East Hampton
A Jeep Grand Cherokee registered to a Bronx car dealership was reported stolen last Thursday afternoon from a property on Springs-Fireplace Road. Soon after receiving the report, police got a call about a truck matching the description “sitting in a pond” off Springs-Fireplace Road by Abraham’s Path. “Several variations of [the] incident kept changing,” police said, as detectives interviewed the vehicle’s apparent owner, who, they said, appeared to be drunk. He was eventually ticketed for leaving the scene of an accident.
Two men drinking beer in the parking lot of One Stop Market were ticketed on the night of May 24 on the no-open-containers-in-public law. Most of their personal information was redacted on the incident report, but not the brands of beer: One had a Modelo, the other a Heineken.
A Springs-Fireplace Road resident called police shortly before 9 p.m. on May 22 to complain that a woman was on his property, not for the first time, “saying she takes care of cats in the area.” She identified herself as a representative of the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, he told police.
East Hampton Village
Four people were ticketed at Georgica Beach over the holiday weekend for walking their dogs outside permitted hours. Dogs are allowed on village beaches before 9 a.m. or after 6 p.m. during the summer months.
After a traffic control officer ticketed a vehicle parked Saturday afternoon in the “police only” spot in the Reutershan lot, the vehicle’s owner confronted the young T.C.O., saying the ticket was “unfairly issued.” Police had to be called in to resolve the situation.
Montauk
Police got an anonymous report at about 9 p.m. on May 24 about loud noises coming from the former Rick’s Crabby Cowboy restaurant on East Lake Drive. It was closed at the time, but an officer took a noise-meter reading and found that the din — coming from workers who were “bringing items into the building” — was within town code limits. The site was to reopen as Maison Close on Memorial Day weekend, but burned to the ground on Friday.
Sag Harbor
On Saturday morning, someone called the police after seeing youths throwing what looked to be rocks off the bridge to North Haven. The group was gone by the time an officer arrived.
The harbormaster intervened shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday when a personal jet watercraft, docked in a transient village slip, started sinking. It was towed to its owner’s house on Crescent Street.
On Main Street Friday morning, a mother changing her baby in her car got locked out of the vehicle with the child inside. Police stayed with the woman while the baby’s father retrieved a spare key.
Later that day, officers rescued 12 just-hatched wild turkeys from a storm drain on Walker Avenue.
A Union Street resident called police around 1:30 a.m. on May 23 after finding a man asleep on her porch. The man, a 49-year-old Hampton Bays resident, told police through a translator that he had missed his bus. He was taken to the Bridgehampton train station to await a bus that would take him back to Hampton Bays.
Springs
Late Saturday night or early Sunday, at a house on Clinton Street, vandals spray-painted the front door, a mailbox, and multiple cars with pink paint. A resident reported hearing “loud exhaust, possibly a dirt bike” around midnight.
Wainscott
Five impounded vehicles were towed away from police headquarters last Thursday morning, destined to be destroyed.