Amagansett
A Marine Boulevard man called police om Saturday to say that a woman had parked in his driveway and used a private beach access reserved for members of the Dunes Association of Amagansett. He asked her to leave, he told police, but she refused and said she had used the access previously. After police arrived and told her to use a public access, she apologized for the confusion.
A resident of Old Stone Highway reported hearing gunshots in a nearby nature preserve last Thursday morning and was concerned about bullets hitting her house. Police found no one in the preserve.
East Hampton
A truck struck the railroad bridge on Stephen Hand’s Path on the afternoon of May 26, damaging its roof. The driver and his passenger were not hurt.
Police were on the lookout May 26 for a red minivan after its driver was reported to have been walking around a property on Whooping Hollow Road. He was not found.
Someone called police on May 26 to report a “suspicious” Amazon truck driving aimlessly about in the Ely Brook Road area. It turned out that the driver was lost.
Two neighbors arguing brought police to Windmill Village last Thursday. The men were reportedly quarreling over the number of flags one of them had in front of his unit, and police told them to avoid each other in future.
The next morning, police got another call about the man with the flags, this time from a woman who said he’d possibly taken her tomato cages from a shared common area. He’d also changed a hose connection they share from a Y-shape attachment for two hoses to a singular hose connection. Police again asked that the parties avoid contact.
Keep off the jetty at Sammy’s Beach, police told a man fishing from a jetty there on Friday. He was ticketed for failing to obey posted regulations after they pointed out the “Keep Off Jetty” sign.
East Hampton Village
Two dog walkers were ticketed Monday afternoon on Georgica Beach for being there during prohibited hours.
Damage was reported on Main Street Saturday after heavy winds brought down a large branch, which obstructed the sidewalk.
Police were called Saturday morning to deal with a woman yelling at the staff of Starbucks. She was asked to leave and escorted out.
A call-box keypad on Cove Hollow Farm Road was damaged last Thursday after a truck hit it and knocked it over.
On West End Road last Thursday night, police issued two summonses to a landscaper for unlawfully using a gas-powered leaf blower and for landscaping after permitted hours.
A Southampton man mowing a lawn on Cooper Lane Friday afternoon was ticketed for having failed to register as a landscaper with the village.
Montauk
Just after midnight Saturday, police were told multiple people were urinating on Main Street near the Chamber of Commerce. They were then seen boarding “a black bus” and leaving the hamlet.
A woman called police last Thursday afternoon to say she’d seen a man near Montauk Downs on Fairview Avenue “not walking in any particular direction” and stopping to look at houses along the way. The caller said the man would “not make eye contact” with her.
Sag Harbor
An illegal U-turn on Main Street turned aggressive last Thursday evening after a passer-by called the driver a “jerk-off.” The driver told police he felt he’d been “targeted as a gay man.” Words were exchanged, and the driver claimed the other man had “made physical contact” with him three times. After reviewing camera footage, police said there was no physical confrontation and no charges.
More driver hostility, this time in the Meadow Street parking lot on Saturday after two cars jockeyed for the same parking spot behind Schiavoni’s Market. The loser, who was in a white Jeep, sped off angrily and parked elsewhere, but a third driver, a woman who’d been watching the exchange, then apparently said something that set off another argument. She later told police the passengers in the Jeep had yelled profanities at her and spit on her car’s window. No charges were filed.
Saturday’s 60-miles-an-hour winds near Marine Park Drive caused the 36-foot sloop Tranquillo to snap a piling. There was damage also to the starboard side and stern.
Wind may also have been to blame for an incident that happened only minutes later when a man-overboard smoke device blew into the water from the 163-foot superyacht Maison Blanche and ignited. Nothing on board was damaged.
On the afternoon of May 27, a man walking with his child on Main Street told police he’d been confronted by a man who asked “if he spoke English.” The man then said “it was time to go home.” Police walked the father and child back to their car.
A car-washing and detailing business was dumping chemicals in a Grand Street storm drain last Thursday, according to a caller. Police arrived to find that there was no storm drain on the street.
A car with Massachusetts license plates fled the scene of an accident on Washington Street on Saturday afternoon. A man told police that he was backing into a parking spot when a driver on her way out hit the back of his car and drove off, even as his passenger was getting out to confront her.
Police escorted an unruly person out of Page on the night of May 25. Earlier that evening, a man sitting on a bench outside the Municipal Building, who had been removed from the nearby American Hotel in previous weeks, was warned not to return there. Police told him he would be arrested if he returned.
Over $5,000 has gone missing over the last few weeks from a house on Division Street, a woman told police on May 25. She has a tenant and a caretaker in the house, she said, but each has denied knowing that cash was being kept there.
Springs
What was initially reported as a vehicle fire on Friday morning turned out to be a small explosion caused by chlorine. According to reports, a canister containing chlorine pucks, stored in the back of a pickup truck parked on Renee’s Way, detonated, causing damage to the truck’s tailgate and rear taillight and scattering chlorine around the area. The driver was taken to the Stony Brook Hospital’s East Hampton emergency room for evaluation. Springs firefighters and town fire marshals helped clean up the chlorine spill.
A Sycamore Drive resident called police on Saturday to report two unknown women taking pictures on her property a day earlier.
An East Hampton man was having a cup of coffee at Louse Point at 6 a.m. on Friday when someone called in a report of a suspicious person. The man told police he likes to drive to various locations to see the scenery.
