Dobbs Ferry Police Beat: Harassment, Menacing, Larcenies

May 8: A Mercy College student reported a gold rope chain valued at $594 was stolen from his dorm room sometime between May 5 and 6 a.m. May 8. After investigation police arrested Joshua Yarde of Amityville, NY, also a student. Police said Yarde, who had been seen in or near the room, noted on Facebook that he had cashed in on some jewelry. He was arraigned on a misdemeanor charge of petty larceny before Judge Steve Grant. 

May 10: Shabaz Hall, an 18-year-old student at St. Christopher's School was charged with second-degree menacing, a misdemeanor, after he ran with a knife toward the office of the administrator on duty, where another student with whom Hall had been fighting was located.

May 10: A resident of Beacon Hill Drive reported a window on her 2003 Acura was broken and an iPhone valued at $300 was taken on the evening of May 9.

May 13: Two men were charged with second-degree harassment, a violation, and fourth-degree grand larceny, a felony, after an incident at 4 a.m. on Main Street. Police said a group of men left the Celtic Corner bar and noticed a man talking on his cell phone nearby.

The men surrounded the victim and began taunting him, making fun of his clothes, police said. The victim walked into the vestibule of his building and the group followed him and went to grab him, police said. Losing his phone in the melee, the victim ran upstairs to his apartment and when he saw the group leave the building, went down to look for his phone, which was gone. 

The investigation is still ongoing, police said. 

May 13: A custodian at Springhurst School reported someone threw a rock through a gym window on the north side of the building sometime between 9 a.m. May 13 and 10:20 a.m. May 13.

May 13: Hostile groups of teens at Waterfront Park—apparently someone on one side had a problem with a friend of people on the other side—exchanged words, police said. One, a village 19-year-old, pulled a tire iron out of his car and threatened to kill a 16-year-old who is also a Dobbs Ferry resident. The older teen then returned to his car and called the police himself. The investigation is ongoing.

Editor's Note: Because charges were dismissed in a case listed in the original report, two names have been removed from this article.