East Hampton Village
Last Thursday afternoon, for the second week in a row, police tracked down and arrested suspects in a shoplifting incident at a luxury boutique on Newtown Lane. First it happened at Balenciaga; this time it was at Prada, where the manager reported seeing “three Latino men” take two shirts and a pair of sunglasses and leave the store without paying for them. Police canvassed the area and found three men matching the manager’s description, who, according to the report, had the missing merchandise in their possession. The three face charges of petty larceny, a low-level misdemeanor, and are due in Town Justice Court on Wednesday.
A dolphin beached itself at Georgica early Saturday morning, prompting a passer-by to call police to check on its well-being. The dolphin was still alive and was able to make its way back into the ocean.
Montauk
A Caswell Road resident called police just before 10 p.m. on Aug. 29 to report “children on e-bikes knocking on doors and running.” Officers canvassed the area but couldn’t find any kids causing trouble.
On the night of Aug. 30, sometime during the 35 minutes that Aaron Greenbaum of Second House Road was away from home, a vehicle ran over his mailbox.
Springs
A “man in his 40s driving a silver Mercedes” blew kisses as he passed a woman who was changing her baby’s diaper at Maidstone Park on the evening of Aug. 28. The woman was troubled by the incident and reported it to the police.
Wainscott
A small plane en route to East Hampton from the Columbia County Airport in upstate Hudson on the afternoon of Aug. 28 called in to report a burning smell and possible fire in the cockpit. First responders were at the ready by the time the aircraft landed, but there was no active blaze to put out.
The East Hampton Airport sign on the corner of Route 114 and Wainscott Northwest Road was recently vandalized again, with a large black “V” scrawled over the airport logo. When a Highway Department employee went to clean it up on Aug. 29, someone mistook him for the vandal and called police, who reported that everything was in order.