Amagansett
Two men ended up in Stony Brook Southampton Hospital Sunday morning after a fight broke out on Main Street in the early hours of the day. According to the East Hampton Town police report, four men had piled on to a Manhattan man, who sustained a broken nose and was found to be bleeding profusely from his eye. The four fled, but were apprehended by Southampton Town police on County Road 39. By 9 a.m., one of them had been charged with assault in the third degree, a misdemeanor, and was himself taken to the hospital with cuts to his right hand.
A fire at the Amagansett School caused a two-hour delay during the last week of classes. On June 23 at 7:30 a.m., Amagansett firefighters extinguished a small blaze, later determined to have started in an exterior generator.
East Hampton
Two drivers at odds on North Main Street had different stories about what happened to a Manhattan man’s Mercedes-Benz on the afternoon of June 23. The driver of the Mercedes told police a man driving a white truck threw “metal objects and red liquid” at his windshield, damaging it to the tune of $3,700. The truck driver told police he did not throw anything; that the objects must have fallen off his truck. The two exchanged information and no charges were filed.
Back in May, an East Hampton woman told police someone had tried to open a P.C. Richard store credit card with her credentials. She called the store and canceled the card, but wanted the incident documented.
A local driver who crashed into a telephone pole on the night of June 21 was charged with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor.
East Hampton Village
An East Hampton man was charged last week with several violations including disorderly conduct, second-degree obstruction of governmental administration, and resisting arrest after police caught up with him on Egypt Lane near Gay Road. Earlier, riding an e-bike, he was reported to be yelling obscenities at pedestrians around Newtown Lane and Pantigo Road. Police said he fled from them on the bike but hit a curb, lost control, fell off, and was apprehended as he attempted to get back on. He was uninjured but was later taken to Stony Brook Hospital for evaluation.
A Deer Park man was arrested on Friday for failure to appear in court here on felony drug and weapons charges filed in 2022. He had been stopped for a traffic infraction when police found cocaine and brass knuckles in his car.
Surfing lessons came to an end on Georgica Beach on Monday after police ticketed the Southampton man running the lessons for not holding the required permit.
On Friday morning police helped a Shirley man retrieve his car keys, which had fallen down a storm drain on Pantigo Road.
A woman driving on Two Mile Hollow Beach Friday could not produce a beach-driving permit when stopped, and was ticketed for the violation.
A weed whacker was stolen on Terbell Lane last Thursday. Its owner told police he’d seen a man in a dark-colored pickup truck taking the landscaping equipment from a trailer on the grounds.
Montauk
A Hampton Bays man was charged twice last week in the theft of two bicycles, one an e-bike and the other a Fuji 24-speed. On Friday, police accused him of taking the electric bicycle the night before, from in front of the Memory Motel. On Sunday, the same man was found with the Fuji, which had vanished from the Rough Riders apartments on Friday, apparently after police impounded the stolen e-bike. Both charges -- criminal possession of stolen property and petty larceny -- are misdemeanors.
Police charged a Freeport man on June 20 with disorderly conduct and second-degree harassment, violations, after he punched someone several times outside the I.G.A.
The manager of Barlume Beach was cited for excessive noise on Friday near midnight after police took a meter reading outside the East Lake Drive hotel.
On Saturday night, a Surf Lodge employee was also on the receiving end of a summons for excessive noise.
On June 20, the owner of an Acura left the car for the day in a lot on Old Montauk Highway, and found it damaged upon his return.
Fraudulent charges on a debit card, traced to a local motel that has since changed hands, led a local woman to call police on June 19. She said additional charges had been attempted at Bath and Body Works, whose nearest outlet is in Brooklyn, but her bank had caught them and put a hold on her account.
Sag Harbor
Village police assisted Southampton Town police in a Medevac helicopter transport to Stony Brook University Hospital last Thursday morning after a jogger was hit by a car at the traffic circle on North Haven. The victim was transported to Havens Beach, where the helicopter landed, by Sag Harbor E.M.S.
Around midnight on Sunday, an officer on foot patrol heard what sounded like a vehicle striking an object. Hurrying to the scene, Division Street near Caruthers Alley, he found an e-bike rider, who described the car as a white sedan, possibly a Maserati, and said its driver had yelled profanity at him before fleeing the scene. The bike rider was not injured.
Although she’d locked her purse in a locker at the Sag Harbor Gym, someone was able to open the locker and steal her wallet, a woman told police on Friday. Detectives are reviewing camera footage from the scene.
A Jeep parked in a privately owned lot on Long Island Avenue was booted by the lot’s owner on Friday. Police said the car had been in the lot since June 20. Attempts to contact its owner have been unsuccessful.
Another boot was deployed at Amy’s Hardware on Division Street last week after someone who was not a customer of the store parked in the private lot there. Police were called following an oral altercation between the driver and the store owner, after which the driver agreed to pay a $250 boot-removal fee.
On the night of June 23, after a woman reported that she could not find her Honda Civic, police found it on Spring Street, which is where the woman had said she’d last seen it.
Springs
A visitor from Miami was charged with third-degree assault last Thursday night after he punched another man in the face at the East Hampton Point Marina, causing a laceration that needed stitches.
A woman is out $700 after sending money through Zelle in May to secure the purchase of two cars. After sending the money, she went to look at the cars, but they were not at the address she’d been given. The “seller” then asked her for additional money, but she refused and contacted police.