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On the Police Logs 04.13.23

Thu, 04/13/2023 - 10:47

East Hampton

On Saturday afternoon, police were notified about loud music coming from somewhere on the campus of the high school. Officers who responded neither heard nor saw anything suspicious.

East Hampton Village

Whose trees are these? A village employee called in the law on Saturday afternoon when he suspected a Lockwood Lane homeowner was illegally pruning trees on village property. The pruning is paused for now, while a code enforcement officer investigates.

Montauk

A tan Anne Klein wallet containing a driver’s license and six credit cards was found on the beach near Solé East Saturday afternoon and turned in at the police substation. Its owner claimed it two days later.

Frank Braddick of Greenwich Street reported the theft of a silver bicycle from his shed on Sunday morning. Police arrived to investigate and discovered the bike in the basement of the house, though Mr. Braddick didn’t remember leaving it there.

Sag Harbor

Four white metal chairs from an outdoor dining set, valued at $2,400 or more, were reported stolen from Susan Renzner’s West Henry Street property sometime between April 3 and Saturday.

On Friday afternoon a local woman went to headquarters to report that her teenage son had received threatening messages, via Snapchat, demanding money.

The author Alan Furst filed a report on April 5 stating that “a man named William” had contacted him demanding that he stop writing his latest novel, which concerns the D-Day invasion of World War II. Mr. Furst told police he wanted the incident documented.

A car accident involving a village police car was reported on April 3 shortly before 9 p.m., at the corner of Bay Street and Main Street. No one was injured.

Officers’ routine checks of Main Street businesses in the wee hours of April 4 and Friday turned up four instances of front doors left unlocked.

Springs

A town employee who takes care of property on Sandlot Road contacted police on March 30 to report illegal dumping. On Friday morning, another report came in describing the same situation, and an officer observed landscapers blowing leaves onto nearby private property. Their boss, Jose Camachoquiroz, said the leaves would be cleaned up immediately.

When she returned to her house on April 4 after a month away, an Isle of Wight Road resident discovered someone had disposed of trash in her garbage can. Among the refuse was a bag with the name and address of a neighbor who lives down the street. An officer attempted to locate that person, but was told she was in Barcelona for the foreseeable future.

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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