Amagansett
Paul Ernesto Cruz of the Bronx, a vehicle transporter, was picking up a Range Rover on Old Stone Highway on Oct. 28 when a neighbor called police to report his truck sitting in her driveway. Mr. Cruz told officers he couldn’t find the right house, as it’s a shared driveway with four homes. Police helped him find the rightful house and owner.
East Hampton Village
Two dogs were running loose Sunday afternoon on Georgica Road near the highway. A local woman managed to catch one of them and reunite it with its owner; the other was last spotted near the intersection of Buckskill and Green Hollow Roads.
A 2018 Toyota was stuck in the sand on Egypt Beach Friday night. As it was being pulled out, police noted that its 21-year-old driver, who lives in Sag Harbor, did not have a valid village beach-driving permit, and ticketed her. She has a date with Town Justice Court on Monday.
A broken sprinkler at the John Marshall Elementary School was spraying water onto Church Lane late on the night of Oct. 25. The water was turned off and the school’s ground crew was notified.
Police were called to the Y.M.C.A.-RECenter on the evening of Oct. 25 and told that a 16-year-old boy “was making a mess with gym chalk in the weightlifting area” and was “very disrespectful” when asked to leave the gym, which he eventually did.
Montauk
After being tipped off by a neighbor, Robert Siegel of New Hyde Park told police Sunday that the front door and window of a family home under renovation on South Front Street had been damaged, sometime after Aug. 25. A criminal mischief affidavit was filed.
Northwest Harbor
Someone calling from the Dominican Republic has been leaving frightening messages for Erick Penaloza, he told police on Oct. 24, threatening to hurt his family members in Ecuador if he didn’t send money. He was worried for his own safety as well, he told officers, who searched his house and gave it the all-clear. He was instructed to block the caller’s number and call police if he believed he was in danger.
Sag Harbor
A worker cutting down a tree in front of the bank on Main Street on Saturday afternoon prompted a call to police. The worker provided officers with the necessary village permit.
Walter DeGolyer of Lake Grove was blasting music at a Merchants Path party on Saturday night and several people called police to complain. Mr. DeGolyer said he’d turn it down, and that his guests were all leaving anyway.
It was the same story the night before, where a Hampton Street resident called about “loud voices” on Walker Avenue. The same man called again half an hour later, this time complaining about loud music. Police spoke with the Walker Street host, who said the party was over and people were leaving.
More Walker Avenue news: Larry Carr, a resident, complained to police Friday afternoon that his neighbor’s fence was on his property. He was advised that this was a matter to be settled in civil court.
A woman who’d been ejected from Baron’s Cove on Oct. 25 was ejected two nights later from the American Hotel, which filed trespassing charges. Police said she appeared to be homeless.
Someone unknown recently submitted Mark Abramson’s personal information to the State Department of Labor, he told police on Oct. 26, and his employer, Dopo La Spiaggia, was then contacted about an unemployment claim that Mr. Abramson said he’d never applied for.
A man fainted and fell in an upstairs hallway at Baron’s Cove on the night of Oct. 25, hitting his head on “wood trim,” according to police. He was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital to be treated for bruises above his right eyebrow.
On the afternoon of Oct. 25, after a man in psychiatric treatment threatened to kill himself “by taking pills or blowing his head off,” he was taken to police headquarters, where his social worker was contacted.
A woman called police for a welfare check on the evening of Oct. 25 after hearing children “screaming” at a Hillside Drive West house. Officers discovered a birthday party in full swing.
Springs
A Harbor View Drive resident told police on Sunday that a drunken man had been banging on his door at 3 that morning. At 3:08 a.m., a neighbor called as well, saying there was a drunk on his front lawn who kept approaching his front door. Officers escorted the man to his home on nearby Clinton Street.
On the evening of Oct. 25, a Higbee Place woman reported that someone had jumped out of a black S.U.V. parked in her driveway and banged on her front door “violently” before leaving. Officers canvassed the area to no avail.
Harold Rosa of Harbor Boulevard told police he’d forgotten to open the flue when he started a fire in his fireplace on the evening of Oct. 24. Smoke filled the house and firefighters responded.