Amagansett
While doing yardwork on the morning of Oct. 11, Gavin Abert noticed that someone had spray-painted an obscenity on a street sign at the corner of Castle Court and Sand Castle Lane. He swore out a criminal mischief affidavit on Oct. 12, and the Highway Department was called in to replace the sign.
Daniel Ulmer, a property manager at the 515 Montauk Highway apartment complex, asked police on Sept. 22 to remove two people from one of the units and warn them not to return. It appears from the redacted report that a former tenant had been running an extension cord to a vacant next-door unit via a shared crawl space, to access its utilities.
East Hampton Village
On Sunday morning, officers punched a new hole in the belt of a man whose pants had fallen down on Newtown Lane. The man, 56, is well known in the village. The last hole in his belt was buckled, police said, but was not keeping his pants up. “Negative intent of exposure,” they concluded.
A man couldn’t find the car he had parked in the Reutershan lot opposite the Party Shoppe Friday night, and reported it stolen. Police found it in its original space.
A Newtown Lane seamstress asked police for help on Friday night, saying she was concerned that someone who still owed $250 of a $1,500 bill might not pay it. She had hemmed four garments for the customer, who had picked up three of them but not the fourth. Police helped bring the two together, but said it was ultimately a civil matter if they continued to hem and haw over the $250.
A Huntington Station landscaper was ticketed Friday afternoon for “cutting village-owned trees” without permission in front of the Chase Bank. Orlando Benitez Flores, 43, was also cited for parking his Ford F550 on the sidewalk.
A woman reported the loss last Thursday night of a “silver-case wallet with everything in it” at Main Beach.
A caller reported a Nissan parked without a placard in a handicapped space at the Pantigo Road CVS on the evening of Oct. 12. Police arrived in time to write a ticket.
A woman spotted kittens living in a drainpipe outside her Park Place business on Oct. 12 and told police she was concerned. An officer checked and said the animals appeared to be in good health, but notified the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hampton, which will keep an eye on the situation.
A contractor was ticketed on Oct. 12 for excavating a sidewalk without a permit. A crew working in front of 18 Ocean Avenue put in a temporary patch at the insistence of the Department of Public Words while the contractor, a Cedar Street resident, resolves the ticket and the permit issue.
Police found a man who said he had lost his wallet standing on Main Street in front of the Huntting Inn just after midnight on Oct. 12. He couldn’t get a ride home and asked for help. Police called an Uber to take him home.
A “bald white man in his 30s with scruff on his face and wearing a red T-shirt, grey sweatpants, and work boots” was “walking up and down” Church Lane on the early afternoon of Oct. 11. Police considered this suspicious, but did not find him.
Josiah Schiavoni of Whooping Hollow Road told police someone, possibly in a car, may have been trespassing on his property after midnight on Oct. 10. He said he would not press charges if the person is found.
Montauk
An older man in a “red shirt and khakis” was reported to be “possibly pleasuring himself” on Umbrella Beach Saturday night.
It was after checkout time on Oct. 12, but Gabriel Urrego-Echeverri of Brooklyn didn’t want to leave Room 430 at the Beachcomber. Police arrived, and he left without further protest.
Bonnie Brady reported a driverless black dune-buggy-type vehicle driving around her East Lake Drive neighborhood on the evening of Oct. 12. An officer noted that the vehicle’s description fit one that had been in a recent movie shoot.
Samantha Levey of East Islip told police she had left her 2022 Mercedes to take a walk after getting ice cream at Ralph’s Italian Ices on South Etna Avenue on Aug. 20. When she got back in the car at around 10 p.m. and closed the driver’s side door, the rear liftgate window shattered, she reported. There were no witnesses. She wanted the incident on record for insurance purposes.
Sag Harbor
A woman was said to be yelling obscenities on Saturday night along Union Street, and when police arrived she wanted to know why they were trying to kill her. According to the report, she ran into the road, fell and hit her head, was taken to safety by the roadside, tried to flee, and was finally handcuffed and detained until medical personnel arrived and transported her to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.
Richard Pinto reported his white Hypalon dinghy and a four-horsepower Suzuki outboard stolen on Saturday morning. The dinghy was tied to his boat when he last saw it, he said, on Oct. 4.
John Duffy claimed on Oct. 12 to be encountering “ongoing harassment” at the Sag Harbor Cinema when he picks his son up from work there. A man there speaks to him in a “demeaning and threatening manner,” he said, and he feels intimidated and fearful. Police spoke with the building management, who said they would refuse service to the man in question.
A No Trespassing sign keeps getting moved by unknown persons, and now a camouflage trail camera, valued at $50, has been stolen from a construction site at 28 Long Point Road. The theft occurred on the evening of Oct. 11.
Springs
Nicole Grimes reported a suspicious truck in front of 36 Hartley Boulevard on the morning of Oct. 10. Carlos Acevedo of Hampton Bays was found sitting at the wheel, waiting for his boss. Police suggested that he wait instead wait at their Howard Street worksite.
Bruce Damark, proprietor of Damark’s Market, told police last week that on the morning of Sept. 26, a possibly intoxicated man had grabbed a Gatorade and a beer from a cooler, ordered an egg sandwich from the deli counter, and started to eat a chocolate croissant while standing in line to pay. When his credit card was declined, he refilled his coffee cup and left the store, only to return a few minutes later, trying to retrieve the beer, which he had left in the sushi section. Employees took the beer can from him and he left on a bicycle, though not before consuming the croissant, a Gatorade, an espresso, and a small coffee, total value $12.96. Mr. Damark asked police to find the man, have him pay for the items, and warn him not to return to the store.
