Amagansett
An officer on patrol at 3 a.m. on Oct. 14 spotted a woman wearing dark clothes, walking down Bluff Road and appearing to “duck down driveways” when cars approached. He spoke with the woman, who told him she lives down the road and “usually walks late at night,” adding that she goes into driveways to stay away from passing vehicles. He escorted her home and spoke to a family member, who confirmed her statement.
East Hampton
An erratic driver in a white Lexus was creating a traffic hazard at Windmill Village, an employee of the housing complex reported the following afternoon, adding that the same car regularly drives the wrong way through the parking lot and exceeds the posted speed limits. Police spoke with the car’s owner, who works as a health aide in one of the apartments. She denied the allegations but promised to drive carefully going forward, and to obey all traffic laws.
A dog had been barking on and off in a fenced-in backyard for four days, a Springs-Fireplace Road neighbor reported on the night of Oct.15, adding that the house appeared to be empty and abandoned. Police went to the property and found a large black-and-white husky, “whimpering and shivering.” It appeared to have been left outside without access to food or water during the northeaster, they said. A check inside the house found that the water and electricity had been cut off. Animal Control was unable to respond. ARF stated that its shelter was at maximum capacity but supplied the officer with dog food, water, and bowls. Police reported the case to the on-call Animal Cruelty office of the Suffolk District Attorney, and it is currently under investigation.
East Hampton Village
There appeared to be shaving cream on the basketball courts in Herrick Park, a caller told village police Saturday morning. An officer confirmed the report and contacted the Department of Public Works, which promised to be there in 30 or 40 minutes to clean it up.
There were “suspicious people” in her yard, an Osborne Lane resident reported around 8 a.m. on Oct. 15. Police responded to find a blue pickup truck registered to a landscaping company, along with a group of men who stated that they were employees of the company and had been hired to landscape the property. The homeowner, when called back, said that all was in order, and that she’d meant to cancel the call before police arrived.
At around 10 that night, police were notified of an open fire on a front lawn on Cove Hollow Road, and found a large group at the location, “engaged in a loud party.” They were ordered to disperse so that firefighters could extinguish the blaze, but a 23-year-old partygoer was issued a summons for “yelling to disturb the peace.” He is due in court later this month.
Sag Harbor
Landscapers working at her neighbor’s property had taken down her fence, a Harvard Road resident complained on the afternoon of Oct. 14. Village police contacted the owner of the landscaping company, who said the homeowner had instructed him to remove the fence. That homeowner then claimed that his angry neighbor had given him permission to remove the fence because it was in “poor condition.” After a discussion among all parties, the neighbors agreed that the fence could be removed and replaced with a new one in the same style, to be installed in a few weeks by the same landscaping company.
A ladder mounted on top of his truck got caught on a power line on Ackerly Street, a driver reported on Oct. 15, and the truck had ripped the line off the utility pole as he drove down the street, cutting off power to a house on the street. PSEG was called in to repair the damage, and the homeowner was notified of the incident and informed that power would be restored. The driver was not injured, and the truck was not damaged.
Police responded Friday morning to a report of a “verbal argument” in the Municipal Building, where they spoke with a woman who’d been involved. While searching for a parking spot off Main Street, she told them, she and another driver had “honked at each other,” and after she parked, a man walking his dog had stopped and “confronted” her about the noise. She told him he could file a report in the building and led him inside, she said, but in the process the coffee cup he was holding had spilled onto her arm, and she told him she was calling the police. The man gave her his name, she said, and then left with his dog. She asked the officer to document the incident.
