Amagansett
On Halloween night, someone played a very bad trick on a Springs man, who called police at 2 the next morning to say his Jeep Wrangler had been stolen from the municipal parking lot. He’d just left Stephen Talkhouse, he said, and returned to the lot to pick up the car, but it was missing. Police spotted it about an hour later, headed east on Pantigo Road, and pulled it over. The driver said he too had left the Talkhouse around 2 a.m., and claimed he’d mistaken the Wrangler for a friend’s car. The caller declined to pursue charges, and the driver was cited for unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
East Hampton
A black Toyota Camry had been parked outside her house since the night before, and looked like it might have been in an accident, an Oakview Highway woman reported on Veterans Day. Police contacted the car’s registered owner, who said his daughter drives that car, and he had no idea why she would have parked there. The damage on its side, he explained, was caused recently, when she backed the Camry into his van. He’d ask her to move it as soon as she got home, he told police.
East Hampton Village
A student was disrupting her Y.M.C.A. Zumba class, an instructor reported just after 7 p.m. on Nov. 11, by refusing to leave. When police arrived, the student told them that the instructor had said she was late when she showed up a few minutes after the start of class, which she thought was unfair because, she claimed, the instructors are often 10 to 15 minutes late themselves. The instructor then said she’d made the “disrupting” comment to remind everyone in the class to be on time, as the Zumba classes are always booked with a waitlist. She did not want the student banned from the property, she said, only from that evening’s class, but added that she would talk with her boss to decide whether the Y.M.C.A. would suspend her membership.
Two men may have stolen a $16,000 gold cuff, an employee of Jennifer Miller Jewelry reported on Nov. 12. One was wearing a red hoodie and one a black hoodie and a large gold chain, she said, and the man with the chain had produced a credit card to purchase the cuff. The store’s manager later alerted her that the payment had not gone through, and the employee called the customer, who’d provided a name and phone number during the transaction. He promised to return to complete the sale in 30 minutes, but did not, and numerous attempts to contact him again were unsuccessful. Officers collected still photos and surveillance footage of the men, and the case has been turned over to detectives for further investigation.
Montauk
Someone jumped over a fence behind her room at the Royal Atlantic Resort and damaged the fence in the process, a guest reported on the afternoon of Nov. 10, requesting that police document the incident in case the person returned. An employee told police the resort was “aware of the situation” but did not want to investigate further or pursue criminal charges.
Sag Harbor
A man accused of creating a disturbance at the Sag Harbor Inn on the night of Nov. 10 told police he’d requested an Uber to take him to the train station, but that the driver had dropped him off there instead, and he’d been arguing in the lobby, apparently with an employee, after discovering the mistake. He was escorted to the Bridgehampton train station without incident.
“A bald man with a briefcase” walked through his property on Friday afternoon, a Jermain Avenue resident told police. The man showed up on his doorbell camera, said the homeowner, walking across the front lawn and then out of frame toward his backyard gate. An officer searched the property but found no sign of criminal activity, and the resident emailed the footage to police for documentation.
On Friday evening, a report of harassment outside the Yummylicious ice cream shop led police to a group of adolescents, who said they were friends from school and were “not having issues.” The caller was contacted, and reportedly sounded intoxicated as he insisted that the group was “causing riffraff.” He was informed that they were “a group of friends having fun in town” and that no further action would be taken.
Springs
A 37-year-old woman from Mastic was arrested on Gardiner’s Lane just before 4 a.m. last Thursday, accused of throwing “several small pumpkins and a decorative wreath” off a porch and “leaving them astray in the yard,” as well as kicking and denting the front door and kicking and cracking the porch railing. She appeared in Justice Court a few hours later on charges of criminal mischief and third-degree criminal tampering, and is expected back in court at a later date.
