There have been some disturbing incidents in Sag Harbor recently, and village police say one man, whose name they did not release, is responsible. He is said to suffer from mental health issues.
On the night of June 1, a driver reported that a man had attempted to force him out of his car on Bay Street, yelling for him to get out and “reaching for his waistband,” as if to indicate he had a weapon. He described the man’s appearance to police.
Early the next day, a woman told police a man matching the description had stepped in front of her Uber on Main Street, blocking it from moving, making a “throat-slashing” motion, and again reaching for his waistband.
The same man appeared again at 5 a.m. on Saturday on Lincoln Street, where a homeowner called police to say he’d been walking around her house for an hour trying to gain entry, while she watched from security cameras. When he could not get in, she said, he left.
At 3 a.m. on Sunday, police got a call from a motorist who said a man matching the description was following him in another car. The driver, who spoke through a Mandarin translator and requested a police escort to the edge of town, said the man was making “threatening gestures,” which he too described as “throat-slashing” motions.
Later that day, a person matching the description reported by everyone whom the man approached — a “thin man with long blond hair” — went up to someone outside K Pasa on Main Street and said, “Just so you know, you’re going down for it.”