Amagansett
Some of the jewelry she consigned at the Lazypoint store on Main Street has gone missing, a New Jersey woman told police last week. Some items were sold, the store’s owner said, and the woman was paid for them, but others were not sold and cannot not be located. Police have looked for the missing items without success.
East Hampton
A Montauk-based real estate attorney was informed by his bank in August of suspicious activity on his account: Someone had attempted to redirect a wire transfer he’d initiated. Police classified the incident as identity theft, but said the attempts were unsuccessful and no money was taken.
East Hampton Village
A Bronx man who left his Mercedes-Benz running unattended “in the middle of the roadway” on North Main Street Saturday was found to have a suspended registration, and was cited also for parking on the road and leaving his car unattended.
Police were called after a woman was reported “screaming” in the Main Beach parking lot on Sept. 7. She told an officer she just wanted to get to the train station, and was taken there.
Employees at Cittanuova told police on Friday that a man who’d been barred from the restaurant had come back that night and gone into the bathroom. He was told to leave and not come back.
Two neighbors on Georgica Road called police Saturday over a hedge-trimming dispute. One has been trimming the other’s hedge, which he does not want trimmed. The trimmer called the work a “neighborly gesture,” which he pays for himself, due to his neighbor’s neglect of the “landscaping and upkeep.”
Police issued a summons to a Brooklyn woman Saturday who they said had failed, as the coordinator of a wedding at a house on Main Street, to secure the required special event permit.
Montauk
A motel owner called police Saturday after confronting “a suspicious man” walking from behind tall bushes on South Edison Street. He told her he was leaving a bicycle for a friend. When an officer arrived, she said she’d been to look, and there was a bike locked up where he said he’d left it.
On Sept. 3, a Manhattan woman put her phone down at Mary Lou’s, a new nightclub on West Lake Drive, and it disappeared. After using the “Find My iPhone” app, she located the phone at a house on Montauk Highway in Amagansett. Police said no one was home when they got there, but would keep trying.
A local woman spotted a drone last Thursday flying around her Soundview Avenue house multiple times and reported it to the authorities.
Two neighbors on South Essex Street and South Fay Street are at odds over the trimming of trees and branches on the property line they share. Police said on Sept. 8 that they issued one of the neighbors a notice of trespass, which he refused to sign.
Close to midnight on Saturday, police cited the owner of the Montauk Project restaurant on Fort Pond Road with a noise violation after music playing there was found to be louder than permitted.
Police freed a deer stuck between two wire fences on Stuyvesant Drive on Sept. 6.
Sag Harbor
An East Hampton man was charged with exposing himself on Sept. 9, near the bridge on Wharf Street. He was issued an appearance ticket and released into the custody of Southampton Village police, who had a warrant for his arrest on another matter.
A couple who ordered a custom-made ring from Cirari on Main Street last year told police last week that they’d struck a deal with an employee to have the ring made for $7,500. They received the ring, along with an appraisal from the employee stating its value at $9,500. This summer, however, when they returned to the store to make alterations to the ring, they were told the store had no record of its being ordered, made, or paid for. They then took the ring to another jeweler, who told them that although it had been represented as 18-karat gold with natural diamonds, it was actually only 14-karat gold with lab-grown diamonds, and that its value was closer to $4,500. The employee who took their order no longer works at Cirari, whose manager told police that while the customers are adamant about having bought the ring there, they have been unable to date to produce a record of the transaction.
Suspecting he had been covertly drugged after “eating a chocolate bar that turned his mouth purple,” a man told police on Sept. 7 that he did not need medical attention but did need a ride home. He described being followed on Hampton Street by “a pickup truck and a sport utility vehicle,” which, he said, looked a lot like the Uber he’d called to pick him up. Police stayed with him until another Uber arrived to take him back to the East Hampton house where he was staying.
On Aug. 28, a woman told police she’d been approached on Main Street by a man she did not know, who complimented her on her red Porsche. Later that evening at the American Hotel, she said, the same man, now accompanied by a woman, approached her again. The woman commented on her jewelry and asked to try some of it on, she said. She declined, and wanted the series of events on record.
After her oil was changed at B & B Auto Service on Hampton Street, the car’s owner called police to complain about the charge: $500. Employees at the repair shop said her car has a diesel engine and that the service costs more.
A boat that struck a sandbar and then the shoreline off Shelter Island got a little help pushing back off from a nearby fisherman. Sag Harbor police, who followed the Boston Whaler to the yacht club marina, said everyone on board appeared unharmed.
Employees at In Home on Main Street told police on Sept. 1 that a man suspected of stealing $154 worth of items from the home decor store in August had returned again. They were not sure whether anything was taken the second time, but said the man has a habit of “moving things around the store” while shopping.
A Prestige yacht hit the rocks south of the main channel Sunday and sustained hull damage, with both propellers sheared off. It was towed safely into the Sag Harbor Yacht Yard, and its captain told police that “once he realized he was out of the channel, it was too late.” No one was injured.
Police reported a possible sinkhole on John Street Sunday. An officer noticed that a parked car looked “very askew” and found a hole of “unknown depth” under it. The car could not be moved because of heavy rains, but police coned it off.
A small fire that ignited at the top of a Bay Street utility pole on Sept. 3 resulted in melted material dripping onto the pavement and a parked car. The utility company was informed of the damage.
The owner of a car booted in the Long Island Avenue parking lot called police on Sept. 3 complaining that he was being “extorted for money” after the attendant there said he would have to pay a fine to have the boot removed. Police told him that the booting operation is legal, as the lot is privately owned. He paid the fine.
A Los Angeles woman was charged with smoking marijuana while driving, a violation, and driving while ability impaired by the drug, a misdemeanor, on Sept. 4. Police pulled her over on Route 114 for a traffic infraction and spotted a “burnt cannabis joint” next to the gear shift.
A juvenile who attempted to hide an alcoholic beverage from police on the night of Sept. 5 was taken to headquarters and sent home with a family friend.
After a county bus rear-ended a van on Jermain Avenue Sept. 1, the bus driver told police the bus had skidded in the rain and tapped the van. No one was hurt.
Springs
There was some confusion after the first day of school on Sept. 8 when a child missed her bus stop and instead got off the bus at her cousin’s house on Hildreth Place. The school contacted the child’s mother, who told them she was safe and with her grandmother. Police told the family that children should remain on the bus and notify the driver if a stop is missed.
Roommates on Fort Pond Boulevard got into a pushing match last Thursday after a disagreement, and one of them called police. The two agreed to be civil to each other until one of them moves out of state in a few days.
Also last Thursday, police responded to a dispute between two co-workers who were arguing about parking. The argument turned physical, police said, but tensions had calmed by the time they arrived. The men said they would try to avoid each other.
Wainscott
A Sayre’s Path resident told police on Saturday that her neighbor has been trespassing on her property to complain about construction going on there. The neighbor, however, said the only time she was there was to drop off packages that had accidentally been delivered to her address.