Amagansett
Bernice Stein of Cliff Road reported on April 11 that a bathroom window and a sliding glass door had shattered while she was away from the house for some time. Police found nothing suspicious.
A teak outdoor furniture set valued at $3,200 was reported missing from behind Organic Krush on April 5. The cafe’s owner last saw the set, comprising two chairs, a sectional couch, and three umbrella stands, when she left at 5 p.m. on April 4, but they were gone by 8 a.m. the next morning.
East Hampton
Police received a report on April 12 of an unfamiliar vehicle, a green Honda S.U.V., parked at Calvary Baptist Church for a few days without moving. An officer looked up the plate number and was able to locate its owner, who said he would move the car.
East Hampton Village
A 29-year-old woman attempting to get to Riverhead took a train from Jamaica but failed to make a transfer and ended up in East Hampton on Saturday afternoon. An officer advised her that the S92 county bus could take her to her destination.
According to a police report filed last week, a woman reported on the morning of March 10 that a ring had fallen out of her pocket in the Reutershan parking lot near John Papas Cafe. A description of the ring was redacted.
“If you leave my town, I will stop coming to your store,” said an unidentified woman who entered Citarella on April 10 about an hour before the store closed. She was speaking to a 32-year-old woman from Hampton Bays, at whom she had thrown “a shopping bag containing a partially broken plate and miscellaneous papers,” police reported. The victim showed police a photo of the assailant, showing her “wearing a red hat and using a pull cart.”
Napeague
An overflowing Dumpster at Morty’s Oyster Stand was apparently responsible for a problem last Thursday afternoon involving garbage on the highway. An officer called the carting company, National Waste Services, to clean up the mess.
Northwest Harbor
Firefighters from several departments battled a brush fire in the woods off Alewife Brook Road near Cedar Point County Park last Thursday afternoon. Responding to East Hampton’s request for help, Springs sent a tanker and Sag Harbor sent its brush truck. East Hampton Fire Chief Duane Forrester said the flames covered an area approximately 60 by 60 feet. According to the official report, a nearby homeowner had had a barbeque at his house the night before and afterward dumped the coals by the side of his property. He told police he was “not thinking anything of the situation.”
Sag Harbor
A Meadowlark Lane resident witnessed a worker loudly draining a Porta-Potty before 7 a.m. on April 12 and called the police. The worker was done with his task by the time an officer arrived, and told the officer he was unaware that the village prohibits noisy work before 8 a.m.
That afternoon, Alan Furst told police he suspects someone stole a page from the new book he is writing while he was asleep the night before. Mr. Furst said he thinks he knows who did it, but he declined to give a name, because it “could interfere with his own personal investigation.”
A man identified only as “Gary” reported seeing “two suspicious white gallon jugs” on the side of the road in the Redwood neighborhood on April 12 at around 6 p.m. The jugs, thought to possibly contain some sort of chemical, have been stowed in the property room at headquarters.
As the debate continues over the Sag Harbor School District’s potential purchase of land on Marsden Street, Jeff Ziglar and Michele Liot reported separately that signs supporting the school had been defaced and/or stolen. Mr. Ziglar told police on April 10 that someone had placed stickers saying “greed entitlement” over signs posted on utility poles, while Ms. Liot said signs had been stolen from a Madison Street property on Friday.
Springs
Police received a complaint late last Thursday afternoon about vehicles parked on Maidstone Park Beach without proper beach-driving stickers. Harbormaster Melanie Anderson reported two of the four parked vehicles had the correct yellow stickers, but the other two still had expired blue ones. Police advised those drivers they would need to get the current sticker from the town clerk’s office.
A little after 9 that night, also in the vicinity of Maidstone Park Beach, police received a call about kids skateboarding through freshly poured concrete. An officer interviewed one of the youths, who acknowledged he’d been skateboarding there, but not, he said, on newly laid cement. After canvassing the neighborhood, the officer reported finding no fresh concrete in the area at all.
