East Hampton
A man rummaged through the inside of an unlocked car on Three Mile Harbor Road on Jan. 20 and stole $500 from a purse belonging to Nancy Perez before fleeing on a bicycle. Her husband, Fausto G. Amaymatute, told police he had caught the man trying to break into his cars several times in the past six months, but only reported one incident, on Oct. 5, 2019. Police canvassed the area, but could not find the culprit.
East Hampton Village
A 22-year-old woman from New York City reported that a duffel bag containing her clothing and jewelry was missing from the Hampton Jitney when she got off it on Saturday. She boarded the bus in Manhattan at about 8:15 a.m., she said, and when she arrived in East Hampton at 11:15, the bag was gone. The next day, she received a call from the company that a woman had taken the bag by mistake, so she went to the Jitney stop in Southampton to pick it up. However, she told police, earrings worth about $200, along with her retainer and a toothbrush, were missing from the bag.
A police officer drove a 41-year-old man, who was intoxicated, home at about 9 p.m. on Saturday after the man fell while bicycling on Gay Road. He was not hurt.
Someone has been using a backyard grill on Laforest Lane while the owner is away, according to a report filed on Monday. The owner said he found the grill in a different condition than when he left it.
Sag Harbor
Four Hobie Cat-style sailboats were impounded on Feb. 12. Bob Bori, the village harbormaster, said they had been abandoned at Havens Beach.
Erdem Cicek, an employee at the Exxon gas station on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, called police on Feb. 12 after a customer’s credit card was declined for a $300 fuel purchase. The customer had not returned to provide payment, Mr. Cicek said. According to a police report, the customer was a regular at the gas station. An officer was able to reach his place of business by phone, and was told it would be taken care of.
A man attempting to rent an apartment on Madison Street reported a possible rental scam on Saturday. Richard W. Ross said he was searching Craigslist for places to live when he came across a property listed at $1,900 per month. He answered the ad, but when he received the lease agreement he suspected that the information might be false, and called police. An officer called the homeowner, who confirmed that the house was not, in fact, available to rent and said she had had the same issue in the past. The Craigslist ad was flagged for removal.
Two women passed out at Lulu’s Kitchen and Bar on Main Street on Sunday afternoon, and Joshua M. Fishbein, the manager, called 911. When a police officer arrived at about 3:20 p.m., both women, one 74 years old and one 64, had woken up. The older woman told police they had been talking when her companion fainted, and that she became upset and fainted as well. A Sag Harbor ambulance E.M.T. determined neither needed medical attention.
On Sunday, Janet Lehr, formerly of 161 Madison Street, requested the help of police in returning to her former home to retrieve her belongings. An officer escorted her to the property so Ms. Lehr could conduct her business without incident amid “an ongoing dispute” with another person at the house, according to a police report.”
Wainscott
A woman who works at Aid to Developmentally Disabled, Inc., a group residence on Wainscott-Northwest Road, called police on Feb. 9 after a fight between two residents there. She said one man had approached another in a playful fighting stance, which he was known to do, but accidentally hit the other man on the nose. The other man then punched him in the right eye. Another resident broke up the fight before it escalated further. Neither man wished to press charges, police reported, because they realized the initial punch was an accident.
