Tuckahoe Police Blotter: Drunk Man Falls Asleep Behind the Wheel, Home Burglarized

April 17:

6:13am Police say they found an intoxicated man asleep at the wheel at the intersection of Main and Marbledale Road.  The driver's car was on the sidewalk and partially in bushes near the road.  Officers say the car was running and in gear as the driver slept.  Police say 30-year-old Miguel Mercado was too intoxicated to perform a sobriety test.  However, the Bronx resident did take a breathalyzer test -- blowing .17 -- twice the legal limit.  Mercado was charged with DWI and released on $200 bail.

 April 17

8:20pm Officers responded to a call concerning a reported burglary at a home on Oakland Avenue.  The 91-year-old, who lives at the home, told investigators that $1,100 in cash had gone missing.  Police say the woman's bedroom appeared to have been ransacked and a pane of glass in her kitchen door was broken.  The following day the 91-year-old told police that she had found the $1,100 in cash.

 April 18

8:25pm Officers spotted three youths climbing down onto the tracks at the Tuckahoe Train Station.  Police were able to get them off the railroad tracks and out of harms way.  The Tuckahoe officers detained the youths until MTA Police arrived.  MTA Police turned the youths over to their parents.