On the Police Logs 12.08.16

East Hampton

A green SSI Schaefer garbage bin was reported stolen from outside a Fieldview Lane residence on Nov. 28. Karen Saks told police she had discovered the theft the previous week and called her garbage hauler, but a representative said no one from the company had picked up the bin. It will cost $75 to replace, she said.

The owner of Ocean Graphics on Springs-Fireplace Road unfurled a banner advertising SeaDek, a nonskid material for boats, outside his business on the evening of Nov. 28. When William McLear went back outside a couple of hours later, the banner, which had cost him about $100, was gone.

A Crystal Drive couple discovered last week that their bank account had been hacked by someone using a PayPal account to withdraw money. Robert Orr and Donna O’Hara Orr were not certain, as of Nov. 29, when they contacted police, of the amount stolen, as small sums had been deducted over a three-month period. Police classified the theft as grand larceny.

East Hampton Village

Police were called to the Riverhead Building Supply yard on Railroad Avenue around noon on Nov. 30. They were told that over the past few days one of the day laborers who wait by the train station for work had been coming into the yard, helping people load their purchases, and then asking for payment for doing so. After police spoke to him, the man agreed to leave the yard and not return, or he would be arrested for trespassing.

An East Hampton woman reported that while she was at the CVS pharmacy on Pantigo Road last Thursday an unknown man teased her and then followed her to her car. She called police after she had driven away, saying she wanted the situation documented.

Northwest Woods

An L.L. Bean kayak valued at $1,000 was stolen from a Settlers Landing Lane property sometime between Nov. 3 and Nov. 10. Jackie Gavron said she did not know who would have taken it. 

Sag Harbor

A Lincoln Street resident told police last Thursday that it appeared that someone had entered her unlocked car. Chloe Dirksen said that the only thing the thief appeared to have gotten away with was the vehicle’s user’s manual. 

After checking surveillance video, an employee of Bridgehampton National Bank on Bay Street alerted police on Friday that on Thanksgiving Day someone had installed a skimming device in the card slot of an automated teller machine, then removed it 18 hours later. After several days, six customers’ accounts had been compromised, with withdrawals having been made at several A.T.M. locations. 

Shirin Marefat of Redwood Road reported Saturday that she had been receiving communications from people in India via satellite. Police advised her to contact NASA. 

Springs

David Londono told police on Nov. 30 that at some point over the previous 24 hours a black gas grill had been stolen from the rear deck of his Cedar Drive house. He said it had been attached to a gas line, but the pipe had been severed. He valued the missing grill at $200.