Amagansett
At Atlantic Avenue Beach on March 5, a Marine Patrol officer, responding at around 11:30 p.m. to a report of a suspicious vehicle, came upon a 31-year-old Hampton Bays man who had fallen asleep in his car. After checking for signs of impairment and finding none, the officer sent him on his way.
On Friday night at Big Albert’s Beach, shortly after 10, another Marine Patrol officer came upon a group of 15 youths partying in the picnic area. They were “gathered around a non-compliant campfire with a loud, amplified speaker playing music and litter strewn on the ground,” he reported. The officer made the kids put out the fire and clean up the mess. They complied and left.
East Hampton
A 58-year-old resident of Neighborhood House Drive called police on March 6 to request “forensic testing” on some glass bottles she’d found on her property. Police reported that the bottles “appeared to be old in nature, with no labels, significant growth inside, and were partially imbedded in the ground.”
Montauk
Over the weekend, the erosion situation at Ditch Plain became so pronounced that a “large, rusted truck frame” became exposed in the area between the beach and the Montauk Shores mobile home community. “Multiple large fishing cages” had either washed up or become exposed as well. The Parks Department was initially called in, but the debris was apparently determined to be on private property, and the outcome was unclear.
A No Trespassing sign hasn’t stopped people from wandering onto Harry Ellis’s East Lake Drive property to access the waterfront. It happened again last Thursday afternoon, prompting a call to police. The intruder told officers he “decided to eat his sandwich and walk the beach while looking for fishing lures that might have washed up.” He apologized to Mr. Ellis, who didn’t press charges but asked that police tell the man not to return.
Northwest Woods
Police were called Friday afternoon to investigate a report that people were camping illegally in the Grace Estate Preserve. They came upon three men from Nassau County who’d put up a tent and built a campfire. Police told them to put out the fire, then issued a ticket for open burning and directed them to leave immediately.
Sag Harbor
A guest using a hair dryer accidentally set off the fire alarm at Baron’s Cove on the morning of March 4.
A Suffolk County bus became disabled on Main Street at Jermain Avenue on March 6 at around 1:30 p.m. Village police and traffic control officers directed traffic and maintained safe conditions until the bus could be towed away.
Early Saturday afternoon, police were called to check on the well-being of a swan found sitting in the street at Redwood Road and Amherst Street. Shortly after an officer arrived, the swan got up of its own volition and walked away, apparently uninjured.
Later that day, a man was reported to have been hanging around the Gulf gas station on Hampton Street for several hours. He told police he’d been trying to get to a friend’s house, but the friend wasn’t home and he had no money for a taxi to take him elsewhere. An officer drove him to Bridgehampton, where he was able to connect with a different friend.
At around the same time, a driver and an on-duty police officer were involved in a fender-bender on Main Street at Jefferson Street. No one was injured, and only minor damage was reported.
Wainscott
A woman who did not give her name stopped by police headquarters last Thursday afternoon to turn in a license plate she’d found in the HomeGoods parking lot. Officers found and called a phone number for the person to whom the plate was registered, but were unable to make contact.
According to a just-released report, police were called to the Country School on Industrial Road on Feb. 26 when an unfamiliar man showed up at the school “trying to pick up some documents without showing ID.” While officers were on the way, the man finally provided proper identification. An officer stayed with him until he left the school.