East Hampton
Police received a complaint on Friday just before 10 a.m. about loud music coming from a Miller Lane West house. An officer reported hearing “mostly construction noise with faint music in the background,” and told the workers to keep it down either way.
Also Friday, a woman asked police to come confiscate a pellet gun she found while cleaning the basement of her Central Avenue house, stating she thought it belonged to her husband but was concerned that her son might find it. It was taken to the police gun locker.
On Jan. 26, a pair of Apple AirPods were reunited with their owner, an East Hampton man who had lost them at the Clubhouse. The AirPods’ GPS tracker pinged their location at a trailer on Oakview Highway. Police told the man that the location trackers embedded in AirPods “are not always 100 percent accurate,” but that’s where they were found two days later.
East Hampton Village
Upon his return from a short stay in New York City, an 87-year-old man called police Friday to report his car, a red 2019 Ford, was missing from his Huntting Lane driveway. Village police asked neighboring departments to be on the lookout for the car, but the alert was canceled when a Suffolk County officer found it parked at a house in Huntington. The car’s owner is not pressing charges.
An American flag that got tangled in a tall tree near Bank of America on Newtown Lane was removed on Jan. 26 by a village highway crewman in a bucket truck.
On the evening of Jan. 25, a patrolman found five empty Amazon boxes on the ground near a trash can on Main Street. Whoever left them there should be advised that the village now has their name and address on an official report of littering.
Who said this sort of thing only happens in the summertime? On Jan. 24 at around 7:30 a.m., a village employee discovered that one of the stall doors in the women’s public bathroom had been ripped off its hinges. An officer took pictures as documentation.
Montauk
On Sunday afternoon, a woman walking at Ditch Plain found a set of keys, including a Subaru key fob, in the parking lot, somehow not covered under mounds of snow and ice. Police took them for safekeeping.
Police responded to a call from someone concerned about an intoxicated man at the Shagwong Tavern last Thursday afternoon, but neither the officers nor the tavern’s employees could tell who the caller was talking about. For good measure, the officers also checked the parking lot of Liars’ Saloon, a good three miles from the Shagwong.
Sag Harbor
A Suffolk Street resident called police Monday night because her dishwasher “turned on by itself” and a strong odor of burnt plastic and smoke filled her kitchen. Firefighters responded and turned off the circuit breaker to the dishwasher.
Police went to the Gulf station on Hampton Street last Thursday when a woman, who had dropped her car off there to get an estimate, arrived with a tow truck and refused to pay the diagnostic charge. She told an officer she shouldn’t have to pay for the service because she was only asking for an opinion, but paid up eventually, and her car was towed away.
A large truck was northbound on Hampton Street past the elementary school on the morning of Jan. 25 when an officer noticed that its cargo bed was up. The officer caught up with the driver, who hadn’t realized the bed was up, at Bay Street and Long Wharf, and gave him an oral warning.
Later that day, police responded to a call of an adult man “yelling” on Main Street. The man, who had been shouting into his phone, explained that there was no emergency, and that he was having an argument with a client about a construction project. “Relax,” an officer told him.