On the Police Logs 10.30.14

Amagansett

An exterior wall of the Ganeaux clothing store on Main Street was vandalized with spray paint on the evening of Oct. 19. A witness followed the vandal, who crossed the street a couple of times before disappearing into the municipal parking lot. Police checked the area to no avail.

 

Olivia Kronemeyer left Indian Wells Tavern early Friday morning and went to a male friend’s house on Indian Wells Highway. When she entered, she told police, one of her friend’s roommates began screaming at her. She tried to explain to the woman that she was visiting her friend, but the woman then punched Ms. Kronemeyer in the face, leading to a 1 a.m. visit from police. Ms. Kronemeyer declined to press charges, despite some redness from the punch, saying she was leaving for California by the end of the week. An officer told the aggressor that “her roommate also pays rent and is allowed to have people over.”

 

East Hampton

A Montauk teenager reported that his Samsung Galaxy 3, which was in a dark blue case, was stolen last week from the booth where he had left it in the cafeteria at East Hampton High School. The 14-year-old called back the next day to report that he had found the smartphone, which he had simply misplaced. “Case to be closed,” the police report said.

A woman returned to her Gunpowder Lane house Friday after three weeks away to discover that it had been broken into. Carol Ientile told police the burglar had taken an Apple TV box, five small decorative pieces of crystal, a reproduction of Egyptian hieroglyphics, and a Native American human skull.

 

East Hampton Village

A political campaign sign was posted at the intersection of Buell and Toilsome Lanes, contrary to village code, Friday morning. In a harbinger of the morning after Election Day, the sign was pulled out of the ground, the police reported, and “placed in Dumpster.” A second sign was discovered on Buell Lane the next morning, and it met the same fate.

A bicycling officer spotted a Saunders “open house” sign near the intersection of Osborne and Newtown Lanes over the weekend. The officer followed the trail of signs, which led him to the house for sale. There, he issued a summons for violating the village’s regulations regarding signs on public property.

An injured deer found on Montauk Highway and Stephen Hand’s Path Saturday afternoon was taken to the East Hampton Vet Group by workers from the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons.

A patrolman checking on Nichol’s restaurant, which was burglarized over Labor Day weekend, found a dining room door open at 1 a.m. last Thursday. The restaurant closed earlier this month. The officer was able to secure the door. Detectives are still investigating the Labor Day weekend break-in.

A caller to 911 on the morning of Oct. 22 reported a possible gas leak at East Hampton Grill on North Main Street. East Hampton Fire Department chiefs found a fuel oil spill and told the manager to call the restaurant’s boiler contractor “and have them come look at the problem.”

Montauk

A Wantagh man reported a fishing “tote pot” stolen on Oct. 6 from where he had been storing it in the dock area at West Lake Marina. The pot was valued at $80.

Sag Harbor

D.J. equipment was stolen from St. Andrew’s Catholic Church last week. Charles Notturno reported on Friday that a 16-channel Yamaha music-mixing table worth $1,000, two $200 Shure microphones, and several cords, worth $50 each, were stolen from near the pews. A 14-channel Mackie music-mix table was taken from inside a nearby closet, which was not locked. It happened between Oct. 19 and last Thursday.

Springs

The finish on a 2014 Ford Escape that was parked outside a Richardson Avenue house was badly vandalized with a sharp object during the early morning on Friday. Chelsea Massa told police she was visiting a friend when another woman knocked on the door. When her host, Kevin Black, would not let the woman in, the unwanted visitor became “very upset,” then seemed to leave. Later, when the two went out to Ms. Massa’s car, they saw that the woman was still there. She banged on the car window and continued to yell. Eventually, Ms. Massa drove away, dropped Mr. Black off at Wolfie’s Tavern, and drove home. When she went to use her car the next morning, she saw the extensive damage to her vehicle.

An H.P. laptop computer was stolen from inside a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck parked outside a residence on Tub Oarsman’s Road during the overnight hours of Oct. 17. Richard Brierley told police that in the morning he noticed that the glove box was open. He looked around inside the truck and realized that the computer, valued at $700, was the only thing missing.

A passenger-side window of a 1998 Mitsubishi parked outside Whalebone Village apartments was smashed on Saturday. Marleny Nieto told police she believed the vandalism happened around 6 p.m.