40,000 2012 Chevy Camaro. She did not know if the keys had been left in the car.
Pot on board: Greenburgh Police stopped a gray Ford van on Sprain Road in Scarsdale at 12:39 on April 25th after the driver and passenger swapped places. The officer smelled marijuana and also found that both drivers had suspended driver’s licenses. Inside the car they found a small plastic bag containing $13,548 in cash as well as several large black plastic bag that were filled with potting soil, marijuana leaves and stems. However, tests of the contents revealed that it did not contain TCH. The men were booked for driving without licenses.
Fill and flee: On the afternoon of 4/24, the manager of the Getty station at 416 Central Avenue reported that a white male filled the tank of his green car with $47 worth of gas and left the station without paying for the fuel.
Threatened: A 68 year-old resident of Fieldstone Drive in Hartsdale called police on the evening of April 23rd when she got into a fight with her 31 year-old son over money and he grabbed a kitchen knife and threatened to cut her stomach and kill himself. She wished to have her son move out.
5 o’clock shadow: At Harmon on Central Avenue, the manager reported that a customer stole 35 packs of Gilette Mach 3 razors, valued at $609.65 and fled in a BMW 5 south on Central Avenue on the afternoon of 4/27.
From the Police: Busts, Runaways and Inappropriate Behavior
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Scarsdale Police Report: An 87 year-old New Rochelle woman lost control of her 2005 Buick on Wednesday afternoon May 2 and hit a fire hydrant and then ran into the porch of a home at 287 Boulevard in Scarsdale.
Stolen materials: The project manager of Heathcote Manor on Weaver Street waved down police on the morning of May 3rd to report that a coil of copper wire valued at $1,000 was missing from the construction site. The coils, which had already been laid out on the property, each ran to separate transformers. The theft of the coils caused the team to incur another $5,000 in damage to the project.
Arrested: Previn Allen, age 41 of the Bronx, surrendered himself to Scarsdale Police in response to an outstanding bench warrant for criminal contempt on the morning of May 3rd. He was released on $7,500 bail and a temporary Order of Protection was issued.
Missing: A Greenacres mom reported the theft of a rented violin from her property on Kingston Road. She claimed that the violin was left on a ledge near the house on the afternoon of April 30th. When she realized it was missing on May 1, it was no longer outside. However, on May 4 the victim reported that the violin was found in the orchestra room of Scarsdale High School – and had apparently never been brought home.
A mailbox was stolen from a Cornell Street house sometime on Sunday May 6th. The homeowner reported that he had recently purchased a new mailbox.
Identity Theft: A Quaker Ridge woman reported unauthorized activity in her Chase Bank account. In the past someone attempted to make an electronic transfer out of her account and to change the email address on the account. Both were stopped by bank personnel. On May 1, another transfer for $2,000 was attempted and was cancelled when the woman told the bank it was unauthorized.
At 12:30 pm on May 2, police received a call about a man urinating while standing on the center median on Weaver Street across from Dunkin Donuts. Police searched for the man but were unable to find him.
Wha’s that? A Greenacres Avenue woman reported that black liquid was splattered on her 2008 Mercedes Benz while it was parked at her home overnight from 5/4 – 5/5.
A Black Birch Lane man reported that a moving truck had damaged his front lawn on the night of 5/3. The driver of the trunk admitted to running over the lawn and want to rake it out, though the homeowner believed the lawn needed further repairs.
Greenburgh Police Report:
Busted: Police came upon a blue 2005 Acura parked in the upper lot of a Central Avenue shopping area on the evening of May 
1. Inside the car were three young men. While police interviewed the occupants they detected the smell of marijuana and found that there was a pipe, a Ziploc bag of marijuana and a grinder. The young men, two who are students at Edgemont High School were charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, issued appearance tickets and released to their parents.
Also smoking marijuana was Javier LaBorde of Yonkers, who was found at the Hartsdale Station smoking a joint at 11 pm on 5/1. He was charged with criminal possession of marijuana.
Runaways: At 1:30 am on May 4, police found two children walking on Central Avenue in Scarsdale. They stopped them and found out that they had run away from Cedar Knolls, a Children’s Group Home in Hawthorne. Police brought them to Greenburgh Police Headquarters where they were picked up and returned to Cedar Knolls.
