On the Police Logs 12.03.15

Amagansett

An “elderly gentleman” walked into D’Canela restaurant on the afternoon of Nov. 21 brandishing a $10 gift certificate he had purchased from restaurant.com. He told the owner and manager, Luis Aucapina, that he wanted to use the certificate toward a takeout order. Mr. Aucapina explained that the restaurant’s policy was to honor such certificates for customers seated at the restaurant, not for takeout. This apparently upset the man, who left after arguing the point with Mr. Aucapina. A couple of hours later, he called numerous times, yelling and cursing. This continued for over an hour, with the phone ringing every couple of minutes, until police were called. “He was trying to run a restaurant,” an officer wrote in the incident report. The calls stopped after police arrived.

 

East Hampton

A Cooper Lane retiree, Diane Reutershan, said last week that she had been notified by the Social Security Administration that on Nov. 18 a new online account had been created using her personal information. Ms. Reutershan said she contacted her bank and had her account frozen until a new account could be set up with the governmental agency, an employee of which told her that no money had been transferred into the fraudulent account.

 

East Hampton Village

Police were called to a Dayton Lane house on Nov. 23. A couple of days earlier the homeowner, who also has an apartment in Manhattan, had left the keys to his black 2015 Jeep Cherokee Summit Edition on the floor beneath the driver’s seat. The Jeep, with about 12,000 miles on it and valued at $45,000, was left unlocked in the driveway. After staying indoors for two days, the homeower went outside to discover the vehicle missing. Detectives are investigating.

A Buell Lane woman called police the day before Thanksgiving, reporting “suspicious activity.” An old chair had been left near the sidewalk in front of her house, which concerned her because “she had people sleeping in that area in the past.” An employee of the village’s Department of Public Works came and took the chair away.

Thanksgiving morning found three wooden posts on which were displayed beach regulations pulled out of the ground at Georgica Beach. Two of the signs were broken. The caller who reported the vandalism, a New York City resident with a house on Apaquogue Road, was concerned that a bench he had donated, which had been secured to the signposts, could now be stolen. The Department of Public Works was called in to secure it.

 

Sag Harbor

A driver for the Suffolk County S92 bus and a passenger got into a heated exchange on Friday, leading the driver to dial 911. Stephen Dzugas-Smith told police the unruly passenger was using profanities. Calm was restored with the arrival of police. The driver accepted an apology from the passenger, and the bus continued on its way.

Several items belonging to Harry Hurt were stolen from his locker at the Sag Harbor Gym on Saturday. Mr. Hurt said he would turn in an itemized list of what was missing at police headquarters on Division Street.

Loraine Haynes told police that someone had rummaged through her unlocked Honda parked on Main Street on Nov. 23. It appeared that nothing had been taken.

 

Springs

Police were called to a house on Three Mile Harbor Road the night before Thanksgiving in response to a domestic violence report. Two residents told police they had been drinking and had gotten into an argument when blows were exchanged. Neither one wanted to press charges.