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Also on the Logs 01.30.20

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 10:10

East Hampton

On Jan, 18, Tamara Malawitz reported having received a number of threatening messages on her Instagram account since November. She said an unknown person, using six different accounts, has been posting threatening comments under her photos and sending her direct messages. Police advised her to make her account private. 

A 125-pound steel anvil was stolen from a backyard on Hand’s Creek Road sometime between Nov. 29 and Jan. 15. Wayne B. Hermann said the anvil had been on his property for over 30 years. He does not know who would have removed it. He said it was worth about $400.

East Hampton Village

While on Newtown Lane last Thursday afternoon, an unidentified person received a call from “an older-sounding man.” An argument ensued, the person told police, and the caller used vulgar language before hanging up the phone.

Police received word at about 4 p.m. on Friday that youths had been seen on the train tracks. Village officers could not find anyone at the crossings on Accabonac Road or North Main Street. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it had been determined the youths were about three miles east of the train station, and the village officers passed the information on to town police.

Noyac

Edward Debiasi received a call last Thursday from a man who identified himself as Patrick Ross, an attorney, who that said Mr. Debiasi’s grandson had been in an accident in Manhasset and was under arrest. In order to be released, he needed $12,000. Mr. Debiasi said he knew it was a scam and hung up. Just to be sure, he told police, he called his grandson, who denied any police involvement.

Long Days on the Fire Line In Orange County

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.

Nov 21, 2024

Awards for Good Policing in Handgun Scuffle

“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.

Nov 21, 2024

On the Police Logs 11.21.24

A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.

Nov 21, 2024

Head-On Collision on Route 27

A 2-year-old was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on State Route 27 near Upland Road in Montauk.

Nov 21, 2024

 

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