Amagansett
Police spotted a utility pole on Bluff Road with its top in flames on Jan. 9 at around 11:30 p.m. Firefighters arrived quickly and determined “there was no life threat,” and the fire eventually extinguished itself.
Two nights later, shortly before 1 a.m., police noticed a car parked in a lot at the Amagansett School. Three officers entered the school to make sure everything was okay. The car belonged to a woman who’d been hired to clean.
Later that morning, at the Mobil gas station on Main Street, passers-by noticed what turned out to be “fire suppression materials” sprayed all over the pavement there. An employee later told police that his jacket had “got caught on an extinguisher pin” the night before, which apparently “activated the system in error.”
East Hampton
A National Grid contractor noticed the big metal forks missing from a rented carrier machine on Jan. 2, and reported it to police six days later. The forks, valued at $1,500, were last seen on Dec. 28. The equipment had been left outside the locked National Grid property on Cove Hollow Road.
A “young female” entered Damark’s Market on the morning of Jan. 14, ordered a sandwich, and left without paying for it. She was seen on surveillance camera footage “leaving the store calmly” and entering a vehicle. Bruce Damark, the proprietor, called police to document the theft and seek reimbursement if the thief is found.
East Hampton Village
On the morning of Jan. 9 a caller reported that a “yield-to-pedestrian sign” in front of 67 Newtown Lane had been moved from its correct spot. An officer moved it back.
That same morning, a manager of the East Hampton Market on Race Lane called the police on two men outside the store, said to be harassing customers for money. The men were told to leave.
A 24-year-old man was found sleeping on the floor of the men’s room in the comfort station at Herrick Park on Jan. 13. He told police he’d fallen asleep while waiting for a ride home to Sag Harbor.
Montauk
Police were called to the Montauk Playhouse on Jan. 13, where a homeless man was found asleep in the lobby. He said he’d fallen asleep on the train and didn’t have any money, and that he needed a ride to Amagansett. An officer gave him a lift as requested.
On West Lake Drive the morning of July 5, while Michael Cole was working on the Act I fishing boat, his wallet and five packs of cigarettes were stolen from his Chevrolet pickup truck, which was parked across the street from The Dock restaurant.
Sag Harbor
High winds on Jan. 9 knocked over several trash bins on Main Street, blowing trash all over the place.
A purse valued at $350 and two pair of pants costing $164 each were stolen from the Main Street boutique Annabel on the afternoon of Jan. 14. The theft is still under investigation.
Police got two complaints on Jan. 15, the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, about active construction work at two residences on Main Street. Village code prohibits construction on official holidays.
Donna Dorian of Harrison Street called for help on the frigid morning of Jan. 16 when the heat went out at her house. An officer was able to get her boiler restarted.
Maximo Fernandez requested police help on Sunday afternoon for a swan thought to be stuck in frozen water off Morris Cove Lane. An animal rescue group was called, but it was determined the swan was not in distress.
Springs
James Gang’s 2010 Honda Accord got stuck on a flooded Maidstone Park Road on the morning of Jan. 10. George Miller towed the car and Mr. Gang caught a taxi back home.
Later that morning, a faulty generator caught fire at a house on Gerard Drive. It’s Springs, so the cellphone call for help got disconnected, but the fire department was able to determine the location and extinguish the flames.
A 30-year-old East Hampton man was ticketed on the evening of Jan. 13 for urinating in public, against the side of the locked comfort station at Maidstone Park Beach.
Wainscott
Town police and the Bridgehampton Fire Department responded Jan. 9 to a resident’s 10 p.m. report of sparking electrical wires on Bathgate Road. The wires were no longer burning when first responders arrived, but PSEG was notified that the power was out.
A Westwood Road resident called the police on Jan. 12 to report that a black Escalade without license plates had been parked for several days at the vacant house next door. Police were unable to contact either its owner or the house’s current owner.
A 23-year-old Shirley man was ticketed for urinating in a public place on Beach Lane on the afternoon of Jan. 13.
The Jan. 15 storm knocked down two trees at town police headquarters on Wainscott Northwest Road, damaging the fence surrounding the impound yard there.