Amagansett
A three-car pileup on Main Street near Hedges Lane on Sunday afternoon left two rental cars damaged but eight people uninjured. Police said the driver who set off the accident had taken his eyes off the road before rear-ending a car stopped in traffic, which in turn hit another vehicle. The man responsible was ticketed for driving without a license.
A chimney fire at the Devon Yacht Club was swiftly extinguished on the afternoon of May 12 by the Amagansett Fire Department.
East Hampton
Someone stole four planters, together worth $800, from the front porch of an Ocean Parkway house this month. The homeowner told police on May 7 that since he travels between East Hampton and Manhattan, he could not say when the theft may have occurred.
During a patrol of the Sammy’s Beach area Friday morning, police cited a New Jersey man for driving on the beach without a permit.
East Hampton Village
Police and fire officials responded to their own duty room at 1 Cedar Street Friday after being alerted to high carbon monoxide levels. It was determined the dangerous gas was coming from an exhaust vent, and fans were used to air out the room.
An employee of a local pool company was ticketed on Monday for a code violation after being seen emptying the contents of a Dunemere Lane pool onto a neighboring Pondview Lane property.
Police issued a handful of citations for construction and landscaping noise during prohibited times and days between May 13 and Saturday.
Montauk
A man who told police he’d felt sorry for a couple left stranded on the side of the road at 2:30 a.m. on May 11, after their car ran out of gas, ended up paying for a tow truck for them as well. According to reports, he went home to get a gas can and then let the couple follow him to his house to spend the night. When he asked them to leave at around 11 a.m., they said their keys were locked in their car. Police were called, and the good Samaritan eventually paid to have the car towed to the municipal parking lot at Umbrella Beach.
At 2 a.m. Saturday, a man called police to say he’d been kicked out of Dive Bar Pizza and that the bouncers had been “rude” to him. He told police he was not hurt, however, and would leave the area.
The owner of a boutique on South Elmwood Avenue called on Saturday afternoon to report a man acting erratically. He’d come into the shop and was asking to use her cellphone, she said, and when she declined, he cursed at her before leaving. She told police she’d had a previous run-in with the man, who was not found.
A Manhattan man parked on South Edison Street on May 4, leaving his $2,100 laptop in the car, and went for a walk on the beach. It was gone when he returned.
Sag Harbor
The village harbormaster stopped a speeding boater in a 30-foot Grady-White craft in the channel under the Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter Veterans Memorial Bridge on Sunday afternoon. The man told officials he was rushing back to the dock to get some food for his son, a diabetic suffering from low blood sugar. The son declined medical assistance and the father apologized for his speed.
Police were called to the Sag Harbor Cinema on the evening of May 12 to remove a man causing a disturbance there, who’d left by the time they arrived. The next day, the American Hotel summoned police to deal with the same man, and were able to serve him with an affidavit from the cinema charging trespass. Several days later, the hotel asked that he be serve with the same papers, and warned not to return.
Road work on Love Lane brought on a noise complaint on May 12. A resident of the street complained that metal plates in the road were causing a disturbance, but she was told there was nothing police could do and to call Village Hall for more information.
A trailer without a license plate or registration, reported to be abandoned in a Bay Street parking lot for several weeks, was impounded on Friday.
The caretaker of West Water Street house called police early Saturday morning to report that someone may have entered the house and moved some items around, though he was unsure if anything was missing. Police, who found the back door unlocked, have been working to obtain camera footage from neighbors.
Springs
An East Hampton landlord was charged Saturday with unlawful eviction, a misdemeanor, after barring his tenant from entering the Three Mile Harbor Road house rented from him. Police say the landlord installed a driveway gate earlier this month and secured it with a padlock to keep the tenant out. He is due in court to answer to the charge on June 3.
On Friday, a Fresh Meadows woman reported strange activity on her iCloud account. Documents had been altered, she told police, and she has been receiving suspicious voice mails, though no money has been taken from her bank accounts. Attempted fraud is suspected.
Wainscott
A Sag Harbor woman reported her Land Rover stolen from the parking lot of East Hampton Airport last Thursday. Police determined that she had in fact parked at the Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach.