East Hampton Village
A 60-year-old woman from Texas reported that her bicycle, a yellow-and-purple cruiser-style bike with a purple basket, had been stolen on the afternoon of June 5 from in front of a North Main Street business.
A promotional event for “an electric car company” was to be held out front of the Baker House on Friday, and before it began police told the manager of the inn to remove parking stanchions that were in the shoulder of the road. The manager complied.
Someone tagged the Herrick Park bleachers near Stop and Shop with black marker last week. The graffito was discovered by a village employee late Friday morning, and the highway department was called in to clean it up.
Working together, a police officer and an 80-year-old Mill Hill Lane resident were able to free a fawn that was stuck in a fence on the property on Sunday afternoon. The animal was uninjured.
A 93-year-old East Hampton man was charged on June 4 with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, and public lewdness, a violation, after allegedly touching himself sexually in front of a 15-year-old boy at an undisclosed location.
Montauk
The big booms are back, it seems. Late last Thursday night, a caller reported hearing one in the vicinity of the Surf Lodge. An officer responded but couldn’t find anything amiss, and the call was deemed “unfounded.” Two nights later, two more people made similar reports, but again, officers found nothing.
Two men had a confrontation over an unleashed dog last Thursday night, at the docks off West Lake Drive. One accused the other of throwing rocks at boats, which police could not confirm.
At least eight tickets for minor violations were handed out in Montauk over the weekend. Among the offenses were littering, with a man caught Saturday at about 7 p.m. in the act of pouring out alcoholic beverages and discarding the containers in the bushes. Police also reported five instances of public urination and multiple open-container violations.
On June 1, Robert Dunlop reported the theft of a fishing reel, from a location on Lincoln Road. He suspects it was taken by a man who had just bought some lures from him, he told police. He doesn’t want to press charges, he said, he just wants his reel back, or to be paid for it.
Also earlier this month, there was a case classified as “theft-of-service,” involving a black 2023 Tesla that was impounded after police saw it plugged into a town-owned outlet on South Lake Drive. Its owner’s girlfriend showed up just as the tow truck was hauling the Tesla away, and she was told to contact the property unit to retrieve it.
Sag Harbor
An investigation is ongoing into a fight involving five people at an adult soccer game Sunday afternoon at Mashashimuet Park. “A knife was displayed” by one individual, police reported, and others started “gathering weapons such as rakes and cinderblocks.” One person was taken by ambulance to a local hospital for facial injuries. No arrests have been made.
Officers responded twice on Saturday night to a house on Lighthouse Lane after receiving two anonymous complaints about loud music. The homeowner’s son was uncooperative at first, they said, but eventually complied with their instructions to turn the music down. Less than an hour later, dispatchers got a 911 hang-up from a cellphone in the vicinity of the same house.
Wainscott
On Friday night, for the third time in two weeks, police handed out open-container tickets to three men found drinking beer in the parking lot of the former Child Development Center of the Hamptons building.
At the same location two days before, East Hampton Town Councilman David Lys called in a report of shattered front-door glass. Police found no sign of a break-in at the building, and reported that “the lawn appeared to have been freshly cut and it’s possible a rock or stone had shot out from underneath a mower deck,” shattering the glass.