On the Police Logs 09.13.18

Amagansett

Three large Lee Zeldin signs were stolen from Andrew E. Sabin’s front yard on Bluff Road sometime between Friday at 10:30 p.m. and Saturday at about 6:50 a.m.  Mr. Sabin said they were worth about $500. 

Phoebe Meade Ganis of East Hampton lost track of her Apple iPhone 8 while at the Stephen Talkhouse in the early morning hours of Sept. 1. The cellphone is worth $800.

East Hampton

Someone entered a 2014 Porsche through its open sunroof and stole a drone from the car. It happened in a driveway on Villa Avenue on Sept. 1, shortly after noon. Lance I. Yudkin of Manhattan reported the theft three days later. No value for the Mavic Air drone was given.

 

East Hampton Village 

An officer on patrol found an 8-year-old wandering alone between the Sea Spray jetty and Wiborg’s Beach on Sept. 4 at about 11:20 a.m. She told police she could not find the house her uncle was cleaning. The officer took her to the Sea Spray Cottages and the pair was reunited.

A Manhattan woman called police on Sept. 4, complaining about a contractor who had done gutter work at her house on Amy’s Lane. She said she was not happy with the quality of the work and had been trying to renegotiate the price. The contractor threatened to come to the house to receive full payment, she said.  Police advised her to call a lawyer on the civil matter, and to call police if the contractor came onto her property without permission. 

Police were called to a Middle Lane property on Sept. 4 when a man in a yellow shirt began asking a homeowner questions about his house project. Asked for identification, the man could not produce any. An officer found him a short time later and was told that he works for USIC, an underground-utility-locating company. He’d been sent to the area to mark a gas line to ensure it was not struck during construction, he said.

James R. Nichols, 47, of Bayport was issued a village code summons on Sept. 5 after police found he was excavating without a permit on James Lane. Police said he was installing an internet line for St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. 

Montauk

On Sept. 1 at about 2:30 a.m., as Michael Larson left Gurney’s Resort and was driving east on Old Montauk Highway, an older-model single-cab white pickup truck passed his 2018 Ford F150 pickup and someone in it threw a large object out the window. It struck his windshield, causing several cracks. Mr. Larson estimated the damage at $310. 

Sag Harbor 

Someone swiped two shirts from a sidewalk clothing rack in front of Flying Point Surf Boutique on Saturday afternoon. Two hours later, the person returned to pay for the shirts, worth $60 each. No charges were filed.

Springs

Glenn Navia and Stacy Testa called police at about 2:25 a.m. on Sept. 4 after hearing a loud bang outside their Fort Pond Boulevard house. When they went outside, they saw a silver BMW sedan with parts of its front bumper off and three people trying to reattach them. The BMW had struck a wood fence on the west side of the property, bordering Three Mile Harbor Road. Two portions of the split-rail fence were damaged. The couple told police the trio got back in the car quickly and sped off south down Three Mile Harbor Road.