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SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A Hill Street resident asked Southampton Village Police to make note of a “suspicious incident” on her street. The woman said that a car had stopped on the public roadway near her house, with its hazard lights flashing, for about five minutes. She told police she approached the vehicle, knocked on the window and told the driver, who she described as a Black man in his 40s, that she would call police if he did not leave. He told her he had stopped to look for his medication in the car. He left and police were not called, but the resident went to Village Police headquarters and asked that the “incident” be documented.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A Somerset Avenue resident called Village Police after a young child appeared to have opened a prescription pill bottle and put some of its contents in his mouth. The adults were able to take two pills out of the child’s mouth and found three other pills on the floor nearby. Police and ambulance personnel who responded to the house determined the pills were an antibiotic prescribed to the child’s grandmother. Medical staff evaluated the child and determined there was no medical concern.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A resident reported to police that three checks linked to one of his bank accounts that had been mailed to commercial businesses in Illinois had been tampered with to appear to be made out to private individuals in Chicago and Memphis. One of the checks was for $7,000 and two were for $5,000. All had been “washed,” and the names of the recipients were changed. None of the checks were cashed, but the man’s bank had told him to report the incident to local police.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Village Police responded to a Hill Street home where a resident had become stuck inside an elevator. Officers found the elevator suspended above the first floor. Police and firefighters from Southampton Fire Department were able to lower the elevator and free the resident without injury.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A Main Street restaurant reported to police that a woman with luggage had been lingering inside the business without purchasing anything. Police spoke to the woman, who they reported is someone known to them as passing through the area every July, always with several suitcases and is known to be “undomiciled.” Police assisted her relocating with her belongings to the picnic area behind Village Hall.
REMSENBERG — A Nidzyn Avenue resident reported to Town Police that her credit card information had been stolen and used to make more than $1,500 in purchases. She reported the incident to her card company and the account was frozen.
RIVERSIDE — A Riverhead resident reported to Town Police that he and three acquaintances had fallen asleep in his van while it was parked in the yard of a Vail Avenue residence and that when he awoke he found that four of the vehicle’s windows had been broken.
WATER MILL — Enforcement of a no-turning restriction at Diamond Court on July 18 led to four drivers being charged for driving with suspended driver’s licenses.
BRIDGEHAMPTON — A New York City man reported to Town Police that about $100 worth of groceries were stolen out of his car while it was parked on Montauk Highway downtown. The car owner had left the windows to the car open while he ran into a store and when he returned found his groceries gone.
HAMPTON BAYS — An area man was charged with harassment in the second degree and disorderly conduct, both violations, on July 18 after Town Police were called to a Montauk Highway business on a report of an unruly individual. Town Police said that when an officer asked the man to leave the business he yelled obscene language at the officer. When the officer attempted to physically escort the man off the premises, the man struck him in the chest, police said.
RIVERSIDE — A Lake Grove resident reported to Town Police that a Riverhead man he had met online and arranged a date with on July 18 had stolen his phone. The Lake Grove man told police that he had met the other man in Riverhead for their first date and that the date had been controlling the music in his car with the phone. He said the man abruptly unplugged the phone and ran away. When the suspect was identified, police went to his home in Riverhead. There the man admitted to having the phone and said it had fallen out of the car. He returned it and no charges were pressed.
WESTHAMPTON — A Manorville resident reported to Town Police that someone had made an unauthorized charge of $1,687.20 on his credit card on July 19. The person said the last time they had used the credit card was on July 12 and that they didn’t know if they had lost it or it was stolen.
HAMPTON BAYS — A Peconic Road resident reported to Town Police that she had been the victim of a scam that bilked her out of $2,250. The woman reported that she had been offered a job and given four separate checks for between $1,950 and $2,450 which she had deposited in her account. She was then asked to send her supposed new employer $2,250 for the costs of “equipment” related to her new position. The person said it was only after she’d sent the money that she discovered the other four checks had all bounced.
SOUTHAMPTON — A Scotts Landing resident reported on July 20 that six “political flags” he had hanging on a fence in front of his house were missing and three more were ripped in what appeared to be an attempt to remove them.
REMSENBURG — An Emmas Path resident reported that the tires of their car had been slashed during the overnight hours of July 21.
