Amagansett
A Fox Hunt Lane man reported his Rolex watch, valued at approximately $4,600, missing on the afternoon of Feb. 3. The watch had been sitting on the desk in his office since Dec. 18, 2024, he told police, and he noticed it was missing on Jan. 19. He said he’d spoken to his employees and searched the area with no results. Police filed a report of grand larceny.
On the afternoon of Jan. 29, a resident of Deep Woods Lane reported being charged for an online order he did not place. He had received a confirmation email for a $533.11 Meta Quest 2, an advanced all-in-one virtual reality headset, which was to be delivered to a person in New Jersey who was using the Amagansett man’s name and card. He called the company and was assured he would not be charged, but wanted the incident on record.
A mountain bike was stolen from a Main Street man overnight on Feb. 3; he found it missing and reported it the next morning. Police, using an Apple air tag fixed to the bike, tracked it to the Stephen Talkhouse, next to another bicycle. The man retrieved his bike, and police took the second bike to headquarters.
The Amagansett I.G.A. reported an intoxicated man verbally confronting customers and causing a disturbance in the store on the morning of Feb. 2. The man left once informed that the police were being called, and officers found him walking home. At the store’s request, he has been banned from shopping there for two years.
East Hampton
A Woodbine Drive woman found that her home alarm had been tripped on the evening of Feb. 4 and called police to report it, saying that she’d found a side door open but no one inside and nothing missing. Police checked the house and found no sign of a break-in.
Montauk
Police have just released a report from shortly before Christmas in which a resident of North Shore Road reported that multiple credit cards had been opened in her name without her knowledge, one of which was connected to an address in Brooklyn. She first noticed fraudulent activity when American Express alerted her to a card opened using her name and Social Security number; later, she learned that a Citibank card in her name had been issued in November 2023, and finally, a TD Bank card from September 2020. She has since placed a freeze on her Social Security number.
Sag Harbor
A silent alarm at a home on Morris Cove Lane alerted police to possible mischief in the late afternoon of Feb. 4. Upon arrival, officers learned that the house’s caretaker had accidentally set off the alarm.
A Hampton Street woman reported a stranger in her backyard early Sunday morning. Police searched both her yard and others in the neighborhood, but concluded that undisturbed snow on the ground suggested that nobody had entered her property that night. She then told the officer, “Maybe I didn’t see anyone, I just thought I did.”
Springs
A Gardiner Avenue woman reported approximately $3,900 in unauthorized charges on her “Way2GoCard,” a child-support debit card, on the afternoon of Feb. 4. The charges began on Jan. 2, 2024, and since then, she said, she has filed disputes with her bank about five times. She ordered new cards, but, she told police, an unknown person in Chicago canceled them and ordered cards for themselves. She has since closed that bank account and filed a police report here.
Police responded to a call from an Old Fireplace Road man on Friday afternoon regarding grass on fire. The man told police he’d been using a firepit in his backyard and believed he’d completely put out the flames, but when he went inside he saw that the fire was not out, and wind was sweeping it across his lawn. The Springs Fire Department put out the blaze without further incident.
According to information released this week, an Orchard Lane woman reported an incident of harassment on Nov. 11, 2024. She’d been unloading her car, she said, when a man on a bike approached and began pestering her. A similar incident had happened previously, and the man was advised by police to stay away from her. This time, she said, she was afraid he might return “and become violent,” and she asked that police advise him formally not to come back.
A report of a stranger who’d entered a Harbor View Drive house on the evening of Feb. 4 turned out not to be a police matter. The stranger, it seemed, was actually a worker contracted to work at a neighbor’s house who’d entered the wrong residence. The neighbor confirmed this to police.