On The Police Logs 12.24.15

Amagansett

A Hand Lane man called police on the morning of Dec. 16, saying a stranger was looking into his windows. Craig Friedman told police he did not recognize either the man or the vehicle that was parked in his driveway. The man was gone when police arrived.

The owner of Brent’s Deli, Arthur Seekamp, reported Friday morning that a Stihl backpack leaf blower had been stolen. He said he had left it unattended at the side of the store by the parking lot for several minutes.

East Hampton Village

Police were called to the Regal Cinema Saturday evening by a man outraged that he and his wife were forced to wait outside the theater with the people queued up for the next movie. The man told police that “it was not fair to his wife to stand out in the cold with everyone else, because she is ill.” The management agreed to let the woman, but not the man, wait in the lobby.

A Wireless Road woman reported that her doctor had called in a refill of her Adderall prescription to CVS in early November. Because she had been in an auto accident, a third party had the prescription and was to pick it up. The woman, whom police did not identify, received a call on Nov. 21 from CVS, telling her the prescription was ready. She left several messages for the third party, she told police, but got no response. On Nov. 28 she went to CVS, and was told the pills had been picked up an hour after the pharmacy called her. She viewed a surveillance video of the pickup and identified the person in it to police. Detectives are investigating. 

A 35-year-old Worcester, Mass., woman was barred from the East Hampton Gym on Fithian Lane on Dec. 16. The manager of the gym told police the woman’s membership had expired, and that “her presence has made his other clients uneasy.” He was told to notify police if she should return, and the situation would be addressed at that time.

Montauk

A customer at Shagwong Tavern on Main Street went to the Montauk police substation the evening of Dec. 14 to report that an acquaintance had stolen $11 of his from off the bar. While Daniel Bridge was giving his report, the other man walked into the substation, saying that he had loaned the money to Mr. Bridge to pay for a train ticket. The acquaintance agreed to return the money, and police warned the two men to have no further contact.

Sag Harbor

Jennifer Joly, a Suffolk Street resident whose property abuts a small stand of woods by Oakland Cemetery, called police on the morning of Dec. 16, saying there was a bow-and-arrow hunter in the woods, in defiance of a new village law that expands the ban on hunting within village limits to include bow-and-arrow hunters. An officer found Arthur John Robert Wellhausen in the woods and wrote him a summons. However, while the Sag Harbor Village Board passed the law, it had not been filed with the New York secretary of state as of Dec. 16. Until that happens, police said Tuesday, the new law does not take effect, meaning Mr. Wellhausen was within his rights to hunt.

The 2005 gray Mercedes-Benz reported missing earlier this month by R.B. Allardice III turned up on Dec. 16 in Elmhurst, Queens. New York City police turned the vehicle over to Vision Body Works in Queens for Mr. Allardice to reclaim. He had parked it in the gravel lot on Bridge Street with the keys inside, and it disappeared the same day.

Police were summoned to the D. J. Hart store on Saturday evening. An employee told an officer that a “suspicious” man in a puffy jacket had come in and handed her a card saying he needed money. Rebuffed, he left and headed down Main Street. Police caught up with him outside another store where he had done the same thing, and advised him that begging was not permitted in the village. They escorted him to the S-92 bus stop, where he boarded a bus headed west.

Springs

An Ocean Parkway man returned from a two-week stay in the city Saturday to discover eight strings of Christmas lights and two long green extension cords had been stolen from bushes in the front yard. Eric Johnson valued the items at $150.