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Summer Rental Was a Scam

When Edward Orr Sr., a driver for Road Runner Taxi in Montauk, picked up three people from Manhattan Friday morning at the Montauk train station, there was nothing unusual about the call. They were headed, on the first day of the big holiday weekend, to a summer rental on South Fulton Drive, a dirt road off Old West Lake Drive.

When they arrived at 99 South Fulton Drive, though, something was wrong: The house at that address was occupied. The photo they had seen online looked more like 93 South Fulton.

“The door to the house was open. They were saying, ‘Hello?

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Last October, Mr. Shoshi, 29, distraught over his troubled marriage to a woman in his native Kosovo, had led East Hampton Town and Village police on a manhunt after firing three rounds from a shotgun inside the Springs house he shared with his parents.