East Hampton
“You should know,” was an unknown man’s reply when a Surrey Court woman questioned which pool company he worked for last Thursday evening. She had discovered him walking around her pool, she said, and he had claimed he was there to do work, but drove off in a gray Ford F-150 after their exchange. She called police to have the incident documented, and responding officers did not locate the truck in the neighborhood.
Montauk
A group of employees at the Marram boutique hotel got into a heated argument on the morning of June 25, prompting one to pull a small black pocketknife out of his pocket and another to grab a black “roofing-style hammer” in self-defense, the men explained to responding officers. One man had accused another of “drinking juice that wasn’t his,” and a third joined in, also upset about the juice, which the drinker told police he had taken from the “common work refrigerator.” A fourth employee overheard the argument and separated all parties. No one involved wanted to pursue charges. As police left the scene two of the employees were hugging each other, sharing a drink, and saying that “they are good friends and this was a misunderstanding.”
Sag Harbor
A large black-and-white dog pooped in the parking area behind a Main Street art gallery on the morning of June 23 as its owner, who “appeared to be in his late 60s,” urinated next to the dog, the gallerist told police, providing surveillance footage to confirm his account. Police identified the man and called his landline, informing him that he would be arrested if he returned to the property. The man agreed not to return.
Carrying four blaring smoke detectors, a North Haven man walked into village police headquarters on Saturday night and claimed that they had been going off in his house for three days and could not be deactivated. Police were unable to disable the alarms and contacted the fire marshal, who responded to the station and properly disposed of the devices.
A man who “appeared to have a short temper” approached a traffic control officer on Main Street the next evening and asked for help finding his missing car, adding that he was “going to call the trustees” if she could not help him, she reported. A colleague had observed the “aggressive” exchange and instructed the first T.C.O. to leave the area, prompting the man to demand the name and badge number of the second officer and “make derogatory comments” about her father. Her father had nothing to do with the situation, she informed him, and called police when the man grew more aggressive. He fled the scene on foot, and both T.C.O.s requested that the incident be documented.
Springs
An Amazon delivery driver placed a package on her front porch, took a picture as proof of delivery, and then absconded with it, a Lincoln Avenue woman alleged on Saturday evening. She had opened an investigation with Amazon and the company refunded the purchase, she said, but refused to provide the driver’s name and information, and she wanted to press charges. Police received an email from the woman the next afternoon stating that the package had mistakenly been delivered to the house of her neighbors, who returned it to her that day.
As a New York City man attempted to launch his sailboat on Friday evening an “unexpected gust of wind” propelled it out of his reach, and it was “adrift in the middle of Gardiner’s Bay,” he told police. Marine Patrol picked the man up, took him to the sailboat, and “safely transferred” him aboard before escorting the boat back to the beach.
Wainscott
A Chevy Silverado drove past his children “at a high rate of speed” on the morning of June 23, honking its horn, as the family rode bicycles on Sayre’s Path, a Beach Lane man told police. He had seen the truck driving recklessly in the area many times, he added, and decided to follow it down Beach Lane to the Wainscott Beach parking lot, where he and the driver engaged in a “verbal altercation.” Police contacted the driver, a Sayre’s Path resident, who stated that the cyclist and his children had been riding in the middle of the road, and he had honked so that they would move out of the way. He added that the other man had spit on him as they argued in the parking lot, an allegation the cyclist denied, though he admitted they had been shouting in close proximity and that the man may have thought he spit on him intentionally. The men were advised to contact police if further problems arise.
