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On the Police Logs 09.19.24

Thu, 09/19/2024 - 12:04

East Hampton Village

A Montauk Highway woman reported a utility cart worth $600 missing on the afternoon of Sept. 11. Police conducted a search and distributed a photo of the cart to other officers, but it has not been found.

Saturday afternoon, a passer-by on Main Street called police to report a possible case of animal abuse. She was watching a woman in a car “smacking her dog” with paper, she said. Police looked for the car but did not find it.

Montauk

After a man exposed himself in front of two women whom he’d been hanging out with near 7-Eleven on the morning of Sept. 7, they called the police. He ran off.

A Gull Road woman narrowly escaped being scammed last week. On Sept. 10, she received a call from “Amazon customer service.” Eventually, the callers asked for her Social Security number and bank information, at which point she realized it was a scam, hung up, and reported it to police, who recorded the incident as attempted identity theft.

The Point called police on Sunday night to report an unwanted guest, who was later found by an officer weaving along the sidewalk. The intoxicated man was told not to return to the bar.

Sag Harbor

At Dopo La Spiaggia on the night of Sept. 10, the unwelcome guest was a woman, who was “bumping into employees,” they told police. The woman was “irate” and uncooperative when prompted by officers, who eventually escorted her to the street.

A Pierson student and four of his friends noticed a woman staring at them Saturday evening from behind a fence at the school. When they moved to the front of the building, she ran toward them, they told police, who did not find her and concluded she’d run off into the woods.

At around midnight on Sunday, a caller reported a “suspicious” group of teenagers on Long Island Avenue. The group told police they were completing the senior scavenger hunt, and cleaning up their garbage before heading home.

Springs

A groundskeeper at a house on Three Mile Harbor Road called twice on the morning of Sept. 10 to report a neighbor for being on the property without permission. The neighbor told police the trespassers were contractors from PSEG, who’d been sent to survey the area before “digging.”

On the Police Logs 11.27.25

A Barry Lane, Springs, man told police that someone claiming to be from Amazon had called him in regard to a $996 charge on his account for an iPhone 16. When he said he didn’t have an Amazon account, he was transferred to someone who identified himself as a Social Security employee, accused him of money laundering, and told him to expect a call from Nassau County police.

Nov 27, 2025

Accused of Stealing Wipes

A homeless 22-year-old was arrested last week in Montauk, accused of stealing a package of wipes from the Montauk I.G.A. after having been being notified the week before that he was no longer allowed on the premises.

Nov 27, 2025

Hospitalized After Accident

Police reported only one accident on local roads recently that resulted in an injury, which happened on Nov. 11 in Montauk, after midnight.

Nov 27, 2025

Five-Day Sentence for 2023 Graffiti That Unnerved Montauk

A 76-year-old Montauk man was sentenced to five days in county jail, followed by three years of probation, for spray-painting swastikas and antisemitic phrases around the hamlet in late 2023. 

Nov 20, 2025

 

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