Amagansett
At 3 a.m. on Halloween, an East Hampton woman drove into a utility pole on Town Lane. She was uninjured, but was charged with misdemeanor drunken driving after failing roadside sobriety tests.
East Hampton
A dumpster got detached from the garbage truck emptying it on Oct. 28 and fell onto a Jeep on Oyster Shores Road, damaging the Jeep’s windshield and driver’s-side door.
An e-bike was stolen from a truck parked at a Spinner Lane residence on Oct. 26. The owner told police his truck’s door was open when it happened.
An employee at Inter-Deli on Pantigo Road was charged last week with selling a pack of Newport cigarettes to an underage person. Selling tobacco products to a minor is a misdemeanor.
A PayPal scam was narrowly averted on Oct. 27, just as an East Hampton man was preparing to transfer $50,000 into another person’s PayPal account. The victim told police someone purporting to be PayPal customer service had said the transfer would be necessary. Employees at his bank told him it sounded suspicious.
Eight car-versus-deer accidents were reported to police last week.
East Hampton Village
On Oct. 28 on Park Place, a man was observed by police tossing a bottle of Casamigos Tequila onto the ground; he was charged with littering and possession of an open container of alcohol. The same man had been detained in Sag Harbor the day before and charged with driving a stolen car and harassment.
A man described as “undomiciled” was found sleeping in the backyard sauna of a Newtown Lane residence on Oct. 28. The homeowner told police the man got “verbally aggressive” with him after he asked him to leave. Police found the man in Herrick Park later in the day and warned him not to return to the Newtown Lane property.
A man working on Newtown Lane on Oct. 23 told police he had parked his car behind a cafe with the driver’s-side window open a few inches and found a $50 bill missing from his wallet when he returned.
On Halloween, police ticketed a man after finding his young son riding an e-bike on the Newtown Lane and Main Street sidewalks. Officers stopped the boy, who was riding with an 18-year-old friend, and impounded the bike. The boy’s father was cited twice, once for allowing the underage operation of an e-bike and again for letting his son ride without a helmet.
Last Thursday, a woman making a left-hand turn from Main Street into Newtown Lane drove over the curb and onto the center island, causing what police described as an “oil spill.” No one was injured.
A village resident told police last Thursday that someone had opened an “economic disaster relief” loan in his name through the Social Security Administration, and that a payment on that loan had been automatically deducted from his Social Security check. He called the agency, which told him to file a police report and the fraudulent loan would be shut down.
The driver of a delivery van accidentally dropped the vehicle’s keys into an Ocean Avenue storm drain Friday. Police were able to fish them out.
Montauk
On Oct. 16, a woman from Jackson, Wyo., drove into a parked car near Carl Fisher Plaza. She was not hurt, but was charged with aggravated drunken driving.
A man found no irregular activity on his credit card statement after a caller informed him of a suspicious charge. The caller offered to “connect him with the New York City Police Department” to file a report, but he smelled a rat and went to town police to report a scam instead.
Sag Harbor
An East Hampton man who had confrontations with multiple police departments last week was charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle, a misdemeanor, on Oct. 27 after Sag Harbor Village officers stopped him on Main Street driving a car that had been reported stolen in Southampton. The same man had been reported days earlier by a Main Street shop for having asked an employee under the age of 18 to try on clothes to “see how they looked on her” and making “sexual references.” The man told police he had simply asked the girl whether the store’s cameras “have audio.” He was charged with second-degree harassment, a violation, and told to stay away from the store. Several days later, the girl told police she had seen him walking on Division Street and he had shouted, “Don’t look at me.” She wanted the incident on record, she said.
At 1 a.m. on Monday, police spotted two men behind the so-called Fort Apache building on Main Street “handing something back and forth to each other.” When they confronted the pair, they reported, one of them said, “I have cocaine,” and answered yes when asked if he had a weapon. No drugs or weapons were found on either men, and they were told they were free to go.
Late Monday night, according to the police report, an “unruly” woman trying to get a ride back to Riverhead was “immediately hostile” to police when they questioned her in front of the Sag Harbor Cinema. She left in a cab without identifying herself.
On Friday, a man getting a coffee at Sagtown Coffee found himself served with a notice of trespass instead and told not to return. He is thought to have “destroyed the bathroom” on a previous visit, according to employees.
After dropping off a fare on Walker Avenue last week, an Uber driver called police to check on the woman, whom he thought appeared intoxicated. She told police she was fine.
An Elizabeth Street resident left her house on Friday and found the glass in a rear-door window shattered upon her return. Nothing was missing, she told police, adding that she did not think the incident was criminal in nature.
A small bus parked on Cross Street on Friday was in a legal spot, police said, but it was blocking the view of oncoming traffic from Rector Street. The owner promised to move it.
Someone complained on Oct. 28 about load music coming from Kidd Squid brewery. When requested to do so, an employee there turned the music down.
On Oct. 28 police received an alert from a BMW that it had been involved in a crash. They found the car, which had collided with a utility pole on Main Street. No one was injured.
Springs
Last Thursday, a resident of Neck Path told police he had accidentally struck a fuel truck in his driveway. He would pay for the minor damage, he said.
Wainscott
Only one of the two drinks a man ordered from 7-Eleven through DoorDash was delivered on Oct. 26, he complained to police. The cashier at the store found that only one of the two had come through the system initially; the other came through later. The caller eventually received both drinks.