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GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Two women are being charged with robbery in the first degree, a felony, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor, after Greenburgh police responded to a report of a dispute Wednesday night on West Hartsdale Avenue.
Police arrested Arielle Pierre, 21, of Yonkers, and Amber Favereau, 20, of Valhalla, after receiving a call about a dispute on West Hartsdale Avenue near Beachwood Road about 10:15 p.m. The caller advised that two women and a man were arguing outside on the street in front of his residence, and that one of the women was in possession of a knife, police said.
When police arrived, the man, 49, told them he had been robbed at knife point by the two women. Police located the two women at the scene, identified by the man as Pierre and Favereau, and they were placed into custody. Police said they also recovered two knives at the scene.
Greenburgh detectives said the man had contacted one of the suspects through craigslist and had paid the woman $120 in exchange for a sexual act at the man's residence. An argument between the two parties ensued, and the man told police that the woman refused to return the money. The woman then displayed a knife to prevent the man from recovering the money, police said.
While the argument continued outside the Hartsdale residence, the second woman arrived and allegedly displayed a knife and threatened the man, police said.
In addition to the other charges, police said Pierre was also charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.
Both defendants were arraigned in the Town of Greenburgh Court and remanded to the Westchester County Jail. Their next court appearance is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Friday.
Comments (3)
Qustionable police work and questionable journalism. Why wasn't the male arrested? Does he have to be caught in the act of solicitation in order to be taken into custody? The reporter should have raised these questions, and lacking a response from the police, reported that the authorities declined to state why he wasn't also arrested.
Unfortunately Mr. Williams, the Johns in Prostution cases are rarely arrested, even in underage sex orders on Craigslist, Backpage and Facebook. When they are arrested, sentencing is often disporportunate to the women who are arrested for solicitation. So, there is no surprise to me that the man who "ordered" these $120 services was not arrested, after admittedly requesting secular services.
I also wonder why the journalist didn't get a police response on the lack of arrest of the male. What was the argument about? Was the type of sexual service in question, the amount, the safety standard that many women place on johns(such as a friend must come along for safety-many johns don't like this and try to end the transaction without paying). These seems to be an increase in these sexual services in Greenburgh (with recent 'massage' parlor exposé). There will always be people needing money so the 'oldest profession' wont be erridicated in Greenburgh but if the Johns start to get arrested as well, it will decrease.
Ultimately, since there was a sexual solicitation a knife/weapon involved all 3 should have been arrested (with the information given).
It's always reassuring to see the male, who hired a female to perform sexual acts upon his personal self, have his identity protected while the female "perps" in this story are identified by name and with photo. And it is equally reassuring to read that the undesired result of a business transaction that soured becomes the focal point while the precipitating dispute is unexplained.
Welcome to the world of Police Department public relations in which incidents are carefully chosen, content edited and thereafter dispatched to local media who, in turn, faithfully transcribe this material into news stories. More Journalism by way of press release.
But what happens when the Police don't willingly report sensitive crimes or to cases in which the triumph of law and order over criminality is not so readily surmised ?
Yes, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus and the Police don't always solve cases.
And were the readers of the Daily Voice to depend solely on their staff reporters to seek out news, these readers would never learn that over the July 4th weekend, 19 laptops were stolen from the Theodore Young Community Center. They would not learn that the Police did not immediately inspect surveillance video until days later; days in which the identity of the perp may have disappeared because the recording erases itself after seven days. Yes readers, there are perhaps not a million stories in Greenburgh, but there are stories that you won't learn of due to collaborative efforts of the Police Department and the media which only report some of the news some of the time.
Hal Samis