Amagansett
Last Thursday afternoon, in the run-up to the Metallica concert at the Stephen Talkhouse, a “small explosion” was heard in the parking lot behind the Amagansett Wine and Spirits. Police determined that someone had thrown a mini liquor bottle into a cigarette receptacle in the lot, and that the heat inside the receptacle had caused the bottle to explode. The town fire marshal was notified.
East Hampton
Two Squires Path homeowners were arrested on the night of Aug. 23 at a house party during which they allowed “200 to 300 juveniles” to consume alcohol. They were scheduled to appear in Justice Court yesterday to answer the misdemeanor charges.
A Harvest Lane man who called police on Aug. 5 to report that his blue Ford F-150 had been stolen from his driveway learned later that the vehicle had been repossessed after being listed in Philadelphia as stolen. He had traveled to Brooklyn in early April to buy the truck for $5,000 in cash after coming across the listing on Facebook Marketplace, the man told police, and now believed he’d been involved in a scam. Officers attempted to contact the repossession company to determine the car’s location, but were not successful. The car contained several personal and work-related items, the man claimed, including approximately $7,500 worth of shoes that did not belong to him, and billing documents that he needed for his work.
Montauk
A resident of Tarrytown, N.Y., walked into the substation on the morning of Aug. 1 and told police he was a victim of a fraudulent rental. He’d found an ad on Craigslist for a rental property on South Lake Drive, he said, and signed a lease before wiring $3,115 to a bank account in Maryland, but upon arriving that morning at the property had found he’d been scammed. The actual homeowner told police he had no knowledge of the lease, and that he only rents the house through Airbnb and Vrbo. He added, though, that something similar had happened three years ago, when his house was listed on another third-party website. The Tarrytown man reported last week that he is no longer here, and that his local police department is investigating the case.
The manager of Montauk Surf Shop called police to the store on the evening of Aug. 25 to report that an electric scooter had been missing since May. According to a built-in GPS system, he said, a Crystal Drive, East Hampton address was its last known location before the battery died. Officers contacted the last renter, who produced a receipt confirming that she’d returned the scooter the day before it went missing. After the owner of the Crystal Drive house said she hadn’t seen a scooter, police investigated further, and discovered the scooter stored in “town property,” another officer having at some point turned it in. The manager was advised to call a sergeant and arrange a convenient time to pick it up.
Sag Harbor
A small German shepherd jumped out of the bed of a pickup truck and tackled her goldendoodle in the field next to Havens Beach, leaving it “shaking” and apparently afraid to move, a caller reported on Aug. 27. When she asked the dog’s owner to keep his distance to prevent another attack, she said, he yelled “Shut your fat f***ing mouth” and “Don’t f***ing tell me what to do.” Responding officers did not observe any visible injuries on the Goldendoodle, and the owner of the German shepherd described the dogs’ interaction as a “playful thing.” Neither party pursued charges, though the woman stated she might take her dog to the vet for a follow-up check.
A motorist hit a parked car on Wharf Street that night and drove off without stopping, a witness told police, and a review of surveillance footage confirmed the account and led officers to an unoccupied car, registered to a Noyac woman, parked in a lot on Long Island Avenue. They left a voice-mail message for the woman, who went to headquarters the next day and said she was “unaware that she was involved in an accident,” but had noticed damage to her rear bumper consistent with the police description. A computer check revealed that her registration had been suspended since late July after an insurance lapse, and she was released with an appearance ticket to be in village court later this month.
The Sag Harbor Inn received several guest complaints last Thursday about a “suspicious” black van parked on the property with its windows covered. Officers knocked on the door of the vehicle “several times” to make sure on one was camping inside, but left after receiving no response, noting that the van was parked legally and that no violations had been observed.
