On the Police Logs 01.15.15

Amagansett

A vandal or vandals targeted two skate ramps at the park on Abraham’s Path during the overnight hours of Jan. 2. Spray paint was used to write nonsensical references to heroin. There have been a couple of similar attacks across the town recently in which slogans referencing heroin were spray-painted on Recreation Department property.

East Hampton

A GoPro Hero4 video camera that was a Christmas gift for a Sag Harbor girl disappeared from where she had left it at the Buckskill Winter Club rink on Jan. 2. Police said the 12-year-old had apparently placed the camera, valued at $399, inside her boot as she went skating between 1 and 1:30 that afternoon. In addition to the camera, the memory card will be another $50 to replace, the girl’s father, James Albinson, told police.

East Hampton Village

Employees at the East Hampton Library found themselves with an unclaimed child at closing time on Sunday. Police called the boy’s father, who returned to the library. He said that he and his wife had gone there in separate cars, and when they left, they each thought the other had their son.

A Springs man went for a workout on Jan. 7 at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter on Gingerbread Lane, placing his sweatshirt in an unlocked locker. After his workout, he discovered that $240 he had left in the pocket of the sweatshirt was missing.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church was the scene of an argument on the night of Jan. 5. A man said he was trying to pray, but a woman kept talking on her cellphone. Police told both of them to leave the church.

A resident of Windmill Lane called police on Jan. 5, saying that, ever since water he was boiling had overflowed, his stove would no longer ignite. He was advised to call “an appliance technician.”

A vandal damaged a bathroom door at the train station on Jan. 6.

On Jan. 5 a new renter called police to the former Nichol’s restaurant on Montauk Highway. He said he had been working in the back when he heard a noise inside. There he found a Montauk man removing a vintage picture from a wall. The man said the former owner of the business had given him permission to do so, which the former owner denied when reached by police. No one wanted to press charges.

Montauk

A 220-volt Lincoln welder on wheels disappeared from the driveway outside a house on North Filmore Road last Thursday night. Ryan Duff, the owner of the machine, told police he had purchased it about 18 months ago off the Craigslist website for about $2,500. He was not sure of its serial number.

A one-and-a-half-liter bottle of sangria was hurled from a moving vehicle at a 2014 Ford Explorer parked outside a Fairview Avenue house late on the night of Jan. 4, badly denting and scratching the front door on the driver’s side.

Police said Monday that vandals had struck cars parked overnight at the train station sometime between Nov. 30 and Dec. 9. The felony criminal mischief left at least five cars with one or more of their windows smashed.