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On the Police Logs 06.25.15

Thu, 05/23/2019 - 07:22

Amagansett

Two bicycles were stolen from outside the Accabonac Apartments on the night of June 16. Paulette Hill described her missing bike as an adult maroon Roadway, with a wide handlebar and black tape on the frame. She valued it at under $100. The second missing bike was described by David Almodavor as a child’s green Cannondale mountain bike, worth $300.

East Hampton

A New York State inspection sticker was stolen from the Alvarado repair shop on North Main Street earlier this month. Al Alvarado said the sticker was removed from a drawer in his office.

East Hampton Village

A Buell Lane woman called police June 17 after finding a mallard swimming in her pool. Police paid a visit and reported that the duck “flew away on its own.”

On Dunemere Lane in the early hours of June 17, a woman reported a “loud bang coming from the front-door area of her house,” and asked that police investigate. Officers reported that the “property was all secure.”

Police traced garbage found in a public receptacle back to the Tracy Anderson fitness studio on Park Place on June 16. The manager there told police the business had its own Dumpster and speculated that the studio’s cleaning people might have used the public trash can.

An East Hampton man called police Sunday evening after realizing he had thrown his Cartier watch into the trash in the restroom at Two Mile Hollow Beach, which was now closed for the day. Police contacted the beach manager, who returned to unlock the bathroom. Man and watch were soon reunited.

Village police issued three summonses Saturday morning on Main Beach, all to New York City residents, on charges of walking a dog off the leash. A Southampton woman was written up on the same charge at the same beach on June 16.

Police were called to Rowdy Hall on June 15 by a patron who complained that an American Express gift card, which she had used to pay her tab, had been returned by the waitress to the wrong table. Police tracked the couple suspected of taking the card to their room at East Hampton House on Pantigo Road, and questioned a 19-year-old woman from Brooklyn. She told police her boyfriend had left the card the waitress gave them on the bar when they left. The owner of the card, who said it still had $400 on it, contacted American Express.

A local 17-year-old told police that his 2005 Dodge, which was parked in the Reutershan lot near Gubbins on June 17, was badly scratched by a vandal.

Montauk

Four screens were vandalized overnight Friday at Gosman’s Dock Restaurant. Robert Gosman estimated repairs would cost about $120.

Police were called to Ruschmeyer’s Inn Friday night to deal with two extremely intoxicated patrons who refused to leave. When police arrived, the two agreed to leave and never return to the popular nightclub. They took a taxi to their rented house on Essex Street.

Sag Harbor Village

Anastasia Panfilova called police around midnight last Thursday. She told them she lives with 10 other women in her Washington Avenue house. She has noticed recently a “suspicious man walking around” the outside of the house, she said. Police checked but the man was not to be found.

At least two mailboxes went missing from their posts late Friday night, one from a Burke Street residence, the other from a Hempstead Street house. The second one was later found lying on the ground outside another house.

Vandals also victimized Cormaria on Bay Street overnight Friday. Sister Ann told police that a sign outside the spiritual retreat was yanked out and dumped on a neighboring property

More mayhem Monday night, this time at the gazebo on Havens Beach, where, for the second time in recent days, all the railings and spindles were smashed and tossed around. Mark Balserus estimated the cost of repairs at $500.

Springs

The driver’s-side window of a 2003 Toyota parked outside a Harbor View Avenue house was smashed with a rock sometime after midnight Saturday. Ana Jimenez estimated the damage will cost her $200.

A Dell monitor and power cord was stolen from the bed of a truck parked outside the Springs Fire Department earlier this month. Timothy Weber told police he had been issued the monitor by the department and that it will cost $70 to replace.

Long Days on the Fire Line In Orange County

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.

Nov 21, 2024

Awards for Good Policing in Handgun Scuffle

“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.

Nov 21, 2024

On the Police Logs 11.21.24

A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.

Nov 21, 2024

Head-On Collision on Route 27

A 2-year-old was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on State Route 27 near Upland Road in Montauk.

Nov 21, 2024

 

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