East Hampton
An anonymous call about dirt bikes spotted on a hiking trail brought police to Mile Hill Road in Northwest last week, but no bikers were found.
East Hampton Village
A man parked his unlocked Camaro on Race Lane for a couple of hours on March 20. His uncle picked it up and drove it back to the nephew’s house. The next morning, the nephew told police that the $800 he’d left in the glove box was gone.
An officer who responded last Thursday to a report of an injured turkey on Fithian Lane decided there was no saving the bird and dispatched it to a better place.
Montauk
On March 5, Gail Tooker, a resident of the Avallone apartments, reported a white knitted blanket missing, apparently stolen from off a wicker chair out front. Police spoke with a neighbor, who suggested that the thief was likely a stranger who’d asked her if there was a game room at the complex where he could go to get out of the cold. He had a white blanket with him, the neighbor said, but walked away when told there was no game room. He could not be found.
Stacey Insardi called from the Royal Atlantic Beach Resort at 2:30 a.m. Saturday to complain about a large, loud party in the center courtyard by the pool. Police found a group of motel guests talking loudly in the common area and spoke with Terry Roberts, who agreed to bring the volume down.
There was a report of a seal stranded at Shagwong Point on Saturday. Police arrived to find a seal, probably the same one, swimming in the surf.
Police found a man walking in the middle of South Embassy Street at 3:53 a.m. Sunday and called a taxi to take him back to his room at the Tipperary Inn.
Garrett McGuiness seemed to be doing everything right. Yes, he was having an outdoor fire Sunday morning, but it was controlled and in an approved fire pit. He even had a five-gallon bucket of water waiting nearby. Nonetheless, his neighbor, Jim Stavola, didn’t like it, and called police. Mr. McGuinness agreed to put it out.
Sunday afternoon, for the third day in a row, someone drove into David Stark’s driveway, near East Lake Drive. He doesn’t know the driver, he told police, and found this behavior strange. He will call again right away if the car shows up a fourth time.
Sag Harbor
Alexander Prime’s German shepherd, Rocky, had been missing from his Hillside Drive house for 20 minutes, he told police on March 22. An officer located the dog in a neighbor’s backyard.
Someone attempted to gain control over the social media and PayPal account of the Sag Harbor Liquor Store on March 23. Police advised the business to change its passwords. Later that day, the store owners received harassing text messages, wishing their failure and demise. They wanted the incidents on record.
Dale Stone’s nose told him something wasn’t quite right last Thursday morning. Schiavoni’s Market smelled of gas. Mr. Stone told police that National Grid had been working in front of the store the day before, and that the smell was coming from the basement. Officers did find a minor gas leak in the basement and called National Grid to come remedy the situation.
Gregory Cuyjet called police on Friday to say that his neighbor’s landscapers had left hedge clippings on his property, and he wanted them to inform the neighbor that his landscapers were out of line. No one answered the phone at the neighbor’s house when police called.
Sag Harbor village code forbids the use of commercial gas-powered leaf blowers on Saturdays. Hearing them whining in his Morris Cove neighborhood, Richard Evangelista called police, who let the landscapers know about the law. Raking is always allowed.
A Madison Street resident, William Armstrong, woke up on Sunday to find his 2006 Toyota Matrix gone. He’d left the car unlocked overnight, he said, with the spare key in the glove compartment. Police, who notified neighboring precincts to be on the lookout for the car, found that Mary Ellen Bartley’s glove box had also been rummaged through that night. Not finding a key, the intruders left only a mess. Nothing was missing.
Springs
Nora Leidesdorf complained to police on Sunday that a neighbor, James Ciquera, had cut down trees on her property. She’d told him he could remove only a couple of trees, she said, but he removed many. She was advised to speak with code enforcement officers. Mr. Ciquera, for his part, told the officers that Ms. Leidesdorf had said he could remove as many as he wished, but promised to try to work it out with her.