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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.

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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