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On the Police Logs 06.22.23

Thu, 06/22/2023 - 10:04

Montauk

On Friday at about 1:30 p.m., police received a call about “a possible deceased human body” found on a beach at Montauk State Park. Officers determined it to be “the silicone lower part of a female mannequin.”

A live-in employee at a house on Willow Lane called police last Thursday morning to report the theft of several valuables, including an Apple watch, a Fitbit, two rings, and several medications. It turned out, however, that a housekeeper had accidentally thrown out the bag in which those items were kept. The bag was retrieved from the trash. The medications were intact, but the watches and rings are still missing.

Sag Harbor

A 3 a.m. security alarm at Chase Bank on Sunday alerted police that someone was in the bank’s Main Street ATM lobby. An officer checked out the scene and found a man who was charging his cellphone. He left without incident.

A resident of Princeton Road called police Saturday afternoon after seeing three kids playing inside a fenced-off construction site. They were gone by the time an officer arrived.

Late Friday night, police got calls about someone’s personal belongings scattered on the Bay Street roadway. A man was later seen lying on a “carpet” in the road. Questioned by police, he said he’d been cleaning out his car.

Susanna Vasillov of High Street would like her Gorilla-brand wagon and shovel returned. She told police she left them near her garden at about 4:30 p.m. on June 14, and they were gone when she went to retrieve them the next morning.

Vandals have once again hit a dilapidated building on Jermain Avenue that Police Chief Austin J. McGuire said has been “a problem for years.” This time, a surveillance camera caught multiple people spray-painting graffiti on the walls and floors. The incident is still under investigation.

Springs

A caller from Parsons Close reported seeing a “creepy van” illegally parked in the street on June 13 at about 7:30 p.m. Police contacted its owner, who said he’d  been hired to do work at a nearby house and didn’t realize he couldn’t leave his van there overnight.

On Monday morning, after a neighbor complained, police told a resident of 10th Street that he’d been tossing his trash bags in a privately owned dumpster. The man said he thought it was “a community dumpster,” and retrieved his refuse.

Wainscott

On June 8, Elisha Osborn, who operates a vehicle-towing company, reported the theft of four Honda tires with rims from his property on Wainscott Main Street. They were last seen two days earlier on his “junk pile,” he told police.

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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