East Hampton
On Oct. 8, just before 2 a.m., a Southampton man parked his 2019 Honda Accord at a martial arts studio on Three Mile Harbor Road, across the street from El Turco. Someone called the police. The man told the officer that he was “observing the parking lot” of the restaurant, and the officer told him to leave.
Twice in the span of one week, Carl Hettiger called police about hearing dirt bikes near his house on Muir Boulevard. There are wetlands nearby, he told the dispatcher. There are also two vacant residential properties, according to the county tax map. He called once on the afternoon of Oct. 5 and again three days later, but in neither case did officers find anyone.
A “language barrier” was blamed for an Oct. 10 mixup at the Gulf station on North Main Street. According to the police report, “an elderly man” asked for $40 worth of gas, but the attendant heard him ask for a full tank, which totaled $63. The man paid $40 in cash and drove away, prompting the attendant to call the police. The situation was sorted out the next day when the man’s grandson showed up to pay the rest of the tab.
East Hampton Village
On Friday around 3 p.m. a man walked out of the Sweet Spot, the new ice cream place on Newtown Lane, without paying for his milkshake.
About an hour later, police were called to the train station nearby to check on a report of four women walking east on the tracks. Officers could not locate them.
Montauk
Late last Thursday night, a man from Queens was ticketed for fishing from the pier at Eddie Ecker County Park, where fishing after dark is not allowed. A Marine Patrol officer observed another man, his friend, out on the water in an inflatable paddle craft without the required safety equipment; he too was ticketed. The pair did present valid fishing licenses, so the officer directed them to what his report called “a legal and safe area to continue fishing from the land.”
Northwest Harbor
A transformer explosion left some residents of High Point Road rattled and without electricity last Thursday evening. PSEG responded and restored power.
Sag Harbor
A teller at the Apple Bank accidentally set off the “holdup alarm” on the morning of Oct. 10. Police raced to the scene, where a manager explained the mistake. “All appeared normal,” an officer reported.
Police picked up a pair of downed street signs at the corner of Jefferson Street and Main Street last Thursday morning, noting tire tracks in the grass nearby.
Springs
A Briarcroft Drive resident called on Oct. 10 at 4:40 p.m. to report an “unruly group” of kids “harassing turkeys with a net.” Responding about two hours later, police found no sign of the kids or the turkeys.
An Uber Eats order got delivered to the wrong address, a house on Louse Point Road, on Friday afternoon. The person who’d ordered it learned of the mistake and showed up to take it off the porch, prompting the homeowner to tell police that a package had been stolen from the porch. “Negative crime committed,” the report noted.