East Hampton Village
There was another shoplifting incident at the Balenciaga store recently, though nothing on the scale of the one last year, when an organized ring of five thieves made off with $94,000 in luxury handbags and led police on a high-speed chase before being captured. On June 25, a woman stole a $520 pair of sunglasses while her male companion was making a purchase. Surveillance cameras caught the incident on tape.
A 64-year-old resident of Pleasant Lane complained to police on the evening of June 27 about hearing “a loud, fan-like noise coming from a southerly direction.” Two officers found nothing suspicious during a neighborhood canvass, but wrote in their report that they thought the caller may have been hearing the ocean.
A 25-year-old Manorville man was arrested on June 28 and charged with three counts of public lewdness, a violation, and one count of exposure, also a violation, after he was seen sitting on a bench on Park Place with his hand inside his shorts.
Montauk
Late at night on June 25, a 30-year-old Wantagh man attempted to enter a house on South Elroy Drive where several women were staying, and was told to make himself scarce. He tried again, however, through a rear window, before finally settling in for a snooze in an unlocked car nearby. While trying to open the window, he dropped his cellphone, and when he went to retrieve it the next day, he encountered the women talking to a police officer. No charges were filed, but the women wanted the trespass documented.
At about 5:30 a.m. on June 27, someone reported a man who was “hollering and knocking on train doors” on the station platform. The man told police he lives in Bay Shore, and had landed in Montauk after missing his stop. He pledged to “not be a nuisance” if he could sit inside the train and wait for it to head west again.
The corner of Fenwick Drive and Fairview Avenue is “a frequent place people dump trash,” Maria Tacuri told police on the morning of June 27. She had just found two mattresses and other household waste left there.
Three times last week, the railroad gates on Navy Road got stuck in the down position, impeding traffic, in one
instance, for at least 20 minutes. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority was called in to fix it each time, while a town police officer directed traffic.
At the Montauk precinct last Thursday afternoon, a 74-year-old local man turned in 47 unwanted boxes of 5.56-by-4.5-millimeter ammunition to be destroyed.
Another report of mysterious explosions in the vicinity of West Lake Drive — an ongoing problem — was called in on Saturday night at 11:21 p.m., but police could find nothing amiss when they canvassed the area.
Signs in front of the Montauk Lighthouse were tagged by vandals overnight on Saturday. Town police forwarded a report to the New York State Parks police, to investigate what was deemed an incident of criminal mischief.
Springs
According to a police report released on Monday, Byron Goldman of Rutland Road found an arrow stuck in the wood siding of his house, about 12 to 15 feet off ground level, at around 3 a.m. on June 19. An officer tried to find the shooter, but didn’t get very far “due to a lack of lighting.”
While walking her dog on Maidstone Park Road on the morning of June 23, Jessica Frost discovered a paper grocery bag “oozing a black liquid,” and called the police. An investigation concluded the bag contained the dismembered body parts of a deer. The Highway Department was called in to remove it.
Wainscott
A tank of carbon dioxide that appeared to have fallen off the back of a truck caused a stir at the Speedway gas station on the morning of June 27. The tank, thought to be possibly flammable, was handled — and ultimately emptied of its gaseous contents — by the Bridgehampton Fire Department. Later that day, a driver from Robinson’s Industrial Gas and Equipment Corp., which is in Bohemia, was dispatched to pick it up.
Deena Zenger, who runs the Country School on Industrial Road, filed a grand larceny and forgery report after discovering two checks from clients missing, totaling in the thousands. An investigation showed that someone had cashed the checks.
