On the Police Logs 07.20.17

Amagansett

Last September, a Manhattan couple with a house in Amagansett told police, they left their 2003 Chevrolet pickup with a mechanic at the Mobil station on Main Street for maintenance work, and to keep it safe for the winter. On Dec. 5, Catherine Russell said, they received notification that the truck had crossed the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and that there was not enough money in an E-ZPass account to pay the toll. That same day, the truck was involved in an accident on Montauk Highway in Southampton. Patrick Ribustello, the husband, called the mechanic, who promised to repair the vehicle and return it to their Amagansett residence. However, when they returned here recently, the truck was not at the house. Further, the mechanic no longer works at Mobil. The couple said they would not press charges if the truck were returned, which, last week, it was

East Hampton

A dog let loose by its owner, who was across Long Lane at the Share the Harvest Farm stand at the time, attacked and killed a chicken at Iacono Farm on July 7. The man, whose 60th birthday was Saturday, told police the animal was a service dog. Anthony Iacono said he would not press charges but wanted the incident documented. The dog owner, whose name, along with much of the content of the report, was redacted, is said to have made threatening statements to the Iaconos when they spoke to him about the incident, prompting them to phone the police, who warned the man to stay away from the chicken farm.

Douglas McCue of Manhattan, who was staying at a Whooping Hollow Road residence, woke up Saturday morning to find the rear window and passenger-side taillight of his rented 2017 Dodge Caravan had been smashed during the night.

John North, who works at the town recycling center on Springs-Fireplace Road, told police he has made numerous attempts to contact the owner of a 2001 Ford pickup who entered the weighing station one day last month, weighed the vehicle and the trash in its bed, dumped the trash, and drove off without paying. Mr. North asked that police document the incident.

East Hampton Village

A report of a dog locked in a car on Newtown Lane prompted a police investigation on the afternoon of July 10. The officer reported that the windows were open and the owner had provided a bowl of water on the floor of the car, “and the dog appeared to be okay.”

Police were called to the Methodist Church that same afternoon, where a member of the church told them that a homeless man had been leaving his bags at the church and sleeping in the lobby. The caller said he would be happy to take the man’s possessions wherever he wanted, but that the man had given him a Montauk address that did not appear to be valid. The next morning, after being told he needed to stay away from the church, he entered an office on Main Street and complained to an employee that the government had taken away his house. When police arrived, the man left peacefully

A Middle Lane resident called police the morning of July 12 to report a raccoon walking around her yard, where children come to play. Police were able to scare the raccoon into running under a fence and onto a neighbor’s property.

Montauk

Karen Hess of Surfside Avenue woke up on July 11 to find a young man she did not know sleeping in another bedroom. The man, still intoxicated when an officer woke him up, was in the wrong house; the one he is renting is on North Surfside. Ms. Hess declined to press charges, saying she just wanted the intruder removed.

A tourist from Grosvenor Dale, Conn., who had left two folding Dahon bicycles secured to a bike rack in the dock area, told police late on the afternoon of July 10 that they were gone when he returned a few hours later. John Baczek valued the bikes at $300.

Northwest Woods

A wallet belonging to a Hand’s Creek Road woman was reported stolen last week from her car, which was parked outside her house. Geraldine McKey-Crosoot told police she had the wallet earlier when she went shopping, and was positive it was still inside her handbag when she put the bag in the trunk of her 2008 Lexus and locked it.