On the Police Logs 04.07.16

East Hampton

A crew building a deck on a Spring Close Highway house ran out of the cedar planks they were using shortly after beginning work on the morning of March 17. The contractor had left about 45 planks stacked in the driveway the day before, but they vanished during the night. Oscar Cascante valued the missing lumber at $850.

East Hampton Village

Gale-force winds downed limbs and trees all over village roads on Sunday morning. Sherrill Road, East Hollow Road, and Gould Street all had police diverting traffic until the Public Works Department could clear the way. At the Town Hall complex, a giant tree was split in half by the winds.

The owner of 44 Dayton Lane was ticketed last Thursday for draining his swimming pool through a fence dividing his property from the John Marshall Elementary School’s. Police said James Conklin admitted draining 600 gallons of pool water, over the course of two days, through a hose into the school playground.

Montauk

Supervising the Montauk recycling center can be an eventful job. Roger Cromley had to call police after telling a man who was intending to discard bulky furniture the morning of March 25 that there would be an extra fee to do so. The man became irate and verbally abusive. He left before police arrived.

A credit card belonging to an East Lake Drive woman was charged for almost $23,500 while she was on vacation in Florida last month. Elizabeth Grande discovered the theft when she received her statement in the mail. The card company’s fraud division is investigating.

Asa Gosman reported on March 21 that a gray Link TAG Heuer wristwatch he had left overnight in the men’s changing room at Gurney’s Health Spa had been stolen. He valued the watch at $1,200.

Northwest Woods

Lawrence Koncelik III of Mile Hill Road told police last week that between Nov. 24 and Jan. 9, a pair of wooden oars was stolen from underneath his dinghy, where he had been storing them for the past three years.

Sag Harbor

John Scocco told police on March 29 that his 2015 Jeep Renegade had disappeared from the parking lot off Main Street. Minutes later, an officer spotted the Jeep parked near Bagel Buoy on Bay Street. Mr. Scocco then remembered driving to the bagel shop that morning to get breakfast and then walking to work.

On March 30, David McMahon reported that two Breitling Swiss watches had disappeared from his Wildwood Drive residence sometime over the previous six weeks, and an unactivated credit card was missing as well. His bank reported that there had been three attempts to use the card, including one at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan, but that the transaction had been declined. The watches were valued at $6,500 each. Police are investigating.

Several falling trees and limbs brought down wires in the village during Sunday’s windstorm.

Springs

An Abraham’s Path man who is a real estate agent in Montauk called police after receiving an email on March 9 from a man who said he was following up on a Flamingo Avenue house advertised on Craigslist as being for rent. The prospective renter told Jordan Daniels that he had been asked to wire $1,700 into a bank account. Mr. Daniels told the man that he does not list houses on Craigslist, and that the ad was likely a scam. Mr. Daniels forwarded the emails to the police.

Wainscott

A surfer who left his Nikon D7100 DSLR camera with two zoom lenses in the back of his 2010 Toyota Tacoma, parked at the Beach Lane lot late on the afternoon of March 24, returned 90 minutes later to find the equipment missing. Scott Holmes valued the camera and lenses at $1,700.

Timothy Gaglio, the owner of Osteria Salina restaurant, told police last week that he had left his 2004 Mercedes Benz station wagon overnight on March 29 in the restaurant’s lot. In the morning, he found that the rear window had been smashed. The vehicle was not entered, police said.