Police Blotter: Asleep At the Wheel, Pickpocket on Boston Post Road and Doggie Don't

Village of Mamaroneck

Wednesday, April 20

8:50 p.m. – A resident of Wagner Avenue had their iPod and GPS—valued at $300—taken from their unlocked vehicle parked on the street.

Thursday, April 21

12:17 p.m. – An abandoned vehicle was left to it’s own devices on 120 Soundview Ave., near the entrance to the New England Thruway, for unknown reasons.

3:44 p.m. – A car parked on Underhill Avenue had a dent on the passenger side door from an unknown assailant.

5:08 p.m. - $250 cash, credit cards and various personal papers from a handbag were pilfered from a car parked on the 600 block of West Boston Post Road.  The front passenger window of the car was smashed in order to get to the purse.

8:55 p.m. – Unrestrained barking led a Delancey Avenue resident to call the police to lodge a complaint about his neighbor’s dog.  The neighbors were not home when police arrived, so a contact card was left for follow-up.

Friday, April 22

 11:18 a.m. – After his neighbor’s dog defecated in his yard, an Underhill Avenue contacted police to complain.  The dog’s owner was advised to keep the dog on a leash, lest he use the neighbor’s yard as a bathroom.

1:35 p.m. – A Village of Mamaroneck Fire Chief reported property missing from a fire apparatus.

1:39 p.m. – Although a Munro Avenue homeowner claimed his bike was missing, it was later located on his property.  The bike was secured in a garage.

4:50 p.m. – A 53-year old Mamaroneck woman swiped $100 in cash from a wallet while at a business on the 1200 block of West Boston Post Road.  The perpetrator was charged with petit larceny.

6:00 p.m. – Several aprons and containers valued at $150 were taken from a laundromat on the 300 block of Mamaroneck Avenue.

6:18 p.m. – A Fulton Road resident complained that an unknown individual rolled a truck tire down his driveway into the side of his house.

Saturday, April 23

12:17 a.m. – Two 21-year old males—one from Scarsdale and the other from Larchmont—were charged with possession of open containers, a village code violation, on Stanley Avenue.

1:47 a.m. – Unable to drive his car, a 40-year old Yonkers man instead passed out at the wheel, where he was discovered by police and charged with DWI on the 1200 block of West Boston Post Road.

4:55 p.m. – Three vehicles parked on the 400 block of Halstead Avenue sustained scratch marks from the front to rear fenders sometime at night while parked on the street.

10:06 p.m. – After police stopped him for driving erratically on the 900 block of Palmer Avenue, a 24-year old New Rochelle man, Michael Kraft, was arrested for DWI.

Sunday, April 24

5:43 a.m. – A man was asleep in a car in front of the Shell on 974 Mamaroneck Ave.  There was no incident.

2:43 p.m. – Between April 21-24, several bikes valued at $700 were taken from the rear of a home on the 300 block of Prospect Avenue.

Town of Mamaroneck

Thursday, April 21

12:13 p.m. – A 94-year old Howell Avenue resident’s vehicle was struck when she was making a right from Boston Post Road into the Ferndale Shopping Center.  The perpetrator fled the scene.

10:44 a.m. – An 18-year old Bronx male was arrested on a warrant out of New York City.

11:40 a.m. – After she violated an order of protection, a 22-year old White Plains resident was arrested and charged with first-degree criminal contempt.

10:15 p.m. – A resident of Dillon Road reported her unlocked apartment was entered without permission, and a portfolio with 40 drawings was taken.