On the Police Logs 08.04.16

East Hampton

An Oakview Highway homeowner realized on July 23 that one of three kayaks he had stored near a shed in late June was missing. John Whitney described the kayak as a blue Wilderness Systems Pungo model, valued at $750.

A driver’s license and Chase credit card  was stolen from a Bolton, N.Y., woman’s purse in the early morning hours of July 24 at Club Leo on Three Mile Harbor Road.

Several Indian Hill Road residents have received voice-mail messages from someone posing as an agent of the Internal Revenue Service, demanding money. George Cafiso, who picked up the message on July 22, told police he recognized it as a fraud. Similar calls have been reported in other parts of town.

An officer sent out early Friday morning to check on a 911 call after the caller hung up found numerous mailboxes on Three Mile Harbor Road between Oakview Highway and Tub Oarsman’s Road damaged by vandals.

East Hampton Village

Police were called to Newtown Lane near Main Street on the afternoon of July 25, where a couple were said to be selling items out of a silver bag, in violation of the village’s peddling law. They were not to be found.

An East Hampton man was bitten on the right shoulder by a dog in the back seat of a 2010 Jeep parked in the Reutershan lot on the afternoon of July 26. A Wainscott woman, who owned the dog, exchanged information with the victim, who said he did not need medical attention. She said she would document the fact that the canine’s shots were all current.

A woman who police said was homeless was the cause of three calls to headquarters in the last week. The first call was on the morning of July 27, when someone, apparently concerned about the woman’s well-being, reported she was lying on a bench outside Starbuck’s on Main Street covered in a blanket. When an officer approached, the woman said she was fine and was waiting for a ride. Another call came in that afternoon. This time the woman was lying on a different Main Street bench. Then on Saturday, police were called to Starbuck’s, where a manager said the same woman had tried to leave without paying for two items. The manager did not press charges, but asked police to tell the woman she was no longer welcome at Starbuck’s.

Laurie Scollar, who lives in Manhattan, was ticketed for walking a dog without a leash last Thursday morning in an area of Main Beach where unleashed dogs are not permitted.

Police said two Two Holes of Water Road residents tried to dump garbage in a Dumpster behind the stores at 79 Newtown Lane Thursday morning. After a manager of one of the stores confronted them, they retrieved the garbage and drove away. However, the manager got an image of the car’s license plate, and police soon paid the pair a visit, issuing a warning.

A Boynton Beach, Fla., Man visited police headquarters Friday morning. He explained that he had dropped a stack of credit cards at the Stop and Shop supermarket on Newtown Lane and thought he had retrieved them all. When he got home, however, he found that one card was missing. Checking he found out that it had been used to make two purchases, for $490, at the Michael Kors boutique, also on Newtown Lane.

A valet service parking cars for a Saturday evening party at 130 Further Lane drew a complaining phone call from a neighbor. Police visited but found no violations. The cars were being parked legally on the north side of Further Lane, off the road, the report said.

Montauk

A Garden City teen staying with his family and friends on a boat docked at the Montauk Yacht Club had his eight-foot surfboard stolen July 21. The youth had left the board,  a white Trip Patterson with two white fins, one black fin, and an “X” brand stamp pad, on the dock. In the incident report, police noted there had been high winds that night.

Stanley Dacuk told police a bank envelope containing $2,000 in $100 bills had disappeared sometime between last Friday morning and Sunday afternoon from a 2008 Toyota pickup truck, which he had apparently left unlocked when he parked it on Gladstone Road.

A Caswell Road homeowner, Rick Bernard, told police that, at some point between July 10 and Sunday, a Gary Fisher black full-suspension mountain bike with its rear suspension broken was stolen from beneath his front deck. He said the bike was worth $900.

A guest at Solé East who parked a 2015 Range Rover outside the hotel and restaurant for one hour on the night of June 26 came out to discover someone had scratched its exterior paint. James Aliperti told police he could not think of anyone who would have had a motive for such an act.

John Guzzo, who lives at Rough Riders, told police this week that his Hobie Mirage kayak had been used twice between July 27 and Friday morning, causing minor damage. He estimated repairs to the kayak’s front carry handle and rubber cable would run about $25.

Northwest Woods

A Wooded Oak Lane woman was among those this week who received a call from someone claiming to be an agent for the I.R.S. On July 22, Sandra Knaster told police she knew it was a scam. The caller had left a phone message saying she had to make a final payment or face prosecution.

Sag Harbor

Sag Harbor’s harbormaster, Bob Bori, issued three summonses Sunday morning to individuals fishing off the Sag Harbor-North Haven bridge.  Those ticketed were Dego Xavier, Monica Dueno, and Roberto C. Marco.

Jessica Pluchino of James Place told police a man, whose identity was not released, was sitting with her in her Jeep when she pulled out her wallet to pay him $5 for something he had bought for her. After she paid him, however, the man took her wallet and pulled out a $100 bill and then another $5. He then got out of the Jeep and drove off in a late-model Ford Focus as she yelled. Police are investigating.

Police were called to a Main Street house Saturday morning, where Kate Ermelio asked them to do something about a truck parked in front of her house, which she was trying to rent. “She believed it was hurting the curb appeal for her rental,” police said. The officer explained there was nothing he could do because the truck was parked legally.

Dot Capuano called police to Baron’s Cove Inn on West Water Street Saturday morning. She reported that a little before midnight Friday, a white Range Rover pulled up in front of one of the building’s rooms, a man got out, and loaded a 3-by-3-foot table of light colored wood and two chairs into the car and drove off. She valued the stolen items at $500.

A call took police to a Hampton Street house only to discover that the resident, Geraldine Burns, had a leaky toilet. She was advised to call a plumber.

Police went to a Redwood Road construction site on July 26. There, David Rimland told them that a neighbor was making repeated, unfounded complaints to Tom Preiato, the village’s chief building inspector, about a house Mr. Rimland is building. The building inspector has found no violations, he said, but the neighbor continues to harass his workers, staring and talking to them. Mr. Rimland said he was going to build a fence, and wanted the situation documented.

Springs

A Squaw Road woman told police on July 22 that someone had used one of her credit card numbers in an attempt to make purchases. She feared it may have been the result of identity theft since she had not given the card to anyone. Police advised her to cancel her cards and to log on to the Federal Trade Commission’s IdentityTheft.gov website to report the incident.

Hildy Maze of Harrison Avenue discovered an unauthorized transaction of $665.05 had been made using her bank card last Thursday morning. The bank canceled the card.