On the Police Logs 08.27.15

Amagansett

A Kawasaki dirt bike was vandalized on Aug. 19 outside a Laurel Hill Lane house. The signal lights were ripped off, the license plate was stolen, and glue was poured into the coolant system. The bike’s 17-year-old owner told police it would cost about $200 to repair the damage.

East Hampton Village

Police were called the CVS store on Pantigo Road Aug. 17 to rescue a Montauk woman’s car keys from the storm drain where she had dropped them. An officer used a big metal hook and fished them out.

An East Hampton woman told police Aug. 17 that her daughter and other children at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter had been left unsupervised for two hours and had made their way to Main Beach. Their counselor had told them to “go do what you want today, and left,” she said. Police spoke to the director of the program, who said the counselor had to go to the hospital but was supposed to wait until another adult took over. All the children were “safe and back at the RECenter,” he said, adding that the counselor will be suspended.

Deer number 64, one of those spayed and tagged in the village this spring, was found on Aug. 17 in the middle of Montauk Highway near Toilsome Lane. Officers thought the animal was injured, but it ran off into the woods after they arrived.

A Cooper Lane woman complained Aug. 17 that her neighbor was parking in their common driveway. The neighbor showed police a survey proving, he said, that the driveway is on his property. Police told “both parties that this is a civil matter.”

On Aug. 18, a Dunemere Lane man reported hearing “six gunshots, with flashing lights” from the Maidstone golf course, which is behind his property. Police determined that he had heard and seen fireworks.

A Cove Hollow Farm Road woman called police Aug. 19. A man in his 20s, she said, had knocked on her door, “soliciting funds for algae cleanup in Georgica Pond.” Police checked the area but did not find the man.

A resident of Hartsdale, N.Y., drove his 2003 Subaru away from the Exxon station at the corner of Toilsome Lane Friday with the gas nozzle still in the car. “The nozzle ejected as the vehicle drove away, causing damage to the hose,” the report says. The driver told police “he forgot.”

Police paid a visit to 57 Highway Behind the Pond on Saturday evening after receiving a complaint from a neighbor about illegal parking. They spoke with a man who gave his address as Fort Worth, Tex., and said he was the “party coordinator” and that he expected over 200 guests. Police could find no mass-gathering permit on file, and wrote the man a ticket.

Four summonses were issued last week on village beaches, as police continued their summer-long crackdown on illegal dog-walking and fire-making. A village resident was cited on Egypt Beach last Thursday morning for having his dog off the leash. Two women were written up for the same violation, one from Ontario, Canada, and the other from Cortland Manor, N.Y., both on Saturday. The latter, who was on Egypt Beach, told police she ­“didn’t believe she deserved a ticket, as she is aware of the village code” and was “walking towards the red marker.” On Saturday night, a woman from Ithaca, N.Y., was ticketed on the same beach for having a fire without a metal container.

Police responded Aug. 18 to complaints of a vehicle parked on the green at Egypt and David’s Lanes, where they found a “lemonade stand which was drawing attention to the area.” A man and three boys were manning the stand. The man turned out to be Jerry Seinfeld of Further Lane, Amagansett, who was there with his son and two of the boy’s friends. An officer told them that the village does not permit peddling on its property, including lemonade stands, and issued a warning.

Montauk

Six members of the Bruno family, all from points west, were reportedly battling with several individuals as they all were being escorted out of the Sloppy Tuna at around midnight Aug. 7. One man, Samuel Fowler of Burlington, N.Y., was taken to the hospital, but no charges were pressed. Also at Sloppy Tuna, according to a report released this week, a thief stole a $3,000 Chanel purse from a table on Aug. 1, shortly after 1 a.m. Maria Drokova of Manhattan told police the purse contained a $600 iPhone and a credit card.

A Cannondale bicycle was stolen from the parking area of the Concerned Citizens of Montauk offices on South Elmwood Avenue last Thursday. Joe Delia valued the bike at $350.

Two bicycles were reported stolen from the Montauk Bike Shop last Thursday. The owner of the shop, a Main Street mainstay, told police he had rented the Giant Cypress bikes to a New Jersey woman. She was located, and told police she thought she had bought them.

Linda Seaton, the owner of Whoa Nellie! on Main Street, told police Aug. 16 that an aluminum Coca-Cola sign was damaged and a similar sign for Pepsi stolen the preceding week. Each was valued at $25.

Security at the Montauk Yacht Club told police that vandals had kicked out three driveway lights early Saturday morning. Repairs will cost $150.

Napeague

A vintage 1989 Ford parked outside Cyril’s Fish House on Aug. 15 was badly scratched by someone wielding a key. Paula Schiff of East Hampton told police she had obtained an estimate and the cost of repair would come to $3,000.

Sag Harbor

Michael Heller, a photographer, reported $5,000 worth of camera equipment missing from his Honda Civic, which was parked in front of the Suffolk County National Bank on the morning of Aug. 19. He lost a camera belt, four Nikon lenses, and batteries. The car had been left unlocked.

Deborah Hunt called for assistance when she couldn’t get her 7-year-old niece out of a swing at Mashashimuet Park last Thursday afternoon. Firefighters used bolt cutters to remove the girl from the swing set. She was uninjured.

A Giant mountain bike, worth $538, and a Penny skateboard, worth $50, were stolen from an unlocked shed on Madison Street sometime between Aug. 17 and Saturday. Police found no signs of forced entry.

An employee of 7-Eleven told police a woman had tried to use a fake $100 bill to make a purchase on Monday. The woman had left, and the store did not want to press charges.

Springs

A Boardwalk Surf green paddleboard was reported stolen last week. Zev Wachtel of King’s Point Road told police it was taken from the rack at the Clearwater Beach Association Marina sometime between Aug. 6 and 8. The board, valued at $500, was secured with a light chain, which was “twisted open.”

The street sign for Birdie Lane was knocked over on the night of Aug. 11, and two mailboxes on that street were vandalized. The next night, Olivia Schoen told police her Springs-Fireplace Road mailbox had been vandalized as well.