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On the Police Logs 07.07.22

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 10:31

East Hampton

When Michelle Meenan returned to her house on Georgica Woods Lane Thursday night, she thought she heard someone yelling “Help!” It took police just a few minutes to figure out that a neighbor, Marc Richards, was shouting for his dog, Scout.

East Hampton Village

A Georgica Road resident went to police on June 25 to document the theft of $20,000 worth of cooking utensils and china on June 25, stolen sometime since January. The house was being renovated, she said, and many different construction companies had been in and out. The missing items were stored in a cardboard box by the front door.

An officer was parked on Main Street Monday when a pickup truck drove by with five people in the truck bed. He caught up with it on Buell Lane. The driver, Joshua Young of New York City, who said he was just giving some people a ride home from the beach, was ticketed for allowing them to “cling or attach” to the vehicle, a village code violation.

Montauk

A 12-year-old boy saw a nude man entering Fort Pond Bay Sunday afternoon and told his father, who called the police. By the time they arrived, the man was dressed, and was advised to remain so. The father said he didn’t want to pursue the matter, and the man was given a ticket for “exposure of a person.”

A Surf Lodge bouncer, Charles Suomi, called the police on Independence Day after a patron hit him in the face. The man, who then drove off in a Rolls-Royce with two others, was stopped by an officer on Carl Fisher Plaza. The bouncer told the officer he had not experienced any pain and declined to press charges, but the occupants of the vehicle were told they were no longer welcome at the Surf Lodge, and would be charged with trespassing should they return.

Sag Harbor

Route 114 was shut down on June 25 after a tree fell, landing on Irina Roller’s 2022 BMW. Ms. Roller was northbound near Hillside Drive when high winds felled the tree. No injury was reported.

A group of teens knocked on the door of Cormaria Retreat on June 28, close to 10 p.m., and asked Sister Ann for water. A few weeks earlier, several youths, possibly the same group, were seen running out the front door of the retreat. Police caught up with them this time, on Bay Street, and warned them to stay away from the property.

Christopher Trent-Keady called police on June 29 to say two teens had entered the Queen B, a boat, without the owner’s permission, and refused to leave. Instead, they removed something from the vessel and ran with it down Main Street. Police caught up with the pair, who live in the city, at 25 Madison Street. They were taken to the station and cited for trespassing before being picked up by their parents.

Two vehicles, parked in a driveway on Wooded Path, were broken into last Thursday. Thieves made off with about $900 worth of goods, including five gift cards, a pair of Ray-Bans, and a pair of Fendi sunglasses. Police noted that both cars were unlocked.

Stephen Miller called on Friday afternoon to report a man sitting on a bench and singing in front of Schiavoni’s Market. Police recorded it as a noise complaint and asked the man to stop, which he did.

A man was literally up a creek without a paddle on Friday night off Ninevah Beach. Alexander Lagos let police know that his friend couldn’t wait to disembark from their canoe, and left for shore taking the craft’s two paddles with him. The canoe’s electric motor didn’t have enough juice to bring it back in, but the harbormaster was able to rescue both man and boat.

The harbormaster had to deal with something far worse on Sunday, after a man’s thumb was amputated by an electric-foil surfboard in Sag Harbor Bay. Michael Wilens told police he was unable to recover the thumb. The injured man was transported by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Springs

Last Thursday afternoon, Mark Hallock called to report a man standing in the middle of Springs-Fireplace Road, shouting at passing vehicles. Officers found the man, who told them he was having trouble finding a ride home. He found one: Police drove him the two miles to his Underwood Drive house, and told him to get some rest.

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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