East Hampton
An "older white man wearing a green hoodie and jeans" was wandering around his backyard, an Abraham's Path resident reported on Saturday morning. An officer was dispatched, but while en route the resident called back to say that the man was a gardener.
Wildlife Rescue called police on Saturday morning to relay a report from Barsdis Lane of a deer "accidentally shot with an arrow." The deer ran away on its own upon their arrival, but the shooting, they said, "seemed like an intentional act." An officer spoke with the homeowner, who explained that her son was shooting his bow and arrow at a target in the backyard when a deer jumped over the fence and was "accidentally shot," adding that her son had called Wildlife Rescue himself. A target in the backyard containing arrows supported the homeowner's account, and the officer concluded that the incident had indeed been an accident.
A Sag Harbor man was arraigned in East Hampton Justice Court this week, charged with a violation for leaving a dog outdoors without appropriate shelter and with neglecting an impounded animal, a misdemeanor. He was charged on Oct. 22, after he was determined to be the owner of an approximately 4-year-old husky that had been found the week before in the fenced-in backyard of an abandoned property on Springs-Fireplace Road. The complaint noted that the dog appeared to have been left outside without access to food or water during the northeaster. It was removed from the property and taken into the care of East Hampton Town Animal Control. The owner was to have appeared in court yesterday.
Montauk
Her purple Cannondale bicycle was missing, and she thought it had been stolen from the basement of the Royal Atlantic Beach Resort, a caller told police Saturday afternoon. An officer met with the resort's manager, who explained that the bicycle had been removed "briefly" for repairs, adding that it had been there for about three years and was no longer operable. It had since been returned to the basement, he said. The officer confirmed its whereabouts and notified the caller that it was back in its original location.
Sag Harbor
Three pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses were stolen from her car earlier in the week, a woman reported at village headquarters last Thursday afternoon. The theft likely took place overnight on Oct. 28, while the car was parked on Rysam Street, she said, but she did not realize it until later, while driving to work, when she saw that the sunglass holder was open and empty. Officers were unable to obtain camera footage from the area, but completed a report for the case file. The woman estimated the combined value of the sunglasses at $638.
That same night, someone "rummaged through" his vehicle, a man reported Friday morning. He'd parked on Bay Street, he told police, and found his car unlocked at around noon the next say, though he did not notice anything missing or damaged. An officer documented the account.
After a Village Hall employee activated the panic button there last Thursday afternoon, two officers arrived to observe a "belligerent, intoxicated male" causing a disturbance in the street. When they approached, he reportedly threatened to hit them, then shouted racial slurs and said he "knew where they lived." He was charged with disorderly conduct and possession of an open container of alcohol, subsequently discovered in his jacket pocket. The employee told police she'd activated the alarm after the man, an El Salvador national, began shouting racial slurs and refused to leave the building. He is to appear in Sag Village Justice Court tomorrow morning.
Springs
After a 2025 Tesla sedan collided with a tree in an embankment off Red Dirt Road on Saturday morning, and the Sag Harbor woman behind the wheel blamed a "tree limb" which she'd "turned abruptly" to avoid, police noted a strong odor of alcohol on her breath. She was transported to the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department for treatment of a shoulder injury before being charged with drunken driving, a first-time offense. She was arraigned in Town Justice Court later that day, and Rapid Recovery towed the Tesla.
