Amagansett
A man giving kiteboard lessons at Louse Point without the proper permit was ticketed on Sept. 19 by a harbormaster. Juan Diaz told the officer he’d been doing so for “quite a while, maybe 13 years or so” but that he’d go to the town and apply for the permit.
A fishing net washed onshore near the White Sands Motel on Sept. 20, and police were called. They winched it up toward the dunes and then called in the parks department to come remove it from the beach.
The Coast Guard has confirmed that flares sighted off Indian Wells Beach on the evening of Sept. 21 were part of military training. A caller had worried there might be an emergency at sea.
Sometime between Sept. 24 and Sept. 27, an apartment on Main Street was burglarized. Ethan Adler reported missing at least $600 in jewelry, among other items. Police determined that the thief had entered the apartment through a bathroom window.
East Hampton
Police enforced the nine-ton truck weight limit on Accabonac Road between Floyd Street and Collins Avenue for four hours on Sept. 20, handing out several citations and warnings.
Neighbors let Allison Libretto know that someone had placed yellow caution tape across her Central Avenue driveway and porch on Sept. 20. An officer investigated, but whoever had placed the tape was long gone.
Five boaters were rescued from a 24-foot vessel named Gloria on Sept. 20, after the craft was seen taking on water about a mile off the coast in Gardiner’s Bay. Marine Patrol officers were able to tow the boat to the Gann Road launch, where it was removed from the water with some difficulty. The officers found no cause for citation.
Susan Snyder arrived home on Sept. 22 to find a tractor and large cement rings left on her Hardscrabble Court driveway. This came as a surprise, as she was having no work done at her house. She told police she wasn’t sure how long the items had been there, and there were no markings on the equipment to identify the owner. Officers left a note on the windshield of the excavator saying it was in the wrong place.
East Hampton Village
Late Friday evening, a man camping out in his truck on Highway Behind the Pond was instructed to relocate. He told police he’d “just arrived from Monte Carlo” and didn’t know the rules.
A neighbor of the Baker House called police on Saturday afternoon to complain that catering trucks parked out front of the inn were posing a traffic hazard. Security told an officer that the trucks were unloading supplies for a wedding and were only temporarily parked. The trucks left after unloading; no tickets were handed out.
Montauk
John Frusci went into the post office on Sept 20 expecting to take delivery of a package, and grew angry with postal workers when they told him it hadn’t been delivered. Police were called in, and witnesses told them that Mr. Frusci was argumentative, irrational, and had created a scene. He was told to contact the post office by phone only with any future complaints.
Springs
A highway department employee operating a street sweeper found a New York State driver’s license on Gerard Drive on Sept. 20. The man listed on the license, Edgar Chavez-Robles, was unreachable by telephone. When officers went to his address, a woman told them she’d never seen him and that he didn’t live there. The license is in the lost property room at the station.
Sag Harbor
Last Tuesday, police found a truck stopped at the intersection of Hampton and Division Streets. An officer asked the driver why he was parked in the middle of the road, and was told that “he wanted to get to New York City but didn’t know how to get there.” He was directed out of the village and may now be stuck somewhere else.
A Main Street resident called an Uber last Thursday but canceled two minutes before it arrived. The driver, unhappy, showed up at her house, yelling that he was her Uber driver, even entering the house, she told police. He finally left, but called the unsettled woman twice more, reminding her that he was her Uber driver. She wanted the incident documented.
A woman left Sylvester’s and Company last Thursday with an unpaid-for porcelain pig, valued at $180. Security footage showed her leaving and driving away in a Mini-Cooper with Florida plates, which police were able to identify and attach to a local residence. They called and spoke with the woman’s husband, who said she wasn’t home yet, but if she showed up with the porcelain pig, he’d make sure she returned it. The pig was returned, with no charges pressed.
A traffic control officer saw a man carrying a possible firearm during the music festival on Sunday. Police investigated and found that the man was carrying the handle of a power washer, which had lost a piece. He was taking it to the hardware store to buy the missing part.
A concerned Washington Street resident called police Saturday afternoon to report “yelling” in the upstairs apartment of her building. Officers arrived to find the apartment occupied by only a single woman, who said she’d been having a heated phone conversation “about plants.”
Wainscott
Just after midnight on Sept. 21, Sandra Foschi, who was at work at Levain Bakery, called police to say a man in the parking lot was filming and yelling at her through the shop’s glass door. The man denied filming Ms. Foschi and said he was only trying to get her attention. He was working for Door Dash, he said, and was trying to find the Red Door Grill, a few hundred feet away. An officer found a Door Dash bag with Red Door Grill’s information on it and determined there was no problem.
