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On the Police Logs 02.01.24

Thu, 02/01/2024 - 05:43

Amagansett

A 29-year-old East Hampton man was ticketed Jan. 19 at 1:25 a.m. after a police officer saw him urinating in public on the trash cans at the Terry King ball field on Abraham’s Path. The next day, two people, one a 43-year-old Montauk man and the other a 28-year-old East Hampton man, got tickets at the same spot for having open containers, four in all, of Modelo beer.

Doug Kuntz called police at 7:11 a.m. on Jan. 16 to report workers using leaf blowers, before legal hours, to blow snow away from an Amagansett Square walkway. The workers were “verbally assaulting” him with “unsavory language,” according to the report. An officer arrived a few minutes later but did not observe any violations.

Sheri Sandler of Atlantic Avenue called police last Thursday afternoon to report that an antique glass Martinuzzi vase, packed inside a wooden crate and valued at around $30,000, had gone missing from her living room. A house cleaner last saw it on Jan. 17, she said. Plumbers and electricians had been working in the house over the next few days, but Ms. Sandler told police she’d accompanied them herself the entire time they were there. The case is being investigated as third-degree grand larceny.

 

East Hampton

A Spinner Lane woman called police on Jan. 18 after a man showed up at her house to provide an estimate for some repairs and maintenance. He claimed to have been recommended by someone via the NextDoor app, but she declined to hire him. She “adamantly requested” that police not contact the man, but still wanted to document the incident.

On Jan. 8, someone called the Suffolk County CrimeStoppers line alleging the “illegal dumping of records” off the trustee road at Barcelona Point. An officer went to investigate that afternoon, but “was unable to check all of the access roads in the area before it got too dark,” according to the report. He returned the next day, finding nothing amiss.

Another open-container ticket was issued, this time to a 23-year-old East Hampton man, at Pepperoni’s Pizza on Saturday evening.

 

East Hampton Village

After a series of disturbances, the manager of the East Hampton Grill on North Main Street signed a trespass affidavit last Thursday preventing the person causing the trouble from returning.

A pair of four-foot-tall garbage cans with gravel sides were stolen from the Schenck Fuels facility on Newtown Lane sometime between 8 p.m. last Thursday and noon the next day.

 

Montauk

On the evening of Jan. 16, someone thought to be driving a dark gray Honda struck a mailbox, garbage can, and pine tree on Kirk Avenue before driving away, leaving a side-view mirror behind.

Flashing lights were seen on Jan. 24 coming from a vessel off the beach in front of Gurney’s Inn, and someone called in a report of a boat in distress. It turned out to be a boat involved in the beach replenishment project known as FIMP. No one was in danger.

 

Napeague

An exterior power outlet malfunctioned shortly after 1 a.m. last Thursday and started a small fire at the Windward Shores condominium complex. The fire triggered an automatic alarm, prompting firefighters to  respond. The flames were quickly extinguished.

Christopher Kohan, president of the Art Barge on Napeague Meadow Road, reported that a 20-foot chain had gone missing from the entrance to the art center’s driveway sometime between Jan. 1 and Jan. 23.

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