Amagansett
Someone passed off counterfeit bills at Amber Waves Farm sometime after Nov. 13. On Nov. 20, when the manager went to the bank to deposit cash from the register, the teller ran the bills through the counting machine and it rejected two $100 bills. The teller inspected the bills and confirmed they were counterfeit, pointing out that the words “Motion Picture Purposes” were printed in the top left corner of each. The bank seized the bills and advised Amber Waves that they would have to be sent to the Secret Service. The manager told police that the bills must have come in since her last bank deposit a week earlier, and filed a report for documentation. The case was closed on Saturday after all leads were exhausted.
East Hampton Village
Village police responded to a report of a car accident on Newtown Lane last week to find two sedans, a Kia and a Mercedes, parked by the side of the road. The Kia’s driver, a 35-year-old resident of Jersey City, stated that the Mercedes had backed into his Kia. The Mercedes driver, an 18-year-old from East Hampton, said he was “unsure of what happened.” The officer looked at both cars, saw no damage on either, and asked if they wanted an accident report. Both declined, and the officer left the scene after the drivers exchanged information.
Montauk
Police were called to the 7-Eleven just before midnight on Thanksgiving after receiving a report that a “highly intoxicated man” had fallen asleep inside the store. After confirming the report, the officer contacted Montauk emergency medical services, and the man was transported to the emergency room in East Hampton for evaluation.
A North Greenwich Street resident reported a possible case of identity theft on Friday afternoon. He’d received a text message offering a “longer term loan option” for a business owned by his father, who shares his first and last name, and he wasn’t sure, he told police, if his father had really tried to take out a loan using his Social Security number or if it was a scam. He’d checked his credit score through multiple reporting agencies, he said, and had not seen indications of identity theft, noting that he’d dealt with a similar attempt in 2022. He asked to file a report for his own records, and confirmed that he had not provided any personal information in response to the text message.
Sag Harbor
The Suffolk County Department of Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Services called village police Friday afternoon after receiving a report that someone had been shot in the head and leg outside Sag Pizza, and that the shooter was still on the scene. A responding officer found no sign of a shooting and determined that the report had been a “swatting” call.
He’d just been assaulted on Rysam Street, a young man reported late Friday night. The assailant had approached as he was walking back to his car after work, he said, and he recognized him as an 18-year-old he was “having issues with,” who’d previously “filmed his car” and sent him threatening messages. He was pushed and cursed at, he told police, and when he pushed back the attacker punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground and causing a concussion and a cut on his forehead. The assailant then jumped into a sedan and fled the area, and the injured youth returned to his car and drove home, where his father saw his face and drove him to the hospital. Officers located the assailant around 5 a.m. on Saturday and arrested him, charging him with third-degree assault. He was arraigned later in the morning by Justice Carl Benincasa, who released him on his own recognizance with a future date in court.
A couple flagged down an officer on Jermain Avenue late Sunday morning to report that their son had taken their car without permission. They’d recently discovered he’d been “using marijuana,” the mother said, and were trying to get him into rehab. They believed he was driving in an impaired state, posing a danger to himself and others. Village police notified Southampton Town police, and a town officer stopped the vehicle soon after. The parents went to the scene to pick up the car, and the son was ticketed for traffic violations.
