East Hampton
Akina Mabry went out to her 2010 Dodge parked on Hand's Creek Road on Sept. 21 and found a "glue-like substance" on the windshield. With an officer present, she cleaned it off, leaving the car undamaged.
Michelle Evans of Town Lane glanced out a window on Sunday and saw a black pickup truck pull up in front of the house. A woman jumped out, she told police, and stole both a Biden/Harris and a Black Lives Matter lawn sign, staked on either side of her driveway, before getting back in the truck and driving away.
East Hampton Village
A Mill Hill Lane homeowner reported a suspicious person on her property on the evening of Sept. 22. Officers arrived and confirmed it was her contractor, there to drop off a pool tile.
Around the same time, someone called in about a person at the back of Park Place Liquors who was stacking boxes and "displaying signs of being sick." Police spoke with the man, who said the Tory Burch shop was closing and moving out. He did not appear sick.
Police arrived at CVS on Saturday evening in response to a complaint of over 100 people inside the store and 50 on the pharmacy line who were not socially distancing. Police did not observe any violations of state orders.
On Saturday night, youths were reportedly throwing rocks at the railroad overpass by Accabonac Road. Officers encountered young people skateboarding on their way out of the area, but no untoward activity.
A Further Lane resident was displeased on Sunday night to see "a male wearing shorts and a T-shirt, carrying a bag that said 'Census' on itā" entering his property and walking around his front yard. He told the man to leave, which he did.
Also Sunday night, a New Jersey man was cited for driving on Old Beach Lane without a permit. He told officers he'd left his proof of residence in the Town Hall drop box and was waiting for his permit.
Montauk
A resident of Franklin Drive complained to police last week about soil flowing into his driveway from a house above, and police connected the complaint with a July incident, when a neighbor across the street from the damaged driveway told Terry Nesbitt, an East Hampton Town Highway Department employee, that he'd watched for three days as a man with a jackhammer ripped up a 78-foot-long, 30-inch-wide cement rain gutter, using topsoil to fill the gap when he was through. Rain and wind are now pushing the soil down the hill into the driveway.
In the big parking lot across from Gosman's restaurant on the evening of Sept. 12, Keith Jacobs returned to his 1997 Toyota to find one of its tires missing a valve. It looked suspicious, he said, because the tire cap was back on. He tried to inflate the tire at Marshall's, but the air kept leaking out.
Sag Harbor
An employee of the 7-Eleven played it better safe than sorry on Saturday night after a New Jersey ID looked fake, refusing to sell alcohol to the person, who then called police. The ID was deemed valid.
Police were called near midnight on Sept. 22 after a woman was stung by a bee on Madison Street and screamed so loudly that a neighbor came knocking on her door. The neighbor reportedly shouted at the victim for "always yelling" so much, adding "You need to shut the (expletive) up." It was not clear which of them called police.
At the Gulf gas station on Hampton Street on the afternoon of Sept. 23, a man without a mask was trying to pay, but his card was declined. He told them he had no cash, to which the woman behind him observed, "You also don't have a mask." Outside the station, they began taking pictures of each other's cars. When the woman drove away, he followed her into the village, prompting her to call police.
Detectives continue to investigate an incident late last Thursday on Bay Street, in which a woman reportedly told the son of the store owner that she would be quitting at the end of the month. He allegedly responded by striking her across the face with an open hand.
On Friday afternoon, law enforcement paid a visit to a group of construction workers on Madison and Sage Streets following a Covid compliance complaint. The workers were more than six feet distanced, but not wearing masks. Police contacted their supervisor to request compliance.
That same afternoon, a driver reported that she had been followed by a group of "screaming teenagers in a black sedan" from Main Street into the Washington Street parking lot.
Police followed a speeding dirt bike Saturday evening after it breezed through the stop sign at the Main Street-Jermain Avenue intersection. The driver refused to stop and fled into the woods at Middle Line Highway and Division Street.
A police license-plate scan picked up a possible stolen vehicle on Sunday night. It turned out that the driver had rented the car from a parking garage in Manhattan, which gave him the keys to the wrong black Mercedes-Benz, which was indeed a stolen car.
Springs
The theft of $5,000 from the zippered pocket of a Cross Strings guitar case was reported on Cedar Ridge Drive after midnight on Sept. 1. The victim, whom police did not identify, said he'd last seen the money in a clear bag the night before, when he'd added cash to it. He also found all of his and his family's belongings strewn around the front yard.
The two front tires of Joseph McBride's 2008 GMC pickup truck were fine on Sept. 22, but slashed by the next afternoon. The truck had been parked in a Pembroke Drive driveway for a few days, Mr. McBride told police. Damage was estimated at $1,000.
