East Hampton Village
A woman left her purse at Stop and Shop on the afternoon of Oct. 16; it was reported found the day after. When she went to pick it up, however, U.S. money, Canadian money, and Jamaican money were missing. Police classified the matter as larceny and filed a report.
On Saturday afternoon at the Huntting Inn, a woman caused $2,000 worth of damage to lights and lanterns, smashing them up, the manager told police, after she questioned a bartender about a former employee and objected to the response. After breaking eight lights, she got in an Uber and fled.
Montauk
An Essex Street resident reported a political sign stolen from his yard on the night of Oct. 13. A few days before, he told police, another of his signs was torn from the ground, where it had been staked, and thrown onto the lawn.
Sag Harbor
A caller reported a man “punching a red car on Washington Street” last Thursday night. Police found the man, who claimed it was a friend’s car and that there was no damage. He acknowledged having had a few drinks, and said he was waiting for his mother to pick him up.
Someone called in a “suspicious” truck on Brandywine Drive on Saturday night. Police stopped the blue pickup truck, the driver of which told them he was learning to drive a stick shift and presented a valid learner’s permit.
Springs
A woman called police on Friday afternoon while watching a stranger in a pickup truck dump garbage on her Harbor View Lane property. After officers responded, the driver returned, apologized, and cleaned up the mess.
A Hawthorne Street man reported a Bitcoin scam on the afternoon of Sept. 28. He’d received an email, he told police, saying that the senders had embarrassing information about him and would release it if he didn’t send them Bitcoin. He was advised to block the senders’ email address on his computer.