East Hampton Village
On Aug. 19, after a Pudding Hill Lane woman reported a sickly, disoriented raccoon in her backyard, unable to walk on its own, an officer received approval from a sergeant to dispatch the animal. The woman told police she would dispose of it herself.
Police dispatched another sick and lethargic raccoon on Sunday afternoon, this time on Georgica Road. It was left on the shoulder of the road for pickup by the Highway Department.
A man walked into a spin class at Soul Cycle last Thursday morning and became angry when the manager asked him to leave, she told police, asking that he be banned from the property. The man, 36, told an officer he’d been “walking around the village,” and had gone inside to “see what the class was like.” He was advised that he would be arrested if he returned.
Montauk
After leaving his house early Saturday morning, a resident of North Fairfax Road found a stranger asleep in his guest room when he returned late that afternoon. The intruder told police he was “unsure how, when, or why” he’d got there, adding that he’d been drinking the night before and “does not remember anything.” There were no signs of forced entry or stolen items, and the homeowner declined to press charges. The stranger left in a taxi after being warned not to return.
On Sunday morning, a Davis Drive man left his orange e-bike on the trail at Beach Marker 7M for about 30 minutes — as he does at the same time nearly every day, he told police — but returned to find it gone. Officers canvassed the area and spoke with a man leaving the trail, who told them he regularly empties garbage bins in the area. After seeing the bike in the same spot say after day, he said, he’d taken it to the office of the Montauk Beach Property Owners Association for safekeeping. It was brought back and returned to its owner.
Later on Sunday, a man walked into the police substation to report having witnessed “suspicious activity” outside his South Emerson Avenue apartment complex that morning. A neighbor of his, he told police, appeared to have “blown a kiss in the direction of a car containing his wife and son,” and he wanted the incident documented. He did not want the man contacting his family at all, he said, and the neighbor was informed of his request.
Sag Harbor
The driver of a gray Mazda stopped his car in the middle of South Ferry Road on Sunday afternoon, blocking traffic, to “engage verbally,” police reported, with a participant in the weekly pro-Israel demonstration, who then approached and reached into the car window to rip a Palestinian flag out of the driver’s hand. Officers on patrol ran over as the driver got out of the car, yelling, and slapped the demonstrator’s hand away. The two were forcibly separated and arrested. Each was charged with disorderly conduct and issued tickets at police headquarters to appear in court next month.
A Morris Cove Lane resident called police Friday afternoon after finding two 10-foot-long green kayaks “washed up” in front of his house. He would check with his neighbors, he said, to try to find their owner.
A white Kia Telluride with a group of juveniles inside, who’d reportedly been throwing eggs at patrons of the Corner Bar, was pulled over on Ferry Road Friday night by village police, who confirmed that the three youths in the car, who were still holding eggs, had admitted to tossing them at the restaurant. Their parents were contacted and they three were released to return to a rental house in the village where the parents were waiting for them.