Amagansett
A Mercedes S.U.V. crashed into a tree on Abram’s Landing Road last Thursday morning. The driver, a 19-year-old from New York City, told police she was learning to drive and had failed to navigate a turn. She refused medical attention for a minor knee injury, and her 56-year-old passenger was not injured.
East Hampton
Early Sunday morning on Pantigo Road, an officer observed a man asleep on a bench outside Inter Deli with an open container of Smirnoff Ice nearby, and woke him up to request identification. After producing a learner’s permit with a Mastic Beach address, the man “became irate,” according to the report, threw the Smirnoff across the parking lot, and urinated on the side of the building. The officer drove him to East Hampton to wait for the next westbound train, though not before citing him for open-alcohol, littering, and public urination violations.
East Hampton Village
The manager of Stop & Shop called police late Friday morning to report a gas leak, and told officers it was coming from refrigeration equipment on the second floor, where Freon, a chemical that can cause severe symptoms if inhaled, was found to be leaking. An officer spotted “fog” in the back of the store and immediately ordered everyone inside to evacuate. Firefighters arrived and took control of the scene, securing the area and starting the process of ventilating the building, which was determined to be safe shortly before 3 p.m.
Montauk
Police were called to Dive Bar pizza just before 3 a.m. on Friday following a report of a fight, but upon arrival were informed it had just been a verbal altercation with no physical contact. The parties separated and went their separate ways.
Twenty-four hours later, someone named John, no last name, reported that he was “trapped inside Dive Bar” by a drunk who was refusing to let him leave. Police arrived as the place was closing, and reported that everyone there had left without incident. A call to John’s phone number went unanswered.
A woman from Merrills Road in Amagansett called early Monday morning to say her dog had been attacked on South Emerson Avenue by “two pit bull mixes, one rust-colored and one brindle-colored.” The two bit her 12-year-old Rottweiler on the neck and back, she told police, before being driven away in either a black Range Rover or a silver Nissan. After a search of the area failed to locate the dogs or the vehicle, the woman requested documentation of the incident, saying she planned to pursue legal action against the dogs’ owner. The case was turned over to animal control.
Sag Harbor
A black Porsche, reportedly speeding through the Bridge Street parking lot on the afternoon of July 7, nearly struck his wife and 2-month-old child, a man told police on the afternoon of July 7. He’d approached the car, he said, and told the driver to “slow the f*** down, you almost hit my family.” The driver then parked and came toward him, he said, filming him on his cellphone as he did, and told him, “It was an accident” and that he “doesn’t appreciate the foul language,” before leaving the scene. The caller provided a photo he’d taken of a black Porsche, but told police he wasn’t sure it was the same car, due to a “large quantity” of black Porsches in the parking lot at the time.
After waking up to the sound of someone climbing upstairs from his garage, a Bluff Point Road resident confronted a shirtless intruder in his house early on Sunday morning. His wife ran outside to call police while he yelled for the man — who appeared “highly intoxicated and very disoriented” — to leave, which he eventually did, through the same garage entrance. Police searched nearby, and after finding “a button-down shirt and a sport coat, both covered in vomit,” hanging from a mailbox across the street, located the shirtless man in nearby woods. He was in town for a wedding, he told them, and had entered the couple’s house through an unlocked door after mistaking it for a nearby property where he was staying. After he was returned to the correct address, the homeowner declined to pursue charges, but said he would check his house in the morning to ensure nothing was missing or damaged.
Springs
Her $1,900 kayak was missing, apparently stolen, from its storage rack on Louse Point Road, a caller reported last Thursday. She’d last seen it about a month earlier, she said. An officer went to the spot and immediately noticed a kayak matching her description locked to the rack. The caller met him there and confirmed it was hers, and the case was closed.
