East Hampton
Douglas Kane left his 2013 Chevy Silverado in the I.G.A. lot on North Main Street for a few hours on Dec. 9, with the keys still in it. The car was there when he returned, but the keys were missing. Sometime in the next five days, a store employee found them, in a grassy lot about 50 feet from the car, “damaged,” and on Dec. 14 he picked them up. Mr. Kane told police the following day that he wanted the incident documented.
After receiving a report of a stolen vehicle from Settlers Lane, police spotted the car, a Honda Accord, late Friday afternoon, traveling south from Stephen Hand’s Path to Montauk Highway. The officer, following police protocols, conducted a felony traffic stop, including ordering the driver to exit the vehicle. A Star reporter who was passing by described seeing a Black woman on her knees by the side of the road, hands in the air and “looking terrified.” A redacted police report indicates that a domestic dispute may have figured in this incident, since the vehicle’s owner ultimately declined to press charges.
Some time ago, a homeowner on Skimhampton Road asked the residents of a house on Further Lane if they would cut down trees to clear his view. The Further Lane owners declined, Matthew Kochanasz, their property manager, told police on Saturday. However, he said, sometime between Nov. 1 and Nov. 4, 27 trees valued at $61,670 “had been cut down directly behind 2 Skimhampton Rd without the [Further Lane] owner’s permission,” according to the report. Police contacted the unnamed homeowner at 2 Skimhampton, who “claimed to have no knowledge of the incident and was unable to provide any information about his landscapers.” The Further Lane homeowners said they would try to settle the issue in civil court.
Jose Galos was in a fight at his Bayview Avenue residence on the evening of Dec. 14 and told police afterward that he believed his Social Security card was missing, possibly stolen. He didn’t know who might have taken it, and couldn’t give police any “identifying factors of said card.” Police, who had responded to a call about the fight, said they’d let Mr. Galos know if someone turns the card in.
Residents of 10 Amy’s Lane told police Sunday that someone may be stealing their mail, after a book that was to have been delivered on Nov. 30 never arrived. They’d gone out to check the mail Saturday, they said, but found the mailbox door open and mail scattered all over the street. They alerted the mail carrier and the postmaster, and requested additional patrols in the area.
A brown truck with a flat tire, towing a black trailer, was reported on the night of Dec. 12 to be driving erratically. The truck was last seen at the corner of Montauk Highway and Stephen Hand’s Path, and police did not find it.
East Hampton Village
A Georgica Road homeowner told police Saturday morning that someone had removed property-line stakes from the front southwest corner of his lot. He wanted it on record, he said, so he didn’t have to pay a surveyor a second time. He told police he’d had some “minor discrepancies” with a neighbor over their respective property lines, but that “their cooperation has been on the positive side.”
A sewage removal worker on contract with the village lost control of his sewage hose last Thursday morning while working downtown. The hose shot out of a manhole and crashed into a window at the Ralph Lauren shop at 32 Main Street, which shattered upon impact.
Responding to a report of a possible structure fire last Thursday afternoon, firefighters instead discovered a downed power line on the ground in front of 16 Gingerbread Lane. PSEG was contacted to turn off the power.
Early on the morning of Dec. 14, police on patrol discovered that someone had glued glitter onto the windshield, headlights, and front seat of a Gem limited-use electric vehicle registered in New York State and parked at 17 Lumber Lane. Another Gem parked there, this one registered in Florida, had glitter glued to the front body panel, windshield, steering wheel, and front driver-side quarter panel. Photos of the vehicles, which are basically glorified golf carts, were forwarded to detectives for investigation.
On Monday afternoon, an unnamed 60-year-old woman took issue with a cab driver who had driven her from a hotel in Queens to an unidentified address in the village. Upon learning the fare was $400, she “became verbally aggressive and refused to pay,” the cabbie told police. The woman eventually agreed to pay $340 for the ride.
Sag Harbor
James Sabloski of Cross Street reported a power line on fire on the morning of Dec. 16. Firefighters “only found wires making an audible crackling sound,” and contacted PSEG. Police said they’d check throughout the day until the situation was resolved.
An elderly resident of Grand Street fell down on Dec. 15 after getting out of a chair and suffered a head injury. Police got him back into the chair, rendered aid for a cut over his eye, and dispatched him to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for observation and treatment.
Dorothy Zaykowski of Madison Street broke her hip and a wrist in a fall on the morning of Dec. 12. Officers stayed with her until an ambulance arrived to take her to the hospital.
Springs
Police responded to a report of a suspicious person at Steven Soldo’s house on Tyrone Drive Sunday afternoon and called the homeowner, who told them he hadn’t expected anyone there that day, but it might have been his caretaker, Manuel Vilar. Mr. Vilar confirmed that he’d been there to take in the mail and check the heat. Police advised him to call Mr. Soldo and set up a schedule.
Another suspicious person was reported at Jack Petscheitis’s Cedar Drive house on Sunday around noon. It turned out to be a man who’d gone to the wrong address “to pick up a wood splitter.”
A woman in a blue Nissan S.U.V. was parked in front of Gregory and Joy Keyser’s Grant Avenue home on the morning of Dec. 16, prompting a call of a suspicious person. Police arrived about a half-hour later and reported that the S.U.V. was still there, but its occupant was nowhere to be seen. Ms. Keyser said she’d knocked on their front door, looked through the glass door, and returned to the vehicle. The woman was not found that day, but the car was determined by police to be registered in the name of Asalia Anayely Nolasco.
Following a report of a traffic accident Saturday afternoon, police found a locked 2019 Ford F-150, a pickup truck, at a private residence at 358 Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road, with its passenger-side airbag deployed but no one in it. The truck, which had clearly collided with multiple trees, fenceposts, and a mailbox, was registered to Andrew Daige of East Hampton. Police had it towed and impounded, but have been unable to track down Mr. Daige.
