On the Police Logs 04.26.18

East Hampton Village

It was another week of police being summoned by concerned citizens after seals appeared on beaches. In most cases, the seals, which move awkwardly out of the water, are in good health and just sunning themselves. But on one such call on Saturday afternoon, police reported finding a dead seal on Two Mile Hollow Beach. The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation was called, and a representative, in turn, contacted the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, which handles reports of large living whales and dead aquatic animals found on beaches.

In other seal news, a caller told police that one was stuck behind a snow fence on Wiborg’s Beach last Thursday afternoon. Officers were able to free the seal and guide it back to the ocean. 

A marker was used to scrawl graffiti in one of the bathroom stalls in the men’s room at Herrick Park. It was discovered on the morning of April 18.

An East Hampton man complained to police that every time he goes to the post office, there is a truck parked in the fire zone, loading and unloading cargo. He asked police for extra patrols to stop the truck from parking there.

 

Montauk 

Kenneth Sadenwater of Smithtown, who has a unit at the Sun ’n’ Sound Resort motel on Soundview Drive, went to the police annex in downtown Montauk on Sunday to report the theft of his 10-foot Ande fishing rod with a Penn reel. The theft occurred sometime between late January and Saturday. It would cost about $200 to replace the rod and reel, Mr. Sadenwater said. It appears from the report that they had been stored outside the unit. 

 

Northwest Woods

Town police said that Jay R. Levine of Hand’s Creek Road placed a large plastic bag filled with household trash next to the garbage can at that road’s beach access on the morning of April 13. When confronted, Mr. Levine reportedly told an officer, “I did it, I dumped it there. That was dumb.” He is due in court to answer an illegal-dumping summons in June. 

 

Sag Harbor Village

“Suspicious incident” was the heading of a police report regarding an investigation around midnight on April 16. An officer reported that in the village school bus parking lot at Grand and Division Streets, bus number 4’s stop lights were on, flashing. In addition, bus number 7 had the key in the ignition, while bus number 5 was nowhere to be found. 

Conor Dixon called police last Thursday morning because a vehicle had been following his. When they were both stopped at a red light at the intersection of Jermain Avenue and Main Street, the driver got out of the car and took a photograph of Mr. Dixon’s vehicle. Mr. Dixon then got out in an attempt to photograph the other vehicle, but the driver drove off.

 

Springs

Daniel Pinargote told police on April 16 that the license plates on a work van he had parked at a site on Pembroke Drive were stolen sometime between the end of last year and that day. He said he had been locking his tools in the van while working at a different site over the past couple of months, and had only just realized that the plates were missing. Nothing else was reported stolen from the site.