Amagansett
Police are blaming shotgun rounds for broken back windows at a Shore Road residence on Friday afternoon. The homeowner noted increased hunting and clay pigeon shooting in the area. Damage was estimated at $4,500.
Also on Shore Road, on Dec. 1, a "bang!" so loud that it was heard in Montauk was followed by a brief power outage in the neighborhood. PSEG responded to what appeared to be a blown transformer.
East Hampton
Peter Riolo of Stirrup Court received a confirmation email on Nov. 12 saying $60 worth of household products had been delivered to his front door. He got another alert five days later confirming $75 worth of fishing lures had been delivered to his cluster of mailboxes on Route 114 and Mane Lane. When he got home that night, no packages.
As a woman was returning to her Oakview Highway mobile home last Thursday evening, the driver of a blue Chevrolet Silverado blocked her entrance and began screaming and making rude hand gestures, she told police. The woman reported that he was saying something about "driving too close" and said that in the past they have had problems; for example when he took pictures of a construction project at her residence.
A verbal dispute between a woman and her landlord ensued as she was trying to move her belongings from a Buell Lane residence last Thursday night. A redacted police report alleges that the landlord pushed her, to stop her from retrieving her things, and then threw her phone aside as she was trying to dial 911. Police oversaw the rest of the move.
On the afternoon of Nov. 23, a Barclay Court resident was surprised to receive an envelope containing his ID card, save for the photo, which was of someone else. The phony New York State driver's license had been sent by a good Samaritan who'd found it on a street in Manhattan and mailed it to the given address. Instead of the man's client ID, his Social Security number was displayed on the license, police said. Recently, $24,900 was charged to the man's Bank of America Visa card across some 60 stores in Georgia; someone also attempted to set up credit accounts with Pottery Barn and Verizon. An employee at Crumble Cookies in Cumming, Ga., where the most recent purchase was made, told East Hampton Town detectives that the "customer" was familiar, and "is a member of the local community."
East Hampton Village
Fallen trees and branches were reported on the stormy afternoon of Nov. 30 at the intersections of Main Street and Woods Lane and of Lily Pond Lane and Cottage Avenue, as well as near 86 Pantigo Road. PSEG also handled fallen wires at Cove Hollow and Georgica Roads.
Later that day, the power went out at the traffic signal on Baiting Hollow Road and Woods Lane. Law enforcement assisted with traffic until power was restored.
There was $1,000 worth of damage done to a split-rail fence on village-owned property between Briar Patch Road and Ruxton Road on the morning of Dec. 1.
That same morning, a woman's pocketbook, containing $300 cash, her driver's license, and an iPhone, was stolen from a CVS cart as she was loading her purchases into her car in the parking lot of the Pantigo Road store. Police did not identify her.
Sag Harbor
A man who allegedly found two pairs of cargo pants missing after doing a load of laundry at the launderette on Main Street called the store to say, in no uncertain terms, that he was sure he had dropped them off. He then went down to the store in person, where an offer of store credit was reportedly met with yelling and profanities. Someone called police, who contacted the man later that day. He said that when he "started making personal attacks over the phone, the store employee said, 'Come down and handle it like a man, instead of having your father call for you.' "
A resident of Main Street lent his car to a friend for a few days, but it was returned two days late, he told police, on Dec. 1, with damage to the bumper and passenger side. The friend told police that "the vehicle was struck while parked in a driveway." Police advised him to reimburse the car's owner and file an accident report in Riverhead, where the damage occurred.
Last Thursday afternoon a Wildwood Drive resident called police to say there were unknown pickup trucks in his driveway. He later recalled that he'd hired men to clean up his dead leaves.
Near 85 Main Street, speakers playing loud Christmas music were left in the bed of an unattended truck late Friday night. Eventually the driver returned to his sleigh and agreed to turn it off.
A Madison Street resident walked into headquarters Sunday afternoon to report that an old and broken refrigerator had been dropped off on the corner of Madison Street and Middle Line Highway.
There were divots on the grass outside 152 Hampton Street Sunday evening after a UPS truck tried to turn left on Division Street and had to resort to grass in order to back up. The report was forwarded to the Village Highway Department.
Over the Nov. 21 weekend, a Richards Drive resident noted "suspicious vehicles" apparently staking out her rental U-Haul truck. A black suburban parked behind the truck one afternoon, she told police, and the occupant seemed to be trying to get a look at her belongings. The same vehicle, along with a black sedan, returned the next night, she said, flashing lights and trying to see into the back of the truck. When she came out with her phone flashlight, they drove away. The next day, she found the back door of the U-Haul truck forced open. She had moved everything out already, so nothing was taken.
Springs
Nicole Grimes's packages, one containing a Christmas sweatshirt and another containing three wooden 2020 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree ornaments from Oneonta Ornaments, were stolen on the night of Nov. 18 from a cluster of mailboxes on Springs-Fireplace Road, north of Hartley Boulevard.