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On the Police Logs 08.10.23

Thu, 08/10/2023 - 09:29

Amagansett

A town parks employee discovered significant vandalism at the Albert's Landing comfort station last Thursday morning. Sinks in both the men's and women's restrooms were pulled from the wall and toilet paper dispensers were damaged overnight. There were no signs of forced entry, so police concluded that the building had not been locked up the night before.

East Hampton
Geoffrey Reeves of Red Dirt Road called police on the evening of Aug. 2 to report packages missing from outside his gate. It turned out that a neighbor had moved them for him, to a more secure location.

A PSEG facility on Cove Hollow Road was hit by vandals sometime between the evening of Aug. 1 and the morning of Aug. 3. Workers arrived to find a spray-paint can on the premises and graffiti on one of the walls. Security cameras have since been installed.

East Hampton Village

A Sherrill Road resident called 911 on Aug. 1 when his grill caught fire just before 8 p.m. By the time help arrived, he had put the fire out on his own with water.

Montauk

A police officer drove an intoxicated woman from TT's on West Lake Drive to the train station on July 31 at around 9:30 p.m. so that she didn't have to drive home. She had been asked to leave the establishment.

Quite a few lost-and-found items were taken to the police precinct on South Embassy Street in recent days. Among them: a remote-controlled airplane, broken; a brown wallet that's been mailed back to its owner in Water Mill; a camouflage-print wallet containing $9 in cash and four credit cards, found at Ditch Plain; at least two other wallets, and a green iPhone, also returned to its owner.

It was also a busy week at Navy Beach, where at least five beachgoers were ticketed for various code violations, including uncontained fires and vehicles lacking beach-driving permits, all in the evening hours.

A black 2022 Audi and a white 2019 Jeep parked in Rikki Kuehn's driveway on Flagg Avenue sparked a call to the police about possible trespassers on the afternoon of Aug. 2. A nearby resident, Peter Gregory, told police he was having a baptism party and that he "assumed it would be okay" for him to park there even though he hadn't spoken to his neighbor about it. An officer told him to move the cars.

Sag Harbor

Mark Price of Harbor Avenue called police on July 31 when, just before 10 p.m., a man claiming to be with the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office knocked on his door and began asking questions about a woman named "Lisa." The man, described as "late 40s or early 50s, wearing a baseball cap and plainclothes, with a shield on a necklace around his neck," provided no identification and left when Mr. Price said he didn't know Lisa. Officers canvassed the neighborhood but couldn't find anyone matching the description.

Shane Dyckman, the owner of SagTown Coffee, called police last Thursday around 9 a.m. after hearing a man on a nearby bench "yelling at people." An officer questioned the man, who said he'd been talking on his cellphone, becoming "disgruntled," and raising his voice "more than I should have."

Two blue bicycles belonging to Baron's Cove were reported stolen last Thursday afternoon. Two juveniles were seen on security footage putting the two bikes in a "dark-colored sedan" across the street. The management won't press charges if the bicycles are paid for.

Springs

On Aug. 2 at around 5:30 p.m., a fuel spill measuring about 10 square feet in size was reported in Three Mile Harbor in the vicinity of the commercial dock. "A rainbow sheen on the surface of the water" was seen near the pumpout dock, according to a report. Harbormaster Jason Charron reported it "did not appear to be a significant spill."

An East Hampton man was ticketed around 11:15 p.m. Friday for having an open bottle of Heineken beer at the basketball court near the Springs Youth Association building off Old Stone Highway.

An officer on routine patrol on Gardiner Avenue around 4:30 a.m. Saturday reported that a fire hydrant had been knocked down. He noticed car parts nearby and surmised it had been struck by a vehicle.

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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