Crime & Safety
Hastings Man Arrested for Office Trespassing
A 51-year-old Hastings-on-Hudson man was charged with criminal trespass and is accused of breaking into an office at Boulanger Plaza. The man has not been charged with any of the five office larcenies that recently occurred in the village.
- This report was derived from information from the Hastings-on-Hudson Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Hastings-on-Hudson man was charged with trespassing and is accused of fleeing from police after they found him exiting an office building at Boulanger Plaza.
The 51-year-old has not been charged in any of the five office larcenies that have occurred between Dec. 24 and Jan. 25 in the village’s business district. Many of those incidents involved stolen laptops or cash, and showed no signs of forced entry. Click here for that initial story.
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Hastings-on-Hudson police set up extra foot patrols during the overnight hours to find the suspects. Village officers observed the 51-year-old exiting a Boulanger Plaza office on Jan. 28 around 5:20 a.m., police said. He is accused of leading police on a short foot pursuit that ended at Warburton Avenue and Main Street when he was stopped.
The Hastings-on-Hudson man was released that day and later arrested on Feb. 12 around 2:55 p.m. at his Warburton Avenue home and charged with criminal trespassing in the third degree, a class B misdemeanor.
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His bail was set at $5,000 and he is scheduled to return to court on Feb. 13.
Police have yet to recover property from the five larcenies and continue to investigate those crimes.
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