Montauk
On Friday at about 1:30 p.m., police received a call about “a possible deceased human body” found on a beach at Montauk State Park. Officers determined it to be “the silicone lower part of a female mannequin.”
A live-in employee at a house on Willow Lane called police last Thursday morning to report the theft of several valuables, including an Apple watch, a Fitbit, two rings, and several medications. It turned out, however, that a housekeeper had accidentally thrown out the bag in which those items were kept. The bag was retrieved from the trash. The medications were intact, but the watches and rings are still missing.
Sag Harbor
A 3 a.m. security alarm at Chase Bank on Sunday alerted police that someone was in the bank’s Main Street ATM lobby. An officer checked out the scene and found a man who was charging his cellphone. He left without incident.
A resident of Princeton Road called police Saturday afternoon after seeing three kids playing inside a fenced-off construction site. They were gone by the time an officer arrived.
Late Friday night, police got calls about someone’s personal belongings scattered on the Bay Street roadway. A man was later seen lying on a “carpet” in the road. Questioned by police, he said he’d been cleaning out his car.
Susanna Vasillov of High Street would like her Gorilla-brand wagon and shovel returned. She told police she left them near her garden at about 4:30 p.m. on June 14, and they were gone when she went to retrieve them the next morning.
Vandals have once again hit a dilapidated building on Jermain Avenue that Police Chief Austin J. McGuire said has been “a problem for years.” This time, a surveillance camera caught multiple people spray-painting graffiti on the walls and floors. The incident is still under investigation.
Springs
A caller from Parsons Close reported seeing a “creepy van” illegally parked in the street on June 13 at about 7:30 p.m. Police contacted its owner, who said he’d been hired to do work at a nearby house and didn’t realize he couldn’t leave his van there overnight.
On Monday morning, after a neighbor complained, police told a resident of 10th Street that he’d been tossing his trash bags in a privately owned dumpster. The man said he thought it was “a community dumpster,” and retrieved his refuse.
Wainscott
On June 8, Elisha Osborn, who operates a vehicle-towing company, reported the theft of four Honda tires with rims from his property on Wainscott Main Street. They were last seen two days earlier on his “junk pile,” he told police.