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Amagansett

An “elderly gentleman” walked into D’Canela restaurant on the afternoon of Nov. 21 brandishing a $10 gift certificate he had purchased from restaurant.com. He told the owner and manager, Luis Aucapina, that he wanted to use the certificate toward a takeout order. Mr. Aucapina explained that the restaurant’s policy was to honor such certificates for customers seated at the restaurant, not for takeout. This apparently upset the man, who left after arguing the point with Mr. Aucapina. A couple of hours later, he called numerous times, yelling and cursing.

East Hampton Village police, responding Sunday morning to a call reporting a woman slumped over the steering wheel of a 2010 Toyota Prius, engine running, ended up arresting Phyllis Dewitt Chase, 58, of East Hampton, on charges of driving while intoxicated.

According to the police log, an officer had to rap three times on the driver’s side window to awaken Ms. Chase, whose car was parked at the train station.

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An East Hampton High School student was in class on Nov. 12, he told police, when he received a phone call from a man who said his sister had been in an accident. Police contacted the sister, who was fine, and told the boy that the phone calls were part of a scam, and that several such incidents had been reported recently. The same man left similar messages on the family’s land line, according to the log.

Another student at the high school told police that on Nov.

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An East Hampton man who has spent much of his time recently in and out of custody is back behind bars this week.

A former bookkeeper and teacher’s aid at the Rainbow Preschool in Bridgehampton was charged with stealing more than $35,000 from the school. Lauren E. Comber, 30, of Sag Harbor turned herself in to Southampton Town police on Nov. 10.

East Hampton Town police made three arrests over the weekend on misdemeanor drunken-driving charges, all in Montauk.

On the day before Election Day, a Springs woman was caught on video hurrying off with a neighbor’s campaign signs. Elizabeth M. Ruth, 73, was an unlikely arrestee. The signs’ owner, Lynne Scanlon, told East Hampton Town police that she had put up several anti-rental registry signs, all of which had been stolen. She decided to fight back.

On Friday, for the second straight week, a driver ran into a vehicle driven by an off-duty law enforcement officer and then fled.

What's on the police logs.

What's on the police logs this week.

State troopers and officers of the county sheriff’s department who manned a Halloween-night sobriety checkpoint on Sunrise Highway reported the arrest of a Springs man on a charge of misdemeanor drunken driving.

Two people who rented houses in Montauk for the summer and then sold shares in them in violation of the East Hampton Town Code were slapped with substantial fines in zoning court last week.

Kimberly Giese of New York City, 46, was accused of selling three-day-weekend shares in a house at 16 Gates Avenue, through Craigslist and Airbnb. She was charged after a code enforcement officer posing as a prospective renter responded to the Craigslist ad in April, saying she was 35, worked in the financial industry, and was interested in several weekend shares.

Ms.

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A Whaler’s Lane homeowner, Alex von Hoffman, told police on Friday that at some point since early September, when her last tenant left the house, someone had entered the premises, apparently with a key, and taken a Sharp flat-screen TV set. The story had a happy ending, however, when it was learned that the set was not stolen, but had been placed in storage by the property’s caretaker.

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Police were called to Stratton Square Saturday morning, where two men were fighting in the street.

Two local men, neither of whom is a stranger to local police, are facing felony charges after being accused last week of driving while intoxicated.

Juan D. Cano, 20, currently living in Montauk, was driving a 2015 Nissan when he was pulled over by East Hampton Town police just before midnight last Thursday. Police said he was speeding on Springs-Fireplace Road in Springs before turning onto School Street, where the stop was made. Placed under arrest on a misdemeanor D.W.I.

Two local men charged with felonies pleaded guilty recently in county court in Riverside.

Kody J. Knudsen of Springs, 26, was arrested on July 21 after crashing a 2009 Mercedes-Benz into a utility pole on the Napeague stretch. He was also charged at the time with felony weapons possession, but the grand jury that indicted him dropped that charge.

On Tuesday, he admitted to driving while intoxicated and under the influence of drugs.

East Hampton

The Amagansett Hospitality Group, which is on Spring Close Highway in East Hampton, off the road and down a dirt path, was entered early on the morning of Oct. 10 and two Polaris Quad off-road vehicles, each valued at $5,000, plus a Redmax backpack leaf-blower valued at $750 and a yellow Stihl chainsaw worth $700, were stolen. Ryan Smith told police he will provide the serial numbers of the missing items.

