East Hampton Village
The shaving cream vandal struck again over the weekend, this time spraying the stuff around the interior and exterior of the men's restroom in the Reutershan parking lot on Saturday evening. The officer who found the mess noted that neither the "structure or components" of the facility had been damaged. This followed the discovery the preceding Saturday of shaving cream sprayed around the Herrick Park basketball courts, and the Department of Public Works was once again called upon for cleanup.
Montauk
On Oct. 21, after a caller reported a "suspicious-looking subject" wearing a hood and a face mask standing behind Montauk School near the schoolyard fence, police identified a woman matching that description. She was out for a walk, she told them, wearing the hood and face mask to keep warm. As she was passing, she said, a tennis ball flew out of the schoolyard, and she'd picked it up and tossed it back over the fence.
That night, another "suspicious" person was said to be sleeping outside Naturally Good, and an officer arrived to find a New York City man lying on one of the couches. He was awakened and informed that he was on private property and had to leave the area, and he said he'd walk to the station to wait for the next train back to the city.
A man walked into the police substation on the afternoon of Oct. 22 to report that for the last two days, at around 2 a.m., someone had been going through the garbage on his South Edgemere Street property. The garbage bags were not damaged as if a scavenging animal had done it, he said, and he'd found "several discarded vape devices" around his lawn. When he went out to check, he said, the man ran off. The homeowner, who requested extra patrols in the area, was advised to contact police immediately should it happen again.
There was a fight in progress outside Solé East, a caller reported early Sunday morning, and officers arrived to find a man and a woman standing on the sidewalk out front. They'd been talking with a stranger they'd met at the bar, the man said, when the stranger became agitated and "poked the woman on her cheek." When he stepped between them, he said, the man had slapped him in the face, and he'd responded by punching him, at which point the unknown man had fled. After the couple refused medical attention and declined to press charges, police noted that "all parties involved were highly intoxicated."
Sag Harbor
At around 11 on the night of Oct. 20, police responded to a report of a dustup at the Corner Bar. They found two men waiting outside, one of whom identified himself as the bartender and stated that the other had been asked to leave after starting to "shout obscenities." When he refused, said the bartender, he attempted to escort him out, and the man "swung a punch," striking him. Several other men had to step in to separate them. The patron told police he "may have used racial slurs" in the bar, and went on to make "several racist remarks" during his interview, before saying that he was in town visiting his mother, who lives in the village. The bartender declined to press charges, and police called the man's mother to take him away.
An officer on patrol Saturday night called in "a possible abandoned vehicle" on Bay Street, stating that it had been in the same spot, with one door open, for several hours. Upon investigation, the officer found a cellphone inside, charging; a set of keys in the cup holder, and a wallet in the center console containing the car registration and the name of its owner. He also found the owner's emergency contact information and his mother's phone number, and called her, but "she refused to believe that the phone call was not a scam." She was advised to inform her son that his property was in police custody, and the items were taken back to the station for safekeeping.
Springs
Her husband had not returned home last night, a Montauk Boulevard woman told police on the morning of Oct. 20. He'd left Bobby Van's Steakhouse in Bridgehampton around 11 p.m., she said, and called at around 2:30 a.m. to say his truck was stuck in the sand on Napeague Harbor Road and he was trying to follow a trail back to Montauk Highway. Shortly before 5 a.m., Dispatch pinged his phone in Hither Woods, Montauk, and multiple town police officers responded to canvass the area, with Sag Harbor Village police and a K-9 assisting. An hour or two into the search, a Sag Harbor officer called in to say he'd reached the missing man by phone, and redirected the search team to Hicks Island, off Lazy Point, where he was finally found just after 9 a.m. The harbormaster transported him back to Lazy Point, where he was met by his wife and Amagansett E.M.S., who took him to the Stony Brook Hospital's East Hampton Emergency Department for evaluation. Hampton Transportation was called to tow the abandoned truck out of the sand on Napeague Harbor Road.