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On the Police Logs 12.08.22

Wed, 12/07/2022 - 18:08

Amagansett

Kieran Brew of Indian Wells Highway told police last week that a resident of Bluff Road, whom police did not identify, had been sending him “threatening” emails following a Nov. 27 incident in which the Bluff Road man said two cars were racing each other on Atlantic Avenue and ran him, his dog, and his grandchildren off the road. He allegedly chased the vehicles to Mr. Brew’s address, where, he told police, he found a group of men, including Mr. Brew, in the front yard. Mr. Brew told police that neither he nor his son was in either of the cars, and that he was at home when his friends showed up after being chased by the unidentified man. Mr. Brew did not provide the names of his friends to police, who encouraged him and the Bluff Road man to refrain from future contact.

East Hampton

Police responded to a call from Hampton Medical Care about “a female subject going crazy” on the afternoon of Nov. 30. The woman in question told officers she was upset with the staff at the Pantigo Place medical facility. A staff member told police that the woman had yelled profanities on a record line, made a “vague threat,” and screamed at the receptionist, and said she was no longer welcome as a patient. “At this point, it does not appear that a crime has been committed,” police reported.

East Hampton Village

A report early Saturday morning of a suspicious person said to be sleeping in the vestibule of the commercial building at 105-107 Newtown Lane turned up a 20-year-old man sitting in the vestibule charging his phone. Police told him to move on, and he complied.

Northwest Woods

Sal Conti told police on Nov. 29 that a woman has repeatedly walked on the private common driveway at 537 Hand’s Creek Road, which is near a public walking trail. The driveway, said Mr. Conti, is posted with several No Trespassing signs, which have not deterred her. Mr. Conti was told to call police the next time the woman is spotted on the driveway.

Sag Harbor

Amy Crutchfield of Ackerly Avenue called on Sunday night to say she smelled gas but didn’t know where from. The source of the potentially hazardous situation turned out to be the natural-gas meter at her house. National Grid was called in to fix it.

A windsurfer was reported in distress off Long Beach on a windy and rainy Saturday afternoon, but while a multiagency response including Southampton, Sag Harbor, and East Hampton police was being organized, the windsurfer got to shore and said there had never been a problem.

An elderly woman fell in her Meadowlark Lane house last Thursday evening and told police she might have broken her hip. Officers responded quickly, finding her alert and conscious, and she was transported to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

A driver hit a parked police car in front of 70 Division Street on Nov. 30 at 1 p.m., though police reported that “very little damage” was done. Asked whether alcohol might have contributed to the incident, they said she was “just a bad driver.”

An unidentified woman was taken to the hospital on the afternoon of Nov. 29 after complaining of having “full body pain,” a sore throat, fever, and a possible panic attack.

Springs

Carlos Gomez never ordered the multivitamin pills that showed up at his Richardson Avenue home on Friday, he told police, and considered it suspicious. He said he was disposing of the pills and wanted the incident on record.

The car alarm on a 1999 Saab registered to a Guernsey Lane woman kept blaring Friday afternoon, much to the displeasure of neighbors. The owner was contacted and said she’d deal with the alarm and move the car.

Long Days on the Fire Line In Orange County

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.

Nov 21, 2024

Awards for Good Policing in Handgun Scuffle

“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.

Nov 21, 2024

On the Police Logs 11.21.24

A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.

Nov 21, 2024

Head-On Collision on Route 27

A 2-year-old was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on State Route 27 near Upland Road in Montauk.

Nov 21, 2024

 

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