On the Police Logs 09.25.14

Amagansett

A New York man who left a blue canvas bag on an outdoor picnic table at Brent’s on Sept. 17 while he went into the store for a short time, returned to find his wallet missing. Jonathan Papaik told police the brown Coach wallet contained about $400, credit cards, and two gift cards with several hundred dollars on them. The police report was censored, but it appears that the thief used one of the credit cards at the store’s cash register.

Police were called to a Cranberry Hole Road house on the night of Sept. 12 on a report of trespassing. John Ammerman said an intruder had climbed in through a bathroom window earlier that evening while he was out of the house. An officer checked the window, which had a screen on it and appeared secure. Checking other possible entrances, the officer found a second-story door with a defective lock, but it did not appear to have been tampered with either. “Nothing was missing or out of place in the home,” the report reads, but Mr. Ammerman was certain that someone had been inside.

East Hampton Village

Rowdy Hall was the scene of a disturbance last Thursday evening. The manager told police that “a dark-haired lady in blue jeans and a white T-shirt began to yell at other patrons on the patio” before leaving. Police located the woman, Melissa Williams, who told them “she didn’t like the way she was treated by the restaurant staff,” and that she was headed back home to Hampton Bays.

The owner of 83 Main Street told police last week that it was not he who had put a sticker of a female figure on an exterior wall of the building, in the alleyway leading back to the Reutershan parking lot. David Fink first saw the vandalism after getting a ticket from code enforcement officers.

Antoinette Zarcone-Bauer received a gift of a pair of jeans and wanted to exchange them for a different pair, so “she went online and found what she believed to be the company’s mailing address,” according to the police log. She mailed the jeans to the address without enclosing a receipt or contacting the company, and told police she believed that the gift-giver had bought the jeans at a flea market. She said she wanted the incident documented.

Montauk

A Seawind Motel resident, Devon Martin, found the rear passenger-side door and rear quarter-panel of his car badly scratched up on Sept. 10.

On Sept. 13 police answering a 4 a.m. call from the Montauk Yacht Club found a security guard confronting several individuals. The guard, Lawrence Rowe, told police the group had been trying to pry up a board on the dock, using a skateboard. He took the board away, leading to a fracas in which, he said, he was struck a couple of times. A member of the group, Christopher Friel, told police his friend had dropped about $700 on the dock and the money had fallen between the planks onto the concrete below. The remainder of the incident report was mostly blacked out, and it is not clear if the money was recovered.

Sag Harbor

Jessica McCoy told police last Thursday that she had left a blue bag, containing $90 and various cards, beside her car in the Apple Bank parking lot and it was gone when she returned after a few minutes. After reporting the loss she went to work, where an elderly man arrived and returned the bag, which he had found in the lot. Ms. McCoy reported nothing missing.

A large pothole opened up in the southbound lane of Main Street last week. Jacques Lerolland called police Friday afternoon, saying that the pothole had created a traffic hazard. The highway department put cones out to alert motorists until the hole could be filled.

A Dartmouth Road man told police last Thursday that a four-foot-long white anchor had been stolen from his front lawn, and gave police an address where he believed it had been taken. “My anchor has been out there since 1992,” the owner of the house in question told officers, who are still looking for John Eberhardt’s anchor.

Springs

A silver steel Weber barbecue grill was stolen from a Wildflower Road property, along with some lawn furniture, while construction was being done on the house in early July. Eric Gaskins, a New Yorker, told police there had been multiple contractors working at the site. He valued the missing items at about $1,500.

Wainscott

A Sayre’s Path man went surfcasting off Beach Lane in the late afternoon of Sept. 14 and left his Cannondale bicycle in the bike rack. When Stan Kotyza returned, the $800 bicycle was gone.