On the Police Logs 05.28.15

Amagansett

Thirteen flats of plants and flowers were stolen last week from a fenced-in backyard on Montauk Highway, east of the I.G.A. Amay Olger told police the flats had cost $220.

A peach-colored iPhone in a pink case went missing from D’Canela Restaurant on May 14. Victoria Scala said she had left it on the counter in the ladies room at about 3:30 p.m., before starting her drive back home to Locust Valley. When she realized it was gone she returned to Amagansett and went to D’Canela, where she learned that no one had turned it in. She valued it at $350.

East Hampton

The rear window of a car parked at a house off Pantigo Road was smashed early last Thursday morning, though not shattered. It appeared to Rosemarie Gabriel that someone had tried to jimmy the window open. She estimated the repair cost at $200.

East Hampton Village

An Amy’s Lane woman called police last Thursday evening, reporting that a raccoon, possibly rabid, was wandering in her yard. Police came, but the animal was nowhere to be found.

Vandals broke in to a Gingerbread Lane shed earlier this month, damaging a rhododendron bush in the process. Nothing appeared missing from the shed.

Police issued five summonses to people walking their dogs off-leash on beaches, which is a violation of the village code. The beaches in question were Georgica, Two Mile Hollow, Hook Pond, where two summonses were issued, and Main Beach. None of those ticketed were village or town residents. One of the dog walkers was from Needham, Mass., another from Port Washington, and the other three gave Manhattan addresses.

Montauk

A car parked on Tern Drive was badly scratched on Sunday night. The long mark on Heather Carlson’s car was deep enough to expose metal.

A Brooklyn woman’s Cole Haan wallet was extracted from her pocketbook while she was dancing at the Memory Motel a little after midnight Saturday. Brittany Vernoca told police the bag has a magnetic clasp, so she knows the missing wallet did not fall to the ground.

A golf cart belonging to Sammy’s restaurant was taken for an apparent joyride early this month. Brad Bowers told police that a hidden key had been found and used to start it. The cart was found on May 6 with some damage to both front fenders.

Twenty-five yards of topsoil disappeared from a Gainsboro Court house sometime in the last two months. Charles Mayrer said the soil had been put aside when the lot was cleared.

Napeague

An argument in Russian touched off a fracas at the Lobster Roll Sunday evening. Buddy Evans of New York City was having dinner with his wife, Rema, when a man said something to her in Russian and they began arguing. Mr. Evans became angry and demanded the man stop yelling, at which point the man threw a full glass of beer at Mr. Evans, then struck him. Restaurant employees broke up the fight, and the assailant ran out, jumped into a car, and drove off west into the setting sun.

Nathaniel Miller, an East Hampton Town trustee, went fishing off the end of Lazy Point Road the morning of May 20. When he returned to his Jeep, he told police, he found a threatening note taped inside.

Northwest Woods

A 12-foot-wide umbrella, valued at $500, was stolen this month from a North Woods Lane backyard. Burton Kremsky returned to his house on May 15 after a two-week absence, he told police, to find a trail of sand leading from the driveway to the backyard. The umbrella, which had a sand-weighted base, was not visible from the road.

A huge copper firepit is missing from the rear yard of a Saddle Lane house. It was valued at $1,000 by its owner, Leslie Loffman, who said the theft happened sometime over the long winter.

Arlene Berliner called police to her Long Hill Road residence on May 13, complaining that her irrigation system had been vandalized. She told police she had notified her landscaping company in April that she would no longer be using its services, and suspected someone from the company of doing the damage, which appeared to be limited to an irrigation valve and handle. Her new company was coming to test the system, she told police.

Sag Harbor

Nancy Passaretti, the owner of Buddha Berry, told police on May 20 that cash had been stolen from the store on at least two occasions. She named a suspect.

Vandals damaged two windowpanes at Around Again Consignment on Wharf Street early Friday morning.

Springs

At Flaggy Hole Road beach on the afternoon of Memorial Day, an irate woman slapped a cellphone and headset out of a man’s hands. Brian Reidy of Northwest Harbor told police he had driven his truck down to the beach to let his dog out when the confrontation began. The woman, who was walking on the beach, followed him back to the truck, he said, and smacked the phone, cracking the screen. When he dropped it, he said, she smacked him in the face. Marine Patrol was on the scene and broke up the altercation. Mr. Reidy said he would not press charges.

Trespassing was the crime reported at a Parsons Close house Friday. Andrew Taiani said he had been away for the week and returned to find that pots in the yard had been moved and a sprinkler hose disconnected. There was some damage to the decks, “in strange places,” the report reads, as well as to hedges. But nothing was stolen, and there was no sign of an attempted break-in.