Amagansett
A Scrimshaw Lane man called police at around 1 a.m. on Friday after spotting a pair of shoes, not his, on his lawn. Officers responded, only to discover an intoxicated stranger asleep in a chair in the backyard, who stated upon waking that he was visiting from Connecticut and thought he was at his residence. Police drove him to a house a few minutes away, and watched as he “entered without incident.” The homeowner declined to press charges.
East Hampton Village
After a “disoriented” raccoon was reported wandering around a Lily Pond Lane house last Thursday morning, police contacted wildlife rescue, which said someone would respond to capture it. A neighbor called back that afternoon, however, to report a “lethargic” raccoon “foaming at the mouth.” The neighbor had called wildlife rescue as well, which said that the animal “sounds sick” and likely had distemper, a highly contagious and often fatal viral disease, but that no one was available to respond at that time. Village police removed the raccoon from the property.
A group of teenagers accused of throwing eggs at cars in the Stop and Shop parking lot on Friday evening told police they’d been “tossing eggs to each other” but had not hit any cars. They were advised not to throw eggs in a crowded parking lot.
Montauk
A Grant Drive man left his Big Cat e-bike, valued at $1,700, on the shoulder of Old Montauk Highway on the evening of July 27 with a flat tire. While walking to work the next morning, he told police, he found it gone. An initial search of the area was not successful.
Sag Harbor
Police went to Howard Street on the afternoon of July 30 after a caller described a “possible unauthorized speed bump” there, and found that a plastic speed bump had indeed been installed in the road. They removed it, found its owner, and explained that speed bumps cannot be placed on public roads without authorization. The owner complained of speeding vehicles in the area throughout the day, “especially in the morning between 7 and 10 a.m.,” and requested extra police patrols during those hours.
A group entered the Harbor Shop convenience store just before midnight on Friday, and on the way to the cashier dropped a case of beer. One of the cans burst, and they attempted to hide it, the cashier told police. She asked them to retrieve and pay for the damaged case, she said, and they complied at first but then “got upset” when she refused to sell them more alcohol, and stole a bottle of wine. She asked that the incident be documented.
On Saturday afternoon, a “regular customer” of a Main Street boutique dropped a pink floral hair clip valued at $15 into her bag while browsing and left without paying, the owner told police. She would request payment the next time the woman was in the store, she said, but would also like an order banning her from the property. She was advised to contact police when the woman returns. (In a similar incident last month, six of the same clips were stolen from the store by a group of girls, who have not been found.)
A patron of Sag Pizza, accused Sunday night of threatening to “stab the staff with a fork” after being asked to leave the premises, told police he’d paid for his food and was trying to sit down and eat with his family when an employee took the food and told him to leave. Surveillance footage reportedly showed the man getting up from the table, fork in hand, and approaching the employee “in a menacing manner,” according to police. The employee declined to press charges and the family left without further incident.
Wainscott
In the early hours of Sunday, on Daniel’s Hole Road, a Brooklyn man was charged with reckless endangerment. Police said he’d “run at full sprint” and kicked a plastic “prop wall,” estimated to weigh about 300 pounds, which then fell over onto another man, who reportedly experienced “substantial pain” as a result and briefly lost consciousness. The Brooklyn man was arraigned in town court later that day and released with a ticket to return at a later date.
