Amagansett
An officer reported a “suspicious auto” around 12:45 a.m. last Thursday, describing an unoccupied red Saab parked on Indian Wells Highway with two doors open and the interior light on. Shortly afterward, the owner returned to the car, explaining that she’d been loading it up to drive to the train station, and left the doors open because they “tend to lock automatically.”
Montauk
Police responded to South Elmwood Avenue on the morning of Jan. 6 following a report of a possible structure fire at My Sunny Laundry there. One of the washing machines had started smoking, an employee said, but Montauk firefighters had already shut off power to the unit and stopped the smoke. A town fire marshal was called in to investigate the incident.
A woman walking by Ditch Plain Beach on Jan. 7 came across a small bird “tangled in black string” and called police for help. An officer met her at the scene, “carefully cut the string with a knife,” and, noting that the bird “appeared to be in good health otherwise,” released it near the ocean.
A pickup truck was reported off the roadway near Camp Hero around 1 a.m. on Friday, and police arrived to find an unoccupied gray Ford Ranger sitting in a ditch by Camp Hero State Park Road. A search of the area turned up two men from East Hampton, ages 26 and 28, who said they’d left the truck “in search of a phone signal.” The officers waited with the men until State Park police arrived to help.
Sag Harbor
“Unwanted guests” were trying to take his belongings and refusing to leave, a Brandywine Drive resident reported to 911 last Thursday, adding that one of them wouldn’t wake up and “may have overdosed.” An officer searched the apartment and, finding no sign of other occupants or a medical emergency, asked where the “guests” were. The caller then said they “may have run away” before he arrived. Noting that nothing appeared to be missing, the officer determined that further action was not necessary.
A tall woman with long blond hair had been “acting odd” at the Splendid Stitch, an employee told police on Jan. 7. She was “constantly shaking and spilling her coffee on the floor” while browsing, the employee said, and identified herself “by several names” during a conversation. The woman’s clothing, a fur jacket and jeans, were in “a disheveled state,” she added, and “she started yelling at someone on her phone” after leaving the store. The employee asked that her report be documented.
Someone had stolen her safe, a Wooded Path woman reported on Jan. 5. She’d last seen it in July, before her rental tenants moved in, and noticed it was missing from the basement utility room on Dec. 30. The basement had been locked throughout the lease, she told police, and the only people with access had been her longtime housekeeper and various workers who’d used the basement entrance to access the house. The safe, she said, contained a gold Cartier watch worth $3,500, an antique pearl necklace worth $4,500, six hard drives worth $600, and a wallet containing $1,000 cash, and the safe itself was worth $200. She requested documentation for insurance purposes, and said she’d try to find photos of the missing items to email to detectives.
Springs
A Rosemarie’s Lane man called police on the night of Jan. 6 to report that “a well-dressed man” had knocked on his door around 9 p.m. and asked whether an Amazon package had been delivered there by accident. The resident pointed him to the house he was looking for, and the man apologized for the inconvenience and walked off toward the other house. The resident found the incident suspicious, he said, because of the late time of night. Police checked the area but did not find the man, and advised the resident to call again if he returned.
