Crime & Safety

Police Arrest Scarsdale Man After Violations

Excerpts from the Scarsdale Police Log. The following information was supplied by the Scarsdale Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

Scarsdale Police arrested an Edgewood Road resident on September 23 after catching him talking on his cell phone while driving and driving without a license–after it had been suspended seven times.

Police arrested Ryan M. Duffield, 32, on charges of operating a motor vehicle on a public highway while using a mobile phone; aggravated unlicensed operation of motor vehicle (three or more suspensions); drivers licencse violations.

Police stopped the driver after seeing him talking on his cell phone while driving on Popham Road, according to the police report.

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After pulling him over, the driver gave police his passport and said he did not have his driver's license on him, according to SPD.

Police ran a DMV computer check and found he had seven license suspensions from failure to pay fines in Manhattan and Brooklyn, according to the report.

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SPD also discovered a warrant from NYPD for theft of services from August 26, 2010.

The defendant was released on $200 cash bail and is set to appear in Scarsdale Justice Court on October 3.


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