East HamptonA Montauk woman, dining at Simply Sublime, a food shop on Springs-Fireplace Road, was targeted there by an angry ex-boyfriend on the afternoon of Jan. 21. Macarena Ramos told police she had met him there to return an iPod he had given her some time ago. He arrived at the shop with another man, who, she said, dumped a noxious liquid on her. The men then drove away.
An alleged prostitute who solicited business online and a man who accompanied her to Montauk in August pleaded guilty to felony charges on Jan. 11 in connection with the beating and robbery of a would-be client.
Southampton Town detectives are investigating the disappearance of a dozen or more artworks from the studio of a Bridgehampton artist, Elaine Marinoff, who called police to her Ocean Road residence in early January to report the theft.
MontaukPolice are investigating two reports of vandalism in Montauk earlier this month. A South Fox Street woman, Magdalena Sanchez, told police Saturday that during the night of Feb. 2 her mailbox was ripped out of the ground and thrown across the street, and that obscenities appeared on her property. Another woman, Aida Sanchez of South Emerson Avenue, told police she had filled the gas tank on her Chevrolet Suburban on Feb. 6 or 7, but found the needle on empty when she went to drive the car on Friday.