Amagansett
A call about a “suspicious person” running through a cleared wooded area on Abraham’s Path on Saturday night took police to the spot, where a man told them he was just checking out the place where the new senior center is being built because his parents are seniors. He was advised that he should not be on the property, and he said he’d go home.
East Hampton
Repeated text messages to stop contacting her ex-boyfriend “Lloyd” prompted a Kent Place woman to call police on the night of July 14. She told them she’d hired Lloyd to help move items into her house but they’d had no further contact, and she wanted the texts to stop. Police contacted “the other woman,” the one texting, who promised to stop.
East Hampton Village
A bag containing a powdery white substance was found inside a brown wallet on Newtown Lane last Thursday afternoon, and police, using a mobile drug test, identified it as cocaine. The owner was contacted and met officers on the corner of Main Street to retrieve the wallet, but claimed that the drug was not his. Police told him it would be confiscated and destroyed.
That night at the CVS on Montauk Highway, a woman made a purchase and then drove off in a blue Tesla without paying for a copy of The New York Post. The store manager stated that she would not press charges, but wanted the woman banned from the store, saying that she has stolen from it in the past. Police found the woman, who told them she was “out running errands for the day,” and ordered her to stay away from the store.
Montauk
She “tends to leave her property in places she visits,” a woman from Martinsville, N.J., admitted, after telling police that someone had stolen her camera at the Point Bar and Grill early Saturday morning. She’d been drinking, she acknowledged, but had the camera with her at the bar and thought it was still there when she left in an Uber around 3 a.m. Bar staff stated that it had not been turned in, and police told the woman that someone would be in touch if it showed up.
Sag Harbor
A caller reported three youths lying “in the middle of Suffolk Street,” next to a black S.U.V., at around 3 in the morning on July 14. The three told responding officers they were waiting for a friend, who’d be arriving on the 3:30 a.m. train to Bridgehampton, and were out on the street because their vehicle had no air-conditioning.
That night a man walked into village headquarters to complain that Optimum was charging him for two months of service even though he had returned his equipment — which he said was over 12 years old and no longer worked properly — to the company. He was advised that this was a civil matter and police could only document the complaint.
A woman attempted to pass a counterfeit $100 bill at Espresso Da Asporto around closing time on July 14, according to the restaurant’s owner, who told police she was wearing a black tank top and shorts. He’d informed her it was fake, he said, and when she asked for it back he refused, saying he would first have to inform police. He wanted the incident on record, adding that he would review surveillance footage and email police an image of the woman.
A UPS customer became “confrontational” with his employees on the evening of July 16, the store’s owner told police, stating that the man had entered an employees-only area to yell at him and refused to leave. The customer had called the day before, asking that his packages be left outside the store so he could pick them up after hours, and an employee had seen him do so, the owner said. However, the man had returned that day, upset that they “could have been stolen.” The owner asked only for documentation at this time, but said he might pursue charges in the future.