Also on the Logs: 12.28.17

East Hampton

Joseph Morgano told police on Dec. 19 that for the past several weeks a former employee has been blowing an air horn as he drives a pickup truck past Mr. Morgano’s business, Power Equipment Plus, on Springs-Fireplace Road. Employees have reached out, asking him to stop, “but he continues to blow the air horn for no legitimate purpose,” the incident report reads. Mr. Morgano wanted the situation documented. 

A burglar alarm at the East Hampton Veterinary Group on Montauk Highway sounded early Friday morning. Police found a rear kitchen door unlocked and checked the building, but it did not appear that anyone had entered it or that anything had been disturbed. Deborah Lester, a veterinary assistant, reported that she had checked the door the previous afternoon and that it was locked, as intended. She showed them that the key, the only one she knew of, was where it was supposed to be. Police asked her to call if anything suspicious occurred. 

East Hampton Village

A David’s Lane woman called police Sunday morning, complaining that a pool pump was running on a neighboring property even though the pool had been closed for the season. An officer found a sump pump for the pool running dry, and the caretaker was contacted. 

Employees at Stop & Shop on Newtown Lane called police at closing time on Dec. 19, saying an intoxicated woman was refusing to leave. The woman told police that she was waiting for the next westbound train and said it was too cold to walk to the station. They gave her a ride.

A woman described as older and wearing a hat entered the Railroad Avenue Fitness gym on Friday afternoon and sat down on a bench. An employee asked if he could help her, at which point, the report reads, “she became angry and belligerent.” She left the building when police asked her to do so.  

Montauk 

A Ford Econoline van belonging to Peter Joyce, which had been parked in front of his business on South Euclid Avenue, was reported missing on the morning of Dec. 4. Although the report was redacted, an employee apparently was suspected of taking the unmarked van, which had ladders on its roof. Mr. Joyce told police he had left the van locked the previous afternoon and did not want to press charges. The employee returned the van later that morning. 

Kevin Chumi, a Marine who hails from Montauk, reported last week that he began receiving threatening phone calls demanding money a year ago, while he was stationed in North Carolina. They had started, he said, after he received a request to become a woman’s “friend” on Facebook and thought she was a fellow Marine. He spoke with her once via a video chat, he told police, sending $50 to an address in the Philippines, and the calls stopped. Since then, however, he has received a monthly message demanding money from a number he does not recognize. Police suggested he either block the number or change his own.