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On the Police Logs 12.16.21

Thu, 12/16/2021 - 10:35

Montauk

A New York City woman staying at a house on Edgemere Street thought she saw a prowler on the property while walking her dog at around 1 a.m. on Saturday. The only thing an officer noticed was fresh deer tracks in the yard.

Sag Harbor

A village resident reported on the morning of Dec. 6 that his wallet had gone missing after he left it in his unlocked car, parked at Marine Park on Bay Street, and went to work out at a nearby gym. The wallet contained credit and debit cards, his driver’s license, and $200 in cash. Less than an hour later, he called the police again to report that his hybrid electric bike, valued at $850, was missing from his property on Rysam Street. The bicycle had not been locked up either.

An ongoing issue with water coming up from under a sidewalk happened again last Thursday evening in front of a cluster of businesses on Main Street. It was attributed to a faulty pump in the basement of one of the shops.

A cocker spaniel was seen running around on Hampton Street near Hempstead Street Sunday afternoon. It was gone by the time police arrived to help.

Springs

A 62-year-old woman, who has been in the process of moving out of the room she rents in a house on Waterhole Road, complained to police Sunday that the house’s caretaker had entered her room without permission several times within a four-day span. The caretaker acknowledged doing so on one occasion, telling police he had thought he smelled smoke coming from the room. It turned out that the heat had been set to 80 degrees. The woman was advised not to crank it up that high, and the caretaker was told he wasn’t allowed to enter the room without permission.

Also on Sunday, a President Street resident contacted police when she saw, via her doorbell camera, an unknown woman come to her front door, lift the door mat, and then leave. A neighbor later explained that the stranger had been expected there instead, but had mistaken the address.

Police and firefighters responded last Thursday afternoon to a Guernsey Lane house where a pipe burst and flooded the basement. The homeowner was told to call a plumber.

Wainscott

Police received an anonymous call about a trailer that appeared to have been abandoned at a new nature preserve on Wainscott Stone Road. An officer recognized it as a Suffolk County trailer that East Hampton Town was allowing to be there while a contractor performed work.

 

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