Amagansett
Following a physical altercation on Main Street between two local women, one of them was charged with second-degree harassment, a violation, on July 30.
A bicycle parked in front of Rosie’s went missing on the night of Aug. 3. Its owner said it had little value and was not worth pressing charges if the thief was found.
Someone stole a handheld point-of-sale device from Rowdy Hall on July 31. it was valued at $500.
An early morning garbage truck fire on Napeague Saturday was extinguished before police arrived.
East Hampton
A boy skipping rocks at a Boat Yard Road marina on Sunday damaged the window of a boat docked there. Police said the child’s father left the boat’s owner a note with his name and number on it.
A police sting operation last week ensnared three bartenders accused of serving alcohol to under age people.
Early on Aug. 5 after a late night at work, a Shirley woman told police she pulled over on Spencer Lane, off Towhee Trail, to get some sleep. Police told her to stop at a rest stop instead, and she left the area.
East Hampton Village
“A little leniency for local workers would be appreciated,” police noted on Friday in a report stemming from an incident in the parking lot behind Village True Value Hardware. The store manager said she’d stopped briefly on Barns Lane to drop mail at the corner mailbox when a traffic control officer “ran” up to her car and immediately began ticketing her. She told police that the same officer has been “continuously ticketing hardware store employees.”
Police ticketed a man they said had abandoned his Mercedes on Main Street on Aug. 3 after they found the car double-parked and obstructing traffic. The driver told the officer he was “picking up a Starbucks order.”
On Sunday afternoon police found a small bag of what was identified as cocaine in the parking lot at the Main Beach Beach Hut.
Neighbors on Further Lane and Middle Lane were at odds on the evening of Aug. 4 during a tennis lesson at the Middle Lane house, after the Further Lane neighbor yelled at the instructor to “keep it down.” Police were called and calm was restored.
On Friday, a Brooklyn man was hit by a car in the Reutershan parking lot. The driver, who had left the scene, returned and told police, “I was not looking directly in front of me. I was looking for a parking spot and hit a pedestrian.” He was ticketed for leaving the scene of an accident; the pedestrian was not injured.
An Amagansett driver became upset on Aug. 4 during service at the Exxon Mobil station, saying that his Maserati had been damaged. He threw an employee’s phone at him, striking the employee and then the ground. Police said the man was told to leave and not return.
Two Georgica Beach beachgoers had an altercation on Aug. 5 after one accused the other of taking pictures of girls on the beach. Police said the man was taking pictures, but not of girls.
A box trailer caught fire on The Circle on Aug. 5. Police were able to extinguish the flames before firefighters arrived.
A man police called “highly intoxicated” was taken from the train station platform to the Stony Brook Emergency Room on the evening of Aug. 3.
During a routine patrol on the morning of Aug. 3, police found a shattered glass panel at the Middle School. An employee there told the officer that the school was aware of the damage.
Montauk
Neither the driver nor his four passengers were injured when their car rear-ended another vehicle on Montauk Highway the night of Aug. 1. Police charged the Vero Beach, Fla., man with drunken driving, a misdemeanor. Four people in the car ahead also were unhurt.
Heavy rain and diminished visibility may have been to blame for an Aug. 3 accident involving a pedestrian on Main Street. The Brooklyn resident, who was uninjured, told police she had not seen a car coming when she began crossing the road near South Edison Street. The driver said she’d run out into the street without looking.
An Oyster Bay Cove man who initially refused to leave Gurney’s Resort on Saturday night after causing a disturbance finally left in an Uber.
Six gallons of gas spilled onto Main Street on Aug. 5 after a Massapequa man filled two gas cans at Marshall & Sons Service Station and forgot to put his tailgate up. Employees used a drying agent to soak up the spill. The State Department of Environmental Conservation was notified.
A bat found inside a house on Freemont Road evaded police on Saturday night, and the homeowner was advised to call an exterminator.
Northwest
An incident at an estate sale on Old School House Lane Sunday led police to track down a woman who was thought to have taken a pair of sandals without paying for them. She told officers she thought she did pay for them, as she’d paid for other items at the sale. She ultimately returned the sandals.
Sag Harbor
A woman walking her dog on Sunday morning found a small blue bag with white powder in it on Long Wharf. Police confiscated it for storage in an evidence locker.
Police issued back-to-back violations on Aug. 4 to two boats found speeding inside the breakwater.
After disagreeing on the cost of a tire replacement, the owner of a Jeep left the Exxon station at the corner of Brick Kiln Road and Main Street without paying the bill. An employee reported it to police, who called him, and he promised to go back and pay.
An officer was watching in the early morning hours of Aug. 5 as an arcing wire on Division Street caught fire. The officer said the blaze extinguished itself while he waited for PSEG to respond.
Springs
Police allege that an East Hampton man backed into a fence on Abraham’s Path on the night of July 24 and fled the scene. They caught up to him on Oceanview Avenue, and charged him with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, and leaving the scene of an accident.
A rowboat that had broken free of its tie-down was found on Sunday by a Marine Patrol officer, afloat in Hog Creek.
Wainscott
On Aug. 3 at 9 a.m., while attempting to back out of a parking space at the Montauk Highway 7-Eleven, a Sagaponack man struck a parked Frito-Lay delivery van. Police found that the driver was intoxicated and placed him under arrest.
That same morning, after picking up a load of garbage from a customer, a garbage truck driver reported hearing a “loud popping noise” and smoke coming from his vehicle. Fearing that a fire could spread through the truck, the driver dumped the load, which was indeed on fire, out onto Georgica Drive, and tried extinguishing the flames. The Bridgehampton Fire Department was able to put out the fire, and Maggio Environmental, the owner of the truck, removed the debris from the road.
