Amagansett
A Ronkonkoma man was charged with unlawfully possessing fireworks on July 12 after police found him on Montauk Highway in possession of multiple boxes of Mad Ox brand fireworks.
A Lyft driver out of Flushing and an Uber driver from Coram were ticketed by police at 3 a.m. last Thursday in the municipal parking lot after being found asleep in their cars. A third man, from Bayside, was found sleeping in his car near Hedges Lane. All were charged with violating the town’s prohibition on overnight parking and camping.
Police cited a Manhattan man on Friday night for urinating in public on Main Street.
East Hampton
A jet engine generator owned by National Grid was responsible Friday night for several noise complaints from Cove Hollow Road residents. The on-site supervisor told police he did not have the authority to shut it down.
Reports of a tree on fire Friday afternoon, at the Hand’s Creek Road-Oakview Highway intersection, followed the fall of a power line, arcing off a tree. PSEG was able to make repairs.
East Hampton Village
A King Street woman told police on Sunday evening that a local man had exposed himself in front of her house that night. He appeared to have been using her glass door “as a mirror” to see himself, she said. Police questioned a man in the area, who denied her story.
A driver trying to back his Porsche into a parking space on Newtown Lane last Thursday found a traffic control officer standing in the spot. The T.C.O. called police, saying the driver was yelling at her to move and had reversed the car in her direction.
After receiving reports about a man on Ocean Avenue yelling at passing traffic and drinking, police picked him up, and later found he had an active warrant out of New York City. After N.Y.P.D. officers declined to come for him, he was put on the next westbound train.
Police removed “Open House” signs posted on public property on Jericho Road Saturday and ticketed the real estate agent who’d posted them.
Two men on Pantigo Road were not stealing hubcaps, as reported to police on July 14, but changing a flat tire.
A resident called last Thursday wondering if the Fellini Coffee pop-up at the Maidstone had the required permits. Police met with employees and found everything in order.
An employee of True Value Hardware complained on Friday that her car, parked within the two-hour free parking window, had been unfairly ticketed by traffic control officers. She was advised to make her case in traffic court.
Traffic on Georgica Close Road came to a standstill Friday after a large tree fell, blocking the roadway. On Sunday, a tree fell across Egypt Lane. The Department of Public Works removed both trees.
Village police issued six summonses last week to operators of gas-powered landscaping equipment.
Montauk
Early on the morning of July 11, a local man was charged with misdemeanor drunken driving and criminal possession of a controlled substance (cocaine) after he caused an accident on Old Montauk Highway trying illegally to pass another car. While merging back into the eastbound lane, according to town police, he collided with a car carrying six passengers. No one was injured.
A Miami man was similarly charged on Saturday, police said, after a small bag of cocaine fell out of his hand on South Elmwood Avenue.
Gurney’s canceled a guest’s reservation on July 14 and had her removed from the resort after the manager said she’d became irate when her room was not ready nine hours prior to her check-in time. Although employees tried to ready the room quickly while she was having several cocktails, she made a scene, the manager said, when she saw other guests checking in, and was eventually asked to leave and not come back. Later that day, however, she did return, and an employee drove her to the train station to go back to the city.
Bike patrol officers came upon a fight in the parking lot behind 668 The Gig Shack at 1 a.m. on Sunday. The two local men fighting would not tell police what they were arguing about, and the victim declined to press charges or seek medical attention.
An Astoria woman was charged with second-degree criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor, on July 10 after the owner of a unit at the Rough Riders Landing Condos reported that she’d been staying there without permission.
The Staten Island driver of a Toyota Camry was ticketed at 4:30 a.m. on July 13 after police found him sleeping, with a pillow and blanket in the car, in the Kirk Park parking lot. A woman from Harrisburg, Pa., asleep in a nearby car, and a Valley Stream sleeper in a third vehicle, were cited as well. All three, who told police they were livery drivers, were charged with violating the town’s overnight parking and camping prohibition.
Two men from Amityville were rescued by an Ocean Rescue Jet Ski in Fort Pond on July 14 after their boat’s engine died and the wind pushed them to the far east side of the pond.
Also that day, in the same place, a paddleboarder told a Marine Patrol officer that a group of kids may have shot at him with a BB gun. Police did not find any evidence.
Ubers are not permitted to park on Montauk Yacht Club property, an employee told police on Saturday. He called to report a driver who would not leave the premises.
A small electrical fire broke out at the end of a dock at the yacht club on July 13. Firefighters cleared the scene after a witness put the flames out with an extinguisher.
Earlier this month, after she commented on Facebook about a Sag Harbor protest, a local woman told police someone had posted her home address on the site. There had since been no further contact from the poster, she said.
Sag Harbor
A traffic control officer on Main Street thought he saw a car hit a child on July 13, and reported it. Police were able to view camera footage of the incident, and it turned out that a small child had run into the road but was unharmed after a fast-acting driver had swerved sharply to avoid a collision.
A man working for a public relations company was ticketed last Thursday night for writing chalk-paint advertising on Main Street sidewalks, promoting the shoe store Sam Edelman. The company has a pop-up shop in Southampton.
Two anonymous “swatting” calls to police were placed last week, targeting Sag Pizza. (Swatting is the act of reporting a false incident to authorities to create chaos.) The first, on July 13, reported a person with a gun at the restaurant; the second, on July 15, reported an active shooter. Police quickly debunked both calls.
The owner of Amy’s Hardware booted a car parked in the parking lot there on Saturday. The car’s owner told police he’d bought items at the hardware store before picking up food from a nearby restaurant, but paid a $250 fee and the boot was removed.
Fireworks on Milton Avenue on July 13 were set off by a resident of the street. Police let him know that fireworks are illegal and told him to clean up the debris left behind.
On Saturday, police picked up a large amount of trash and food scraps at Havens Beach. On July 15, they impounded an inflatable blue dinghy that had no registration or permits.
Wainscott
After rushing home during the torrential rainstorm the night of July 4, a couple told police that their Ross bicycle had been stolen from the Beach Lane parking lot. They’d left it the beach during the storm and it was gone in the morning when they went to pick it up.