Also on the Logs 11.27.14

Amagansett



A car parked on Shore Drive East over the weekend of Nov. 8 and 9 had its taillights vandalized and its rear license plate removed. Ramon Guante estimated the damage, including the cost to replace the stolen plate, at $250.



East Hampton



Francis F. Fleetwood was the target of an email phishing scam on Nov. 17. According to police, his secretary received an email from his own account, which had been hacked into, asking her to wire $287,100 “to an unknown name in Hong Kong” in exchange for a work of art that the email said Mr. Fleetwood had purchased. No money exchanged hands, but Mr. Fleetwood wanted police to be aware of the incident.



A 15-year-old resident of Hedges Lane was assaulted by an Oakview Highway teenager while trick-or-treating on Halloween, police said. Initially, the alleged victim, who was sprayed with shaving cream and “hit on the head,” declined to press charges, but later did so. Police have withheld the names of those involved because of their ages.



East Hampton Village



Signs for a tag sale on Georgica Road at Woods Lane drew customers Friday morning, but also police, who told the Sag Harbor woman running the sale that she was not permitted to post the signs on village property. She said she was not aware of the regulations.



A caller told police there was a large amount of blood on the floor of the men’s room at the Reutershan parking lot Saturday night and that two men were seen running from the building. An officer found several tissues with blood on them, as well as blood on a sink and the floor of the handicapped stall. “The amount of blood did not suggest a serious injury,” an officer reported, adding that the two men were no longer in the area. Police closed the men’s room for the night.



A Commack man told police that he had purchased a car from a Church Street resident recently. When he went to the Department of Motor Vehicles, however, he was told that the title for the car was invalid because the name on it had been crossed off. The buyer also learned there was a lien on the car. Police told him he needed to seek a remedy in civil court.



A deer was found “stuck between the metal rails of a driveway gate” on the morning of Nov. 17. An officer called the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center and helped free the animal.



A man complained to police last week that he had paid a merchant in the Bronx to have tires with rims for his 2009 Mercedes-Benz C300 shipped to the Dominican Republic in September. He said the tires never arrived and that the merchant was not being helpful in tracking the missing shipment.



Montauk



A boat docked at the West Lake Marina was boarded by a thief sometime between late September and Nov. 15. Ronald A. Onorato of Montauk told police he was missing a black Standard Horizon VHF radio and an emergency position-indicating radio beacon. The cost to replace the items was estimated at more than $400.