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On the Police Logs 01.11.24

Thu, 01/11/2024 - 08:46

Amagansett

Harbormaster Vincent Forlenza discovered an abandoned boat left in the brush off Lazy Point Road on New Year’s Day.

 

East Hampton Village

A teenage girl lost her wallet on Newtown Lane on Friday morning. A police officer found it, and the girl’s mother picked it up after work that day.

Following a road rage incident Saturday morning, a 28-year-old East Hampton woman reported that two middle-aged men in a Jeep had followed her into the long-term parking lot on Lumber Lane and confronted her. “If you’re going to give us the finger, we will teach you a lesson,” the men reportedly told the woman, before slamming her door shut. Police responded but were unable to locate a vehicle with two men matching her description.

 

Montauk

The caretaker of a house on East Lake Drive called police on the afternoon of Jan. 2 after finding that the house had been broken into and vandalized. Detectives are still investigating.

A suspected water leak coming from a house on Washington Drive turned out to be caused by a contractor working on a pool. He “addressed the water issue immediately without any other issues,” police reported.

Downed wires across the road made South Emery Street impassable early Sunday morning. An officer coned off the area and the Optimum cable company responded to fix the wires.

 

Northwest

An Oyster Pond Lane resident called police on Friday around midnight after hearing shouting and “a loud noise, possibly something breaking or falling” at a neighboring house. Police found two men in their 20s who’d been playing video games and “screaming about the outcome of the game.”

 

Sag Harbor

At about 9:30 p.m. last Thursday, someone called police to say that “three men wearing gray sweatpants” had been sitting on a bench for an extended length of time outside Sag Pizza, and that one of them was overheard “discussing possibly stealing money from an elderly person” on his cellphone. Less than 20 minutes later, an officer investigating a report of fireworks encountered three youths who admitted to setting them off near Round Pond.

 

Springs

Last Thursday afternoon, two calls came in about an hour and a half apart requesting police presence on Olive Street. The first was a well-being check for a woman with an “altered mental status,” the second a complaint about a man who often trespasses into a particular front yard “and occasionally yells profanities.”

Michael Oblein of Fenmarsh Road reported Friday afternoon that someone had dumped several piles of dirt in his front yard. A contractor told police he thought he had permission to do so, and said he would remove it to the job site across the street the next day.

Sailors Undeterred After Rescue Off Montauk

A pair of sailors who paid an unexpected visit to Montauk last month said from Brooklyn on Friday that they plan to continue their voyage down the East Coast despite an April 24 rescue off Montauk’s downtown ocean beach.

May 16, 2024

On the Police Logs 05.16.24

Employees of Montauk's Memory Motel called police at 1:25 a.m. Saturday to have a man “known to them to have no money” removed from the bar. The man had been refusing to leave, but complied when the request came from an officer. He promised to take a train or bus back home to Brooklyn, but showed up a couple of hours later at 7-Eleven, attempting to use “multiple bank cards” to pay for merchandise. He was also said to have made “a threatening statement,” and was taken in the end to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for evaluation.

May 15, 2024

On the Police Logs 05.09.24

On April 30, police got a call from a passer-by about “a male subject opening doors with a crowbar” at the Sands Motel. Upon investigation, it was learned that the man was an employee performing renovations and maintenance. “The salt air environment often causes the door locks to freeze, therefore he has to force the doors open with a bar,” officers reported.

May 9, 2024

On the Police Logs 05.02.24

A 17-year-old girl fell victim to an online scam when she attempted to sell a prom dress on the website Poshmark on April 14. She ultimately sent more than $1,000 in Apple gift cards, thinking there was an error with her account after receiving an email from the company that turned out to be fake. An investigation is still ongoing.

May 1, 2024

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