East Hampton Village
A man returned to his car, parked outside the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter on Aug. 5, to find the gas tank slightly open. The meter showed a quarter-tank more gasoline in the tank — more, not less — than previously, he later told police. Since then, he said, the car has displayed error messages. Police classified the incident as property damage.
Near M&T Bank on Newtown Lane, around noon on Aug. 8, a woman reported seeing a man urinating “behind the dumpster.” She asked that police put up an “under surveillance” sign there to deter similar incidents.
In the Reutershan lot on Friday afternoon, a woman parked near John Papas found a note on her windshield warning her of “a bunch of nails” surrounding her car. She found none, she told police, only several small branches that could be confused with nails.
An Audi was stolen from a Jericho Lane driveway on Saturday morning. The owner logged in to her Audi account, she later told police, and noticed an E-Z Pass transaction at the Throgs Neck Bridge earlier that day. Police in Newark located and impounded the car, which she has since retrieved.
Another grand larceny was reported at Main Beach on Sunday morning, where a man left his wallet and watch in a tote bag while he swam in the ocean. When he returned, he told police, the bag had been “rifled through.” He asked that the theft be documented for insurance purposes.
Montauk
Another stolen wallet was reported on Sunday night, this time from a vehicle owned by a Setauket man, who’d parked his car at the Royal Atlantic, leaving the wallet inside.
A report released this week documented the June 22 theft of a bicycle, belonging to a Montauk homeowner who’d rented his house on Airbnb. The renter rode the bike to Kirk Park Beach that afternoon, and “leaned it against the public restrooms” while he went for a swim. He returned to find it gone. The report noted that police had interviewed witnesses, but said no more.
Sag Harbor
A bicycle thief struck in Sag as well last week, on the morning of Aug. 6. A woman reported leaving her bike near some bushes on Walker Avenue; it was gone when she returned. A nearby resident told police she’d seen a man loading a bike into “a maroon truck.”
At around midnight Sunday, a motorcyclist on Route 114 saw smoke coming from his gas tank. It “smelled sweet,” he told police, and was in fact later determined to be sugar. The cyclist also noticed that his battery terminals were loose, and told police he believed it was his ex-wife’s doing.
Springs
A Cherry Street man was about to open a gate for his uncle on the afternoon of Aug. 6 when a “bald, white, adult male” on a blue dirt bike stopped at his house. The biker yelled at him, he told police, for “beeping his horn” at him earlier, on Harrison Avenue. Police looked for the bald biker but did not find him.
Early Friday morning, two women in a hot tub at a house on Waterhole Road noticed a man “in the bushes” with a flashlight, watching them. They yelled at him, they told police, and he ran back to his house. When an officer arrived and questioned him, he said the women had been playing loud music and he was shouting to get their attention, but they didn’t hear him. He apologized for “startling” them.
Wainscott
A Rolling Wood Lane resident told police he’d been scammed by “someone from Pakistan” on Saturday afternoon as he was trying to set up YouTube TV. The scammer deleted everything on his phone, the man said, and then told him to buy a $500 CVS gift card to get the information back. He did so, and the information was returned.
