Amagansett
At the start of December, shotgun rounds caused $4,500 worth of damage to the back window of a Shore Road home. The same thing happened again on Dec. 30, this time to the windows around the screened-in porch. Police estimated the damage at $500.
East Hampton Village
Upon arrival at work on Jan. 4, an employee of the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center found a large rock had been thrown through a storage room window, breaking it. A beer can was found, too, but nothing else.
On Jan. 5, a driveway gate on Ruxton Road was damaged, likely by a car. Repairs could run to several thousand dollars, police said.
Also that morning, a 19-year-old guest at an Apaquogue Road house tried to extinguish a “large fire in the electrical room,” police reported. The fire department put out the flames, as well as word of the situation to the homeowner.
In the afternoon, at the intersection of Huntting Lane and Main Street, an 81-year-old driver “threw a traffic cone from the roadway that was placed there to block the road due to tree trimming,” police said. The woman explained that she “became upset when she turned off Main Street and was unable to safely turn around due to the road closure and cone placement.” An officer assisted her with circumnavigating the road.
More expensive repairs cropped up on Jan. 6 on Baiting Hollow Road, where an officer observed a damaged streetlight, possibly from a car and definitely costing thousands to fix.
On Friday afternoon, the manager of the Maidstone Hotel called police to say she was having trouble with a guest not wanting to leave his room after being told to check out. After an officer spoke to him, the man agreed to leave, though not before being told never to return.
At the Main Street-Newtown Lane intersection on Saturday morning, a woman flagged down an officer and asked for a ride to her house, as her Chrysler had a flat tire. She was taken home.
Sag Harbor
A woman summoned police on the afternoon of Jan. 4 to remove a deer, which she said was blocking the driveway of her 90-year-old mother’s house on Hampton Street. Police did find a dead dear, but said it was 10 feet from the roadway and “not blocking the driveway in any way.”
Outside 132 Main Street on Friday afternoon, an officer entered an unlocked vehicle to shake a woman awake from her slumped position behind the wheel. She seemed conscious and alert, police said, and was cleared by a first responder who checked to see if she had been under the influence.
Six unwanted skateboarders were reported Saturday afternoon to be whizzing around the Apple Bank property at the intersection of Main and Spring Streets. They were leaving when police arrived.
The same afternoon, a Brick Kiln Road resident reported receiving harassing texts from a woman claiming he owes her money for a generator. The caller told police he’d already paid her, partly in cash and partly by check, which she disputed, allegedly threatening to send her brother to collect the money.
A woman who locked herself out of her car on Main Street on Saturday night had an old key that allowed an officer to unlock the car. That is no longer possible with newer vehicles, police noted.