East Hampton
At the Buckskill Tennis and Winter Club on Saturday night, a man told police he'd fallen on the ice close by a young girl, scaring her. Her father then "got in his face," yelling at him for skating too close to his daughter, and "told him to grow up," the report said. The man said the father grabbed him, and while trying to push him away he struck him in the face. After the pair started wrestling on the ground, a third person intervened and put the man in a chokehold, attempting to separate the two. The father somehow got his finger bitten in the process. Police reported that a guard at the rink separated the parties.
East Hampton Village
A resident of Terbell Lane was alerted to the fact that her outdoor speakers were on late at night on Dec. 14, and promptly turned them off.
Two kids took a hard seltzer from the East Hampton Market on Race Lane on the afternoon of Dec. 15 and left without paying for it.
A young man who has given Stop and Shop trouble in the past about wearing a mask was told to leave the store and not return after his most recent run-in on Dec. 16, when he entered wearing a mask, but then took it off and refused to put it back on.
"Several vehicles doing doughnuts in the snow-covered parking lot" of Main Beach brought police out on the evening of Dec. 16, but they were gone when officers arrived.
Balloons tied out front of 112 Egypt Lane on Saturday afternoon gave an officer pause in light of the state's pandemic-related laws on crowds. It turned out that the homeowner had more than 40 people in her backyard. Everyone was cleared out, as it was deemed a nonessential gathering that exceeded 10 people.
Montauk
A woman went to police last week to document an incident that happened in October and to obtain an order of protection. Her two children were in the back seat of her Jeep, headed west to New York City, when, on Route 27 near South Delphi Street, "the man in the passenger seat" began arguing with her, according to her statement. She stopped the car to get out and "remove herself and her daughter from the situation," she said, but while doing so, the man got into the driver's seat and drove a short way along the shoulder of the highway with the rear passenger door open, while she ran after the Jeep yelling for him to stop. Each time she caught up with him he drove on, she said, four more times, until the Jeep finally hit a guard rail, damaging the passenger side. She got back in the car and completed the drive to the city, she said, as the man continued to "scream obscenities from the passenger seat." Police noted that there were no injuries.
Sag Harbor
An anonymous caller who often phones police with Covid compliance complaints about the Gulf gas station on Hampton Street did so again on Dec. 14. As usual, police found nothing wrong.
A man called police on Dec. 16 asking for help starting his car, which was parked outside 16 Main Street. An officer pointed out that the car was in gear. The man put it in park and it started right up.
Police called PSEG last Thursday around 1 a.m. to report a large tree and downed wire blocking the Long Island Avenue intersection with Glover Street.
A resident of 36 Main Street complained that evening about noise coming from the street below, which police described as a car "cheerfully decorated with Christmas lights, accompanied with low-playing Christmas music."
A Jermain Avenue resident called in on Friday night to report that her 11-year-old was sleigh riding when another rider struck his sleigh. The boy told his mother that when he said to a friend, "Who's the idiot who hit me?, " a woman "in her late 20s" overheard and said, "What did you say?" multiple times, in an "aggressive manner." The boy also said she told him, "I'll break your ass." When he then saw the woman smoking what appeared to be marijuana, he told her this was not allowed on school property. She replied, using an obscenity, "I am a grown ass adult and I'll do whatever I want."
In other sledding news, a woman broke her left leg Saturday evening when her sled hit a tree as she was sledding with her children on Harrison Street. She was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital by Sag Harbor ambulance.
Water leaking outside an Ackerly Street house was becoming hazardous that afternoon, and police were called to turn off an open faucet on the side of the garage.
A potted plant apparently fell last week, breaking the storefront window at Relax on Main Street. Police put a traffic cone outside the shop until the damage was repaired.
On Sunday at 1 a.m., a woman called police because her son was not at their Long Island Avenue home and she suspected he was intoxicated. Police were responding to the call when they noticed a man who fit the son's description walking near the house. It was indeed he, according to the report, on his way home and sober.
Southampton
On Dec. 13, the aviation unit of the County Sheriff's Office spotted a group of 10 dirt-bike riders headed into the David A. Sarnoff Preserve, where trail bikes are not allowed. Eight of them were apprehended and issued summonses for operating all-terrain vehicles on public land. Their bikes were impounded.
