Amagansett
Alistair Blackwell was driving a Ford Bronco on Old Stone Highway in the early evening of July 6 when it started to smoke and then burst into flames. An Amagansett fire crew put out the blaze; no injuries were reported.
An East Hampton man walked into a stop sign near Montauk Highway and Oak Lane on July 3 and ended up in the hospital. Earlier, he had flagged down an officer, who judged him to be intoxicated, and said he had no money and no way to get home. After refusing both a taxi and the offer of a ride home, he fell down, repeatedly punched the ground, and claimed to be in great pain. He also removed his gold watch and stomped on it. When an ambulance arrived, the man tried to run away, but was stymied by the stop sign. He was eventually taken to Stony Brook Southampton hospital for evaluation.
A man who was crabbing at Lazy Point on the evening of July 6 was approached by Vincent Forlenza of the Marine Patrol, who asked if he had a town shellfish permit. He did not, and was given a summons.
On July 4, when a man and a woman he didn’t know walked through his door at around 1:30 a.m., Jan Peterson of Windmill Lane called the police. The two strangers told an officer they had not realized that they had entered the wrong house. The homeowner wanted the incident documented.
In a second “whoops, wrong house” incident, police responded to a Dolphin Drive homeowner’s call on July 5 at around 1 a.m. after an Uber dropped off three young people there instead of at their friends’ place. The mixed-up millennials eventually found their way to the right house, on the highway nearby.
East Hampton
A report of a suspicious vehicle with a man sleeping in it took police to Koala Lane, off Two Holes of Water Road in Northwest, on the night of July 5, where they found an Uber driver standing outside his Toyota. He told police he was tired. They advised him of town code regarding overnight parking and camping.
Matthew Griffiths reported last week that his boat, the Salmanoid, docked at Three Mile Harbor Boatyard, had been burglarized sometime between June 6 and June 26. The thief made off with fishing gear from the 28-foot Edgewater, including a gaff, 12 packs of Gulp bait, a bucket, and a net. Mr. Griffiths told police he was fishing off Montauk Point recently, couldn’t find the missing items, and realized they had been stolen.
East Hampton Village
An unattended fire was reported burning in the sand near the lifeguard stand at Main Beach at 1 a.m. on Sunday. Police extinguished it without incident.
A “tall white man in a straw hat” was drawing likenesses of customers during an event at Ralph Lauren, at about 9 p.m. on Friday. Employees complained to police that the man was being disorderly, and they told him to leave, which he did.
A woman and her service dog went to the post office last Thursday to get a change of address form, and subsequently told police that someone had screamed at her for taking the registered service animal inside. She wanted the incident on record.
A caller reported a Maserati with Ohio plates being driven erratically near Main Street and Newtown Lane on July 6. Police found the vehicle and cited its driver for talking on his cellphone while driving.
Village officials called police on July 5 to report litter scattered along Buell Lane between Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church and the library — cups, water bottles, and other detritus. A caterer was initially suspected, but was eventually vindicated. Public Works employees came by to clean up the mess.
Montauk
A local man called police Friday evening to report that he had been targeted by identity-theft scammers. The man was able to stop payment on $199 he had paid to a company claiming to fix his computer.
Kevin Ahearn, a maintenance supervisor with the town’s Department of Buildings and Grounds, called police on July 5 to say it was probably a dirt bike that had trespassed onto the newly constructed Montauk Skate Park on Essex Street. The bike apparently sprang a leak, fouling the new concrete with oil stains. A concrete mason was called in to deal with the stains and a broken snow fence was repaired.
Amanda Greenbaum called police at 4:23 a.m. on July 5 to report a garbage can fire at the Bounce Beach Montauk restaurant on South Emerson Avenue. Firefighters made quick work of the pre-dawn conflagration.
Police were set to throw a penalty flag at an unnamed assailant who tackled Jeff Herscott on the beach near the Royal Atlantic in the early evening of July 4, while the Massachusetts man was tossing a football with friends. No charges were pressed, but police told the assailant to refrain from randomly tackling strangers in the future.
An East Quogue man was charged with obstruction of governmental administration at about 3 a.m. on July 4, after being caught urinating behind a building on Montauk Highway and attempting to flee.
An anonymous neighbor overheard a woman “screaming and crying into her phone” near Fairway Place, on July 3 just before 11 p.m. The woman refused to identify herself and wouldn’t tell police why she had been screaming, but did say that an Uber was on its way to get her.
Sag Harbor
Someone poked their head into the police station during the early morning hours on Tuesday to let them know a fight had broken out on Main Street in front of Page restaurant. Officers found a man there and began interviewing him, but after a few questions he fled. He was chased down in front of the 5&10 and brought to the station. He had hit another man in the face, it seemed, but there were no visible marks. He told police the man had threatened him, and he was defending himself. Neither man wanted to pursue charges.
On July 5 at 3:50 a.m., police found a woman asleep on the sidewalk in front of the Sag Harbor Launderette. She had fallen asleep on the bus and missed her stop, she told them, and got off in Sag Harbor to wait for the next bus. She was told to sit on a bench while she waited, instead of sleeping on the sidewalk.
The manager of Provisions called police last Thursday to say that an unruly man was harassing employees and other customers there, asking people to buy food for him. Asked to leave, he began yelling loudly before finally riding away on a bike. Police caught up with him as he was boarding a bus and told him not to go back to the store.
An employee of Rapid Recovery was trying to jump-start a car in front of Goldberg’s Bagels Saturday morning when the battery blew up. Police found him sitting on a bench, dazed, and he said he was having a hard time focusing. He was brought to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for treatment; police said the car’s owner called another towing company.
Just after 1 a.m. on Sunday, police received an anonymous phone call reporting very loud music coming from the Queen Dee, a yacht docked in a marina. The captain was told to lower the music, and the officers left. The party, however, continued. Forty minutes later, another call came in with the same complaint. This time, police told the captain the party was over, and did not leave until the music was shut off.
Springs
Someone dumped three garbage bags at the Springs School on Friday night. Debra Winter, the district superintendent, saw it happen and provided police with the plate number of the black vehicle, which she had seen earlier in the school parking lot. Police found a shipping box in one of the garbage bags with a name and a New York City address, but were unable to find either a record of the vehicle, or the person whose address was on the box. A canvas of the area did not produce any leads.
