On The Police Logs 01.14.16

East Hampton Village

An out-of-towner staying at the Mill House Inn approached a patrol car parked outside the Presbyterian Church on Main Street early Friday morning, complaining that he was lost. The officer told him he was walking in the wrong direction. But after giving the man “explicit directions on where the Mill House is,” the officer said, the visitor still seemed “geographically confused.” The officer told the man to get into the patrol car and gave him a ride to the North Main Street location.

A customer in the checkout line at the CVS Pharmacy on Pantigo Road was handed a note last Thursday afternoon by another customer, asking her to dial 911, which she did. The man who had handed her the note was himself on his cellphone. When police arrived, he explained that the caller he had been speaking to claimed to be holding his brother hostage and demanded that $950 be sent to him via MoneyGram to a bank in Puerto Rico. The man then got in touch with his brother, who was safe at work in East Hampton.

Another potential victim of a phone scam told police Saturday morning that he had received a call in which the caller said the man’s brother had “messed up” someone’s car and demanded that money be sent to him via Western Union. The brother in question is in Florida and said he had no knowledge of an accident.

Police were called to an Apaquogue Road house on Jan. 5. The caller told them that she had found an arrow on her property, and that no one had permission to hunt there. The officer told the woman that it was possible the deer had been wounded elsewhere, with the arrow becoming dislodged where she had found it, but she was also told to call police if she sees anyone hunting on her land.

Police responded to a call from the train station around noon on Jan. 4. A man said he had left his backpack hidden under the train station the day before. When he returned that morning, it was gone. He then saw another man at the station holding his pack and demanded that it be returned, which it was. Police advised him not to leave his things in public places and to put his name on his backpack.