Amagansett
Police charged two people for drunken driving Saturday night during a five-hour-long sobriety checkpoint on Napeague. Some 2,500 cars were reported screened in the effort and police administered 32 roadside sobriety tests.
At 2:30 a.m. on Monday, an intoxicated man was found sleeping on the Main Street sidewalk. An Uber was called to take him to his motel in Montauk.
Two local men were ticketed for open container violations on July 27 after being found at the Sportime fields drinking from bottles of Heineken beer.
A Florida man left his rental car blocking the access to Indian Wells Beach on July 29. Police ticketed him when he returned to the car.
East Hampton
A North Main Street man was charged with harassment, obstructing, and disorderly conduct last Thursday after shining a flashlight into a man’s eyes and then hitting him with it. Police ordered him to stop “engaging in violent behavior,” and added the disorderly conduct charge after he persisted.
Even though an East Hampton man had a shellfishing permit, a Marine Patrol officer told him he could not clam near Barcelona Point on Saturday, as the waters there are not monitored for sanitary conditions.
East Hampton Village
Two women employed by a Hither Lane homeowner were involved in a dispute on July 29 after the homeowner fired one of them, who claimed that the other had driven her to the train station while some of her possessions were still at the house. Police were able to secure the items and she took the next train.
Montauk
On July 20, after splitting a restaurant bill with a friend, a woman told police she noticed an additional $10 charge on her debit card. Because she had not left a tip, she concluded that the server had added a tip to her bill. She complained to police, who reported that the restaurant manager had refunded the $10 and said it had been added mistakenly.
A woman claiming to be the daughter of a Montauk local called her mother last Thursday to ask her to Zelle her $1,221. Before she could do so, her actual daughter called, saying she had no idea what her mother was talking about. No money was sent.
Police arrested a New Jersey man Saturday night on South Edgemere Street, saying he’d punched a Bronx man in the mouth.
A 32-foot sailboat headed under power on Sunday afternoon from Red Hook, Brooklyn, into Montauk Harbor, was stranded in the inlet after becoming disabled. It anchored, but neither its captain — nor Marine Patrol — was able to secure a private tow. Officers eventually towed it themselves to the pumpout dock; no one was injured.
An employee of Sole East Resort, which had a live band performing on Saturday night, was ticketed for violating the noise ordinance.
More loud noise on Sunday afternoon, this time at the Surf Lodge, brought a similar citation. The manager was issued an appearance ticket.
Believing his car had been damaged near the Memory Motel, a Pennsylvania man reported the damage to police, who, after some investigation, told him the damage occurred elsewhere. The next day, the driver reported the damage to police in Sag Harbor, saying it had in fact occurred on Main Street in that village.
Whoever did the damage to a car parked at Inlet Seafood on July 29 may never be found, police said. His 2026 Volkswagen Atlas sustained damage on the passenger side, an East Hampton man said. Police reported that the restaurant’s camera view was no help, having been obstructed by a pickup truck.
A $1,500 e-bike was stolen from Edward Ecker Sr. County Park on the afternoon of July 27.
Sag Harbor
On Friday morning, police found an unattended 3-year-old on Main Street near Lulu’s. The child would not give an officer his name, but after another young boy approached and called him by name, it became clear that the two were brothers. The older boy told police their parents were having breakfast at Sagtown Coffee and that the younger of the two wanted to ride the train at the Variety Store. When police reunited the family, the parents told them the 3-year-old “knows his way around town.” They were advised that a young child should always be accompanied by an adult.
A group involved in a “singing ritual” were questioned by police on Havens Beach around midnight on July 28 after someone called in a noise complaint for “chanting.” The group left the beach immediately.
Last Thursday, a village employee reported three people carrying a “large blue sash, singing songs, and handing out papers” in front of the Municipal Building, apparently soliciting. Police could not find the group.
Local law enforcement agencies have been unable to determine the origins of a Saturday afternoon call for a vessel taking on water in the harbor. The Coast Guard called in the report but had no exact location or description of the boat. Sag Harbor police searched in the bay and along the southern edge of Shelter Island to Barcelona Neck and could not find any boat in distress. Southampton Town police had no luck either after searching Noyac Bay.
Police escorted an angry man out of the downtown area on Sunday after he was heard yelling profanities at protesters on Long Wharf. An officer drove alongside the man and warned him to keep moving.
A woman jogging on Wharf Street last Thursday was grazed by a passing car. The driver, who was tracked down with the help of a Flock camera, told police she’d been looking at her dashboard map when the car grazed the jogger’s leg. She stopped to ask if the jogger was injured, she told police, and left the scene when she said she was not. The jogger repeated to an officer that she was not hurt and declined medical attention.
The glass in the door to the American Legion building was shattered overnight on July 23.
A man found on Bay Street at 7 a.m. on Sunday asleep in his car told police he’d worked late the night before and lived far away, so he’d spent the night in his car. He was told sleeping in a car is not permitted.
Springs
Another sleeper, a “highly intoxicated male” found in the bushes near Springs Auto last Thursday night, told police he wanted to be taken home but did not know where he lived. An officer figured it out and got him home.
Police asked a Flushing-based Uber driver waiting for a fare near Sycamore Drive on Friday afternoon to move his car.
Landscapers allegedly cut down tree limbs on the wrong property, a man told police on July 27. He said his mother’s neighbor on Sycamore Drive had hired a crew that cut down multiple branches on her land without permission.
