Amagansett
Police responded Saturday night to a report that a wind turbine had fallen off a platform at the firehouse, and found its head and blades on the ground, with debris scattered about. The chief of the department was notified, and “took control of the situation.”
East Hampton
A deer reported stuck in the fence of a tennis court on Spring Close Highway on April 16 managed to free itself before police arrived.
Later that day, a “suspicious person” was said to be “looking at packages” on the front porch of a Rivers Road residence. Police canvassed the road but did not find the person.
East Hampton Village
Last Thursday, a Huntting Lane woman told police she’d been scammed the day before. A box had popped up on her computer telling her that her bank account had been hacked and instructing her to click a link, which connected her with someone claiming to be from Apple, who told her to purchase gift cards. She did, but when she returned to buy more, an employee alerted her that it was a scam. Her bank statement showed charges she didn’t make, she told police, and she called the bank and contacted police.
Montauk
On April 14, a Kirk Avenue man reported his license plates stolen after he parked his car in College Point. He didn’t realize they were gone, he said, until he returned home. Police gave him a form to present to the D.M.V., certifying that the plates had been lost or stolen.
After a drunken driver was reported on Main Street the night of April 16, officers found the car by the Chase Bank and spoke with its owner, who told them he’d had a disagreement earlier that evening with someone at the 7-Eleven. He was not drink, police reported.
A car with two men in it got stuck in mud on a trail at Oyster Pond early on Monday morning. They called police, who drove them back into town, though not before citing them for driving on a trail not authorized for vehicles.
Sag Harbor
After National Grid advised a Walker Avenue man to dig a test hole to determine the depth of his natural gas line, he did so on April 14 and struck the line, causing a gas leak. Firefighters were able to stop it while waiting for National Grid, which arrived and repaired the damage.
There was a report Friday morning of a possible sinkhole on Jermain Avenue. Police found a “divot” in the pavement, but no sinkhole.
A man working on Bay Street was scammed out of $300 on Friday afternoon. Someone sounding like his daughter, he told police, had called to say she’d been contacted by the Atlanta Police Department, requesting that she pay a fine imposed after she was arrested in February. The worker paid the fine through Zelle, but then realized they hadn’t been in Georgia in February and that he’d been scammed. He called his bank, which advised him to report it to police.
Someone called police on Easter Sunday to complain of a gas-powered leaf blower being used on Hampton Street. Officers spoke to the man with the machine, who said he wasn’t aware of the village code but was done leaf blowing for the day.
Springs
Five thousand dollars’ worth of Bitcoin was stolen from a Rutland Road man on the morning of April 3 after he viewed a YouTube ad promising “incentives.” He called the number in the ad, he told police, and realized it was a scam only after sharing his account information. He reported it to CoinBase and the Internet Crime Complaint Center, both of which told him to file a report for documentation.
Wainscott
The Ross School reported 19 driver’s ed certificates missing on the morning of April 16. School officials wanted the loss documented so that the D.M.V. can replace them.
Late last month, a Wainscott Northwest Road woman told police she is facing fraudulent past-due bills from credit agencies, totaling $1,961.62. She does not have accounts with those agencies, she said, and when she calls them they tell her a phone number other than hers is associated with the accounts. Police documented the report as fraud.