Amagansett
A man called from Town Lane Friday night to report his 3-year-old daughter missing, but stated, when an officer arrived a short time later, that they’d found her in the backyard, hiding behind a sofa. She’d been playing outside with other children, he said, and when the others went back into the house she remained outside and didn’t respond when her name was called. They’d just moved in the week before, he added, and were “still adjusting to the size and layout of the property.” The officer observed no signs of neglect and determined further police action was unnecessary.
East Hampton Village
A traffic stop of a black Ford Edge on Pantigo Road Sunday night led to two arrests and a long list of charges. An officer noticed a car, northbound on Main Street near David’s Lane, making unsafe lane changes, failing to signal, and veering onto the shoulder. An investigation found that the car’s exhaust system had been modified to amplify its engine noise, which is illegal in New York State, and a review of DMV records revealed that its Alabama license plate was expired and registered to another vehicle. The car itself was unregistered, uninsured, and uninspected. The officer said the driver appeared intoxicated, and found multiple open alcoholic beverages in the car, along with a small black plastic bag containing a white powder that later tested positive for cocaine. The driver was charged with two misdemeanors for first-offense D.W.I., along with 13 traffic violations, and held overnight for a morning appearance in Justice Court. A passenger, who was apparently in possession of the cocaine, was charged with a misdemeanor and two violations, and ordered to appear in court on July 22. The car was towed to the impound lot.
Montauk
Multiple patrol units responded to a report of a missing person on Gin Beach in the early hours of Sunday morning and conducted an extensive search of the area. The subject, a New York City man, was finally located on East Lake Road, unharmed, about 2.5 miles away from where he was last seen, and was driven back to the beach to be reunited with his brother. He’d gotten lost on the beach in the dark, he told police, and ended up walking in the wrong direction.
A man caused a disturbance at the 7-Eleven just before 4 a.m. on Monday, an employee reported to police, saying that the man “partially ate” two Philly Cheesesteak sandwiches before putting them back on the counter, and refusing to pay for them. An oral altercation with the employees ensued, ending with the man running out of the store and driving away in a gray BMW. Officers searched the area and found a man walking nearby who “partially matched” the description, but the employee said he was not the right person. He requested documentation of the incident, declining to pursue legal action at that time.
Sag Harbor
A Division Street woman was to have appeared in court this week for walking two unleashed dogs on Havens Beach on the morning of July 1. When an officer stopped the woman on the beach after receiving an anonymous complaint, she maintained that her dogs had been walking on nearby property and had run from there to the beach, and that she’d just gone to pick them up. A subsequent review of surveillance footage, however, reportedly showed her parking her Mercedes in the beach lot about 30 minutes before police arrived, directly in front of a “No Dogs on Beach” sign, and unloading her unleashed dogs from the car. She was arrested at her residence the next morning, charged with the village code violations of walking the dogs without leashes and walking them in a prohibited area, and was issued a ticket for a court appearance.
Springs
Police were called to a President Street residence on the evening of July 2 by a former tenant, who reported that his property had been stolen. He moved out of his rented room in January, he told police, but continued to store personal items at the address, including gold bars, his passport, multiple televisions, and a PlayStation console. When questioned, the man stated he had not been authorized to occupy or store his property there after his departure, and that the residence now had a new owner. An officer told him that this appeared to be a civil matter, as he had left his property voluntarily, and advised him to contact the new owner about the whereabouts of his belongings.
Her friends had gone paddleboarding off Gerard Drive, a Brooklyn woman told police on the afternoon of July 4, but she could no longer see them from the shoreline and was concerned for their safety. Marine Patrol found the group out on the water, and directed them back to shore. They explained that two of their group had gone out on paddleboards but were unable to return to shore because of choppy water, and the three others had gone out to try to help them but also found themselves unable to make it back to shore. After all of them were determined to be safe and uninjured, two were ticketed for operating paddleboards without required personal floatation devices.
