Amagansett
Two distressed swimmers at Atlantic Avenue Beach, a mother and daughter, were helped out of the water by a good Samaritan on the evening of July 15. The daughter had been caught in a riptide near the shore, her mother told the man, and she went in to help, but struggled herself to get back to shore. Bystanders called police, but neither woman required medical attention.
On July 17, on the beach near Napeague Lane, a caller told police his friend had “fallen over his surfboard” while swimming. The call disconnected, so officers responded to the area. A woman told them she’d heard a man yelling about a friend in distress, but had seen them later leaving the beach together.
East Hampton Village
A Mastic woman who was a passenger on July 17 aboard a westbound train from East Hampton reported her bag stolen along the way. It was stored in the “train cart,” she said, and contained about $1,200. Police provided her with the phone number of the M.T.A. police department.
Police found a man passed out on the curb in front of 1770 House on Saturday night and woke him up. He’d had too much to drink, he told them, before lying right back down. An officer helped him return home.
Montauk
The caretaker of a property near Ditch Plain reported shattered glass and a broken doorknob near a storage building on the afternoon of July 15, though nothing appeared to be missing. Police checked the other buildings on the property and reported that all appeared to be in order.
Guests at Born Free Suites by the Sea on South Emerson Avenue were “causing a disturbance” there Friday night, “making too much noise and inviting too many people into the room,” and the hotel manager told police she wanted them removed. They were given one hour to leave, and complied.
Police spotted two men urinating outside the Memory Motel early Sunday morning, minutes apart from each other, and ticketed both of them.
A man returned to his car parked at the Marram Hotel on the afternoon of July 10 to find its right rear bumper damaged, and reported it to police for insurance purposes.
Eventually, however, he called to say that the person who’d caused the damage had contacted him, so police involvement ended there.
Early on the morning of July 13, an Uber driver told police his “highly intoxicated” passenger had got out of the car and lain down on Flagler Street “in the middle of the road.” When police arrived, the driver told them that the man’s friends had helped him into a nearby house, and that was the end of it.
Northwest Harbor
A postal worker was driving along her Oyster Pond Lane mail route with the windows rolled down on the afternoon of July 15, when, she told police, a man watering his lawn “decided to turn the hose at her,” splashing her in the face. Officers arrived quickly, and informed the man that he could be charged with harassment. This time, though, they simply documented the incident and let him off with a warning.
Sag Harbor
On the night of July 14, a babysitter for a Howard Street family found a stranger in the family’s pool house, where she had been staying. It turned out that the family had hired a second babysitter, and the two of them decided to share the pool house.
Later that night, police found a man asleep on some stairs near Bay Street Theater and woke him up. He seemed drunk and confused, they said, but was able to tell them he worked on a yacht. They took him to Sag Harbor Cove Yacht Club, where a co-worker picked him up.
Police received a call about a man “kicking a swan” under the Ferry Road bridge Sunday morning. When a harbormaster arrived, the man claimed to have been feeding the swan, but that when he tried to stop, it became “agitated” and attacked him, and he ran away. The harbormaster documented the “attack.”
Springs
In an apparent case of identity theft, a Springs-Fireplace Road woman called police on Saturday night to report receiving paperwork from the New York State Department of Labor about unemployment benefits being collected in her name. She had never filed for unemployment benefits, she said.