Amagansett
Reynaldo Diaz, the manager of Brent’s, called police Monday afternoon to say that three or four customers in hunting clothes had been “acting strange” and lingering outside the store. Cleaning staff later discovered a garbage bag filled with deer remains in the Dumpster.
Police followed up on a call Monday from a Cranberry Hole woman to let her know it was her son’s friend who’d “phantomed” her driveway and house with yellow caution tape. “Caller was happy with the findings,” the report noted.
A Green Tree Court resident reported a suspicious pickup truck in his neighbor’s driveway at around 10:40 p.m. on Sunday. Officers determined that the truck was from a food delivery service; the driver was having a hard time finding the right house.
East Hampton Village
George Besser of Oakdale, a pool serviceman, said he had no idea that pool water from a Huntting Lane house was draining into the roadway on the afternoon of Oct. 10. He turned off the pump upon learning it was a village code violation, and received a warning but no citation.
A railroad crossing arm was down on one side of King Street, and up on the other, creating a brief rush-hour traffic hazard on Oct. 5 that was quickly resolved.
Wind was the culprit during an Oct. 4 incident in the parking lot of the John Marshall Elementary School. A woman opening a door of her Ford Expedition said the wind caught the door and slammed it into the door of a Volkswagen Jetta, causing a small scratch.
That same windy day, a village tree suffered a downed limb that damaged a flower pot in front of the Brown Harris Real Estate building on Main Street.
A village bench near Newtown Lane in Herrick Park was damaged on or around Oct. 3 and required repair.
A BMW lacking a placard, parked in a handicapped spot at 81 Newtown Lane on Oct. 3, was adorned with a ticket instead.
A 71-year-old woman reported an encounter with an unidentified man over a spot in the post office parking lot on the afternoon of Oct. 3. She wanted the incident on record.
Montauk
A group of high school kids on bicycles rang her bell on Fairview Lane Saturday night and ran, a homeowner told police. She thinks they were targeting the house because of some issue with her son, which she said was being handled by the school administration.
Following an overnight stay at Gurney’s Resort on Oct. 3, the management told Alexandra Vonbeen of New York City that she was no longer welcome there. The police report did not say what had happened, but noted that security had escorted her from the premises. She then took a room at the Royal Atlantic, according to the report, stayed three days, and, according to employees there, refused to leave or return the room key on the afternoon of Oct. 6. Police were called, and told Ms. Vonbeen that she was no longer welcome at the Royal Atlantic, either.
Harry Ellis put two Zeldin for Governor signs on the front lawn of his East Lake Drive property on Sept. 29. The next day, he reported, a white Chevrolet Silverado parked in front of his house for about 15 minutes before its occupant got out, took the signs, and drove off.
Jacqueline Sosa was taking a shower in a rental unit at 387 West Lake Drive on Sept. 20 when, she told police, $620 was removed from her wallet. She suspected her boyfriend, but he denied it. Ms. Sosa signed a larceny complaint.
Anastasia Cohen of New York City left her Cartier Tank watch on a beach chair at Gurney’s Resort late on the afternoon of Sept. 16 while she went to the bar to wait to be checked in. When she returned to the chair several hours later, the $3,200 watch was gone. She filed a report with police for insurance purposes.
An unidentified woman was warned not to return to a South Fran Street residence following a Sept. 30 incident in which she was caught by the homeowner on an outside stairway. Police cited an ongoing dispute between the woman’s family and the homeowner.
Four men were spotted loading a business sign from the now-defunct Liars’ Saloon into a white pickup truck one evening in July and driving off with it.
Liars’ may be fading into memory but its legacy lives on. In another July incident, this time from a year ago, Erik Soltanian of Second House Road reported being there on July 11, 2021, and talking about football with a man now identified as Anthony Celifarco, who, he said, tackled him, breaking two of his ribs. Police are trying to track down Mr. Celifarco; Mr. Soltanian is pursuing it as a civil matter to try to recoup his medical bills.
Northwest
A Boston Whaler and a Grady White went aground on the beach near the Hand’s Creek boat ramp on the morning of Oct. 3 in high winds. Both vessels were traced to their owner, Taylor Herman of High Point Road, who was ticketed for leaving them unoccupied on anchor for more than 12 hours; failure to comply with a harbormaster’s directive, and other violations. The boats were removed the next morning.
Karin Vanderveer suspects somebody entered her Boat Yard Drive property at the town marina on Sept. 28, after discovering an open window and a broken screen. She told police some items had been moved about, but that nothing was stolen. She was boarding up the windows, she said, pending a renovation of the unoccupied building.
Sag Harbor
A Main Street woman found a huge quantity of flowers and a white “I Love You” teddy bear on her porch late Monday night, and called police. She used to hire a handyman who apparently took a liking to her, she told them, and who started to send her “multiple flirtatious texts” via Whatsapp. She asked him to stop, she said, and he did for a while, until the flowers and teddy bear appeared. This alarmed her, and she reported him for trespassing.
Police pursued a four-wheeled vehicle that whipped through the intersection of Main Street and Brick Kiln Road on Friday at around 8:30 p.m., far exceeding the speed limit. Officers gave chase but couldn’t catch up with the vehicle, whose driver was described as a “tall, thin person wearing cargo shorts, a navy-blue hoodie, and a white helmet.” Police say the all-terrain vehicle likely escaped into a wooded area that goes on for miles near the village impound yard.
Nicholas Maracz, general manager of the restaurant Tutto il Giorno, put $40,000 in receipts in a manila envelope and then into another bag on Oct. 7 and left it, he told police, in the back seat of his unlocked car. It was gone when he returned to the vehicle. Detectives are investigating, and the restaurant owners have launched an investigation of their own.
Peter Diner reported that the American flag at the post office had fallen down on or around Oct. 4. It was taken to police headquarters, and was to be taken to the American Legion for proper disposal.
A sailboat broke loose from its mooring on Oct. 4 and wound up wedged under the North Haven bridge with a broken mast. Its anchor was set, the owner was notified, and the North Haven Village clerk was apprised of the situation.
High winds were again the likeliest of culprits on Oct. 3, when another sailboat broke loose and fetched up on the breakwater in front of Cormaria Retreat House on Bay Street. The boat’s owner was contacted and a salvage company was deployed.
Yet another boat broke from its mooring that day and struck a dock and a floating dock at a house on Mashomack Drive in North Haven. The owner of the blue center-console craft told police he’d extricate it as soon as possible.
Also on Oct. 3, police disconnected a Madison Street pool pump that was draining water into Susan Street. The homeowner promised to find another way to drain the pool. Local code forbids draining pools into the street.
A man sleeping in a curtained and lighted-up white van outside a Bayview Avenue house was run off by police around 10 p.m. on Oct. 3 after a call from the homeowner. Police told him that the village code forbids street camping. The man drove off, saying that he had family in the area but no place to go.
Wainscott
Helen Samuels confronted a crabber walking down Beach Lane near Georgica Pond last Thursday night. He showed her what she believed to be a fake East Hampton Town shellfish license, she told police, who canvassed the area without success.
Steve Trunzo reported hearing glass breaking as he entered the Trunzo Building Contractors building at 382 Montauk Highway on the morning of Oct. 4. He called police, thinking there might be a prowler afoot, but officers reported that “all appeared to be 10-4.”