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On the Police Logs 05.09.19

Thu, 05/09/2019 - 16:40

Amagansett

Dave Winthrop, the manager of Brent’s General Store, told police he had found a fake $50 bill while doing his weekly bookkeeping on Saturday. A pen that detects counterfeit money showed that the bill was valid, however. 

East Hampton

Police assisted a fraud investigator with Tropical Financial Credit Union in contacting a Todd Drive resident on April 23 after 16 bank accounts were opened in his name in a 72-hour period. Police advised him of the next steps to take. 

East Hampton Village

A Georgica Road resident called police on April 29 after workers reportedly damaged her driveway gate, though she could not tell police when the damage had occurred. 

A Meadow Way resident reported a possible scheme to defraud him on May 1. He had received a call from someone he believed was a friend asking him to wire $20,000 to a Wells Fargo bank in Miami. The friend said his Uber driver had been stopped for speeding, and Fort Lauderdale police found marijuana in the trunk. When the man went to the bank to wire money, the bank teller advised him not to send it. Village police called the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and learned that there was no such incident on file. The friend who had reportedly asked for the money denied ever making the call. 

Two men agreed to stay away from each other after one of them called police last Thursday afternoon to report harassment while at John Papas Cafe on Park Place. Police said no crime had been committed. 

Police were called to speak to a “suspicious man” hanging around the playground on Newtown Lane on Saturday around 5:10 p.m. He said he was just sitting down waiting for the bus back to his house. 

Montauk

A Greenport man left his 1999 Ford Taurus in the parking lot at the Montauk train station from October to April 29. When he went to pick it up, he found that the license plates had been stolen. 

Members of the Rough Riders Homeowners Association went to police for help with a man who keeps trespassing on the condominiums property on Fort Pond Road. The man had been seen squid fishing off a dock there around 3 a.m. on April 27 and was told he would be arrested if he returned. On April 29 he was seen again, highly intoxicated and falling off his bicycle, and the homeowners gave him another warning. Police were unable to find him, however. 

The owner of a house on Old Montauk Highway believes someone has been trespassing there. On the morning of April 30, she found that a burner on a recently replaced gas stove had been left on, she told police. The following morning, the gas to the same burner was discovered on again, though it was not ignited, and some McDonald’s garbage was found in a Dumpster at the rear of the property. Police could find no sign of forcible entry, and nothing was reported missing. 

Between April 22 and April 25, someone used Cynthia Ibrahim’s AT&T account to file a fraudulent cellphone insurance claim to receive a new iPhone X without her permission. AT&T advised her of the insurance claim and that a new phone had been shipped. She was subsequently reimbursed the $150 deductible for the new phone. She went to police on Friday to have the incident documented.

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