Also on the Logs

(12/14/2006)

East Hampton
On Dec. 4, Naimy Hackett of Pantigo Road reported that two bills, for $2,500 and $3,500, had been paid between Dec. 1 and Dec. 4 using her online bank account without her permission. She contacted her bank and the payments were canceled; meanwhile, the police and the bank are investigating.

On Friday night, a small fire broke out in Jennifer Wilson’s chimney at her house on Ocean Parkway. The East Hampton Fire Department quickly put it out.

A 15-year-old at East Hampton High School told police that, while he was in gym class between noon and 1 p.m. last  Thursday, a $250 iPod Nano and $100 Verizon cellphone were taken from his locker.

Between Nov. 24 and Dec. 4, a $439.95 weedwacker was removed from Bernette Schoenster’s garage on Muir Boulevard, she told police on Dec. 5. Police searched the neighborhood to no avail.

Lynda Welch of Van Scoy’s Path West noticed that her kitchen window had been broken and called police on Saturday. It will cost $200 to replace, but no other damage was found.

East Hampton Village
Steven Minskoft of Harvest Lane lost a wallet containing cash, a credit card, and a debit card, at the movie theater on Main Street on Dec. 3.

An employee at the John M. Marshall Elementary School on Gingerbread Lane contacted police after a boy was not picked up by his mother from an after-school program last Thursday. Police called the mother, who said her sister would pick him up.

On Dec. 6, David Collins of Three R’s Carting found the word “hope” spray-painted on the side of the business’ building on Railroad Avenue and called police.

Tony Sande of Wading River reported the loss of a $250 camera tripod on North Main Street near the windmill on Sunday.

Patrol officers found a drawing of “two small people-shaped objects” on a door at the public bathrooms on Park Place Sunday. Police also discovered graffiti by the lifeguard storage building at Georgica Beach on Saturday.

Gina Greene of Wheelock Walk lost her license plate at Waldbaum’s on Newtown Lane on Sunday.

Montauk
On Friday, Larry Abbruzzese reported that an adhesive sealant had been sprayed on all the doors and six of the windows at his house on Fernald Road. The material hardened, rendering the locks inoperable. Police said there was no similar damage to other houses in the neighborhood.

Police responded to a break-in at Zorba’s Inn Motel on Flamingo Road on Dec. 4. A door frame and lock had been broken, but nothing appeared to be missing at the motel, which is closed for the winter.

Jorge Borga of Fairview Avenue called police last Thursday after receiving a canceled $400 check from his bank that an acquaintance had cashed in his name in Brooklyn on Oct. 17. Mr. Borga gave police the suspect’s name.

While putting away outdoor furniture for the winter, Betty Frazier of South Delrey Road noticed that two wooden outdoor chairs were missing. They were worth $200, she told police.

On Friday, Robert B. Toronto of Wood Drive reported that his mailbox had been smashed and knocked off its post.

Sagaponack
On Dec. 3, police responded to a report of a damaged fence at the Sagg Cemetery on Cemetery Lane. It appeared that a car was the culprit, police said.  

Sag Harbor
Kurk Warner went to police headquarters on Monday morning to report the theft of scaffolding at a residence he was working at on Hempstead Street.

Rich Simmons found that a boat at the “B” dock on West Water Street had been damaged and its rope untied on Dec. 6.

After an American flag was replaced with a Russian flag at Pierson High School on Division Street on Monday morning, Laurie Doran, who works at the school, alerted police.

Marije Dubois told police last Thursday that she lost her pink Canon digital camera in the village.

Springs
Alfredo Merat of Villas of the World, a vacation rental company based on Gardiner Avenue, contacted police on Dec. 5 after a customer sent him a counterfeit check. Mr. Merat gave police a copy of his e-mail correspondences with the customer, which were dated from Oct. 27 through Dec. 5.

Returning home on Saturday after being away, Joan Semmel of Sycamore Drive noticed that the handle and lock on a rear sliding glass door had been removed. Nothing else was missing, police said.

Thomas McMahon of Lincoln Street told police that his mailbox had been damaged on Dec. 6.