Amagansett
Someone punctured the sides of all four tires on Molly Simpson’s 2009 Nissan, which had been parked in her driveway on Stony Hill Road, sometime between 4 p.m. on March 21 and 10:30 a.m. last Thursday. Ms. Simpson told police she had no idea who could have done such a thing, as she has “no issues with anyone at this time or in the past.”
On March 20, $1,500 in cash was reported missing from the safe at Sportime. The person responsible, if found, will face a charge of grand larceny.
Bridgehampton
Suffolk County and Southampton Town police are seeking information on the suspect who broke into Wilson’s Express III on Snake Hollow Road at 12:40 a.m. on Feb. 16. The intruder damaged jewelry cases but left the store without taking anything. A cash reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest; the phone number to call is 1-800-220-TIPS. Information can also be provided anonymously via the website and mobile app called P3Tips.
East Hampton
An officer responding to an alarm at a Further Lane house on the morning of March 21 found part of a chain-link fence lying on the ground. He proceeded down the driveway to investigate further, but when he was leaving the property, he realized the fence had been put back into place and was padlocked, preventing him from leaving. Unable to reach either a resident or a caretaker, he called headquarters, and someone arrived promptly with bolt cutters.
Four large boulders used to mark disk-golf holes went missing from the Buckskill Meadow Preserve sometime between 5 p.m. on March 20 and 10 a.m. the next day. Two others had been moved from their original locations. Police noted tire tracks from what looked like a quad or ATV at the site of each missing boulder.
East Hampton Village
A moviegoer complained to police on Friday afternoon that the theater manager had taken a picture of him. The manager told police she had taken a photo not of him, but rather of the dog he had brought with him to the theater.
Montauk
Jim Terry, an East Hampton Parks Department employee, remembered shutting off the water and locking the doors for the season at the Kirk Park bathrooms in October. However, when he returned to open them on March 20, he found someone had broken in and ripped two stainless steel sinks off the wall in the men’s room. The damage was estimated at $2,000.
On March 22 shortly after 11 p.m., an officer patrolling Montauk Highway near Beech Street ticketed two people, a 45-year-old Farmingville man and a 22-year-old Medford man, for urinating in a public place.
Someone turned in an orange wallet Saturday afternoon after finding it at Eddie Ecker County Park. The police have it at the Montauk substation for safekeeping.
Matthew Pomerantz of Fairview Avenue reported his truck, a gold 2018 Toyota Tundra, missing from the lot behind Shagwong Tavern early Sunday morning. Police are still on the lookout for the stolen pickup.
Sag Harbor
A gas can in the back of a flatbed truck tipped over and spilled its contents on Glover Street on the morning of March 20. The driver pulled over and called the police, who in turn called the Public Works Department, which put down a quantity of absorbent to clean up the spill.
Later that morning, while cleaning out a family member’s Jermain Avenue house, an unidentified woman called police asking them to take possession of two law-enforcement-style bulletproof vests and a rifle plate, found among her relative’s belongings.
A Dumpster on wheels slid down Church Street and struck a parked car last Thursday morning as its owner, the carting company Winters Brothers, was attempting to pick it up. On impact, the car bumped into the one in front of it. The owners of both cars acknowledged “minimal to no damage,” but the carting company wanted the incident documented nonetheless.
