Montauk
She wanted to report a “failed working relationship” with a handyman, a Taft Drive resident told police on the morning of Nov. 17. She’d hired him to deal with an animal infestation in her garage, she said, and, after agreeing to a price, had sent him her garage access code and left him a check for the services. He took the check and several boxes of tiles, which she’d said he could remove in order to clean out the space, but never returned to complete the work. She canceled the check after multiple calls and texts to the man went unanswered. Finally he sent a text message saying that he “did not wish to work with her anymore” and would return the tiles, though he had not. An officer called the man, who promised to return the tiles the next day.
Sag Harbor
A Noyac woman went to police on Sunday night claiming she’d been a victim of assault that evening at Murf’s Tavern. She been arguing with another woman, she said, who’d grabbed her hair, struck her in the face, forced her to the ground, and hit her with a closed fist. Village E.M.S., who were called in to evaluate her injuries, transported her to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for treatment, and the other woman was arrested and charged with third-degree assault. While filling out a medical questionnaire, she reportedly made suicidal comments, but a social worker called in to assist determined that she did not require hospitalization, and she was arraigned on the misdemeanor charge in Village Justice Court on Monday morning.
His grandfather had accidentally driven home in the wrong Mercedes about 30 minutes earlier, a caller reported last Thursday afternoon. The car’s owner called police to report the theft a short time later and was advised of the report. Meanwhile the caller drove the Mercedes back to Main Street, where its owner was waiting.
That same afternoon a man walked into headquarters to report that he’d been scammed out of $35,000. His new HP printer was not working properly, he explained, and he’d called someone he believed to be an HP representative two days earlier to fix it. Unable to help, the repre
Springs
There was another incident of fraud reported last Thursday night, this time from a Cedar Drive resident who said his debit card had been canceled and replaced three times since the beginning of the month. He’d called his bank earlier that day after receiving the third reissued card, and was told that the requests for new cards were not coming from his iPhone number, though the employee would not tell him who had made the requests. The bank would create a new account for him and issue him another new card, he was told. He asked the police to document the situation in case the issue persisted.
An Oak Ledge Lane man was arrested on the morning of Nov. 16, accused of intentionally driving off Springy Banks Road two weeks earlier, a few days before the local elections, to run over political signs along the road. He was charged with criminal mischief and ordered to appear in Justice Court on Dec. 3.
One final scam: A Barry Lane man told police last Thursday 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 informed the caller that he didn’t have an Amazon account, he said, he was transferred to someone else, who identified himself as a Social Security employee, accused him of money laundering, and told him to expect a call from Nassau County police. A town officer advised the man to report the incident to the F.B.I.’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, and to look up a legitimate customer service number if he is ever unsure about the source of a call. He still seemed worried, so the officer called the Nassau County Police Department to confirm that there was no one there by the name he’d been given.
