Amagansett
A vehicle fire was reported near the post office on Sunday morning. Police arrived to find that firefighters had already extinguished it, and spoke with the brother of the car’s owner, who told them his brother had left to find a mechanic just before the fire started.
East Hampton
A Crystal Drive woman walked into police headquarters on April 23 to report that her green card and Colombian passport had gone missing. She’d last seen them two weeks ago, she said, in her car. Police documented the loss.
Later that day a small brush fire was reported on Harbor View Avenue, which firefighters dealt with speedily.
A fallen tree was blocking all of Yew Street on Friday morning. Police notified the town Highway Department, which removed it.
A White Pine Road resident told police on April 14 that she’d been defrauded of $778.59 back in February. She’d mailed in a check for a bill at that time, but received a letter on April 4 that the balance was still outstanding. Her bank statement revealed that the check she’d written was cashed, she said, but the memo line had been changed to say “babysitting.” Police advised her to contact the bank.
East Hampton Village
An injured seal with a “swollen flipper” was seen on Two Mile Hollow beach Friday morning, but it had made its way into the ocean by the time police arrived.
Montauk
Another recent scam was reported by a Fort Pond Road man, who told police on April 23 that between March 3 and April 17, $5,091.41 in fraudulent charges appeared on his debit card. On March 26, he said, he’d also noticed a fraudulent charge of $4,3113.32 on his credit card, which he reported to his bank and has since received a new credit card. The bank advised him to document both scams with police.
Sag Harbor
A swimmer in Noyac Bay was reported in distress on the morning of April 19. Assistant harbormaster Chris Duryea responded, along with police, but by the time they arrived a private boater had brought the swimmer to shore.
A village planning board meeting on the evening of April 22 was hacked, in the same way a village board meeting had been back in March, with three separate videos chained together to play during the meeting. A man in the third video looked like someone in a clip from the March hack. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s office has been informed of both incidents.
A tall delivery truck snapped a phone wire while driving beneath it on Friday afternoon, near the Bay Street Theater. The driver, possibly unaware, kept going. A bystander was able to take a picture of the truck, but did not get the license plate number. Police called in the cable company to fix the line.
Springs
A Sycamore Drive woman got an unwelcome call from her plumber on April 21, telling her that her pool heater, valued at $7,500, was missing, with its pipes and lines severed. The house is under construction, she told police, and a neighbor who was checking it believes the heater was there when she visited two days earlier. Detectives are conducting an investigation.
Whoever was responsible for the theft on Sycamore Drive may also have struck on Bon Pinck Way, where pool equipment was reported missing the following morning. A man who’d been hired to open the pool there found that the heater, filter, and pump, installed last November, were all gone. Once again, police found that the pipes had been severed.
A broken metal pole was left in the Flaggy Hole beach parking lot last Thursday, a caller told police. The caller left a plank on top of it so it could be seen from the road, and police notified the Parks Department to remove it.
An apparently pregnant opossum was spotted in a Harrison Avenue yard Friday night. Police called in wildlife rescue, which arrived and took it away.
