East Hampton
An officer responding on Dec. 31 to a noise complaint from Whooping Hollow Road located a mechanical box in the backyard of a house on the road “emitting a loud noise” and displaying a “bright red light.” A phone number printed on the box identified it as the property of a wastewater treatment company with an office in Southampton, and the light and noise indicated that the property’s septic tank required attention. The officer found a phone number for the homeowner, left a message about the alarm, and called the neighbor who had made the complaint to apprise her of the situation.
There was smoke outside her house, a Three Mile Harbor Road resident reported on Dec. 30, but when police arrived she told them “it had since moved from where she last saw it.” The officers, unable to find any sign of smoke or fire, determined that the “smoke” had actually been clouds passing by.
East Hampton Village
Police went to Town Pond Friday afternoon at the behest of a caller asking them to make sure a young skater was safe on the frozen surface. The boy’s guardian assured the officers that they’d tested the ice when they arrived to make sure it was solid. Last month, Dispatch received a similar call about a group playing hockey on the pond, and in both cases police determined that the skaters were not in danger.
Montauk
Police received a report of a “belligerent and intoxicated patron” at Shagwong Tavern around 10 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and met with the manager, who identified the man and said his behavior had been making other patrons “uncomfortable.” He was reportedly “extremely intoxicated and aggressive” during his police interview, and an officer advised him that he was no longer wanted in the establishment and called him a taxi. He left without causing further disturbance.
Sag Harbor
A “slim Caucasian woman with blond hair” had been using his building’s laundry room without permission, a Madison Street man complained on Dec. 15. She often washes children’s clothing, he noted, which she carries in a clear plastic bag. At around 5 that morning, he told police, he’d seen her exiting the room and tried to get her attention, but she ignored him and walked down the street into a building on the corner of the block. A resident of that building pointed out her apartment, but when an officer questioned her she denied entering the other building and stated that she does her laundry in her own apartment. The officer got back in touch with the caller, who confirmed that she was the woman he’d seen and asked that she be banned from his property. When the officer returned to the corner building, the woman was not home, and he left her a voice-mail message informing her of the ban.
A group was harassing PSEG workers at the intersection of Main and Glover Streets, a caller reported during a village blackout on the night of Dec. 19. An officer stopped by the site and spoke to the workers, who stated that a man standing behind their truck had been following them. The officer spoke to the man, who said he “wanted to know when his power was going to return,” and informed him that PSEG was “working to restore power to the area as quickly as possible.” The man then left the scene.
Wainscott
On New Year’s morning, a South Breeze Drive resident found an injured deer in a wooded area behind her house, possibly stuck in a fence. An officer located the deer and, seeing that its injury had rendered it unable to stand, dispatched it with his department-issued weapon. Because it was on vacant land, far from the roadway, the officer reported that he’d left it in place, “to let mother nature take its course.”
A white van had been parked outside his Hedges Lane house for about an hour, a caller reported Saturday evening, and he didn’t know who was inside. An officer drove over, saw the van parked outside the house with its hazard lights on, and spoke to the driver, who identified himself as an Amazon employee and stated that he was taking a 45-minute break before making a delivery to the caller’s house. He provided his company identification card and assured the officer he would be leaving the area after delivering the package.