On the Police Logs 05.12.16

East Hampton

Police were called to a Stephen Hand’s Path business on April 20. Gregory Gordon said someone he’s known for many years had showed up that morning at his business, Personalized Pools, and become very belligerent. He told police he did not want the man, who was not identified, to return, and filled out a trespassing affidavit. Police contacted the man, who agreed not to bother Mr. Gordon again.

East Hampton Village

An Apaquogue Road woman summoned police on May 3, reporting that she had been the target of a would-be scam. A caller claiming to be with the Internal Revenue Service told her she was being sued by the agency, and that “if she doesn’t comply with him, she will be arrested in 45 minutes,” according to the police log. When the unidentified woman told him she knew he was running a scam, the man “became vulgar on the phone.”

Police visited Most Holy Trinity Church on May 4. A construction trailer with no identifying markings had been in the church’s parking lot on Buell Lane for two weeks, apparently abandoned. Police said the church would have to use a private towing company to remove the trailer, since it was parked on private property.

A caller reported last Thursday morning that the Town Pond swans were out on the Main Street roadway, obstructing traffic. When police arrived, the birds were back in the pond.

Montauk

An East Hampton Town assessor was waiting in line at an automatic teller machine in Montauk last week when two strangers began verbally harassing him, he told police on Friday. Eugene DePasquale said he had been standing with a local land planner, Britton Bistrian, two days earlier when the men became verbally abusive. They did not strike him, he said, but used coarse, vulgar language toward both himself and Ms. Bistrian. Mr. DePasquale told police he was reporting the incident because he wanted it documented, in case there should be another meeting with the men, whom he was not able to identify.

Sag Harbor

A Franklin Avenue man told police on May 4 that several green fence-marker stakes he had placed on the corner of his property many years ago had been pulled out and moved. Peter North said he had placed the stakes in the ground to delineate the property line, to prevent a neighbor from parking on his land. He found the stakes leaning against a split-rail fence.

Katherine Swann-Santarem was driving south on Hampton Street last Thursday when a lawnmower hit a rock, which flew up and shattered her side window. The mower was being used by an employee of a Southampton-based landscaping company, which has agreed to reimburse Ms. Swann-Santarem for the damage.

A Havens Lane woman called police Saturday. Melissa Branfman said that within the past two weeks a vandal armed with a BB gun had targeted her property. Police found pellets in a wooden window frame and a pock-marked vehicle on the property.

Springs

Police were called to an Old Stone Highway property Saturday, where Ian Irving said a vandal had used a log left lying on the deck to smash a panel on a glass door at the back of the house. Nothing was missing from the house.