On the Police Logs 10.20.16

East Hampton

A vandal damaged the hood of a 2008 Dodge pickup truck on the evening of Sept. 26. Keith Ellis told police he was sitting inside the parked truck in the Pepperoni’s Pizza lot on Springs-Fireplace Road at about 8 p.m., when a stranger leaned onto the hood. It appears that Mr. Ellis told the man to get off, then moved the truck to another space before going into Pepperoni’s for about 15 minutes. When he came out, he discovered that the hood had been damaged by a large rock. Repairs will cost about $1,000.

East Hampton Village

A blue bicycle locked to a fence outside Cittanuova, was stolen during the night of Oct. 10. The bike was valued at $850.

A swan disrupting traffic at the intersection of Woods Lane and Ocean Avenue took police to the scene. The swan was off the road in a grassy area when an officer arrived. “Negative problem,” the report concludes.

The manager of Rowdy Hall called police a little before midnight on Oct. 11, saying that a disruptive woman had just been thrown out, and she wanted her warned to stay away from the restaurant. Police located the woman on Main Street and passed on the manager’s complaint. The woman said “she understood, and would never return.”

The Huntting Lane man who in recent years, wielding a rake, has chased away tourists who have wandered onto his dilapidated property, took on a landscaper last Thursday. The landscaper told police he was working on a neighboring property, but there was no parking in front of that residence, so he had parked his truck instead in front of the elderly man’s house. He was seated in the cab of the truck making a phone call, he told police, when the man struck him with a cane through the open passenger window, screaming that he should get off his property. The landscaper said the man was striking both him and the truck with the cane. He said he would not press charges, but did want the situation documented. Because there were no charges, police named no names.

 

      Montauk

  A Fairview Avenue woman told police Oct. 12 that sometime over the prior weekend, two concrete ornamental Scottie dog statues on either side of her driveway had been stolen. Maureen Keller said she had paid $600 for the pair.

A resident of an apartment in the Port Royal complex on Navy Road reported that on Oct. 7, someone entered his unit and took $320 in cash from his wallet, which was on the kitchen counter. Thomas Migliara told police the theft occurred between 8 and 10 a.m.

Four Interstate Marine Gel batteries were stolen this month from outside an Edgemere Street garage. Walter Rella told police Sunday that the batteries had lost their charge and he had planned to take them to a scrap yard, where he could have sold them for $100.

A laptop belonging to an Edgemere Street resident was hacked on Oct. 9. Edna Steck told police she was on Facebook when she clicked onto a story that launched a security warning, instructing her to call a phone number. She did so, and was told that she needed to send $299 via credit card before the computer could be fixed. She then provided information enabling the man to access the laptop remotely. After she hung up, Ms. Steck became suspicious, and called her credit card company, which canceled the transaction. She has since taken the computer to Staples to be repaired.

Sag Harbor

A Notre Dame Road resident reported Sunday that the EZ Port docking station for his Jet Ski was stolen from behind his house. The pins that held the port in place were removed and left behind, Frank Calasso said. It will cost $2,600 to replace the station.

Police were sent to Lighthouse Lane after midnight Friday. An anonymous caller reported seeing a man outside a house, circling around it with a flashlight. The man turned out to be the homeowner’s son, who was there for the weekend. He had gone outside to examine a broken exterior door.