Stolen phones: Two iPhones, valued at $1,300 were stolen from the display rack of the AT&T store on Central Avenue on the evening of May 3 around 6:00 pm.
Identity Theft: A young woman who works as a babysitter on Campden Road in Edgemont reported that $369 in unauthorized charges were made to a Victoria’s Secret account in her name. An Overton Road man reported that an HP account was opened in his name and $4,488 was charged to the fraudulent account.
Lost purse: A Yonkers woman was shopping at H Mart on Central Avenue on Saturday April 20th and inadvertently left her purse in the shopping cart after she unloaded her groceries into her car. When she got home she realized she lost her purse and asked her son to go to the store and look for it. The purse was found in a cart behind the store, but $2,000 in cash was missing.
Car Thief Sweeps Village
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This week, thieves turned from home break-ins to car break-ins in a rash of incidents involving thefts from parked cars from April 17-19. The first incident occurred at Scarsdale High School on Wednesday April 17, followed by four more reports overnight from April 18-19.
A car parked at the Scarsdale High School lot was vandalized on the afternoon of April 17th. A Taunton Road woman parked her car near the tennis courts at the school and left her purse inside. When she returned about 45 minutes later the front passenger window was broken and her purse, wallet and credit cards were stolen.
Overnight from 4/18-4/19, four cars were entered. They all may have been left unlocked as no car windows were broken. A thief or thieves appeared to be walking the neighborhood in search of open cars that they searched and then grabbed whatever they could find inside, from a wallet to rosary beads!
A car parked in a Church Lane driveway was entered. When the owner checked his car on the morning of 4/19 eh noticed that the car had been tossed and that his Tom Tom GPS was gone. The car had been left unlocked and was not damaged.
On Hathaway Road a car that had been left unlocked was entered. Stolen was $8 in quarters.
On Crane Road, a car parked in a driveway was entered and the resident’s gym clothes were thrown all over the car. A wallet, containing $40, a driver’s license, credit cards and a check book were gone. Coins were also missing from the center console.
On Lockwood Road a Saturn suburban was entered and crystal and silver rosary beads were taken. The beads were hanging on the rear view mirror. Other items were thrown around the car. The resident did not hear anything during the night.
Letting it all hang out: A Myrtledale Road woman who was walking on the trail along the Bronx River Parkway on the evening of April 16 reported that a man walking on the trail exposed himself to her. Neither the Scarsdale Police or the County Police were able to locate the man.
Smoke: Police and firefighters responded to reports of smoke coming through a home at 1 Carstensen Road at 9:45 am on 4/19. Firefighters broke through a glass door to the kitchen and found a pot burning on the stove. A few minutes later the resident returned home and said she had left the pot on the stove when she went to IHM. There was only minimal damage to the door and frame.
A Proposal: Police were called about noise from Carthage Road at 10 pm on 4/19. When they arrived they found a group of bare-chested high school age boys. Painted on each of their backs was a letter – and when they stood together, they spelled out PROM?. The boys reported that they were helping a friend ask a girl to the prom!
Identity Theft: On 4/18, a Heathcote Road woman reported that her name and social security number were used to file a fraudulent tax return.
Missing: Another purse was lost when a Whistler Road woman left it behind on Depot Place on the morning of April 17th. The woman had her purse with her at Villa Roma, then left the area and later realized her Louis Vuitton bag was missing. When she returned a half hour later the purse, valued at $800, was gone. She cancelled all of her credit cards.
A White Plains man came to Scarsdale Police headquarters to report that his son’s iPhone had been stolen from Woodlands High School on 4/17. The tracking application in the phone showed that it was on Brewster Road between Kingston Road and Huntington Avenue at 2:10 pm and was then shut off. Police checked the area but did not find the phone.
A Gary Fisher bicycle valued at $1,000 was stolen from the bike rack on Depot Place on April 19th. The kryptonite lock was also gone.
Fight: A Garth Road man called police at 11:05 pm on 4/21 to complain that a girl from Hamilton Road had punched him in the face. He said the two would wait for the police at Starbucks in Scarsdale. When police arrived, the two reported that they had a fight and would like it documented.
Heavy load: Police issued a violation to the driver of a truck delivering 5,800 gallons of fuel to the Gulf Station on Scarsdale Avenue on the night of April 20. The truck exceeded the allowable weight on the Popham Road Bridge and the shipping manifest was not properly completed.
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