Amagansett
A Manhattan woman called police on the morning of Aug. 10 to say she’d seen some questionable activity the night before: A group of men drinking in a van and two groups of teenage boys entering and exiting the van multiple times.
Off Marine Boulevard on Saturday night, police ticketed two out-of-towners, a Manhasset man and a woman from Venice, N.Y., in the Finger Lakes region, both cited for having illegal beach bonfires.
East Hampton
Police charged a Springs man with misdemeanor drunken driving on Aug. 10 after he missed a left turn from Stephen Hand’s Path onto Route 114 and crashed into a utility pole.
The arm of an excavator struck the Cove Hollow Road train trestle on Aug. 11, causing the machine to fall off its trailer, though nothing was damaged -- not the excavator, the truck or the trestle -- in the accident.
After someone called in a disturbance near Spinner Street on Aug. 10, police found children playing in a pool and reported they were not in danger.
A local man found asleep on a North Main Street bench on Aug. 12 may have been intoxicated, but he hadn’t committed a crime, police determined. The man locked his bicycle to a bike rack and got a ride home.
For urinating “directly on” Pantigo Road near Spring Close Highway Saturday night, a Moriches man will soon make an appearance in Justice Court.
Marine Patrol was called out to Northwest Harbor on Sunday when a speedboat got hung up on the bulkhead there. No one was on board the boat.
Prank calls prompted an East Hampton woman to call police on Friday. She said someone has been calling her landline and her cellphone and making derogatory comments.
A different local woman told police on Aug. 8 that she’d received a suspicious call from Chicago, saying that someone using her identity had been defrauding people in the Midwest. The caller claimed she’d resolved the situation but needed $2,000 to cover her costs. The local woman recognized it as a scam and reported it.
Six propane tanks were found dumped off Merchants Path on Sunday morning. The Highway Department was called in to dispose of them.
East Hampton Village
Following an Aug. 10 argument between two drivers at the intersection of Pantigo and Accabonac Roads, one of them called police, saying he’d been trying to warn the other that his taillights were out. The other man accused the first one of tailgating him, so he stopped to confront him, he told police, who advised them both to be on their way.
Even though her bonfire was contained and otherwise compliant, police told an East Hampton woman last week that a bonfire on Main Beach at 4:30 a.m. was not allowed.
Police freed a dog that had been inadvertently locked in an Audi on Main Street on Aug. 11. A officer said it “appeared calm and healthy.”
A Brooklyn woman called police last Thursday to report a suspicious vehicle parked in her Mill Hill Lane driveway. Police confirmed the truck and driver to be from her pool maintenance company.
A pair of Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses went missing from a table outside Citarella on Friday. The owner of the glasses told police he’d left them on an outside table, and they were gone when he returned.
Police did not find a “grandmother and child” who’d been reported “walking on the train tracks” on Newtown Lane Friday morning.
Montauk
Cameras captured a man taking his clothes off at a woman’s house on Friday. She told police she did not know the naked man, who had parked his car in her driveway. He told the officers who responded that “the house was empty and he wanted to enjoy the sunny day.” They told him to leave and not return.
Erosion at the Edison Beach entrance, after a 40-foot-long gully opened up on the beach last Thursday, caused the pedestrian mats to pull and create a tripping hazard. Police said the Parks Department would have to level and reinstall the mats.
On Saturday, the captain of a 42-foot sailboat called police for assistance, reporting that he’d lost power and engines about three miles offshore and was headed into Montauk from Block Island Sound. Local police notified the Coast Guard, who assisted the boat to port.
A Flushing man was charged with driving while intoxicated on Aug. 11 after police said he reversed into a parked car on Montauk Highway near South Edison Street.
A Montauk woman spotted an unauthorized charge of over $400 to her bank account on Friday. She told police someone had charged the amount for purchases at Sam’s Club, which she is not a member of.
The manager of Sole East was issued a summons on Friday night for excessive noise levels.
Ten people were congregating last Thursday night around what police called a non-compliant beach fire near the Montauk Blue Hotel, The flames were not contained in a barrel, and a Dix Hills man was ticketed for the offense.
Two local men drinking bottles of Stella Artois beer near the green Saturday night were cited for having open containers of alcohol in public.
Sag Harbor
Police have not found a High Street woman who has reportedly not been seen by neighbors for two months. According to an Aug. 10 report, officers entered her house to check on her, but she was not there, though her car was. They left her a voice-mail message asking her to make contact.
Family recipes stored in an oak box were reported stolen from a Grand Street house last Thursday.
The owner of the boat Luna had an unexpected visitor, a stranger, on Saturday morning. He told police he’d received a text message that the Luna’s high-water alarm was going off, so he went to check. The alarm was not sounding, but he did find the intruder, who told police he was staying on the Andonia, another boat in the mooring field, and was in the wrong craft.
Officers escorted a woman out of Tutto Il Giorno Saturday afternoon after employees reported she’d brought her own beer and was “being loud and bothering other customers.”
Police found “multiple violations” at a construction site on Bay Street Saturday afternoon after someone reported a large hole with no fencing around it. Police put caution tape up and forwarded photos of the violations to the Building Department.
Police went to the Gulf station on Hampton Street last Thursday after a customer demanded a refund for a phone charger that did not work and made a scene after being refused. The man left in an Uber without being refunded.
Staff at Il Capuccino told police on Aug. 12 that a loud fan in a parked Tesla was annoying customers having dinner outside. The owner of the car could not be found.
Police promised to arrest a former employee of the American Hotel if he returned there again after the manager called them on Friday to say they did not want him coming around.
Reports of an injured seal near the Narrows did not yield any findings on Aug. 11, but police said they would continue looking.
Village police teamed up with Southampton Town police on Aug. 19 to find a boater who’d been reported overdue to return from Noyac Bay, safely onshore.
Springs
No crime was committed on Aug. 12 on Front Street, where police responded to a report that a man was holding a shotgun. Police said it was in fact a BB gun, which he told them he uses to scare off squirrels and other small animals.
Wainscott
A disabled airplane on an airport runway shut down air traffic for about an hour on Sunday. Police said the pilot told them his brakes malfunctioned after he landed. No one was injured and the plane was towed off the runway.
On Aug. 11, a moving truck struck the train trestle on Daniel’s Hole Road. The driver of the New Jersey-based truck company managed to back out from under the bridge before reporting the accident.