On the Police Logs 09.11.14

East Hampton Village

Police were called on Sept. 3 to 51 The Circle by the building’s manager, who said that an ex-tenant had “gone into the basement and was turning off the electrical panel-box switches.” Police checked the switches and found “all to be in working order.” The manager then said he had not actually seen the person on the premises, but that her car was still parked outside. Police contacted the woman, who said she had not gone into the basement, and thought she had permission to park in the driveway. She agreed to drive her car away.

 

Montauk

An expensive ring left on a nightstand at Solé East was reported stolen on Aug. 3. Described on the police report as a “brown-cut center diamond with a halo of small diamonds,” it was valued by its owner, Thamar N. Nashed, home address not given, at $17,000.

A Dix Hills man reported $500 stolen from a suitcase in his room at the Tipperary Inn on Aug. 24. Richard A. Barathy Jr. told police that only his friends had access to the room, and said he had told the cleaning women not to enter.

Another Dix Hills man who was a recent victim of larceny was Douglas Forte, who reported his bicycle stolen from outside his room at the Surf Club. The bike, a customized green-and-white Phat Cycles, has “Aloha Mahalo” lettered on it.

An employee of the Surf Lodge parked his 2013 Nissan on Edgemere Street near the popular nightclub when he went to work on Aug. 31. Alexander M. Serin returned to the car a little after midnight to discover the windshield broken and shoeprints on both the hood and the trunk. A patron reported a similar incident the weekend before.

Brown Ray-Ban sunglasses and a woman’s David Yurman bracelet went missing from the master bedroom of a Gilbert Road house in the early morning hours of Aug. 4. Brad Cebula told police he had met four women and three men at Swallow East the night before and invited them to the house. They didn’t stay long, he told police. When he woke up in the morning, he discovered the items, valued at $2,160, had been stolen.

A Westfield, N.J., man who found a Labor Day weekend rental on craigslist for only $800, showed up at the Shadbush Road house that Friday to discover that he had been duped. Alec Jaslow told police the house was already occupied, and that he had paid for the rental “through Bank of America, to a company called Reliable Rentals.” Detectives are investigating.

Greg Donohue told police last Thursday that the yellow sun sign hanging outside the Montauk Community Garden was gone. He estimated its value at $150.

A backpack was stolen on the evening of Aug. 10 at Liar’s Saloon. Its owner, Genevieve J. Berold of South Africa, told police she was missing a black Canon camera, a white iPhone 5, and a blue iPod Nano , with a total value of $900.

 

Northwest Woods

On the afternoon of Labor Day at the Old House Landing Road beach, a New York man left his Bali Solstice inflatable paddle board on a garbage pail to dry while he went back to the beach to retrieve his gear. When he returned, the $900 board was gone.

Vikram Nagrani told police Friday that within the last day or two someone had entered his fenced-in backyard, picked up a $500 flower pot, and tossed it into his swimming pool.

 

Sag Harbor

A Redwood Road resident called police on Sept. 3, concerned that from time to time all summer she had been finding her pool-skimmer covers moved around. Police told Elaine Corwin that the culprits may have been wildlife, and advised placing large rocks on the covers to hold them down.

A gold 21-speed Schwinn mountain bicycle was stolen from the bike rack outside Sag Harbor Variety Store on Friday afternoon. Marilyn J. Arents was not sure of the bike’s serial number.

While most of last weekend’s noise complaints came late at night, one was received early Saturday evening. A band was playing in the alleyway behind Sagtown Coffee as part of its series Troubadour Night, which is held every other Saturday. The organizer of the event, Dick Johansson, told police they would turn the music down.

 

Springs

An iPhone 5S was stolen from a woman dining at Bay Kitchen Bar the night of Aug. 22. Alexandra V. Colonna told police the phone would cost about $700 to replace.

A bicycle belonging to Patricia Place of New York City was stolen from a Barry Lane yard over the Labor Day weekend. She valued the Raleigh Hybrid mountain bike at $350.

 

Wainscott

Constance McDonald parked her 2003 Volkswagen Passat at the end of Beach Lane for a couple of hours on Labor Day evening. When she returned to the car, her $800 Prada purse, which she had left on the back seat, was gone.