Police Blotter: School Thefts, Stolen GPS Units And A Defiled XBOX

Police: Unlocked cars targeted in two Avon Circle thefts

GPS navigation units were stolen from two cars on the same street Sunday, Rye Brook police said.

In both cases, the owners had left their cars unlocked. In the first reported incident, a 61-year-old woman had parked her car on Avon Circle at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday night, and came out the next morning at 8 a.m. to find the contents of her car's center console had been dumped onto the passenger seat. The victim's GPS unit had been in the console and was missing from the car.

In a similar incident on the same street, a 44-year-old man had parked his 2000 Mitsubishi Montero in front of 27 Avon Circle at about 10:30 p.m. When the man went to his car Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m., he realized his GPS unit and a Sirius satellite radio receiver had been stolen from the unlocked sport utility vehicle, Lt. Eugene Matthews said.

The stolen GPS units were valued at about $150 each, and the satellite radio was valued at $100.

Teen accused of urinating on video game console after text message spat

A 16-year-old Rye Brook boy avoided criminal charges April 23 after admitting he urinated on a friend's XBOX after a heated text message argument, Rye Brook police said.

The incident was reported to police after the 16-year-old victim and his mother returned home after school at about 3:10 p.m. and noticed the front door to their Whittemore Place house was wide open, Lt. Eugene Matthews said. The teen and his mother checked the house and found it empty, but when the boy walked upstairs to his second-floor bedroom, he noticed a light flashing on his XBOX 360, indicating an electrical failure on the console. As the teen bent closer to examine the gaming machine, he realized it was wet and smelled like urine.

The boy told his mother he had engaged in a heated argument with a friend via text messages earlier that day, and the victim's mother reported the incident to police. Officers visited the other teen at his home. Police say the boy was cooperative, and admitted to entering his friend's house while no one was home and urinating on the XBOX 360. The victim told police he just wanted his XBOX fixed or replaced, and when the other boy agreed to replace the soaked gaming console, the victim told police he'd drop any potential charges. The officers, who said the parents of both children were cooperative, left the children to settle the issue among themselves.

Cell phone, cash stolen in incidents at High School and Middle School

School staffers were victimized in two separate thefts at Port Chester High School and Middle School last week, Rye Brook police said.

In the first incident, a 41-year-old teacher at Port Chester High School told police he wore a dark-blue windbreaker to school on April 21 and placed it on his chair in his second-floor classroom. The teacher said he was in and out of the room several times during the day, but when he returned to the classroom at 2:30 p.m. he noticed the windbreaker was gone, and with it a $250 Motorola cell phone that was inside one of the pockets of the light jacket, Lt. Eugene Matthews said.

At Port Chester Middle School, a 57-year-old female staffer told police she opened an unlocked desk drawer at 8:30 a.m. on April 23 and noticed $17 was missing from two envelopes.

Students are suspected in both thefts.