East Hampton
Jasmine Donoghue of Manorville believes her 2008 Volkswagen was keyed along the driver’s and passenger’s side doors while it was parked outside her boyfriend’s apartment on Accabonac Road on the night of April 28. There were scratch marks on the driver’s side window as well.
East Hampton Village
A woman from Aurora, Colo., went to police headquarters on June 10 after trying to rent a house on Barns Lane that was listed on Craig’s List.
The supposed owner said he would need her to wire funds for the rental. When she asked him to verify his identity by sending her a photo of his license, he cut off communication.
Police were called on June 10 about a suspicious person walking toward the Maidstone Club at about 3 p.m. Police found the man with a plastic bag full of drawings on Dunemere Lane. He said he was an artist out for the day and that he was headed for the East Hampton train station to go back to Manhattan.
A woman walking her dog past a construction site on LaForest Lane last Thursday at about 9:40 p.m. called police because she thought she heard a cat crying from within a Porta-Potty on the property. An officer was able to get in to the portable toilet, but did not find a cat.
Montauk
Dennis M. Rakers lost his wallet in the Market on West Lake Drive on the evening of June 6. He told police he’d left the wallet on a table at about 6:30 p.m. after receiving a text message. He said he was distracted, and walked outside and drove away. He realized he’d left the wallet behind about 10 to 15 minutes later, but when he returned it was gone.
Police were called to a sober-living house on Rehan Avenue twice on Sunday, first for a dispute in which a woman was taken to the Montauk train station and told not to return to the house. A short time later, just before 6 p.m., the woman returned, and James T. Hamm, who maintains the house, called police back. She left in a Surf Taxi before police arrived, and Mr. Hamm did not wish to pursue charges. Police later found the woman in front of Shagwong’s in an intoxicated state, and told her not to go back to the house.
Someone took up residence at a house on Elm Lane over the winter. Steve Molison, a caretaker, said he found all three beds looked as if they had been slept in and the linens washed in the washing machine. Various wines and liquor, along with snacks, were found in the kitchen, and the wood-burning fireplace had been used. Surfboards and wetsuits kept in the house had been used as well. Mr. Molison had already begun to clean up before police arrived last Thursday. The homeowner, William Brunder, confirmed that he had not given anyone permission to stay at the house.
Police arrested a Mastic Beach man at about 11 p.m. Saturday after spotting his car in a handicapped space in a public parking lot on Montauk Highway. Terrance B. Sibilly’s 2005 Honda was running, with loud music and disco ball-style, multicolored lights coming from inside the car. Mr. Silbilly, 30, said he had stopped to use a nearby garbage can. A computer check turned up an active bench warrant for his arrest and his license had been suspended in October 2018. He was taken into custody and turned over to Suffolk County detectives.
A man got about 109 gallons of fuel from the marine store at Gurney’s Star Island Resort and Marina on June 14 and while he paid for a few items in the store, he did not pay for the fuel, according to John Murray, the store manager. The man was operating a blue 40-foot Bow Ryder with the name “Love n Life.” The report did not indicate how much the fuel cost.
Someone threw a beer bottle and multiple rocks through the windshield of a 2018 Toyota RAV 4, parked Saturday night in the lot on South Elmwood Avenue. Fareesa Abbassi of Orlando Park, Ill., said she left her car there at about midnight and discovered the damage when she returned just before 7 a.m. She said it would cost $500 to repair.
Sag Harbor
Employees at Bay Street Theater reported that a suspicious man had been inside the lobby during the morning hours, when the theater is closed, on three different days last week. Police advised them to call while the man was still there.
Police were called Saturday evening about a man yelling obscenities and arguing with people on Bay Street. An officer found the man on Meadow Street. His family said he had stopped taking his medication for schizophrenia, and his father took him to the hospital.
Strong winds on Saturday night gave people on a raft off Havens Beach a hard time. After calling 911 at 5:05 p.m., the caller rowed his own boat out to the raft and towed it back to shore.
Donna B. Flores said she put six catmint plants out on her porch on Harbor Avenue on Saturday morning at 7. By 5 p.m., they were gone. The plants were worth $60.
Springs
Starting at about 2:30 a.m. on May 27, Donald Nunez heard loud bangs coming from outside his Springs-Fireplace Road house. At about 3:10 a.m., he went outside to look around and heard someone making a noise and whistling just south of his property, but he could not find anyone. He then found a broken window on the back of a friend’s Hyundai, which was parked on the north shoulder of Springs-Fireplace Road. He moved the car into his driveway and called police. Upon closer inspection, he found two dents on the car, one on the driver’s side door and one on the left front fender. Police found several rocks and broken glass on the northbound side of the road and more rocks on the southbound side. The owner of the vehicle, Fernando Ortiz, said it would cost about $480 to repair.
George M. Miller of Amagansett told police he was driving his 2002 Chevrolet Silverado south on Springs-Fireplace Road at about 1:30 a.m. when something hit his windshield. He did not think much of it until he saw police at Mr. Nunez’s house later that morning and decided to stop and file a report.