Scarsdale Cops: $600 Bracelet Swiped; Taxi Harassment

Nearly $1,000 worth of jewelry and cash—including a $600 gold Hermes bracelet—was swiped from a Scarsdale home late last week, police said.

A resident reported the bracelet and $200 in cash were pilfered from her house on Chesterfield Road this past Thursday. Police have not made any arrests, and are treating the incident as petty larceny, a misdemeanor.

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Employees at Central Taxi in Scarsdale told police they were victims of countless ongoing prank calls last Thursday, police told Patch.

The cab company workers said a group of youngsters have been calling at the same time of day for weeks, harassing employees and tying up the phone lines.

Police told employees to contact Verizon's unlawful call center to possibly ban the number the prank calls are coming from.

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A man house-sitting for a resident on Walworth Avenue contacted cops on Thursday after finding a broken windowpane near the backdoor. Police entered the home and saw it appeared to be ransacked—"the home was in complete disarray," according to police reports.

But the house-sitter informed cops the home is always like this, police said. Cops called in the Scarsdale Fire Inspector, who noted the mess presents possible safety issues. The homeowner is out of the country until later this month, cops said.