Sag Harbor Village police have released information about the man who has been making threats around the village in the past month.
Although they have not identified him, they said that on June 15 they assisted in getting him mental health support at Stony Brook University Hospital.
This came after several more incidents were reported in the last two weeks. On June 8, a man called police after a man described as a “tall white male with long, light hair” told him, “Don’t come around here again or you could get hurt.”
That happened in a Bay Street parking lot. On June 12, in the same lot, a man matching that description approached a different man and told him, “This day doesn’t look good for you” while making a throat-slashing gesture under his neck.
Two days later, a third man reported the same fair-haired man making the same throat-slashing hand gesture toward him when he was with his family at Long Beach. He called police after seeing the man again in a building on Bay Street, and said that just seeing him there made him feel “very uncomfortable.”
In a final incident on June 15, police said the man alarmed a Hampton Street resident by taking pictures of him and his house. The homeowner went to confront the picture-taker, who, he reported, “reached into his waistband like he had a weapon.”
Police, who have known the man’s identity for some time, picked him up after that and took him first to headquarters, then to the hospital.