On the Police Logs 09.17.15

Amagansett

A barn on Old Stone Highway received an unknown visitor on the night of Sept. 8. Diane Russo told police that she had locked the gate when she left that night but found it unlocked in the morning. A cart of hay in the barn had been emptied, and its contents scattered in a field where she does not normally feed her horses. The tack room was open as well, but nothing else was reported missing.

East Hampton

A woman who was away from her ground-floor apartment on Montauk Highway for two weeks found upon her return that someone had entered the unit through a window, then left through the back door. Denise Fiorillo told police nothing was missing. She was advised to lock all windows and doors when she is away.

East Hampton Village

On Sept. 8, at Orogold on Newtown Lane, a woman removed her gold Tiffany necklace with a diamond cross before applying cosmetics. She remembers putting the $3,000 necklace back on, she told police, but may not have properly fastened it. It may have fallen off somewhere on the street; it has not been recovered.

The son of a Dayton Lane woman complained Sept. 8 that a neighbor was wandering around his mother’s property. Police contacted the man and advised him to stay off her land.

A caller alerted police Friday afternoon to the presence of a dog on Georgica Beach. Police warned the animal’s owner, a Pittsburgh woman, about village code concerning dogs. The woman took the dog and left the each.

Montauk

Ten counterfeit $50 bills were passed at the bar at Sloppy Tuna the night of Aug. 22. Matthew O’Rourke and Joneen Murphy, the bartenders, told police their suspicions were aroused when counting out the cash at the end of the night.

A Pocono, Pa., man thought he had rented a South Emerson Street house for one week through Craigslist, but on Saturday he discovered that he had been defrauded. Michael Huggard wired a $1,900 deposit on the $3,100 rental to a Wells Fargo Bank account, believing he’d been dealing with the house’s owner, Roy Tuccillo, but Mr. Tuccillo told police he had no knowledge of the transaction.

Thieves ransacked an unlocked Nissan parked in a South Fairview Avenue driveway over the Labor Day weekend. Argelia Ruiz told police that six bags of items purchased at Target, Costco, T.J. Maxx, and CVS, worth about $1,000 altogether, were stolen.

Early on Labor Day morning, thieves targeted an unlocked Ford Mustang convertible and a Subaru Forester parked in a driveway on South Fairmont Street. Jillian Reiner said the intruders had made off with less than $20 in change.

A cooler on the front deck of a Benson Drive house was stolen the evening of Sept. 5. Inside the cooler, Karen Koenig told police, was a Belmont Stakes thermos.

A Springs woman was being escorted out of Sloppy Tuna by the bar’s security team on Aug. 9 when, she told police, her iPhone case, containing a credit card, $20, and her driver’s license, fell to the ground. The bouncers told police they looked for it briefly, but were too busy. Hannah Jacobs’ phone case was located later that night by her friends, minus the money, license, and credit card.

The outdoor displays at Whoa! Nellie were again a target last week. Sometime after midnight Saturday, several Christmas lights were smashed. Police interviewed a witness, who said the crime occurred around 1 a.m. but could not identify the perpetrators.

Sag Harbor

Police received a report from Gwendolyn Hankin in the early morning hours of Sept. 7 that there were fireworks and loud music coming from the beach behind her Harding Terrace house. An officer found a beach party in progress there. He did not see fireworks, but he did hear loud music, and asked the revelers to turn it down, which they did.

Several teenagers were caught bridge-jumping on the morning of Sept. 8. Police found the youths leaping off Ferry Road Bridge to the water below, and issued them a warning.

Police received a call recently from a worried listener in Cutchogue that something was amiss at the WLNG radio studio; its round-the-clock broadcast had gone off the air. Officers who visited the studio were told that all was well, except for a computer glitch that had briefly interrupted the signal.

Jamar Salazar had a busy week with the police. On Sept. 9, one of his workers left a hoe leaning against a tree in back of 117 Main Street. When the worker returned, the hoe was gone. That same day, Mr. Salazar reported that two men in a Nissan had approached him, selling projectors and screens. Police found the men, and warned them that peddling was illegal in the village. Finally, both Mr. Salazar and Francisco Lopez, who have an ongoing dispute, called police a few times during the week. Police advised them to stay away from each other.

Springs

A $4,000 Weber gas grill was stolen from a Talmage Farm Lane backyard in July or early August. Philip Dancona reported finding marks on the eastern side of the house, where the grill had apparently been dragged before it was removed.

Several driveway reflectors were stolen from a Sycamore Drive residence overnight on Sept. 7. Alexandra Moret told police she had last seen them the night before.

A house in the woods off Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road was the target this year of a would-be trespasser, who badly damaged a door, broke a window, and ripped a screen in an apparent attempt to break in. Patrick A. Laurenceau of the Bronx told police on Sept. 9 that the house, which is currently uninhabitable, is undergoing renovations. A check of the interior found nothing missing, according to the police log.