A white Apple iPhone 6 was stolen from the locker of a 14-year-old East Hampton High School student on Oct. 8.

East Hampton Town police made four arrests this past week on drunken-driving charges, two of which, though still misdemeanors, were at an elevated level.

The first was that of Pia G. Bazzani, 33, early last Thursday morning. Ms. Bazzani’s 2010 Toyota was pulled over on Three Mile Harbor Road near Boat Yard Drive in East Hampton; police said she had been speeding and swerving across lane lines.

The Bridgehampton Fire District is asking the public to approve a $1 million bond proposal with a vote to be held on Tuesday, but the district has come under criticism for what some people are saying is a lack of public input and transparency on the process.

Two Montauk brothers were arrested on drug charges late last month after police reported finding them with a large number of restricted medications.

According to East Hampton Town police, Rogelio Crespo-Agron, who is 30, had 17 oxycodone hydrochloride pills and 43 alprazolam pills in a Panadol bottle that was found in his sweatshirt pocket. Elliott Enrique Crespo-Agron, 27, allegedly had 39 oxycodone pills in a Zantac bottle and broken alprazolam pills in an Advil container.

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Two tires on a Honda parked in a driveway on Osprey Lane were flat on Monday morning. Robert Conti called police at about 9:45 a.m. when he noticed the tires had been punctured. Police couldn’t find any other cars in the area with similar damage. Mr. Conti estimated it would cost about $400 to buy new tires.

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On Oct. 5 a 17-year-old East Hampton High School student told a school officer, Kim Notel, that she had lost $600 in cash.

The Suffolk County District Attorney’s task force to combat drunken driving was in East Hampton over Columbus Day weekend, resulting in seven arrests.

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An Amagansett man was charged with aggravated drunken driving last Thursday night after crashing his 2000 Nissan into a wall off Accabonac Road.Elfido Lopez-Mendez was headed south on Collins Avenue, just inside East Hampton Town police jurisdiction, when his car drifted across the double yellow line as he turned left onto Accabonac. After making the turn, he swerved off the road, across a grassy shoulder, and into and onto a slate wall in front of a residence.

A filmmaker whose documentary “The Uncondemned” is to be shown at the Hamptons International Film Festival was killed in a one-car crash early last Thursday morning. Nicholas J. Louvel, 34, was traveling north on Route 114 when his vehicle crossed into the southbound lane, left the road, and struck several trees.

Mr. Louvel, who lived in New York City and Wainscott, was pronounced dead at Stony Brook University Hospital.

The Coast Guard on Friday came to the aid of a man who was experiencing chest pains and numbness and tingling in his left arm while aboard a cable-laying vessel off the coast of Montauk.

Shortly before 9 a.m., according to a Coast Guard statement, watchstanders with the Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound command center received notification from the vessel, called the Decisive, that a man was in need of medical assistance.

East Hampton

Terry Wallace of the Wallace Gallery received a call from police early on Sept. 21, after they discovered a shattered window on his shop, which is on an alley between Main Street and the Reutershan parking lot. The gallery features classic American artwork, as well as works by local artists. Mr. Wallace checked and reported nothing missing.

Police were called to the area near the jetty at Georgica Beach last Thursday afternoon due to a complaint about vehicles on the beach. Police arrived as several surfers were leaving in four-by-four vehicles.

A local tennis pro was arrested on a misdemeanor drunken driving charge Tuesday morning for the fourth time in the past three years. Two of the prior cases are pending in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court.

Kiril P. Tcherveniachki, whose LinkedIn page describes him as the director of tennis with Annacone Tennis Management, was first arrested in East Hampton during a sweep in 2012. His lawyer, Edward Burke Jr., negotiated a reduced charge for him at the violation level.

On April 22, 2014, Sag Harbor police allegedly found Mr.

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Andrew Sabin of Bluff Road called police last Thursday to complain that he had received an anonymous letter with a copy of an article about him that appeared in The New York Post on Aug. 30, featuring the anti-Hillary Clinton signs that he had reported stolen from his front lawn. Mr. Sabin told police he wanted the anonymous-letter incident documented.

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Joseph Martin, a Queens Lane resident, told police that at some point on Sept.

A man who was a resident of Phoenix House, the drug treatment center on Industrial Road in East Hampton, was arrested after allegedly breaking into the East Hampton Town police car impound yard.