On the Police Logs 01.19.17

East Hampton Village

Police went to a Huntting Lane house to check on the well-being of a resident after receiving a report of what appeared to be blood in the snow near the front porch. The man, whose name was redacted from the incident report, is known to the police because he has chased strangers down the street in the past. He told an officer that the stains in the snow were beet juice he had disposed of.

A call reporting a seal in distress took police to Main Beach late Saturday afternoon. “The seal appeared to be healthy and didn’t show any signs of distress,” the officer reported. Seals can look ungainly out of the water.

A clerk at LF East Hampton on Newtown Lane called police Sunday evening. She said a cream-colored top selling for $68 had been stolen a couple of days earlier, and that the two women she thought responsible had returned to the store. Police are investigating.

East Hampton

It seemed that the heating oil in a full 275-gallon tank outside a Muir Boulevard house went missing sometime between Dec. 6 and Jan. 16. Bruce McMaster told police the heat had not been turned on until the January date. Later, however, he called police to report he had discovered a leak in the tank.

Montauk

Christopher Poli reported that his Brisbane Road residence was vandalized sometime between Jan. 8 and 10. A basement window had been smashed and bleach poured on some clothing. Though heavily blacked out, the report indicates that a message of some sort was left. 

Police were called by a PSEG employee on Jan. 14 who said that while he was reading the meter at Michael Winter’s South Emerson Avenue house, he could hear water running inside. Police were able to gain access and shut off the water main, minimizing the damage.

An unknown vehicle smashed into and damaged a light post in the lower parking lot at the Montauk Manor and then left the scene a little before midnight on Dec. 30.

Sag Harbor

An officer who knocked on the door of a house on Lighthouse Lane on the morning of Jan. 11 while responding to a report was bitten on his left arm by a light brown pitbull, which came out through a pet door. The bite did not break the skin but tore his clothing. The incident was referred to East Hampton Town Animal Control.

A 2013 Ford and a 2012 Nissan parked in a driveway on Jermain Avenue on Friday, but left unlocked, were riffled through and all of the paperwork, including manuals and insurance cards, was removed. The theft apparently occurred between midnight and 8 a.m.

Two Sony televisions were stolen from a house under construction on Brandywine Drive at some point during the week. Michael Racioppi reported a 65-inch TV worth $1,400 and a 55-inch one worth $900 had been left in their boxes.