Amagansett
Police searched but did not find a gray van that was reportedly driving in loops around the Lazy Point Road and Shore Road area on Nov. 2.
East Hampton
After an employee of a North Main Street gas station asked a delivery driver for Advanced Auto Parts to move his truck, which was blocking a gas pump, the man assaulted him, he told police, punching him in the face several times before trying to flee. The driver was blocked momentarily when someone stood in front of his truck, but was able to leave after attempting to punch the employee again. Police found the alleged assailant at the Advanced Auto Parts store on King Street and told him that his victim, who had declined medical attention, would not press charges but that he should not return to that gas station, or to another one nearby on Three Mile Harbor Road.
Someone threw a rock through a window at Accabonac Apartments on Oct. 17. The woman who lives at the address told police she heard a noise coming from her living room between 1 and 3 a.m. The window was partially shattered and the blinds were damaged. Police took the rock as evidence.
A man who had brought a tire rim to J.S.M. Auto Repair on North Main Street in March returned on Oct. 28 claiming that an employee of the shop had thrown the rim away. Police told the man that the dispute was civil in nature, and he should not return to the shop.
Someone called police Saturday night to say a car was parked by the side of Accabonac Road and the couple inside were shouting at each other. They were gone by the time officers arrived.
East Hampton Village
A foot chase Sunday morning ended in the arrest of a man, known to police, who had been riding a bike through Herrick Park when they stopped him near Main Street. After providing police with a name they knew to be false, he ran across Main Street, they said, followed by an officer and a sergeant. When they caught up to him, he was “taken down to the ground” and charged with resisting arrest, false personation, and obstructing government administration, all misdemeanors. Back at headquarters on Cedar Street, he complained of wrist pain and was taken to Stony Brook’s emergency complex on Pantigo Road for evaluation. Police picked him up there and took him to Riverhead, where, they said, he had two outstanding warrants.
On Nov. 2, Flock cameras on Main Street helped police track down a missing person, whose parents in Bethpage had reported him missing the day before. They caught up to the missing person on the corner of Woods Lane and Toilsome Lane and he was taken to Stony Brook Hospital for evaluation.
A Florida woman reported on Nov. 3 that her prescription medication was missing from the CVS pharmacy on Pantigo Road. An employee there told police the pharmacy simply did not have the prescription yet, but would notify the woman when it arrived.
A cygnet swan standing in the middle of Cove Hollow Road and blocking traffic on Nov. 2 proved to be uninjured and eventually flew to Georgica Pond.
Montauk
Overnight on Oct. 29, someone damaged two door locks at the Montauk Playhouse’s second-floor bathrooms. A town employee told police he had replaced the batteries in the electronic locks that day, but was informed the next day by a building employee that both had been damaged. Together, they will cost around $1,800 to replace.
Three Florida men staying at the Marram Montauk hotel allegedly had too much to drink Saturday night and then caused a disturbance trying to outshout each other just after midnight. Police said they agreed to quiet down.
After receiving four emails on Oct. 20 about a new bank account being opened in her name, a Montauk woman told police she suspected fraud. No money was lost, she said, but the bank did open an identity-theft investigation.
Sag Harbor
A woman reported a man whom she said was promoting his “fake identification business” in front of the American Hotel on Oct. 24. He may have overheard her talking with her husband about his immigration status, she told police, when a Latino man approached them, saying he could make them a fake “United States residency ID card.” He gave the couple a card with his name, phone number, and address on it and showed them examples of similar cards he had made, including his own. The woman told police she was “insulted” by the solicitation and that her husband was getting his residency established legally.
What a frightened passerby thought was someone in a clown costume, crouched next to the Dock House last Thursday night, turned out to be an intoxicated man in a reflective motorcycle jacket who had “sat down to take a nap” at the Wharf Street property. An Uber took him home.
Police were able to track the movement of a bike that was stolen from Main Street on Saturday morning, but the thief was not immediately found. Cameras along the street captured a man taking the bike and riding it around town. The investigation is ongoing and the bicycle’s owner has vowed to press charges once the thief is located.
A former employee has been sending harassing and “incoherent” text messages to his former boss, police were informed on Nov. 2. Although Sag Harbor police have not been able to contact the man, he is known to East Hampton Town police; other reports have been filed for similar reasons in that jurisdiction.
A Bay Street man told police on Nov. 4 that he paid a person he believed to be a dog breeder nearly $5,000, plus additional money, through online money-transferring apps. He now believes that he was scammed.
Playing music from a smartphone and smoking a marijuana “blunt” is not illegal, police said, but they did tell a man on the afternoon of Nov. 2 to stay out of Main Street business properties while doing it.
Springs
A Harrison Avenue mailbox was damaged near midnight last Thursday. Its owner told police it looked like someone had driven into it.
