Also on the Logs 02.25.16

East Hampton Village

Police were called to Michael Garstin’s Georgica Road property a little after midnight on Presidents Day after his daughter, Dominique Garstin, called to say her father’s 1990s Mazda MX3, which had been parked in the driveway, had been driven away without permission. Ms. Garstin told police an ex-boyfriend had the car, but she did not want to press charges. Ms. Garstin is the owner of Yogi Bob, a five-pound mixed-breed dog who disappeared in East Hampton in early January and for whom she has made an extensive search. Yogi Bob was still missing as of Tuesday. 

Police were called to the Jeremiah Miller house on Main Street Friday morning by a caretaker, who was concerned that someone might have broken in the night before, coming through a basement window and leaving it open. The air from the open window lowered the temperature in the room to the point where a water pipe burst. Workers discovered the flooded room as they were searching for the cause of a problem with the central air system. It was determined that the window had fallen down, likely due to being “improperly seated,” police said. 

There were several other reports of burst pipes last week in the village. A water main leak was reported outside 213 Main Street Friday. Also, police reported “water pouring out the front door” of Lawrence Fine Arts, which is on an alley off Newtown Lane, on the morning of Feb. 15. At about the same time, a water main was reported to have burst on West End Road. A burst pipe in the East Hampton Public Library, discovered Tuesday, is detailed elsewhere in this issue.

A noise complaint sent police to a Cross Highway house last Thursday night. The noise, police found, was coming from a generator on a nearby Hither Lane property. When police told the Cross Highway resident the source of the noise, he said he just wanted to make sure a transformer hadn’t exploded.

Montauk 

A Glenmore Avenue woman with a dog-sitting business reported being contacted via email by a potential client from California in late January, who apparently was going to visit Montauk and needed her services. Jessica Hindman agreed, and the caller said Ms. Hindman would receive a deposit of $250 for the job. On Feb. 5, however, Ms. Hindman received a check in the mail for $3,250. She contacted the Californian, asking why she had been sent such a large amount, and was told it was her pay, prorated. She was asked to deposit the check and then wire the amount to a California store. Ms. Hindman turned over the check to police instead.

Sag Harbor

Police received a complaint last Thursday from an anonymous caller who reported a pool heater at Archibald Way had been making excessive noise. The caller said the heater had been “loud and running for weeks,” and then hung up. Police found the heater in question, and left a voice-mail message for the homeowner.

Terry Sullivan reported a suspicious male walking down Richards Drive on Friday. Police investigated and found the man, who said he worked for a renovation company and was canvassing the area for potential roofing or siding jobs. No action was taken.

A car parked outside Harbor Books on Main Street had a broken window and “blood on the side of the vehicle,” a caller told police Saturday morning. They tracked down the owner of the car, who told them he had struck a deer in East Hampton Village and had reported the incident to that Police Department.

Police were called to LT Burger on Main Street on Sunday evening, where a customer was said to be making “unwanted contact” with patrons. Sue Huneken told police the man appeared to be highly intoxicated and was grabbing at a youth’s sweatshirt. She asked police to tell him he would no longer be allowed into the restaurant. It was the second call they received about him. Another man, waiting for the Hampton Jitney on Main Street, called police, saying a man who “didn’t appear normal” had tried to get close to him. The Jitney fare shouted, “Stop! Get away!” The man ran off.

Wainscott

Police were called to 75 South Breeze Drive last week, where nine Ross School students live with Gregory Drossel, a “dorm parent.” A student told police that before leaving for vacation on Jan. 3, he had put $2,000 in cash inside a locked Samsonite suitcase, which was then placed in a locked storeroom. Upon returning in February, he found that someone had gotten into the room, broken the lock on the suitcase, and stolen the money, he said. Mr. Drossel told police he believes a similar incident occurred last year, when $800 belonging to another Ross School student disappeared from the house. He added that he didn’t believe that incident had been reported to police, who are investigating the new one.