On the Police Logs 11.05.15

East Hampton

A Morris Park Lane resident returning home from church Sunday afternoon discovered the window at his entranceway broken and the front door unlocked. Melvin Smith told police about $50 worth of items had been stolen. The case has been turned over to detectives.

An ongoing dispute between two East Hampton men boiled over at Brent’s Store in Amagansett last Thursday morning, when the two saw each other in their vehicles. It is not clear from the police report who followed whom on the highway, but they ended up at the Town Hall complex, where police calmed things down. Julian Rojas and Gustave Papas were advised to avoid each other in the future.

A worker at the Talmage sandpit, Hernando Hernandez, reported on Oct. 28 finding the rear window of a 1985 Caterpillar smashed and a large rock inside the cabin. Stephen Talmage told police the damage would cost $500 to repair.

East Hampton Village

A woman called police on Oct. 26, alarmed that she had heard a female voice repeatedly shouting “Stop yelling at me” on Montauk Highway. A patrol officer confirmed having seen and heard the woman, riding a bicycle on Accabonac Road, still shouting the same phrase, though he said that she “did not appear to be in distress.”

The caretaker of a Two Mile Hollow estate called police when water from a neighboring property began flooding the lawn. The neighboring caretaker told police he had pumped rainwater out of a pond on the site, but was finished. There were no charges.

Police were called Saturday afternoon by a Tides Turn Lane resident, who reported an injured deer on his front lawn. The Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons was contacted. The animal was sedated, and transported away.

A patron who had had too much to drink left the Palm last Thursday night, stopped, and stood on the lawn out front. When an officer asked him what he was doing, he said he was waiting for a friend to give him a ride. The friend showed up, and away the tipsy man went.

A group of youths were causing a disturbance outside Fierro’s Pizza on Oct. 27. Police told them to disperse, which they did.

Montauk

Less than 24 hours before a blaze ripped through an unoccupied building at Hartman’s Briney Breezes, East Hampton Town police had been called to the Old Montauk Highway motel to investigate a theft. Jennifer Leifheit told police last Thursday afternoon that a large package delivered by U.P.S. the previous day, and left overnight on a deck by the office, had disappeared. The box, sent by California Closets, contained wire racks valued at $80.

A 2016 rented Ford parked outside a Caswell Road residence on Halloween night was targeted by vandals firing pink paintballs. Police said that the driver’s-side taillight unit was damaged. Gabor Antalics was uncertain Sunday of how much it would cost to repair. Police checked the area but found no other damaged cars.

A Parks Department employee reported on Halloween that a town-owned shed on Essex Street had been broken into the night before. Jorge Kosanovic told police that nothing appeared to have been taken. The door had been pried open, police said.

Police were called to a house on Industrial Road early Sunday morning to quell an altercation between two men. James Fenelon, who was found seated in his vehicle outside the residence, told police that Clint Bennett had given him permission to sleep in the house, and that Mr. Bennett, who had been at a Halloween party, had woken him up when he arrived. Mr. Fenelon told police he was sleeping there because he had to be up at 4:30 a.m. to work. Most of the details of the argument that followed were blacked out, but after things had calmed down a bit police reported that Mr. Fenelon, “while cursing at officers, said he wanted his boss to respond and pick him up.” Mr. Fenelon then requested an ambulance, police said, but canceled that request when his boss arrived “and told Fenelon to get in his car.” No charges were filed.

Sag Harbor Village

James Sloane told police on Oct. 28 that, after his wife parked a car in a legal spot in front of a house on Jermain Avenue, she returned to find a note on the windshield reading “Funny how a sense of entitlement can dominate consideration.”

Police were called to the Bulova Watch Case condominiums Monday evening after Robert Baleman reported hearing suspicious sounds in a hallway. Police checked all four floors as well as the roof but found nothing.