Amagansett
In the lot next door to his house on Lazy Point Road, Erick Patton reported seeing a heart and swastika in blue spray-paint on some trees. The property owner has been informed, a report said.
East Hampton Village
On Nov. 16, someone spied garbage strewn about near the Sea Spray Cottages on Ocean Avenue and placed a 911 call to report it. Police found two broken metal shelves, a Christmas tree stand, and a wooden yard sale sign, all of which have been removed by the Public Works Department.
A young woman whose vehicle was scratched up on Nov. 17 when she parked it for the day in the long-term lot on Lumber Lane filed a report of the damage with police.
A rogue motorcycle had been parked in front of a woman's house on David's Lane every day, and by last Thursday she had had enough. Police issued an overtime parking warning.
Gunshots reportedly heard near the pond on Lily Pond Lane and Jones Road turned out to be nothing when police checked out the area.
Montauk
On Sept. 25, Jason Smith and Jennifer Romaine found that their 2014 Mazda, parked in the Montauk Manor's lower-level parking lot on Edgemere Street, had been broken into and burgled. The contents of the glove box were strewn about, and a pair of $500 prescription sunglasses and $100 Oakley sunglasses were stolen. The report was redacted, but indicated there was security footage.
A Lexus and a BMW reportedly battled it out last week in the Goldberg's Bagels parking lot on South Etna Avenue. The driver of a 2019 Lexus "aggressively opened his car door," according to the owner of a 2017 BMW, which was damaged. The BMW owner would like to press charges.
Sag Harbor
A woman with power of attorney for her father, who is now in the hospital, reported that on the evening of Nov. 16, her brother had attempted to take their dad's car. He went out of their Division Street driveway, but left when he saw her calling law enforcement. He then canceled his father's account at ACE Hardware, and when his sister called the store to explain, she was told the account could not be reactivated.
On Nov. 17 a resident of Union Street told police that texts from an unknown number threatened him to wire $500 or else the sender would cause him "physical harm." The sender said he knew where the man lived, and sent him pictures from his Facebook page. Similar texts then came in from another number. The man told police he did not have issues with anyone and was advised to contact Facebook.
Two young men were spotted last Thursday evening spray-painting the Main Street alley wall of the Sag Harbor Variety Store. One had a skateboard, which helped police identify them at the intersection of Main and Garden Streets. The mother of one of the boys and the store owner said they would sort out the situation themselves.
The Variety Store could not catch a break last week. On Saturday afternoon, management asked a woman described as white and in her 60s to lift her mask to cover her nose. The woman was allegedly hostile and screamed, "I can't breathe with it on!" After she paid and left, the manager came outside to tell her that screaming in someone's face was "unnecessary and belligerent." Soon after, a man came inside to scream some more in the face of the employee and manager, said police. Later in the day, a young woman, who law enforcement reckoned to be the maskless woman's daughter, came to the store with intent to return the item her mother had purchased, but was not allowed inside.
Another anti-masker that night walked into the 7-Eleven on Long Island Avenue wearing a shirt on his face, which covered only his chin. Asked repeatedly by an employee and then by police to put on a mask, he declined repeatedly, and in the end left the building.
Later on, a Montauk Avenue woman reported some arguing she had heard between two people walking past her house. An officer spoke with the pair, who said they'd had "a minor family argument." The officer reported that "all parties were calm and collected on the scene and there were no signs of distress."
Springs
According to a heavily redacted report, Grace Bottini of Washington Avenue told police the lock on her sliding front door had been damaged beyond repair at some point in the day on Nov. 18. Nothing in the house had been touched, however.
