Crime & Safety

Port Chester Police Blotter: Incidents Around The Village

Car broken into; nothing stolen, but cell phone is left behind in car.

Recent incidents around the village reported by Port Chester police:

- A 2004 BMW was damaged — getting a dent on the roof — when someone jumped on top of the car and walked across it on North Main Street, according to police.

Police said the car was parked near Terrace Drive by La Dolce Vita, 451 N. Main St.. Police said the car’s owner saw the man jump on the car, and then run off at about 3:39 a.m. Saturday.

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- When someone gets into your car and goes through your stuff, usually something is taken. But for the owner of a 2007 Toyota parked on Glen Avenue on Saturday, she actually found something extra in her car.

Police said the woman discovered that someone had gotten into her car about 2:50 p.m. and that someone had rummaged through her personal belongings. However, the woman discovered a Blackberry smart phone in the car — she doesn’t own a Blackberry.

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Police said they took the phone as evidence.

- Port Chester firefighters were called to a house on Sand Street when smoke was reported come from the house.

Firefighters discovered the smoke was coming from a bedroom, where a piece of home video equipment was smoldering. No one was injured.

- A 23-year-old Port Chester resident reported that his bicycle was stolen sometime between late last Saturday and Monday afternoon.

Police said he rode his bike from his home on Greenwood Avenue to a home on West Glen Avenue on Saturday. The man decided to take a cab home, leaving the $300 bike at the West Glen Avenue Home.

He told police that when he went to retrieve the bike on Monday it was gone.


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