On the Police Logs 01.08.15

East Hampton Village

The president of the trustees of the East Hampton Methodist Church told police on the morning of Dec. 31 that the church’s oil company had delivered and installed a new furnace without permission. Other trustees, however, told police that they had authorized the installation and had left several unanswered messages to that effect for the president.

A New York woman receiving a facial at Naturopathica at 74 Montauk Highway on Dec. 31 left two necklaces in a silver bowl. When the facial was finished, she left the room with the employee, forgetting to retrieve her jewelry. By the time she realized her mistake, the employee had given another facial to a 17-year-old East Hampton girl in the same room. When the New York woman returned, one of the necklaces was missing. The employee told police she had seen the woman place two necklaces in a silver bowl. The 17-year-old, on the other hand, said by phone that she had seen only one necklace. The girl’s parents refused to let her go to headquarters to make a statement to police, saying they were going to call their attorney. The missing necklace, a silver-colored chain with a peace symbol made out of white diamonds, was valued at $1,800.

Police went to Town Pond on the morning of Dec. 31 when a caller said that a swan was stuck in the Christmas lights. “Both swans were swimming freely and appeared fine,” an officer reported.

A truckload of cut brush was dumped on a Georgica Road property in late December. The owner had had the grounds cleared on Dec. 15 and discovered the yard waste on Dec. 28. Police said it did not appear that the brush that was dumped came from a nearby property.

Springs

On Sunday night police were called to an Oceanview Avenue house, where an exterior solar-powered light and two orange property markers had gone missing. Ann Liguori told police the items had disappeared between 5:30 and 7:30 that evening. She believes local youths passing the house may have been responsible.

A departing tenant on Norfolk Drive apparently helped him or herself to various items in and around the house on the way out. Cynthia Turk told police on the day after Christmas that her father, who lives in Florida, had asked the previous tenant to move out so that she could move in. When she arrived at the house in mid-December, the garage was open and the front door was unlocked. Missing were two queen-size beds along with their night stands, a snow blower, a ladder, and a Weber grill.

The owner of a Camberly Road house that is on the market told his tenants that he would pay for a missing iPad, which had disappeared on the day of an open-house viewing of the property. Elizabeth Mahler told police she had gone with her family to a holiday party on Dec. 13, the day of the open house, and had discovered that the device was missing when she returned. The owner, David Holmes, told police there had been quite a few people at the open house, and he had not been able to keep track of their movements.