Also on the Logs: 11.23.17

East Hampton

A resident of Oyster Shores Road spoke with police on Nov. 15 after an altercation the previous day with her roommate. The woman in question had allegedly punched the victim in the back, irate over several items in the kitchen having been moved around. The complainant did not wish to press charges, but did want the situation documented. Police explained the seriousness of the allegations to the alleged assailant.

East Hampton Village

Two blue five-gallon jugs of sulfuric acid were found on Nov. 15 on the side of the road near the intersection of Toilsome Lane and Dayton Lane. The officer sent to the scene reported that the containers appeared to have fallen off a truck. The police requested the assistance of a fire chief, due to the hazardous nature of the chemical, which has a wide range of commercial and industrial uses. The Fire Department removed the jugs.

Five shoppers attending the Grey Gardens estate sale at Apaquogue and West End Roads were ticketed Friday afternoon for parking in the roadway. All attendees had been asked to leave their cars in the Georgica Beach parking lot, police said.

A gray Trek mountain bike was stolen sometime between Nov. 10 and Saturday morning from behind Fresno Restaurant on Fresno Place. One of the restaurant’s owners, a Sag Harbor resident whose name was blacked out of the incident report filed by the police, said that he had left the bicycle unsecured in a fenced area near a Dumpster. He said that he wanted the situation documented. The bike was valued at $900.

Illegal garbage dumping was the accusation a resident of Toilsome Lane made around noon on Saturday. The unidentified resident called police after an elderly man driving a 2008 Audi pulled in to his driveway and deposited a bag of garbage in a Dumpster. The complainant confronted the man, who then pulled the garbage bag back out of the Dumpster, and drove away. The homeowner took down the license plate number and told police he just wanted the situation documented. 

The owner of a house on the Circle called police early Saturday afternoon. The ivy he had just planted along a fence on his property line had been damaged by persons unknown. He wanted the incident documented.

Montauk

A South Embassy Street resident had the sense to hang up on two scam robo-calls on Friday. The recorded voice of the caller identified himself as being with the Internal Revenue Service and said that Lynne Williams was being audited. Ms. Williams identified the calls immediately as a fraud, and went to the downtown police substation to report the incidents. Police are investigating. 

Police were contacted on Nov. 7 by Jorge Kusanovic, an assistant recreation director for the Town of East Hampton. He told police that, at some point between the previous night and that morning, 11 limbs had been sawed off a pine tree on the grounds of the skate park.

Wainscott

Regis Waleko, owner of the Rumrunner Home Furniture store, told police on Nov. 15 that he had last checked his 21-foot-long Sea King boat two weeks earlier. He was storing it behind the Montauk Highway shop until he could find a storage site for it, he told police. On Nov. 14 he went back to check the boat and discovered that it had been rummaged through. While nothing was reported stolen from its interior, its registration stickers, which he had recently renewed, had been stripped from the hull.