Also on the Logs 12.31.15

East Hampton Village

Obscenities were scrawled in chalk on an alley wall outside Lululemon Athletica on Main Street on Dec. 22. The graffiti appeared to be easy to scrub away, police noted.

Police received a report of a possible drunken driver on Montauk Highway on the night of Dec. 23. When police pulled over the 2005 Toyota in question, the female driver said she was having trouble seeing the road because of the heavy rain.

On Christmas morning an officer was dispatched to the horse pasture at Montauk Highway and Cove Hollow Road to check on a report of a horse lying down. When the officer arrived, all the equines were standing, in apparent good health.

Sag Harbor

Police were called to the 7-Eleven on Long Island Avenue on the morning of Dec. 23 to quell a verbal dispute. Volkan Ercan, the manager of the store, said that a customer had become irate when he was told that he could not return a pack of cigarettes he had purchased and then opened. The customer in turn told police that he had opened the pack as soon as he stepped out of the store, only to realize the cigarettes were stale. Police advised him that if he was unhappy with the chain store’s policy on tobacco returns, he should contact its corporate headquarters.

Daniela Locks reported that her 2014 Jeep was missing from Main Street last Thursday morning. The vehicle soon turned up, though, parked in front of the American Hotel a block away.

Last Thursday afternoon police were called to Harbor Books, where the owner, Taylor Rose Berry, said there was a man in carpenter pants and flip-flops standing in front of the store, screaming obscenities at passers-by. Police spoke to the man, who agreed to leave the area.

Gerald Deas called police a little before 5 a.m. on Sunday, complaining that a tarp in front of his Lincoln Street residence had been taken. Police found the tarp in the back of a truck parked in his driveway.

Springs

A Howard Street woman was the victim of mail theft recently. Faith Lado told police she had ordered several items online, including a laptop cover, a cellphone battery pack, and an iPhone case, none of which she had received. When she went to the post office, she was told that all the items she was waiting for had been delivered to her mailbox, which is on Springs-Fireplace Road. The total value of the missing items was $142. She asked for additional police patrols in the area.