On the Police Logs 08.13.15

Amagansett

Several items were stolen from a Mako Lane house in late July. Stanley McGee told police that while his son and his friends were at the beach, his wife’s purse disappeared from the kitchen table. Also missing was an iPad and an old sundial that had been under a table by the door for many years. There was no sign of forced entry.

East Hampton Village

A Sag Harbor driver who demanded to speak to a traffic control officer’s supervisor ended up having to find alternate means of transportation on Aug. 5. The man was upset because he had not been allowed to stop in the middle of Newtown Lane to drop off his elderly mother. When a police officer ran his license, he learned it had been suspended. The man was told he could not drive his car away with a suspended license.

A wallet belonging to a resident of Sweden was found on Main Street Aug. 5. Police carefully documented its contents, which included a blue Euro health card, a gold bank card, and bank notes, which were described as green.

As has been the case all summer, East Hampton Village police were busy on the beaches last week. An officer found a garbage can turned over, with its contents strewn around Two Mile Hollow beach, early on the morning of Aug. 3. An abandoned surf board was found on Main Beach last Thursday morning, and was taken to the lost and found on Cedar Street.

Tickets to walkers of unleashed dogs in restricted beach areas, 300 feet from any beach entrance, were written throughout the week. One was written for an East Hampton woman on Main Beach on the morning of Aug. 5, and then one for a Manhattan woman, same beach, same time, on Friday. Two more East Hampton women were ticketed, also on Main Beach, on Saturday evening, as was a Manhattan woman.

A Manhattan man’s 1985 Jeep got stuck in the sand at the western exit of Two Mile Hollow beach Saturday night. Police helped get the vehicle back onto the pavement.

Beach fires not contained in metal drew tickets for their makers. An East Hampton man received a summons last Thursday evening at Main Beach, and a Manhattan man was cited on Friday night at Georgica Beach.

A McGuirk Street woman called police the evening of Aug. 3, saying that a woman had knocked on her door that afternoon, asking if her grandson could use the bathroom. The homeowner had allowed the boy to do so, but wanted the incident documented, due to its suspicious nature, she told police.

A report of two gunshots brought police to Buell Lane Sunday morning. They eventually determined that a car had backfired.

A report that there “may be three females passed out on the side of the road” on Egypt Lane early Sunday morning proved unfounded, police said.

Montauk

Bicycles left by a Nesconset couple outside the Surfside Resort were stolen Saturday morning. Paul and Ann Sheridan valued the missing bikes at $400.

Another pair of bikes were stolen from an Upper Brookville couple who left them outside the Royal Atlantic, where they were staying on Friday night. Those missing bicycles were valued at $600 by Laura and Robert Mohring.

Laura Knipe, staying at the Ocean End on Emerson Avenue, woke up Saturday to discover that two Huffy Beach Cruiser bicycles, which had been padlocked together outside, were gone, lock and all. These were the only stolen bikes police provided a description of. One was white with a brown seat, the other pink with a black seat and high handlebars.

A silver MacBook Air laptop with a 13-inch screen, worth $1,500, was stolen from John Shearer’s Fairlawn Drive kitchen table on the afternoon of Aug. 3.

An Apple iPhone 6 in a red case was stolen from a 2013 Ford parked outside  Ben and Jerry’s on Friday afternoon. Sonam Edwards of Montauk valued the stolen smartphone at $700.

Two Bronx men who were staying at Snug Harbor Marina told police that three of their fishing poles were stolen in the early morning hours of Aug. 3. Kenneth Gress and Michael Devlin valued the missing poles at $1,000.

Sag Harbor

Over the weekend the company truck belonging to Sylvester and Co., which was parked in a private lot off Main Street, was vandalized. Someone placed what appeared to be dog feces on it.

Alexander Koenigstein told police Sunday that twice during the week someone had come onto his Suffolk Street property and cut off the irrigation system, causing his lawn to die. In addition, he said, the mail in his box had been tampered with.

Two teenagers were said to be “breaking glass” at the former Schiavoni Plumbing and Heating building on Jermain Avenue the afternoon of Aug. 4. Police picked up the young couple at the premises and contacted their parents. When they were released into their parents’ custody, they were warned that the owners of the recently sold site might claim damages.

Springs

A four-by-three-foot banner hanging outside Ashawagh Hall, advertising the annual invitational art show, was stolen overnight, Aug. 3. Beth Meredith told police the banner read “Springs” on one side, and “Invitational” on the other. It had been tied at the corners to the side of the porch with four pieces of rope, all of which had been cut.