On the Logs: 12.18.2014

East Hampton Village

A woman from Orchard Lake, Mich., who made a series of purchases totaling $166,000 earlier this year from Lord and Guy, a Main Street auction house dealing in antiques and fine art, called police on Dec. 10, complaining that she had returned several items to the store a few months ago and had not yet received her money back. The items returned included a ring, a Rolex watch, and a diamond and sapphire gold necklace, altogether valued at $48,000. She told police she had called the manager several times but that he had never answered and never returned her calls. At this point, police advised her, the matter is considered a civil court case.

Six teenagers, identified by police as students at the Ross School, bought movie tickets Friday night for a film rated PG-13 but went into a different theater in the multiplex, one showing the R-rated “Top Five,” which is restricted to viewers 17 or older unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. Two of the teens were 16, according to the police report. The students refused to produce identification or leave the theater when confronted by the management, and police were called. They agreed to leave after an officer spoke with them.

Copper wiring valued at $14,000 was reported stolen from a house at 33 Highway Behind the Pond over the Dec. 6 weekend. The wiring — 28 rolls, each 1,000 feet long — was stored inside a padlocked trailer. The thieves cut through the padlock. They also broke into other trailers on the property but took nothing else. The house, which sold in 2011 for over $16 million, has been featured in Architectural Digest.

A 23-year-old East Quogue motorist flagged down a patrol car Saturday at about midnight and told the officer he and his girlfriend had had an argument while driving west on Woods Lane. He pulled over at the Exxon gas station, when the 21-year-old woman got out of the car and walked away. He lost track of her, he told the officer, and was worried. Police located the young woman at the East Hampton train station soon after, and gave her a ride back to the Exxon station, where she was reunited with her boyfriend. The couple told police “they were not fearful of each other, and could continue in the vehicle, back to their residence.” Police filled out a New York State Domestic Incident report and gave copies to the two, who then drove off.

A traffic control officer reported Friday that a parked 2007 Saab had two different license plates. Police found the car’s rear plate was an expired one from Massachusetts, while the front plate was a current Connecticut license. There was a second Connecticut plate visible inside the car, on the back seat. “Appears the new owner had not been able to switch the rear plate,” the officer said in her report.

What appeared at first to be a fire in a car on Main Street belonging to a Springs woman turned out last Thursday afternoon to be an overheated engine.

Montauk

Two cordless Porter Cable drills, along with their battery packs, were stolen from a locked truck parked behind Shagwong Restaurant toward the end of November. James Hewitt, the establishment’s owner, told police he suspected an employee had taken them, because there were only two keys to the truck, one hidden in the restaurant and the other on his person. Police listed the value of the missing items at $1,000.

Sag Harbor

A metal sign on Morris Cove Lane reading “5 MPH, Speed Bump” was reported stolen Sunday evening. Jim Henry told police he saw a white male in a baseball cap take the sign that afternoon.

A thief went through an unlocked car parked outside a James Place house last Thursday night and emptied the owner’s handbag, making off with about $40 and some medications. Jessica Pluchino told police Friday afternoon that she had parked the car at about 9 p.m. and discovered the theft at 10 the next morning.

Vandals sliced the rubber roof at 1A Bay Street recently and left graffiti on the heating and air-conditioning units. Sandra Singleton told police the damage to the roof allowed water from last week’s heavy rainfall to seep through the ceiling and interior of the apartment below. Reporting the incident on Friday, she told police the vandalism had happened sometime between late November and Dec. 9. She estimated repairs would cost about $2,500.

Assorted mail was found strewn along Meredith Street Sunday afternoon. Police retrieved the mail and returned it to the post office the next day.

A basement light that was on for several days in a Richards Drive house caused a neighbor to phone police. Terry Sullivan reported that the resident was away and the light should not be on. Police checked the house; all appeared to be in order.