Amagansett
Someone broke into the Clam Bar, pried open the safe, and stole nearly $4,500 in cash early Sunday morning. Police canvassed the area, on Napeague, and discovered that an unknown male had entered the nearby Lobster Roll in the early morning and removed a small black lockbox, which was empty at the time. Statements were collected from “all available witnesses.”
East Hampton Village
After a caller reported a man “possibly climbing tombstones and trees” in North End Cemetery last Thursday afternoon, officers arrived to find an apparently intoxicated local resident standing in the middle of the road. They escorted him safely back to his residence.
That same afternoon, a man returned to his Jeep Wrangler, parked in the Two Mile Hollow Beach lot, to discover that a bag from the Eric Emanuel store was still in the car, but the $500 to $600 worth of merchandise it had contained was not. He went to village police headquarters to document the theft.
Montauk
A Medford man found it “suspicious” when, as he pulled up to the pump at the downtown Gulf station just after midnight on June 30, an attendant told him his car had a nail stuck in a rear tire, and offered to patch it. The driver told police the nail was in a spot that would have been difficult to see; the attendant stated that “all he did was patch the tire for the customer.” The driver paid for the service but asked police to document the incident.
The day before, a “harassing” voice-mail message was left on the landline of St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church, a priest reported, and police identified a woman from Stuart, Fla., as the likely caller. A phone call to the woman confirmed that her voice was consistent with the message, and the priest requested documentation.
“You need to get out of my room,” a man yelled as he walked into a Surf Lodge hotel room just before midnight on Friday, the start of the holiday weekend, waking up the New York City woman who had been asleep in the bed. She asked him to test the entry code for the room and closed the door behind him, she told police, and he left when he was unable to unlock the door.
Sag Harbor
On the afternoon of July 2, a woman who “felt uncomfortable” in the bathroom of the Gulf station on Hampton Street called police, saying she believed there was a camera inside the ceiling fan above the toilet. She further stated that she was a property manager and had “never seen a bathroom fan with what appeared to be a small circle inside.” Police checked the bathroom and did not notice anything out of the ordinary.
A man called police that same day to say he was concerned that someone was tracking his car. His phone had received an “AirTag detected near you” notification while driving, he said, and the same thing had happened the day before. Police could not locate either the AirTag or the man, who stated he would go to the BMW dealership to ask for their assistance.
A woman began banging on the door of the Thriftknd vintage store before it opened on Sunday morning, the store’s manager said, adding that the same woman had been coming into the store “repeatedly,” insisting on speaking only to her, in a “rude and confrontational manner,” which was making her increasingly uncomfortable. Officers contacted the woman, who is well known to them, and advised her that she would be arrested for trespassing if she returns to the store.
Springs
“Threatening messages” were left on his phone, a Lotus Avenue man reported, further claiming that the man who left them had “thrown fishing hooks at him” in the past and “may be responsible for cutting his fish nets and traps in the water.” The target of his complaint told police that in fact he’d blocked the Lotus Avenue man’s number; denied cutting anyone’s nets or traps, and stated that he had never “thrown fishhooks” at anyone and “does not appreciate” being accused of theft. Both parties agreed not to press charges.