On the Police Logs 04.04.19

East Hampton

Carmita J. Palacios received an automated voice-mail message on March 27 around 11:25 a.m., apparently from the police, advising her to phone the Social Security Administration. She called the number left on the message and spoke to a man for 20 minutes. He said someone had rented a vehicle but did not return it, and then it was found later with drugs and money inside. The man said her Social Security number had been used to open accounts at 20 banks. Ms. Palacios did provide her Social Security number and other personal information when asked, and she was given a case number. She later went to the police substation on Pantigo Road, where police told her it was a scam. They said she should monitor her credit report and contact her bank. They also advised that she file a report on the F.B.I.’s website. 

Medication was stolen from a car parked on Oakview Highway on the night of March 22. Max Rampe said he had not heard anything suspicious overnight, but when he went to get his medication out of his car around 8:50 a.m. on March 23, it was gone. He thoroughly searched the car in case it had fallen, but he could not find it. There was no damage to the car, and nothing else was missing. 

East Hampton Village

A woman on Main Street phoned police after another woman rang the bell at her gate on March 25 at 11:30 a.m. She asked the woman to leave, and she did. 

A caretaker at a house on Apaquogue Road called police on March 26 around 11:10 a.m. about a woman there. She left, but then police found her on Georgica Beach and told her not to return to the property. Police believe the 35-year-old, who is homeless, had rung the Main Street doorbell the day before, as well. 

Later on March 26, police were called to the Maidstone Hotel after the same woman left without paying a bar tab of $70 in drinks she had ordered between 1 and 8 p.m. She did leave behind her suitcase, however. Employees later found her in the linen closet. They gave her back her suitcase and asked her to leave. 

Police received a report of a truck carrying ladders striking the Long Island Rail Road train trestle on Accabonac Road on March 25 around 2:30 p.m. The truck never stopped, and there was no damage to the trestle, but police notified the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

East Hampton Town Marine Patrol received a report of a dead seal on Georgica Beach on March 26 a little after 8 a.m. Police searched the beach and were unable to find the seal. 

Eddie Diaz, 31, was walking a friend’s dog on Pantigo Road last Thursday at 2 a.m. when he tied it to a tree. He then left the area and could not remember where he had tied the dog up. An officer found it in front of 61 Pantigo Road and reunited it with its owner. Mr. Diaz is the same man listed in the arrests column this week having reportedly fled from police on a motorcycle.

Garbage was strewn about by a group of youths in the parking lot in the Reutershan parking lot on Saturday night. When police arrived, however, the youths were cleaning up the trash.  

Montauk

Jordan McDonough called police about a threatening phone call he had received on Friday in regard to a continuing disagreement with his contractor over construction at his house on South Gibson Place. Mr. McDonough did not want to pursue charges, but said the contractor is no longer welcome on his property. Police called him, and he said he understood. 

Sag Harbor Village

“No Dogs” signs on the Old Whalers Church property were removed and thrown about, according to Chris Conklin, who called police on March 26. One of the signs was broken, he said. 

Peter Kessel called police after he saw on security camera footage several people step onto his Ninevah Place property from the beach last Thursday night around 8:30. They approached a sliding-glass door, but did not enter the house, he said. Then they left. Police searched the property and the area but did not find them. 

Someone called Lidieth D. Zuniga Vega on Franklin Avenue on Friday afternoon and told her there was a problem with her bank account and that she needed to supply her Social Security number. After she did so, she grew suspicious and hung up. She phoned police about the scam, and they advised her to never give her personal information to anyone she doesn’t know. 

Ronald Labrozzi was parking his 2016 Toyota Tacoma behind the Redwood Anchorage on Redwood Road on Friday when the pickup truck inexplicably accelerated, driving over a bulkhead and into Sag Harbor Cove. Mr. Labrozzi, who called police around 5:50 p.m., was not hurt. 

Springs

A security gate arm blocking access to the beach in the Isle of Wight community was broken off sometime between March 22 and March 25, according to Merrily D. Sanfino, who is the caretaker and a resident there. She called police when she discovered that the security arm had been thrown into the woods near the dock parking area on Bay Inlet Road. She also noticed tire markings in the gravel.