Amagansett
Two women stole a pumpkin from a bench outside Amber Waves Farm on Saturday evening.
A local man faces a misdemeanor charge of criminal tampering. He was arrested on Sept. 30 after allegedly throwing dog feces on a neighbor’s driveway earlier in the month.
East Hampton Village
A Florida man seen fishing in the duck pond at the Nature Trail on Oct. 5 told police he had a “state freshwater fishing license,” but not a valid village fishing permit. (There is such a thing, but only for Hook Pond.) He was ticketed.
It wasn’t the first time a man driving a white BMW had stolen food from Red Horse Market, the manager there told police last week. In the latest incident, on Oct. 1, he’d left without paying for a salmon kebab worth $29. The store will not press charges, but asked that the man be warned not to return.
Someone keyed the side of a Manhattan man’s Tesla on Oct. 7. He told police he suspected it was a man parked next to him at Stop & Shop, after a passenger in his Tesla opened its door into his car, which he said caused no damage. His own front door panel and rear fender were “significantly damaged,” he told police.
On Friday, a shopper at Red Horse reported his Audi stolen from the parking lot. He was able to trace its location to Wainscott, where police found it. The driver, a woman, told officers that it looked exactly like her rental car, and she’d taken it accidentally, thinking it was hers. Police took the rightful owner to pick up his car; the woman was not charged.
A Manhattan man reported to be causing a disturbance at the Golden Pear on the afternoon of Oct. 5 was told by police that he would be arrested if he returned to the cafe. The manager said the man had been “harassing customers and staff.”
A truck driver who sideswiped a school bus on the morning of Oct. 6 and left the scene was issued a summons by police. The bus was parked on Main Street, according to the report, when the truck clipped its side-view mirror and drove off. No children were on board at the time.
Two large dogs barking loudly in a car parked at Park Place drew the attention of multiple passers-by and police on Sunday. The owner was cited for the animals’ “unreasonable noise.”
Montauk
Loud music on the Navy Road beach last Thursday night was coming from speakers that a Baldwin man told police he was selling. They told him to turn the music off.
On Oct. 5, a small grease fire was reported on a pizza stone on North Filmore Road. It was swiftly extinguished before police arrived.
Several complaints came in Sunday night about noise levels at Sole East, but police said they proved to be unfounded: Each time they measured the decibel levels, they were under the legal limit.
Sag Harbor
A man spotted urinating on the front entrance of Le Bilboquet last Thursday has been banned by police from entering any of the businesses at 1A Bay Street.
Police are looking for the owner of a small black S.U.V. which they say hit a cyclist on the morning of Oct. 6 at the intersection of Jermain Ave. and Division Street. The cyclist told an officer that the driver had run the stop sign and “clipped” the side of his bike, causing him to fall off.
On Saturday night, after a hit-and-run involving a parked car on Main Street, police tracked down the driver with the help of a witness and a Flock camera. The man was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, a violation, and, after further review, a misdemeanor; failure to install an interlock device, a breathalyzer system sometimes required after a conviction for drunken driving. He was additionally charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle, also a misdemeanor. Police noted that he was impaired by alcohol when he was arrested, but he was not charged with D.W.I.
A man police say spit on the door of Sag Pizza and made “inappropriate remarks about the manager” on the night of Oct. 6 was notified by police that he should not return to the business.