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On the Police Logs 10.24.24

Thu, 10/24/2024 - 11:04

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.

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Police at first thought that the water reported to be flowing onto Church Street last Thursday afternoon came from a water main break, but found upon arriving at the scene that it was being pumped from a nearby swimming pool, a violation of the village code.

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Coordinated Response Brought Fires Under Control

As winds out of the northwest gusted at near 40 miles per hour early Saturday, it didn’t take long for the embers from a fire that began around 9:30 a.m. in a Manorville backyard, “following an attempt to make s’mores,” to ignite multiple brush fires that would grow to burn 600 acres in the Westhampton pine barrens. Suffolk County police arson detectives reached the conclusion after first reviewing 911 call from the hours leading up to the incident.

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Ups and Downs in Annual Police Report

East Hampton Town police made fewer overall arrests last year, but more arrests for driving while intoxicated — another year that has led Chief Michael Sarlo to say that “we live in an extremely safe community.” 

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Low-flying drones were reported flying over Deep Hollow Ranch on the evening of March 3. Police saw their lights blinking red and white, but no action was taken. 

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