East Hampton
Two men showed up at an Oyster Pond Lane house on March 25 claiming they were there to work. A mother and daughter were at home; the mother called police after her daughter told the pair they had the wrong house but they insisted it was the right one, and had their boss on the phone saying the same. Told that the law was on the way, they left, and police did not find their car in the area.
Someone said to be dressed in a Boy Scout uniform was spotted peering into the windows of a Wheelock Walk house on Friday. Police did not find the person.
East Hampton Village
Police received two calls on March 25, one in the morning and the other at night, about a malfunctioning traffic light at the intersection of Woods Lane and Main Street. In both cases the light was found to be working properly.
A Hither Lane homeowner reported smoke in the house last Thursday night. Firefighters responded, and found an issue with a transformer in the “air handler,” which they shut down. The homeowner was advised to consult with an HVAC contractor.
Montauk
An officer patrolling Edgemere Street on Saturday evening found a dog, a yellow Lab, wandering in the road. The officer was able to secure the dog, which was wearing a tag, and return it to its owner.
Sag Harbor
There was a gas main break on Cornell Road on the morning of March 25. According to the police report, landscapers working nearby had hit the main with one of their machines. Two workers told police their boss had been operating the machine but had left; however, when police spoke with the man he denied it. National Grid was called and fixed the main.
A woman was waiting to pick up her children at the elementary school on the afternoon of March 25 when her rear passenger window shattered. After police investigated, and blocked off the road where the glass fell, it was determined that a child in the playground had tossed a rock at the car. The school stated that it would cover the costs of the damages.
A dead dolphin was found floating in a slip at the Sag Harbor Yacht Club on the morning of March 24. Chris Duryea, a harbormaster, towed the dolphin to the boat ramp on Bay Street, and it was taken the next day to the recycling center in East Hampton, to be examined by the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society.
Springs
A Shoridge Road barely avoided a scam last week. On the evening of March 25, he told police he’d Googled a tech support number for Amazon. After a short time, he said, the person who answered told him he’d accidentally put $1,000 into the caller’s account, and requested to be paid back in gift cards. The local man attempted to send the cards, but had trouble doing it and called his bank for help. The bank told him he was being scammed and not to send any money; police told him to block the scammer’s phone number.
An earlier scam, just reported this week, involved a Harbor View Avenue woman who told police in mid-December that she’d been defrauded of $105.12. Someone claiming to be from a “lending corporation” had called and told her she had a past-due balance, which she paid, She thought there was something wrong when they asked for more money, and reported it to her bank, which refunded the money and advised her to make a police report.
An Accabonac Road man called police on Saturday evening when his oven, which was in self-cleaning mode, started smoking. The smoke was filling up the first and second floor when he called the Springs Fire Department, which arrived quickly, ventilated the house, and moved the oven to the front lawn.
Wainscott
A wandering seal was reported on the Beach Lane beach on the evening of March 25. The caller told police she’d lived locally for 40 years and had never seen one. Officers found the animal “high on the sand with no injuries,” and when they got near, it made its way back into the water.
Another call about gas-powered leaf blowers being used when and where they are not allowed: Police responded Saturday evening to a call from a house near the Wainscott Road intersection with Montauk Highway, but found nothing and no one.