On the Police Logs 08.17.23

Amagansett

Arielle Hessler, the director of the Amagansett Library, called the police around noon on Aug. 8 to report trespassing. A Hampton Bays man who’d been told to stay away from the library “due to his unwanted behavior inside” had shown up, though when questioned by police, he denied being there. He was told he’d be arrested if he ever came back.

A homeowner on a private road called police on Aug. 9 after discovering a kite on his property that did not belong to him, but called back not long after, to say the kite’s owner had come to claim it.

Someone found a used hypodermic needle on the beach near the dunes off Navajo Lane on Saturday afternoon. An officer picked it up for appropriate disposal.

Last Thursday afternoon, Andrea Locascio left her laundry drying in two machines at the East Hampton Laundry only to find half of it gone upon her return a short time later. An employee of the laundromat said a man was seen emptying dryer No. 5 into a basket, leaving with it, and getting into a car. The man, both the witness and Ms. Locascio told police, has been seen around town previously, including at the St. Michael’s senior housing complex across the street. The employee was told to call the police should he return to the laundromat.

East Hampton

An anonymous report led police to a trash trove of beer bottles and cans on Red Dirt Road on the evening of Aug. 7. Highway Department workers were called in for cleanup.

East Hampton Village

A Lily Pond Lane homeowner lodged a civil complaint on Aug. 8 against a contractor “who had not been removing his shoes as he’d been instructed to do.” The contractor agreed to abide by her rules in future.

A manager at Stop and Shop reported two customers arguing over the price of watermelon on Friday afternoon and asked that police intervene. The two left the supermarket before officers arrived.

Montauk

In case someone’s looking for his or her blue 1996 Subaru Impreza, last seen in the parking lot of the Montauk Marine Basin a week ago, it has likely been towed away by police. It was called in as an abandoned vehicle last Thursday.

Someone called Sunday afternoon to report a suspicious person sitting on a bench “for the past few hours”

in front of the Montauk Mainstay shop. Police interviewed the man, who lives in Hempstead and told them he’d been waiting on a ride. They left him there to wait, noting that the bench was on public property and he hadn’t been causing any trouble.

Is digging a hole on the beach now considered suspicious activity? A Montauk woman walked into the police substation on the afternoon of Aug. 1 to report seeing a man “wearing khakis, a white collared shirt, and a ball cap” digging a hole and “possibly trying to bury something” on the beach off Pocahontas Road. An officer responded but reported nothing amiss.

Chris Gosman reported the theft of 15 bottles of liquor and a bar blender from the top-deck bar at Gosman’s Dock sometime between 9 p.m. on Aug. 4 and noon the next day. The bottles had been locked in a cabinet, and the cabinet handle had been removed, apparently to gain access, he told police. The incident is still under investigation as a case of burglary, trespassing, and petty larceny.

Sag Harbor

Thierry Balihuta, manager of the Sag Harbor Cinema, kicked several people out of the theater on the evening of Aug. 8 for sneaking in without paying.

A 16-year-old girl was reunited with her blue-and-white Bliss bicycle last Thursday afternoon at police headquarters. Officers had impounded it a couple of weeks before, thinking it had been abandoned at Havens Beach.

A group of teens was seen messing around on the roof of the new building being built at 31 Long Island Avenue just before 2 a.m. on Saturday. An officer told them they’d be arrested for trespassing if they returned.

After a private valet-parking service coned off an area of Glover Street during an event on Saturday evening, police showed up to say the cones would have to be removed, as the village “did not give him permission to do so on a public roadway.”

Wainscott

A large pine tree fell across the railroad tracks parallel to Industrial Road about 100 yards east of the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons adoption center on the afternoon of Aug. 8. The Long Island Rail Road was notified.

In the property room of police headquarters on Aug. 9, “in accordance with department guidelines,” a report stated, East Hampton Town Police Sergeant Wayne Mata destroyed multiple license plates that had either been seized by officers or found and never picked up.