Amagansett
Stuart Sarnoff reported that there were people protesting against him outside his house on Acorn Place on Saturday. Chinese “whistleblowers” have charged that Mr. Sarnoff, a lawyer who is a partner in a prominent firm, is “aiding the Chinese Communist Party” against them. Mr. Sarnoff, who was in New York City at the time, told police there were pictures on social media of people on his property, but officers did not find anyone there.
A Windward Street woman in her 80s fell down last Thursday evening and couldn’t get up. Police assisted her into a chair, and she declined medical attention.
East Hampton
On Saturday night, a Cedar Court woman reported “what looks like eight under-age males drinking near a blue van” on Bow Oarsman’s Road. They were gone by the time police arrived.
East Hampton Village
A 20-year-old man who has reportedly been sleeping in the vestibule at 105 Newtown Lane, a commercial-residential building, was threatened with arrest for trespassing on Dec. 8 if he continued to sleep there. Police told him to leave, and he gathered his possessions and went out into a bitter winter evening.
A Stop and Shop manager and a Queens-based delivery driver had a verbal altercation on the early evening of Dec. 6, after the driver parked his box truck in the wrong area of the supermarket’s parking lot. He was also using the wrong door to make his delivery, the manager told police. The confrontation ended after the driver said he’d contact his boss about the incident and determine which door he should use.
Montauk
A man “in a brown puffy jacket” knocked on two doors at the Lido Hotel Saturday around 5:30 p.m. Occupants of rooms 13 and 18, who notified police, did not let him in, and he left on a bicycle.
During a 1 a.m. argument on Duval Place on Dec. 3, Georgica Bogetti, 23, allegedly kicked a man in the buttocks and punched him in the back of the head. She was charged with harassment, and will answer the charge at a future date.
Sag Harbor
Just before 2 a.m. on Saturday, a Lincoln Street woman asked police to contact her ex-boyfriend and warn him to stay away from her. She told police she’d been tracking the man’s movements with her cellphone, and that he’d been driving past her house to annoy if not harass her. She asked that officers post themselves in front of the house in case he showed up.
Diane Plummer of Morris Cove Lane complained on Saturday that someone had trimmed her shrubs without permission. It turned out that a neighbor had trimmed both his shrubs and hers, but told police he didn’t know they were not his, and wouldn’t trim them again.
A man was found unconscious at the Sag Harbor firehouse on Friday afternoon. He was transported to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for evaluation.
An elderly resident of Denison Road may have had a stroke Friday evening. Officers arrived to find a disoriented woman with slurred speech, and called for an ambulance to take her to the hospital.
A burglary at 55 Lincoln Street last Thursday remains under investigation. Police did not release other information about the incident.
Antoine Waldo was buying a cup of coffee on Main Street on the morning of Dec. 6 when, he told police, a former business partner began cursing at him. Mr. Waldo reported the incident in person at police headquarters, describing the episode as part of “ongoing harassment.”
Joachim Szczepanski of Hampton Street left his Sprinter Van unlocked, with the keys inside, at around 10 a.m. on Dec. 6. It was stolen not long after, but was soon discovered at the corner of Jermain Avenue and Main Street with the engine running, and returned to its owner.
Springs
A former tenant has been breaking into her house while she was sleeping, a Norfolk Drive woman told police on Friday. When a uniformed officer showed up to investigate, she said she wanted to speak to a detective. The officer reported no signs of burglary or criminal mischief on the property and declined to call in a detective.