On the Police Logs 02.26.15

 

Amagansett

Two Amagansett men had a late-night altercation at Indian Wells Tavern earlier this month. Both men, Daniel Tooker and Keith Kevan, declined to press charges over the Feb. 8 incident. Mr. Tooker said he just wanted to be left alone.

East Hampton Village

Residents of Dunemere Lane reported a smell of gas on Saturday morning. Firefighters and police tracked it to the street and determined there was a gas leak. The fire department asked to have the road blocked off until a National Grid representative could investigate. After an hour, a  worker responded and advised authorities that “they are aware of the leak, and it would be fixed within the year,” according to the police report.

A former employee of Blow Beauty Bar on The Circle called the salon last Thursday, demanding her 1099 income tax form and copies of all the checks that had been written to her. “She then started threatening that she was going to call the I.R.S. and report Blow to them if she didn’t get what she was asking for,” the manager told police. The manager said she didn’t feel threatened by the call, but wanted it documented.

An East Hampton woman who was cat-sitting at a Pudding Hill Lane house called police on Feb. 18 after discovering water flooding into the basement from a broken water line. Police were able to turn off the line.

A Mill Hill Lane woman called police a little after midnight, Feb. 15, saying there was a problem with the smoke detector in her bedroom. The fire department also responded. It turned out the battery needed to be replaced.

Police received a call from a Pondview Lane residence last Thursday morning. The caller said there was a suspicious vehicle that had been parked in front of the driveway for several hours. Police questioned the driver, who identified himself as a photographer working for The New York Post. He was hoping to get photographs of Kate B. Wallach and Martin Cassidy, a married couple residing there, for an article that ran in the paper on Monday. The couple have been in an adversarial divorce proceeding since July, according to New York State Supreme Court online files. The officer, police said, after examining the driver’s press credentials, “advised the operator to move along.”

Sag Harbor

Police were called to a Main Street residence on Feb. 18 to investigate signs of trespassing. Nadine Orenkewicz showed the officers footprints in the snow. She apparently was watching the house for its owners, who were contacted and told police no one was authorized to enter the premises. Police found that a downstairs bathroom and bedroom had been used, but nothing was reported missing.

There were several reports of residents concerned about sick or injured deer in their yards. Terrence Lyons called last Thursday morning. An officer said the animal in question appeared unhurt, but was very lethargic. The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center was contacted. When they arrived, “the deer got up and walked away.” Deer frequently lie down to stay warm during snow and extreme cold periods.

“Deceased ducks in roadway” was the police log entry from Friday afternoon. It appeared to an officer that the ducks had been shot by a hunter, then dumped in the road.

Police received a report of a possible burglary in progress at the Capital One Bank on Long Island Avenue Sunday night. Mitchell Braumbart reported seeing three men get out of a van and enter the bank. Police questioned the three, one of whom was a manager of the bank. They said they were there to repair the alarm system.

Three men were spotted ice-fishing on Round Pond near Middle Highway Saturday morning. Police called the State Department of Environmental Conservation, and an officer responded and wrote summonses.

Springs

A Three Mile Harbor woman, Mercedes Chacon-Zuhmi, told police that she had been using the website Care.com to find baby-sitting work when a potential client contacted her in December to say she would need a sitter when she came to the Hamptons in January. She never showed up, and in following calls, Ms. Chacon-Zuhmi reported, she was evasive about why she hadn’t come. Last Thursday, Ms. Chacon-Zuhmi received what appeared to be a Capital One cashier’s check for $2,365, followed by an email from the woman, telling her to deposit the check, deduct the $380 she had been promised for the month of January, and transfer the rest to another account, the routing number of which the woman would provide. Police told Ms. Chacon-Zuhmi that she was right to be suspicious, because she was being scammed.

The passenger window of a Ford F250 pickup truck parked on West Drive was smashed last month, and two Redwark leaf blowers, each valued at $600, were stolen from the cabin. The window damage, which occurred between Jan. 15 and Jan. 21, will cost about $200 to repair, according to the truck’s owner, Jose Santiago of Montauk.