Amagansett
A Stony Hill Road homeowner told police Sunday afternoon that a neighbor had walked onto his property to yell at his workers about a construction project, and he wanted the man charged with trespass, adding that he and the neighbor have had “ongoing disputes.” Police met with the homeowner and one of the employees who’d spoken to the neighbor when he was on the land, and found no evidence of a crime. The case was closed later that day.
East Hampton
After police stopped a car on Three Mile Harbor Road on the night of Dec. 9 for an unsafe left turn, the driver, 24, handed over a license and identified himself “multiple times” by the name on the card. The officer, apparently noting discrepancies, advised him that it was illegal to misrepresent his identity, and informed him of the consequences, at which point the driver provided his legal name and a photo of his actual license. He was charged with false personation, a misdemeanor, and arraigned in Justice Court the next morning.
Town police signed off on a case of identity theft last week. On Nov. 19, an Accabonac Road woman had reported receiving an invoice in the mail from Verizon for an iPhone SE, which indicated that a balance of $168.93 was due on Dec. 1. She had not bought a phone or anything else from Verizon, she said, and the phone number on the invoice did not belong to her. She’d misplaced her Social Security card in August or September, she told police, and the number may have been used to create a fraudulent account. Last week, she requested documentation of the incident so that Verizon could open an internal investigation.
Springs
A car had been parked outside of a house on Wildflower Road for an “extended period of time,” a caller reported last Thursday afternoon. An officer found the vehicle and noted that all its doors were locked and one of the rear tires appeared to be flat. Dispatch was able to find a phone number for the registered owner, a man from State College, Penn., who answered the officer’s call and confirmed it was his car. He was attempting to have the flat tire fixed, he said, and would have the car removed soon. When the officer returned to check the area not long after, the car was gone.
Montauk
A call about another “suspicious vehicle” came in late Sunday night, this time of a white Chevrolet Astro on Arnold Court. An officer found the unoccupied van parked on the side of the road and ran the license plate, which was registered to a local construction business. He left a message for the owner, who contacted Dispatch a short time later and said he was working nearby but would move the van.
Just before 7 a.m. on Sunday, a caller reported seeing a hunter “in a restricted area.” A woman who identified herself as the caller presented an East Hampton Town document designating the tax parcel as a “no hunting zone” to the officer who responded. He advised her that it was duck season and that there was no reason to believe the hunter was committing a crime, and then reviewed a property map and the town’s hunting guide to verify. A few minutes later, while driving away, he spotted a hunter in the water, consulted the property map again, and confirmed that the hunter was not in a restricted area.
Wainscott
An officer responding Sunday night to a noise complaint from Wainscott Hollow Road heard loud music coming from a residence and knocked on the door. A woman answered and said they were having a Christmas party but would lower the music, and he warned her that he would issue a summons if he had to return.
