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On the Police Logs 01.11.24

Thu, 01/11/2024 - 08:46

Amagansett

Harbormaster Vincent Forlenza discovered an abandoned boat left in the brush off Lazy Point Road on New Year’s Day.

 

East Hampton Village

A teenage girl lost her wallet on Newtown Lane on Friday morning. A police officer found it, and the girl’s mother picked it up after work that day.

Following a road rage incident Saturday morning, a 28-year-old East Hampton woman reported that two middle-aged men in a Jeep had followed her into the long-term parking lot on Lumber Lane and confronted her. “If you’re going to give us the finger, we will teach you a lesson,” the men reportedly told the woman, before slamming her door shut. Police responded but were unable to locate a vehicle with two men matching her description.

 

Montauk

The caretaker of a house on East Lake Drive called police on the afternoon of Jan. 2 after finding that the house had been broken into and vandalized. Detectives are still investigating.

A suspected water leak coming from a house on Washington Drive turned out to be caused by a contractor working on a pool. He “addressed the water issue immediately without any other issues,” police reported.

Downed wires across the road made South Emery Street impassable early Sunday morning. An officer coned off the area and the Optimum cable company responded to fix the wires.

 

Northwest

An Oyster Pond Lane resident called police on Friday around midnight after hearing shouting and “a loud noise, possibly something breaking or falling” at a neighboring house. Police found two men in their 20s who’d been playing video games and “screaming about the outcome of the game.”

 

Sag Harbor

At about 9:30 p.m. last Thursday, someone called police to say that “three men wearing gray sweatpants” had been sitting on a bench for an extended length of time outside Sag Pizza, and that one of them was overheard “discussing possibly stealing money from an elderly person” on his cellphone. Less than 20 minutes later, an officer investigating a report of fireworks encountered three youths who admitted to setting them off near Round Pond.

 

Springs

Last Thursday afternoon, two calls came in about an hour and a half apart requesting police presence on Olive Street. The first was a well-being check for a woman with an “altered mental status,” the second a complaint about a man who often trespasses into a particular front yard “and occasionally yells profanities.”

Michael Oblein of Fenmarsh Road reported Friday afternoon that someone had dumped several piles of dirt in his front yard. A contractor told police he thought he had permission to do so, and said he would remove it to the job site across the street the next day.

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A Barry Lane, Springs, man told police that someone claiming to be from Amazon had called him in regard to a $996 charge on his account for an iPhone 16. When he said he didn’t have an Amazon account, he was transferred to someone who identified himself as a Social Security employee, accused him of money laundering, and told him to expect a call from Nassau County police.

Nov 27, 2025

Accused of Stealing Wipes

A homeless 22-year-old was arrested last week in Montauk, accused of stealing a package of wipes from the Montauk I.G.A. after having been being notified the week before that he was no longer allowed on the premises.

Nov 27, 2025

Hospitalized After Accident

Police reported only one accident on local roads recently that resulted in an injury, which happened on Nov. 11 in Montauk, after midnight.

Nov 27, 2025

Five-Day Sentence for 2023 Graffiti That Unnerved Montauk

A 76-year-old Montauk man was sentenced to five days in county jail, followed by three years of probation, for spray-painting swastikas and antisemitic phrases around the hamlet in late 2023. 

Nov 20, 2025

 

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