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On the Police Logs 12.21.23

Thu, 12/21/2023 - 05:12

Amagansett

A town police officer discovered “a large amount of water” on Windmill Lane, coming from the back of a house, on the afternoon of Dec. 13, and upon investigating found that an in-ground pool was being drained with a pump. No one was home at the time, so the officer shut off the pump and handed the violation off to code enforcement.

At Indian Wells Beach last Thursday morning, a 29-year-old East Hampton man found three flat tires on his car. According to police, no foul play was suspected, but he was asked to remove the vehicle as soon as possible.

A passer-by called police to report “a disoriented man with a towel over his head” walking on Miankoma Lane on Friday morning. The man, who was not wearing a coat, told police he’d been stranded at the train station without a way to call anyone, and that he needed to catch a train to the city. An officer took him to the East Hampton station.

East Hampton

After seeing an unknown driver pull in and out of his driveway several times, sitting at the automatic gate for a couple of minutes and then driving away, Dan Gasby of Two Holes of Water Road notified police to put the incidents on record. The most recent one occurred on Dec. 11 shortly after 8 p.m.

On the afternoon of Dec. 12, police looked up the owner of a gray 2006 Volkswagen that was left unattended for several days on Route 114 near Swamp Road. Its license plates had been removed, but there was a valid registration sticker still on it. The owner explained that the car had broken down and promised to have it towed away at once.

There were three complaints last week, all from the same man, about loud music coming from houses in the vicinity of Oakview Highway; one on Dec. 12 around 10 p.m., another the following afternoon, and a third just before 11 p.m. that night. The first instance was deemed unfounded; in the second, police tracked down the source of the music and asked the resident, a 27-year-old woman, to turn it down. She complied. The third complaint was also deemed unfounded, and an officer had to explain the town noise regulations to the caller.

An alarm went off just after 11 p.m. Friday at the high school. Officers checked and found the premises secure, but could not determine what had set off the alarm.

Sag Harbor

Village police assisted Southampton Town last Thursday night in searching for a missing man by the name of Victor. They canvassed the American Hotel, Baron’s Cove, and the Sag Harbor Inn with no luck.

Springs

A 35-year-old resident of Flower Hill, a small village in Nassau County, was seen starting a fire and then cleaning up ash behind the power station off Old Stone Highway on the afternoon of Dec. 11. A police officer ticketed him for an illegal “open burn.”

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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