Amagansett
The Devon Yacht Club’s general manager called the police on the evening of June 28 to say there was an unknown man sitting at the bar, telling the staff he was waiting for a friend. An employee informed him that the club had no members by the name he provided and asked him to leave, which he did, but returned soon after. He finally left after the manager said she was calling the police.
East Hampton Town
A Montauk Avenue woman reported a stranger who’d knocked on her door on the night of June 24. After knocking and getting no response, he drove off in a white van parked in her driveway, she said. There was no sign of the van when officers arrived.
Police filed a report of identity theft on June 10, from a woman who said someone had opened a savings account using her name. The incident is on record and the account has been closed.
Employees at the East Hampton School District bus depot found a former school bus driver asleep in his car there on the morning of June 13. The day before, he’d been told to stay away, and police warned him not to return or face a charge of trespassing.
The East Hampton Golf Club called Saturday night to say an unknown vehicle was driving around the course. Police searched the course and found a man “face down in a bush with no shoes on.” He was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for evaluation.
East Hampton Village
A distraught grandmother reported her two young grandsons missing in the Reutershan parking lot on the morning of July 1. She’d last seen them looking through the window of Gubbins, she said. Officers searched the lot and found the children in the alley near Tutto Cafe.
Security at a Buell Lane party had escorted her and her friends out of the event “aggressively,” a woman complained to police shortly after midnight on Friday. Security told officers that the women were not on the guest list, and police did not take further action.
Montauk
Early on the morning of June 26, police found a man asleep in the passenger seat of a car parked at the train station. The man said he’d been drinking on the train during his trip from Rocky Point and decided to sleep in the parking lot until morning.
A guest at the Ocean Resort Inn went for a beach walk on June 6 and tossed his pants over his shoulder while walking, he told police. Some cards, his Airpods, and $250 fell out of a pocket, he later realized, and when he retraced his steps he found a group of youths going through his possessions. When confronted, the group fled in a car. Police located it, and after the mother of one boy arrived on the scene the man was reimbursed.
A Fernald Road woman called police on July 2, saying that a man had parked in her driveway and was approaching her house “with a hammer.” After placing the call, she ran outside yelling that police were on the way. He got in the car and drove off. When police found him, he said he’d gone to the wrong house to fix a vacuum.
A harbormaster found a crowd of some 150 youths setting up multiple beach fires at the Surfside Avenue beach on the night of July 4, with trash “strewn about the area.” He instructed them to clean up the trash and disperse.
Early the next morning, near Pizza Village, a young man tossed a Coors Light can into a bush right in front of a police sergeant on patrol. The sergeant issued a citation for littering.
On Friday evening police got two calls complaining about loud music at Ruschmeyer’s. Officers tested the decibel level but determined it was at a legal volume and advised the manager to keep it that way.
A passing driver flagged down an officer at around 3 a.m. on Sunday and reported that there was a fight happening in front of Chase Bank. The fight broke up when the officer arrived and no charges were filed.
Northwest Harbor
A Melina Drive man called police on June 26 to report a scam. He’d received a call from someone claiming to be from Publishers Clearing House, he said, who told him he’d won $10 million, but had to provide a check for $4,000 before he could claim it. The man hung up and notified police “so that no elderly people fall for this ruse.”
A white rowboat, docked at the end of Northwest Landing Road on the morning of July 3, was gone when its owner returned two days later. Various police agencies were notified, but the 8.5-foot boat has not been reported found.
Last Thursday, July 4, police found a man on Barcelona Neck Road with 72 porgies, many of them undersize, in his cooler. He was ticketed for that, and also for having over double the allowable number of fish.
Sag Harbor
A man complained to police on the night of July 3 about an employee of Le Bilboquet “placing his hands on him.” Police spoke with the manager of the restaurant, who said the man had been asked to leave many times but would not. Police escorted him out, warning him that he was not to return.
An unusual bicycle, instantly recognizable, was stolen during the night of the July 4 holiday. The bike, valued at $600, is bright orange with parrots on the side, and MARGARITAVILLE in bold letters. The thief faces a charge of larceny.
Multiple people flagged police to report a highly intoxicated woman on a bench in front of Kites of the Harbor Saturday night. The woman claimed that a friend was picking her up, but would not say who or when, or identify herself. After she threw up on the sidewalk, a passer-by assisted her to call an Uber.
At around midnight Sunday, an Uber driver called police regarding a verbal altercation with a passenger, who, he said, had hired him to take him from the Corner Bar to East Hampton, but then “demanded” he take him back to Sag Harbor, where he refused to pay the fare. When police arrived, the man handed over the $28 he owed.
Springs
A harbormaster responded to a report of engine oil floating in the water off Harbor Marina around midday on June 25. After speaking to an employee, he found the containers “sealed and unopened,” and reported that no fuel had spilled into the water.
on the morning of June 29, a Sycamore Drive resident reported a Patek Philippe Calatrava watch missing from a bedroom drawer. She’d last seen it on June 27, she told police. The incident was recorded as theft, grand larceny.
That evening, a man complained of loud music coming from a house on Hollyoak Avenue. A woman in the house promised to lower the music and ask guests to tone down the conversations, but after police left the caller claimed the volume was back up. When officers returned, the woman turned off the music for the night.
A resident of Springs-Fireplace Road called Saturday to say that a woman and two small unleashed dogs were “on the beach in front of his home.” She’d refused to leash the dogs when he requested it from afar, he told police, and when he got close she “punched him in the shoulder.” He wanted her “to be spoken to if located.”
Police found three people fighting on Gerard Drive on the night of July 3, and four dead fish (one of them underweight) nearby, along with scattered garbage.
While patrolling Gerald Drive, police found three individuals fishing on the night of July 3. The three were cited for “failure to release with undue harm” and littering.
On July 4, a Springs woman trying to buy a Ford F-150 on Facebook was told by the “seller” that the account had been hacked. The woman called police to report the fraud.
On Saturday, a harbormaster responding to a report of an overturned boat in Three Mile Harbor rescued two boaters clinging to a small sailboat. Both were “fatigued but otherwise uninjured.”
