East Hampton
Quogue Village police stopped a woman with an active warrant out of East Hampton last Thursday night and contacted town police, who drove there to pick her up. The woman, who was wanted for failure to appear in court in 2017 for a town code violation — building without a permit — was transported to headquarters in Wainscott and held overnight for a morning appearance in Town Justice Court. She was released with an order to return at a later date.
A West Way woman’s trees are unexpectedly dying, she told police Friday afternoon, and she suspects that her next-door neighbor is to blame. The trees are located near the fence line between the properties, she explained, and pointed out “carvings” in the bark that she believes has done the damage. The neighbor denied knowing anything about the damage and said he hadn’t gone onto her land without permission, but was formally banned from it at her request. The officer noted that the damage appeared consistent with “deer rub” — “antlers scraping against the bark” and with no other evidence available, the case was closed.
Police observed a pile of garbage in the grass along Towhee Trail on Sept. 9, and noted among the refuse several mailing labels with a delivery address on Blue Jay Way. An officer spoke with the homeowner there, who said that his son had visited recently to help clean out the house and “may have taken some garbage,” though he was “old enough to know better than to dump it on the side of the road.” The homeowner was warned that he could be cited for illegal dumping if it happened again, and he apologized for his son’s probable actions before agreeing to go collect the garbage.
East Hampton Village
A caller wanted to “turn himself in for rape and murder,” he told police Friday afternoon, stating that he had raped a woman and killed two people at a house in the village. He added that he was 17 years old, had an AR-15, and “wanted to have a shootout with police.” Several officers secured the area and deployed a drone to check the house for occupants, which did not detect any activity inside. They contacted the homeowner, who did not recognize the name given by the caller. No one should be in the house, he said, and asked an employee to take the officers a key. The residence was cleared, and the report was determined to have been unfounded after the caller’s number was traced to California.
Montauk
A Mulford Avenue resident walked into the police substation on the evening of Sept. 8, claiming that her roommate had been spreading rumors about her to their landlord to get her kicked out of the house, and had also gone to her manager at work to try to get her fired. She was actively looking for other housing arrangements, she said, but requested that an officer call the roommate to ask her to stop. The roommate later went to the substation to file a similar complaint, and the two of them were advised to avoid contact. Both women requested documentation of their complaints.
Sag Harbor
A shopper bought what appeared to be a Labubu, the highly sought after collectible plush toy produced by the company Pop Mart, at the Sag Harbor Variety Store on Sept. 10, she told police that afternoon, but realized it was a fake after opening the box and seeing that the company name printed on the toy was actually “Por Mart.” The store refused to take it back, she said, and she wanted to document the incident to warn others that they were buying a fraudulent product.
A woman attempting to return her rented car to a company called Kyte Vehicles discovered it had gone out of business, and could not figure out what to do with the car, she told police at headquarters on Sunday afternoon. She didn’t want to get in trouble for having a car that wasn’t hers, she said, and requested documentation of her attempt to return it. Police were not able to contact the company either, and advised the woman that this was a civil issue and that she might have to call a lawyer.