On the Police Logs 01.17.19

Amagansett

The license plates were stolen off a 2006 Subaru Forester that was parked in a locked, fenced-in area at Balcuns Service Center on Main Street on the night of Jan. 2. Vincent Balcuns said the plates were on the car when he closed on Jan. 2, but were gone when he opened the next morning. 

Two tires on a car parked at the White Sands Motel on Napeague were found flat and with puncture marks on Jan. 2. Omar Enrique Vivas, who manages and lives at the apartments, called police. The 2002 Toyota Camry Solara Sol belongs to his daughter and had been parked there since Dec. 27. He said it would cost $300 to replace the tires.

East Hampton

Construction supplies and debris were reported missing from a High Point Road property last Thursday. Taylor Herman reported the items missing from a large Dumpster in the driveway that had construction debris and leftover construction wood next to it. He believes a man in a 2008 Chevy Silverado truck took two cedar planks, measuring 2 by 2 by 6 feet, between Jan. 3 and last Thursday. He asked police to speak to the man, but did not press charges. 

A 2013 Isuzu box truck hit the railroad trestle on Accabonac Road in East Hampton on Friday at about 11:45 a.m. Timothy Meyer Jr. of Farmingville, who was driving the van, which was owned by Bestway Network Inc. of Farmingdale, said he did not see the bridge sign, according to police. The truck was heavily damaged. The railroad trestle was not. 

East Hampton Village

A wildlife rescue worker asked for police assistance at Town Pond with a swan she believed had broken its leg on Jan. 7 at about 5 p.m. When police arrived it was too dark to do anything. She said she would return in the morning. 

A rented U-Haul truck was not returned to  Consumer Tires on Railroad Avenue. Police issued a “be-on-the-lookout” alert to local law enforcement. Detectives are investigating. 

Two reports were filed this week about injured seals last week, one at Main Beach and the other at Wiborg’s Beach. Police said the seals seemed to be acting normally.

Sag Harbor

Police said it looked like a vehicle ran into a fence in front of 66 Main Street sometime on Friday. William Porter called police when he noticed the damage, at around 11:30 p.m. Police, seeing tire tracks, said it looked like someone had tried to put the fence back. Mr. Porter estimated it would cost at least $1,000 to repair. 

Ben Snead phoned police because he thought a burglar was at a boarded-up house in his Hillside Drive East neighborhood on Saturday afternoon. Police spoke to a man on the property, who said he was with an inspection company. The house had been badly damaged in a fire in 2013, in which the homeowner was killed.