On the Police Logs 10.16.14

East Hampton Village

A number of black Lincoln Navigators were reported “driving up and down” Pondview Lane Friday evening. An officer sent to investigate told the caller there was a film festival event at Guild Hall and several of the participants’ vehicles were parked nearby. “Situation normal,” the officer said.

James Fennell’s recycling center permit was stolen from his car while it was parked in the long-term lot by the train station last week.

Police removed a real estate sign from Georgica Road Oct. 6 because it was too big, and issued the unnamed agency a warning. Two more signs were taken down the same day for the same reason from Montauk Highway; that agency was warned as well. A third warning was handed out on Friday, this time for a sign at the Georgica Road corner of Montauk Highway.

Skateboarders were reported on a property near CVS. An officer went there but found “no kids in the area.”

 

Montauk

An iPad Mini and a MacBook were stolen over the weekend from a vehicle left in the Liar’s Saloon lot for a couple of days. Francis Craven, who reported the theft on Monday, valued the missing items together at about $800.

Christa Walis of Centereach called police shortly after midnight on Oct. 6 after spending about a half hour at Surf Lodge, saying that a tire on her car, parked nearby, was “damaged.” Police said the tire appeared very worn.

The co-owner of a Greenwich Street house showed up on Oct. 1 and banged on a side door so hard it was damaged. The other owner, Tom Eckardt, estimated the damage at $100.

Linda Seaton, the owner of Whoa Nellie! on Main Street, reported the theft of two stuffed chicks on Friday, each valued at $100. She has reported several acts of shoplifting this year.

 

Sag Harbor

Nancy Haynes of Bay Street Theater called police after receiving several suspicious phone calls, one after another within 15 minutes, on the afternoon of Oct. 7. She wanted the incident on record.

Police received a 911 call about a man lying in bushes on Spring Street, near Garden Street, on Monday night. The man told an officer he had stopped to rest after his bicycle had a mechanical problem, and headed home to Bridgehampton.

 

Springs

A fence on Winterberry Lane was vandalized overnight on Sept. 27. Joseph Kanaletich told police a car was apparently driven twice into his fence. Repairs were estimated at $150.

Between July 1 and Sept. 22, two residents of a Mary Street house were the victims of thieves, they told police. Pedro Saca said he was missing $1,300 in cash, stolen sometime in July. Briggith Tapia-Garzon reported $330 missing last month. It appears from the heavily redacted police report that the money may have been taken from vehicles parked in the driveway.

Matthew Ruggerio was scuba-diving off Landing Lane in the late afternoon of Oct. 6, he told police, when a red dive tank and a regulator were stolen from the bed of his pickup truck. He valued the scuba equipment at a combined $900.

The Maidstone Park restrooms were vandalized overnight Sunday with multiple graffiti and anti-capitalism scrawls.