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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.”

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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.” 

Mar 13, 2025

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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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