Amagansett
When “dive bar” is part of your business name, you might expect a noise complaint now and then. Police did receive such a call at 2 a.m. on Oct, 1, and showed up at the Dive Bar Pizza to ticket Terence Feehan, manager of the popular Napeague hangout. He will be in Town Justice Court on Monday to answer the citation.
East Hampton
A resident of Bridlerun Court in the Dune Alpin complex called police just after 3 a.m. on Oct. 1 to say someone was trying to enter his front door. Minutes later, police were escorting a confused elderly woman back to her house on Horseshoe Drive.
East Hampton Village
A dog whining in a locked car caused a 23-year-old East Hampton woman to call police on the evening of Oct. 3. An officer spoke with the dog owner, a Sag Harbor man, who apologized for the inconvenience and left with his unharmed dog.
A pile of sod was left in front of 16 Newtown Lane on the afternoon of Oct. 4, causing a traffic hazard. Police moved it from the road and alerted the public works department.
Another roadblock, this time a mute swan with an injured wing, stopped traffic at 290 Montauk Highway last Thursday morning. Wildlife rescue personnel were summoned, and took the swan in for treatment.
That was the first of three calls to police last Thursday. In another, a box truck specializing in paper-shredding caught fire on Lily Pond Lane. The truck’s contents had to be completely removed before firefighters could extinguish the blaze, which was determined to have been caused by metal, caught inside the shredding assembly. Public works was again called in to clear the road.
Finally, close to midnight, a Pantigo Road woman called to report that someone was “hissing and whistling in the bushes in her backyard.” Police arrived and found no one.
At midnight the next day, Oct. 6, a passing motorist called police to report a man walking in the middle of the road. The man told officers he was on his way home from the train station and didn’t know there was a law against walking in the middle of the road. He was given a lift home.
Montauk
On Sept. 29, Douglas Donaldson called to report a man trying to enter his home. However, when officers arrived, Mr. Donaldson told them he’d spoken with the man, a neighbor, who had lost his dog. The officers visited the neighbor, who confirmed the story.
Guido Perez was driving on the morning of Oct. 1 when his front driver’s-side tire blew out. Officer William Hamilton, who just happened to be driving by, slowed traffic and helped him change the tire. It happened in a “hazardous location,” police noted, on Montauk Highway near South Delphi Street.
Sag Harbor
Someone called police in the middle of the night on Oct. 4 to report a man passed out on Washington Street. The police found the man, unconscious and unresponsive but breathing. They woke him up and called an ambulance, which ran some tests and then took him to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for further testing.
On Oct. 4, a woman reported four threatening phone calls made to her daughter, who was in school, from the same number. The first call was answered by a teacher at the school. When the child picked up the second, a voice said, “I’m going to find you and do something to you wherever you are, at home or school.” A third call was eerie silence and the fourth, arguably the most alarming, featured only a Drake song. Police are investigating.
Jill Markowski told police two green silk throw blankets, one blue silk blanket, and a green linen blanket, with a combined value of $2,580, were stolen from Fishers Home Goods sometime between Sept. 22 and Sept. 29.
Water has continued to burble up through the sidewalk at 69 Main Street. A concerned pedestrian called police on Saturday to report a water main break. The public works department was made aware of the ongoing issue.
On Sunday evening, a man reported his girlfriend missing when she failed to show up for dinner or pick up her phone. Police pinged the phone and tracked her to East Hampton Village, where she was found exiting the movie theater. She had turned off her phone for the movie.
A landscaping company working on Bluff Point Road was told to turn off their leaf blowers on Monday morning, Columbus Day, not because there were no leaves on the ground yet but because leaf blowing is forbidden on holidays.
Springs
An old wicker trunk that was blocking traffic on Harrison Avenue on Sept. 28 prompted a phone call to the police, who asked the highway department to find a better place for the discarded furniture.
Just before 7 p.m. on Sept. 30, a West Drive resident called police with a noise complaint. A neighbor’s wedding celebration included tents and a “very loud” P.A. system. Its owner agreed to turn off the outdoor music and told the officers that following dinner, which had just been served, everyone would leave.
In late September, an Accabonac Road man hired a “spiritual advisor” he found on Facebook, to tell him his future. He quickly realized that the “advisor” was a fraud, he told police, but the man demanded payment and began harassing him. “To make the man go away,” he sent him $150, but rather than disappear he began demanding more money, and threatened that if payment wasn’t made, “he knew where his family lived.” Police told the local man to cease all contact with the scammer and to warn his friends and family about him.
