Amagansett
Someone wondered why a group of people were sitting in the back of a parked van in the Sportime lot on Saturday night, not moving. They were playing poker, police said.
East Hampton
A pair found arguing by the side of Three Mile Harbor Road on Oct. 20 told police one had cut the other off in traffic. They were separated before it got physical.
Last Thursday, a Boatheader’s Lane resident reported receiving a PSEG bill for a house in Smithtown. He was advised to call the utility directly.
Just after midnight Sunday an officer stopped a man walking near Indian Hill Lane dressed “all in black.” He was headed home from work in the village, he told them, and was cleared to continue on his way.
East Hampton Village
A woman claiming that her car had been damaged on Friday in a hit-and-run in Park Place found herself unable to prove it after police reviewed Flock camera footage there. In cooperation with Southampton Town police, through camera footage from Montauk Highway in Southampton, police could see that the car had been damaged days before. Attempts to contact the woman have been unsuccessful.
A missing-child case was cleared on Friday night after a 13-year-old boy approached a woman at the train station asking to use her phone. The good Samaritan took the boy to police headquarters, where it was discovered that he’d been reported to county police to be missing earlier that day. Police arranged for his mother to pick him up.
Two kids dressed in black and riding skateboards ran from town police in the early hours of Saturday and were able to evade them, even after village police stepped in to search a Highway Department barn on Accabonac Road.
Two men were reported “attempting to gain entry” to a Gingerbread Lane condo on Oct. 20, but when police reviewed a video provided by the caller, they found that the pair were working for a heating and cooling company and had gone to the Gingerbread Lane address rather than the Toilsome Lane house where they were supposed to be.
A mild carbon monoxide leak caused by faulty equipment at Orlebar Brown, a Newtown Lane swimwear shop, brought police and fire officials out on Oct. 19 and then again on Friday, when the shop’s HVAC company was testing some newly installed equipment.
Sag Harbor
The Halloween tradition of “booing” — leaving bags of candy at someone’s door — was met with a call to police Friday night. A resident of Cuffee Drive reported seeing a “suspicious” man peering into car windows. He proved to be chaperoning three kids who were out booing friends.
On the night of Oct. 21, police were able to locate a stolen bicycle that had vanished earlier that evening from outside the cinema, after video footage showing two young men taking the bike and leaving another one in its place was matched to a juvenile seen walking later that night. The stolen bicycle was returned; no charges were filed.
After the side mirror of his car struck a mailbox on Madison Street on Oct. 21, the driver notified police that the mailbox might be sticking out too far over the curb. The mailbox did sustain minimal damage, but the mirror was shattered, the man reported. The incident was referred to code enforcement, which will determine whether the mailbox needs to be moved. If so, its owner said she’d move it.
A man wearing an orange vest and carrying something “resembling a metal detector” was seen in the backyard of a Mulford Lane house on Oct. 20 and reported to police. He proved to be a surveyor hired by the homeowner.
Lilly, a Viszla, was attacked by two other dogs, possibly German shepherds, at Havens Beach on Oct. 20. Police said Lilly, a medium-size sporting breed from Hungary, sustained serious injuries and was taken to the vet, where she underwent emergency surgery. Police passed the information along to East Hampton Animal Control, which has jurisdiction. The names of the owners were redacted from the report.
On Friday night, a white Jeep Grand Cherokee fled after sideswiping a BMW parked at the Gulf station on Hampton Street. Police searched for the Jeep but did not find it.
An eight-inch hole was reported in the Spring Street roadway on Friday. It turned out to be a missing cap covering a water line.
Springs
Choppy waters may have been to blame for a Grady-White boat found beached off Gerard Drive on Oct. 21. The vessel’s owner told Marine Patrol he would wait for high tide to move it.
A Deep Six Drive resident was charged with criminal mischief, a misdemeanor, on Oct. 18 after he allegedly tried to prevent someone from calling police during a domestic dispute.
On the afternoon of Oct. 21, a caller reported someone wearing an Amazon vest, but with no Amazon truck in sight, walking on Queen’s Lane. Police did not find anyone matching the description.
Construction workers damaged the lawn of her Three Mile Harbor Road house on Friday, the homeowner told police. The men promised to fix the damage.
Wainscott
His sunglasses went missing Saturday after he stopped to grab a slice of pizza at La Capannina, a Springs resident told police. He retraced his steps and checked the parking lot, he said, but found no trace of them. Later that evening, a woman took the sunglasses into headquarters, saying she’d found them in the pizza parlor’s parking lot.