East Hampton
Bruce Damark told police on Saturday that a pickup truck was leaking gas in the parking lot of Damark’s Market, on Three Mile Harbor Road. Police reviewed camera footage and were able to identify the driver, who said he was unaware of the leak but would return to clean up the mess.
A scammer called a local man on April 29 to say he owed money on a credit card. The man recognized the scam and did not provide any personal information, but reported the incident to police.
A resident of Maidstone Park Road complained on Friday night about cars parking there illegally. Officers responded but found no violations.
Later that night, a Southampton man flagged down an officer on patrol in the same area to say he could not find his car. It was found nearby on Fanning Avenue.
East Hampton Village
Police impounded a pickup truck parked in a construction zone on April 28. The truck’s owner, they said, had bypassed several barricades to park in the long-term lot, which is at present under construction. He reclaimed the vehicle after paying a $250 fine.
On Main Street on Saturday night, a driver whose inspection sticker was found to be faked was charged with a misdemeanor. The sticker had been issued for an Audi but the man, who lives in Shirley, was driving a Hyundai. He is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.
Someone texted a local man last week, identifying him by name and Social Security number, and demanded that he pay him $2,000. The man gave in to the demands and sent the money, but then contacted his bank and asked them to hold the transfer. He told police the scammer continued to contact him, using different numbers, but that he has blocked the numbers each time.
A village-owned tree was cut down on Friday by a Riverhead-based landscaper working on a property on Egypt Lane. When police arrived, the worker was grinding the stump, which was all that remained of the tree. Police issued the man a summons, answerable in court on May 18.
Landscapers at a Georgica Road house were also summoned to appear in court last week, for using equipment at 6:30 p.m. Village ordinance bans equipment noise after 6. A similar citation was issued the day before to workers at a James Lane house.
Sag Harbor
Kids were reported to be running amok on the evening of April 28 at BonBon, a candy shop on Washington Street. An employee told police that “very young kids” took too many candy samples even after they were asked to stop, and that they might also have taken some small items from the shelves. She was able eventually, she told police, to get them out of the store and lock the door.
A Hillside Avenue resident told police late Saturday night that a couple had been having sex in a parked car on the street. He said they leave behind condom wrappers and noted that he’d complained about the same issue last year.
A woman found sleeping in the elementary school playground on Friday night was told by police that she’d have to move. Police said they offered her a ride to the Main Street bus stop but she declined and walked there instead.
The driver of an ice cream truck was cited on April 28 for peddling without a permit. According to the report, he was “driving slowly with music playing” that afternoon on Jermain Avenue. He is due in court tomorrow.
Both his phone and his wife’s had been hacked into, a man told police on April 27, and the thief had not only stolen $20,000 from various accounts but had “purchased concert tickets.” The man told police he’d frozen all his credit cards and bought two new phones.
While attending a local Alcoholics Anonymous meeting he was verbally harassed, a man complained to police on Saturday. He reported that he was called “faggot” and said others were told to “stay away from that faggot” during the Union Street meetings.
Springs
Someone called police out to Bell Road at 5:30 on Saturday afternoon to report the use of a gas-powered leaf blower. It turned out to be a hedge trimmer, being used by a homeowner. Police let him off with a warning not to use gas-powered tools.
Wainscott
A woman told police on April 22 that she’d received a call from someone identifying himself as an agent of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who told the woman her personal information had been compromised and then asked for additional identifying information. She woman provided some information, she told police, but then ended the call.
