Amagansett
A Ford S.U.V. with a man inside was parked for eight hours in a far corner of the parking lot at the American Legion (Post 419) on Jan. 31, prompting a concerned call to police. Officers spoke with the man, Adrian Rodino of Howell, N.J., and then called his ex-wife, Lauren Maure of Blue Point. An ambulance was dispatched to the parking lot just before 8 p.m.; the redacted police report gave no further detail.
East Hampton
Dominic LaPierre’s son was in an auto accident on Dec. 10, and Springs Fireplace Auto towed the damaged car. Mr. LaPierre, a Sag Harbor resident, told police he went to check on the vehicle on Dec. 13 and noticed that its license plates were on the back seat. The car was then sent off to be auctioned, he said, and on Dec. 30 he was told that the plates were no longer in it. Both the unnamed auction house and the body shop provided letters stating that the plates were not in the vehicle when it was transported. Mr. LaPierre, however, insists that the plates were there as of Dec. 13, and that between then and the 30th they went missing. He reported the missing plates to police on Jan. 5.
East Hampton Village
Police spotted a dog running around on Cooper Lane Friday night and were able to catch it and identify the owners via its tag. They found the front door open at the Cooper Lane house, and reunited the dog with a 14-year-old girl, telling her to secure the door.
A postal worker who’d been delivering mail in her official vehicle found a garbage truck blocking a shared driveway last Thursday afternoon as she was leaving, and called police. The truck driver told the officer that he himself was trying to leave the property, and the woman wouldn’t let him pass. Police advised him that United States Postal Service vehicles have the right of way, before resolving the situation by directing the two trucks around each other.
The traffic light at Newtown Lane and Cooper Lane was not working last Thursday due to a power outage in the area. Police directed traffic until a generator was hooked up and returned the light to working order. PSEG was notified.
A good Samaritan found a debit card at the Chase Bank on the afternoon of Jan. 31 and turned it in at police headquarters. Police could not locate the owner and have held the card.
The driver of an oversize Kenworth dump truck carrying a heavy load to a Cross Highway job site was driving on Dunemere Lane toward Highway Behind the Pond early on the evening of Jan. 31. Someone called police, given that such vehicles are prohibited from village roads. David Collins of the Village Highway Department then tracked the truck to the Cross Highway site and told the driver to stick to Montauk Highway in the future.
A Pantigo Road woman complained to police on Jan. 30 that her neighbor’s cat kept encroaching on her property, “causing damage to her property and persistent use of her outdoor dining table as a sleeping place.” The woman, who said her son is allergic to cats, told police she’d repeatedly asked the neighbor to keep the animal out of her yard. Police spoke with the neighbor, who said her cat did occasionally travel around the neighborhood, but that she would try to keep it indoors.
Northwest Harbor
Andrew Fine’s pool on White Pine Road was winterized in late September, and he recently reported its Stay Rite pool heater, valued at $5,800, missing, possibly stolen. An officer visited the property on Jan. 28 and noted that the filter and pump were untouched and that the heater itself “appeared to have been properly removed, and there was no apparent damage to any of the fittings or electrical connections.” Police were to follow up with the company that winterized the pool.
It was curiosity, not criminality, that led Shari and Robert Abramson to trespass at a housing construction site on Hedges Bank Drive late Sunday afternoon. Geoff Banks, the property owner, called police, saying that his land was completely fenced in and there were signs forbidding entrance. The Abramsons, who live down the street, told an officer they were just curious neighbors who wanted to see what was happening on the property, that they hadn’t seen any No Trespassing signs, and that they’d entered the property where part of the fence was down. They were advised not to return.
Sag Harbor
A woman whom police described as “basically homeless” showed up at her ex-husband’s house on Redwood Road recently and asked if she could stay for a few days. The man consented, but called police Friday morning to say that she wouldn’t leave. Police described this as a situation that has been repeated for years.
An elderly Beach Avenue woman may have had a stroke on Saturday afternoon after losing consciousness while eating lunch and hitting her head on a table. When medical personnel showed up, the woman was alert and conscious, but nevertheless was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for a checkup.
Another elderly woman fainted and fell to the ground last Thursday evening, in front of 90 Main Street. Dr. Rhett Silver, a medical doctor who was on site, determined the woman had no pulse, called for help, and, village police said later, performed potentially lifesaving CPR. The woman had regained consciousness by the time an E.M.S. crew arrived, and after treatment to stabilize her, she was taken to the hospital.
On Feb. 1, a pricey wine refrigerator was reported stolen from a house under construction at 65 Milton Avenue, where, police noted, there had been many workers lately on a job site that was not properly secured. Christian Cooney reported the theft of a Sub-Zero undercounter fridge, valued at nearly $3,600.
A woman went to headquarters on Feb. 1 to report that her daughter had been subjected to harassment by another girl at Pierson High School. As the case involved a juvenile, police could not say much more.
Springs
Patricio Delgado of Lincoln Avenue told police on Jan. 30 that someone had broken into a 2016 Toyota Tundra parked in his driveway, “likely attempting to steal items from same,” though nothing was reported missing. Mr. Delgado did tell police that someone had stolen $3,000 from his vehicle three years ago, and suspected, police reported, that “this is the same subject who is making the current occasional larceny attempt.”
Wainscott
A mattress was reported to be blocking Route 114 near Montauk Boulevard on the evening of Feb. 1, but by the time police arrived it was leaning against a tree along the shoulder. The State Highway Department was contacted with a request to remove it.
