Amagansett
Mariela Pillco-Moscoso, an employee of the Amagansett Laundromat, called police on Saturday to say that a man had been panhandling out front all morning and wouldn’t leave. He was gone when officers arrived.
East Hampton
Maria Burriesci wanted a Maltipoo puppy, and on March 1 she found a website selling them. She had a long conversation with someone at the site and chose a dog after receiving many photos. A man promised to deliver it the following day after she paid $895. Shortly after she sent him the money through Apple Pay, she realized it was a scam, and tried to cancel the transaction. Her bank told her to first file a police report.
Sharon Einhorn spotted a man riding an all-terrain vehicle in the Northwest Harbor tidal wetlands area on Saturday and reported the trespasser to police. He was not found.
Sag Harbor Fire Department chiefs requested the help of town police Saturday to deal with an open burn at a property on Route 114, but firefighters had already extinguished the flames with a garden hose by the time police arrived. East Hampton’s fire marshal responded as well, and issued Luis Munoz-Guiracocha, who’d been burning various items including construction debris and plastic, a summons, citing the law restricting open burns.
East Hampton Village
A seal was reported lying dead on the beach near Lily Pond Lane last Thursday morning. The caller told police it was in the same spot the day before, in bad shape. The marine rescue center in Riverhead was called in to remove the seal.
An idling construction vehicle on Mill Hill Lane brought an early-morning complaint on Friday. Police advised the occupant of the village noise ordinance, and he agreed to keep his engine off until 7 a.m.
That afternoon, a woman had a dispute with an attendant at the Exxon service station off Toilsome Lane when the vacuum cleaner at the station did not work. She’d put quarters into the machine to clean her cars interior, she told police, but it wouldn’t turn on. An attendant would not help her, she said; instead, she claimed, he took photos of her, and she wanted the photos deleted. The attendant refunded her money after police intervened, and said he’d taken photos of her license plate, not her.
Montauk
Janet Kohles of Fairview Avenue called police on Feb. 28 to report an attempted scam. A caller claiming to be from the “Trades Commission Company” told her she’d won a contest, but that she first had to go to 7-Eleven and get a Vanilla card. When he asked her to call back with the information on the receipt, she realized it was a scam.
Mattiauda Marcos-Sebastian, a manager for the Born Free Suites by the Sea motel, complained to police on March 2 that a guest, Stephen Conlon, who had lived there for months, had been smoking in his room against the rules, and she wanted him to leave. Mr. Conlon told officers that the motel was his only residence, and he needed that night to pack his belongings. The manager agreed, provided he was out by noon the next day.
The owner of the Point Bar & Grill called police on Saturday to report an unwanted guest at the bar. The man, Kevin Becker, kept walking behind the bar to try to serve himself a drink, said Marc Remmes, who asked Mr. Becker to leave, but to no avail. When he learned that police were on the way, however, he headed for the door.
Sag Harbor
A lunchtime fire on Division Street, set last Thursday by construction workers, was extinguished by firefighters after a tipster told police that discarded construction debris had been used to stoke the flames.
Police stepped in at 6:30 p.m. on Friday to intervene in an argument between an ambulance driver and a woman who he said was tailgating him and was outside her car, which was blocking a lane and creating a hazardous condition. The “angry and agitated” woman knew the person in the ambulance, police reported, but didn’t know the way to the hospital, and was afraid she would get lost. An officer calmed her down, told her to stop tailgating, and gave her directions to the hospital.
A group of rowdy youths, reportedly cutting up on the roof of a Bay Street business midday on Friday, disappeared before police arrived.
A man looking confused and peering into store windows on Bay Street Friday afternoon brought a call to police. The man said he was from Stony Brook, and that friends had dropped him off in Sag Harbor, but that he’d left his wallet on the Port Jefferson ferry and needed to get home. An officer took him to the bus station and made sure the bus would take him back to Stony Brook.
Steve Vargas called on Friday night to report his car missing. Police arrived at Long Island Avenue and were taking the car’s description — a white Toyota with a missing license plate and a sticker on the back — when an officer looked over Mr. Vargas’s shoulder and saw a vehicle matching that description on Long Wharf. Mr. Vargas confirmed that that was indeed his car.
A caller asked police late Saturday night to check on a friend living on Suffolk Street whom he hadn’t heard from in months. Police contacted the man, who said he was fine, but no longer wanted the caller to check on him.
