Police Log: Possible Peeping Tom Perched on Comm. Ave. Fire Escape

A woman living in the 200 block of Commonwealth Avenue told police yesterday a man was spying on her through her kitchen window sometme Saturday night. 

According to police, the woman said she was sitting in her kitchen around 8 p.m. when she looked up to find the man outside motioning for her to open the window. He then moved up the fire escape toward the third floor, the woman said.

A short while later, the woman went to check to make sure her window was locked when she saw the man return. She then shut the window shade and did not see man again, reports said. 

The woman told police the alleged peeping tom may have been the same man she spotted near the building's dumpsters a week ago. She described him as being a white male, 40- to 50-years old, 6' to 6'2", wearing jeans and something on his head, police said. 

A Texas-Style Phone Scam

Officers responded to a potential phone scam yesterday after a woman told police she recevied a phone call from an Officer Thomas Gooch requesting she send $6,000 to an unknown Texas police department to bail out her grandson.

The "officer" on the phone told the woman to send the money via Western Union and left a phone number. Reports said attempted to call the number, but no one answered.

According to reports, police told the woman this was a common scam and verified a short while later that the her grandson had not been arrested and was safe in New York.