Amagansett
While making a delivery Dec. 22 on Holly Hill Road, a Meals on Wheels employee noticed that the stovetop was on while no one was home. He turned the burner off, he told police, and reported the incident to the organization, which had contacted the homeowner but had asked him to document the incident with police as well.
She’d parked her Chevy S.U.V. on Napeague Harbor Road Saturday afternoon to go sledding, a caller told police, but when she returned she noticed new scratches on the driver’s side of the vehicle. Officers were unable to find any witnesses in the area, and the caller requested documentation of the incident for her car insurance company.
East Hampton
A white Mercedes van had been sitting in the Town Hall parking lot “for a long period of time,” a caller reported at around 3 a.m. on Dec. 22. An officer spoke with the driver, a 42-year-old from Pembroke Pines, Fla., who explained that he was there to deliver a package to Town Hall, and was waiting for the building to open in the morning.
A stranger had tried to enter a sliding door at her Treescape Drive residence, a woman reported the day before Christmas. An officer found a man matching her description repairing an oil heater in an adjacent condo, who said that the building’s front door had been locked when he arrived to work on the heater, and he’d gone to the caller’s side door by mistake while looking for another entrance. The officer called the resident back to explain the misunderstanding.
East Hampton Village
He’d seen people on Town Pond and was concerned, a village resident told police on the afternoon of Dec. 16, requesting a well-being check. The officer who responded observed several adult males skating and playing ice hockey on the pond, and noted that temperatures had been below freezing for several days, the pond was frozen, and no action was necessary.
A Lyft driver called police on Dec. 17 to say that a passenger was refusing to leave her car. She’d picked the man up in her white Toyota Sienna and driven him to the intersection of Race and Newtown Lanes, she said, but he’d begun insisting that was not his destination and become increasingly upset. When she finally called 911 he got out of the car, she told an officer. She provided a physical description and the name listed on his Lyft profile, but he could not be located.
Springs
A Chevy S.U.V. crashed into a tree on Talmage Farm Lane during the snowfall late Friday night. The 17-year old driver had tried to turn right to follow a curve in the road, he told police, but lost control of the vehicle on the slippery lane, causing it to slide off the road and into the tree. He was not injured, and the vehicle, which is registered to a construction company in Amagansett, was towed back to the business.
The next morning, a driver called 911 to report that his gray BMW had caught fire on Springs-Fireplace Road. He was on his way to pick up snow shovels when the car got stuck in the snow, he said, and while “trying to get unstuck,” he heard “an explosion” under the dashboard, then saw smoke and flames. East Hampton firefighters had already extinguished the fire when police arrived around 7 a.m., and town fire marshals were called in to investigate the incident.
Wainscott
A 27-year old HomeGoods cashier was arrested the week before Christmas, accused of a scheme that involved scanning and then intentionally voiding certain items from customer transactions, allowing them to leave with merchandise they had not paid for. On one occasion, a customer, the cashier’s father, left with a cat chair, a pet bed, and a reusable bag he had not paid for, and with an unpaid-for skillet on another. Another customer allegedly left with a Dubai chocolate bar. The woman was taken into police custody on Dec. 17, charged with three counts of petty larceny, and released with an order to appear in Justice Court for arraignment next week.
