On the Police Logs 02.15.18

East Hampton Village 

Police were called to Main Beach on Feb. 6 by the report of a deerswimming in the ocean. When an officer arrived, the deer exited the water. The officer observed that the deer seemed to be walking in some distress. The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center was notified.

Police were called on Feb. 7 to the intersection of Apaquogue and West End Roads, where a deer was in the middle of the roadway, apparently injured. When an officer approached the animal, it stood up and ran away. 

The owner of a Buell Lane residence called police the evening of Feb. 6, reporting that a strange vehicle was parked in her driveway. The officer dispatched to the scene was unsuccessful in finding a local contact for the 2014 Jeep parked in the driveway. The owner was told she needed to have a private towing service pick it up. She said she would do so if the Jeep was still in the driveway the next morning. 

A stuck valve on a kitchen stove in a Dunemere Lane residence triggered a phone call to police a little after midnight on Feb. 6. The caller said he was unable to turn the broiler off, due to a stripped knob. The responding officer, along with East Hampton Fire Department Chief Kenneth Wessberg, turned the gas line off. The man who had contacted police was told to call an appliance repairman in the morning.

 

Montauk

Police made repeated visits to the Sloppy Tuna on South Emerson Street, starting at 4:35 a.m. last Thursday, as the establishment’s loud exterior fire alarm kept going off. Police made at least five visits to the shuttered bar over the course of more than two days. The alarm was turned off each time by the security company in charge of the system, only to begin ringing again. The water pipes in the restaurant’s fire-prevention system had burst during a prolonged cold spell earlier this winter. The security company was able to shut the alarm off for good late Saturday afternoon.

A Flamingo Avenue man told police on Jan. 31 that at some point between Sept. 15 and Jan. 25, three toolboxes had been stolen from a shed at the back of the property. Scott Gregorio told police that, in addition, a 36-inch level and a Dremel tool set were missing. He said the total value of the missing items was $1,200. 

 

Sag Harbor 

Police received a call complaining that some youths were possibly spray-painting graffiti on the bathrooms at Havens Beach Saturday morning. When police arrived, they found no spray paint, and no youths. They did, however, find four skateboards, which they took back to headquarters. A little later, a woman called and said that skateboards belonging to her son and three of his friends had disappeared from Havens Park. The mother and the youths came to headquarters and picked up the boards. 

A Vickers Street house was entered sometime between Feb. 1 and Feb. 7 by a would-be thief, who smashed through a basement window at the rear of the residence. Charles McCarron told police that the structure was used by house employees of Bay Street Theater. Once inside the basement, the burglar apparently tried, unsuccessfully, to enter the upstairs through a bolted door. It did not appear that the first floor had been entered, and nothing was reported missing. Police are investigating. 

A Jermain Avenue woman who had been on vacation in Mexico told police that at some point during her vacation, which ran from Jan. 15 until last Thursday, a jewelry box containing several diamond rings, as well as a bracelet, was stolen. May Castleberg told police that the missing jewelry was valued at $36,000. Police are investigating.