Leaf blower summonses finally leveled off in July after significant year-over-year increases since March, Rye PD data shows.
Police issued only one leaf blower summons this July, compared to zero issued in July 2024. The lack of activity ends a four-month trend of dramatic spikes, where leaf blower summonses increased by 25 in June and May, and 37 in April, year-over-year numbers show. In March, 13 additional summons were doled out compared to the same period in 2024.
Police Lt. Michael Anfuso has attributed the rise in leaf blower summonses this year to increased police overtime focused on city code complaints.
Arrests, meanwhile, decreased from nine in July to six during the same period in 2024, a decrease of 33 percent. Two of the arrests were for DWIs, including 19-year-old Jamal Abdul Razak’s, who flipped his car full of passengers and alcohol over, landing on its roof on Boston Post Road. Minor injuries were reported in the July 4 crash.
Mario Monroy, 45, of Port Chester was arrested on July 9 after drunkenly pulling out of a parking space and nearly crashing into a marked Rye PD vehicle, authorities said. He had one prior DWI arrest.
Thomas Edwards Wundeler, 58, was arrested on July 10 after police said he was driving with a suspended license on Midland Avenue. Wundeler had at least three open suspensions on his record. Jaylen T. Cummings, 22, was arrested on July 12 after police said he was caught driving with a suspended registration near Grace Church Street and Howard Place.
A Yonkers man, 24-year-old Isaiah Greene, was arrested for domestic violence on July 6 after strangling his girlfriend at the Rye train station. He was arrested three prior times for domestic violence incidents involving the same unidentified female, according to police.
NYPD officer Yeison Rodriguez-Acosta, 27, was arrested by Rye PD on July 17 for allegedly stealing more than $85,000 from clients of a Rye Brook Wells Fargo that he previously worked for. Rodriguez-Acosta, who has since been suspended from the NYPD, is believed to have used the stolen funds to pay for a BMW and a trip to the Caribbean, authorities said.
Traffic stops saw a 59 percent uptick in July, to 228 from 144 in July 2024, according to police stats. Calls for police service also increased by 16 percent, from 2,608 to 3,018.
City code complaints remained stagnant year-over-year at 21, department data shows.
There was one use of force incident this month, when Rye PD assisted MTA police in removing a passenger from the train. During the same period last year there weren’t any use of force incidents reported by police.
