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SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — Village Police arrested Javaun H. Thomas, 30, of Manorville the night of November 3 on multiple vehicle-related charges, including a misdemeanor charge of criminal possession of a forged instrument, namely a license plate. Police said that Thomas was driving a 2008 Dodge suburban on Jermaine Avenue and that the car had a license plate on its rear that had been switched from another vehicle. In addition, the license plate on the front of the car was actually a manufactured one, not state-issued, the police said, leading to the forged instrument charge. Police had pulled Thomas over on Jermain because, they said, he was speeding, moving at 35 mph in a 20-mph zone.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — A William Street resident complained to police last Thursday afternoon that construction workers on a neighboring property had removed her boxwood plant from her property. The woman told police that the construction crew had removed the tree because they were excavating nearby, searching for wires. The woman said she had not been notified of their plans to remove the tree, and that it was done without her permission. She told police that she took it upon herself to find where the boxwood was, and that she located it across the street at the construction site. The officer who interviewed the woman then went across the street, found the boxwood and brought it back to the woman’s property. The officer took pictures to document the situation and tried to reach the contractor handling the construction job but was unsuccessful. The report concludes by saying that the officer investigating the matter is going to follow up with the contractor.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — The owners of a West Water Street residence contacted police last Thursday evening after they were contacted by their housekeeper, who had told them of a suspicious man who had come to the property. Police reached out to the housekeeper, who said that while she was cleaning out the garage she had opened the garage door only to find a man approaching her. The housekeeper gave police a description of the man and said that he had walked up to the entrance of the garage and started to talk to her, but that she could not understand him because “he spoke English with difficulty.” At that point, the housekeeper told police, she asked the man to leave, and when he didn’t, she called the homeowners and handed the phone to the stranger who was now looking around the garage. After the stranger gave the housekeeper the phone back, he walked out of the garage but then returned a second time. The owners told police that they were concerned because while on the phone, the visitor had asked “if the owners were Jewish and if they were currently in town.” Police examined video surveillance footage, provided by the homeowners and noticed that the male subject in question could be seen in the video reading the New York State license plates of the vehicles parked on the property. The following day police spotted the man walking on Division Street passing police headquarters and stopped him for questioning. The man said that he was searching for the Center for Jewish Life and had mistakenly entered the garage on the property, believing it to be the center, which is nearby. The man explained that he was using Google Maps at the time which appeared to identify the garage as part of the center. The man was warned by police not to return to the property he had visited the day before and that he could face trespass charges if he did.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — A child’s gray push scooter that was left outside an apartment in a building on Main Street was reported stolen last Friday. The theft occurred at some point between noon and 4 p.m.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — On Saturday night, police received a noise complaint about people yelling in the area of Cornell and Dartmouth roads. An officer sent to investigate found a group of children outside a Dartmouth Road residence. The officer spoke with the parent and advised him of the noise complaint. The parent agreed to tell the children to lower their voices. Quiet was restored.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — Police received a noise complaint Saturday morning regarding a property on Lighthouse Lane. The officer sent to investigate found landscaping was going on and spoke to an employee of the landscaping company who agreed to stop work immediately after being informed by the officer that such work on weekends is in violation of village code. No further action was taken, the report concludes.
