Amagansett
On March 3, a resident of Devon Road in Beach Hampton saw someone "admiring the particular siding of a residence and taking a photograph of it," and notified police.
East Hampton Town
Justice Court received a "suspicious package" on March 1, addressed to The Police Department. Inside was "just a piece of paper with a question mark."
Just one car-deer accident was reported last week in East Hampton Town, on Saturday afternoon. It happened in Montauk, on Route 27 near Lincoln Road.
East Hampton Village
A caller on March 2 told police he had seen four teenagers kicking the back of a Free Ride shuttle parked in the long-term lot on Lumber Lane. Officers found neither the teenagers nor damage to the vehicle.
Cole Benedict, 17, of East Hampton complained of whiplash following an accident in East Hampton on Tuesday morning, and was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for treatment. According to the police report, the teenager, driving a 2021 Toyota, was stopped for a school bus on Newtown Lane near Cooper Lane when Noelle Hear of Montauk, also 17, driving a 2013 Hyundai, rear-ended him.
Sag Harbor
Late at night on March 1, a large oak tree fell and crushed the hood and roof of an unoccupied car on John Street. Police told the owner that the tree would be cleared in the morning; meanwhile they put barricades at the intersections with Columbia Street and Jesse Halsey Lane.
A Franklin Street homeowner called police after being notified that his burglar alarm was going off early on March 3. He thought it might be his cat setting it off, he said. Police checked the house and did see a cat walking around inside.
The stop sign at Grand Street and Montauk Avenue was reported missing on the evening of March 3. Police notified the Highway Department.
A Wilson Place resident called police Friday morning to complain of his neighbor's "loud garbage pickup," requesting that the removal service be ticketed. Police informed him that there is nothing in the village code for garbage removal noise.
Chip, a chocolate Lab, was recently assaulted by a goldendoodle, according to Chip's owner, who kicked the other dog away in defense of his own. The goldendoodle's owner, however, had a problem with this. Police found no broken skin on Chip, although the owner insisted that his lab had been "latched on" to.
Sag Harbor firefighters responded on March 4 to a house fire on Walker Avenue, after a neighbor reported flames coming from the back of the house. Police, who were first on the scene, tried to put out the fire with an extinguisher and removed the residents, three children and a dog, from the house. The children, said First Assistant Chief Kevin O'Brien Jr., had been in the basement playing video games and did not realize that the first floor was filling up with smoke. Firefighters got the flames under control in five minutes and spent the next hour "pulling ceilings [apart] to make sure there was no extension." Mr. O'Brien predicted that the homeowners might "end up totaling the house," which sustained severe smoke and water damage.
There was a single alcohol-related arrest here last week, that of James Bayrami, 32, of Sag Harbor, who was charged with drunken driving. Mr. Bayrami, whose conviction for driving while intoxicated within the past 10 years raised the charge to the felony level, was arrested at about 12:30 a.m. on Friday after his motorcycle crashed and rolled over several times, on Cedar Street in East Hampton near Briarsweet Lane. East Hampton Village police quoted him as attributing the crash to the fact that he was "not familiar" with the bike. Its license plate, "a printed paper photograph adhered to cardboard and sealed in a plastic bag‚" was also not familiar to police, who added a charge of possession of a forged instrument to Mr. Bayrami's booking. He was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital by East Hampton ambulance and treated for knee pain; the 2013 Ducati motorcycle was taken away by Fireplace Auto Collision.