Amagansett
Two men were reportedly digging a path through the dunes on Napeague on Sunday morning. Police said the incident occurred near beach marker 29A. The men were identified by police but no further information was available.
East Hampton
An East Hampton man reported a possible phishing scam stemming from the Next Door website. The man told police last Thursday that after he posted a freezer for sale on the site, a buyer attempted to send him money through Venmo. The buyer said the transaction had failed and asked for the man’s phone number. It was then that the man reported receiving text messages from someone purporting to be Venmo customer service. After screen-sharing with the supposed agent, the man told police he started seeing money transfers from his bank account. The bank is investigating.
On May 4 police were called to the recycling center after reports that two women were taking cans from the dumpster there. The women were gone before police arrived.
Later that day, police were called back to the dump where they met a woman who had previously been cited for taking cans. She was warned that she would be issued additional citations if she continued.
Police were called to M&T Bank on Montauk Highway to take a fraud report from a customer there. The customer, an East Hampton resident, told police a pop-up on his computer rendered it inoperable and that he was to call a number on the screen. When he did, he was told he was speaking with an employee of Microsoft and that he would have to pay to unlock his computer. He identified the scam but went to his bank to follow up and called police.
A Ford pickup truck parked for six months at the Whalebone Apartments was missing a license plate, the owner told police on Saturday.
Someone called 911 to report a truck struggling to get under the railroad overpass on Cove Hollow Road last Thursday. The truck was gone when police arrived.
East Hampton Village
A fire at a Cove Hollow Road house on Tuesday morning was electrical in nature, police said. After an alarm notified police, East Hampton Village Fire Department chiefs found smoke in the attic that they determined was coming from ducts leading to the basement. Since the house was unoccupied, the Fire Department had to force their way into the basement, where they found the source of the fire in the utility room. Police turned the gas off to the house and PSEG disconnected the electricity.
Sag Harbor
After reading of bullying at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in last week’s issue, another man came forward to tell police that he has been harassed during the group’s meeting at the Old Whalers Church. The man told police on Saturday that a man has threatened to “bring a pipe bomb into this place” although he does not believe the threats to be valid. He has also received threatening texts but declined to share them with police.
An employee at Bon Bon candy shop was spooked by a man sitting in a parked car near the store the night of May 6. She called to report the suspicious vehicle, which she said left as she was leaving in an Uber.
Police asked a man they described as a “possible squatter” on May 6 to leave the storage room of a Long Island Avenue business. The man told police he was given permission to be there but would leave within the week.
A group of men were spotted drinking in the parking lot of the Gulf gas station on Hampton Road on May 4. By the time police arrived, the men and their white Toyota Tundra were gone.
