Amagansett
Just before 3 a.m. on July 4, as they were being ticketed for unspecified town code violations, two men sat on the split-rail fence in front of the Henry Lehr store on Main Street and broke one of the rails. Around the same time, at the same location, an officer ticketed a third man for littering and a fourth for urinating in public.
A Ride1Up electric bike and a blue helmet, which had been chained with a yellow lock to some pipes at the Albert’s Landing comfort station, went missing on July 8. Together, the bike, lock, and helmet were valued at close to $2,000.
East Hampton Village
The manager of the Louis Vuitton store is pressing shoplifting charges against a woman who was seen on surveillance footage last Thursday putting a pair of sunglasses into her pocket while a male companion distracted an employee. The pair had three young children with them at the time of the incident, police said.
Montauk
On July 5 at around 5 a.m., an officer ticketed two men for urinating in public near Pizza Village.
Maxwell Foley is searching for his missing bicycle, a white single-speed model from Priority Bike Co. valued at $700, which he last saw on July 3 at around 4 p.m. at the pier just west of the Marram Hotel. He returned from surfing about an hour later and the bike was gone. He told police he thought someone may have mistaken it for one of the bikes used by guests of the Marram.
Last Thursday, Daniel Miller reported the theft of his Coreban stand-up paddleboard from a secure location at his Davis Drive house. Two other boards in the same location weren’t touched.
Another theft in Montauk occurred overnight on Laurel Drive last week. John Schoen told police last Thursday morning that his Oakley sunglasses and a few other items were missing from the center console of his Ford F-150 truck, which was parked outside the house overnight.
Police questioned a young man in connection with the Sunday morning discovery, at the Carl Fisher House on Foxboro Road, of three broken windows, with “a trail of blood” nearby. The juvenile, who had a bleeding cut on one hand, told police he’d cut himself on a beer bottle while drinking with friends. “His story continued to change,” an officer reported, as an E.M.T. treated the wound. The manager of the Carl Fisher House declined to press charges.
Napeague
Terence Feehan of Dive Bar Pizza contacted police just after midnight on Monday to say that neighbors were throwing pizza boxes on the side of the road. “They are trying to make trouble for [his] establishment,” he told police. An officer “did not observe any pizza boxes, but did observe a pizza pie that apparently fell off the top of a car.”
Northwest Harbor
Officers responded to a report of a swimmer in distress at Cedar Point County Park on the evening of July 9. It turned out that a man and woman on a Jet Ski had to swim back to shore after their battery died about 50 yards out.
Sag Harbor
An automatic fire alarm in the butler’s pantry at a Somers Place house was triggered on the morning of July 12. Firefighters attributed it to “overtoasted toast in the toaster.”
A search for a missing kayaker last Thursday morning ended happily. About four hours after he set out from Sunset Beach Road on North Haven, the kayaker was located on the beach off Bayview Court in Noyac. He told police he’d capsized, and that a fisherman had rescued him. He declined medical attention and was picked up by a family member.
For three and a half hours on Friday, the harbormaster, along with an officer from the Department of Environmental Conservation, performed sanitary inspections of boats along the village’s various coves and marinas. They checked 20 vessels and wrote one ticket.
On Friday night, a man and his son called police from a Long Island Avenue parking lot, upset that their car had been booted. An officer told them there was nothing he could do, as it’s a privately owned lot with several large signs warning that cars parked longer than 30 minutes would be booted. The son got into an argument with an employee of the Harbor Shop over it; the officer intervened when it got physical. The father ultimately paid $250 to have the boot removed.
Springs
An unattended fire in the backyard of a Bryant Street house, fueled by wooden fencing material and leaves, attracted the attention of police on July 5 just before 10 p.m. An officer entered the house to look for the person responsible for the fire, and ultimately had the resident douse the flames with a garden hose. He was ticketed for “open burning,” which is illegal.
Two people were cited for taking undersize clams at Maidstone Park Beach, one on July 8 and the other on July 10. In both cases, the clammers had valid shellfishing permits but lacked a clam gauge for measuring.
After hearing what he described as “a young female screaming late at night” more than once at a house a few doors down, a Sycamore Drive resident made an audio recording and called police on July 9. Officers canvassed the area and found nothing amiss, but advised the man “not to hesitate to call police” if he hears it again.
A Talmage Farm Lane resident called police last Thursday afternoon to say that someone had stolen his dog. He canceled the call not long after upon learning that his wife had hired a dog walker.
When her nephew hadn’t returned by about 9 p.m. from an outing on Three Mile Harbor in his 18-foot Boston Whaler, Lynn Koch of Squaw Road called the police. It turned out that the boat had run out of gas about three-quarters of a mile outside the harbor. The nephew called a towing company for assistance and returned safely.
