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SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A faulty exhaust fan on Pelletreau Street was bothering a neighbor, who called Village Police on the morning of March 4 to complain about it. Police were reaching out to the homeowner.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A wooden post that closes off the back entrance to Moses Park on Prospect Street was broken and dragged down Prospect Street, reported Village Police on the morning of March 4.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A man in jeans and a gray sweatshirt was reportedly yelling at people at the Long Island Rail Road station on the afternoon of March 4. Village Police responded to the scene, but the train station and platform were vacant by the time they arrived.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Village Police were called out to Halsey Avenue on the evening of March 4 following a complaint that “suspicious persons” were knocking on doors in the area. One of the door-knockers told police that she was in the area because earlier in the day, her Apple Watch had been stolen in Riverhead and she had tracked it to the residence. The homeowner told police that she hadn’t been to Riverhead and had no idea what she was talking about. The location of the watch then changed to the intersection of Main and Nugent streets, but the watch wasn’t there, either.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Even after she canceled her debit card, a woman told Village Police on March 5 that someone was making unauthorized withdrawals from her Capital One account. The charges were all reimbursed but the woman was encouraged to go to the bank to sort it out.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Village Police were called to assist Southampton Town Police in locating a missing suicidal person just after midnight on March 6. The person’s cellphone was pinging on Captains Neck Lane but following a canvas of the area, police said they could not locate the person. They ran the vehicle’s registration and determined that the person had returned to the town’s jurisdiction based after a State Trooper had spotted the vehicle on Old Fish Cove Road and reported it.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — One of the owners of Windward Construction Management Corp. told Village Police on March 6 that a former employee who had a company MacBook had returned the computer but had wiped it of its contents, which included client information and job-site information for pending projects. The former employee said he had the files and would return them when the company paid him for work he said was owed him. Police told the co-owner that it was a civil matter.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — An inground pool at a Bellows Lane construction site didn’t have the required fencing around it. Village Police told the homeowner to secure the pool by the end of the day, March 7.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — An Elm Street woman told Village Police on March 7 that the workers at a neighboring construction site were defecating in the backyard near her fence, creating a foul aroma. Police determined that the foul aroma she complained about was actually coming from a cesspool that the workers were moving.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — The Phillips Family Cancer Center on County Road 39A reported receiving numerous calls from a person who asked “several alarming questions” about the building, including whether there were surveillance cameras on site. The director of the facility eventually had a conversation with the man, and told Village Police on March 8 that she was unable to determine the reason why he had called the facility 24 times from a blocked number, and that the facility’s IT department was working to obtain the phone number.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Following a March 8 motor-vehicle accident on County Road 39A at Flying Point Road, Village Police said the operator of a motorcycle involved in the accident had fled on foot. Police recovered the motorcycle’s registration, a glove, and a helmet but after pursuing the man with the assistance of a K9 unit, the trail went cold near the wooded area south of Buzz Chew.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A welfare check on Jobs Lane yielded an intoxicated young man in a parked car that was not running on the evening of March 8. Police turned the man over to his mother.
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Village Police noticed a car was parked in the southwest corner of the Coopers Beach parking lot just after midnight on March 9, “tucked away behind the lifeguard stands and storage boxes.” Following an investigation, they determined that a man and his girlfriend were “making out” in the car. The alleged lovebirds then left the area.
WESTHAMPTON BEACH — The Westhampton Beach Police Department is trying to locate the person or persons who made off with $1,500 worth of DeWalt hand tools that were reportedly stolen on March 2 from a Dune Road business. Police report that the tools were stolen from a trailer whose locks had been cut, and that the thief faces grand larceny charges if found.
WESTHAMPTON BEACH — Following a string of local larcenies involving work trucks that had been broken into and their tools stolen, Westhampton Beach Village Police met with detectives from the Village of Quogue and Southampton Town Police on March 6 and during the meeting were informed that a trailer parked at 207 Dune Road had been broken into but nothing had been removed, on March 2. Video surveillance showed two men in a Nissan driving up to the work site. A criminal mischief affidavit was filed by the owner of the construction company whose trailer locks had been cut.
QUOGUE VILLAGE — A trio of larcenies was reported to Quogue Village Police on March 4 at an active residential job site on Dune Road. Tools were removed from a locked trailer via forced entry and valued at $6,150 dollars. Two other work vans at the site were also broken into, with thieves making off with $680 worth of tools from one and $400 from the other. If the suspect or suspect is located, said police, he or she will face a top charge of grand larceny in the third degree, a felony, and two charges of petit larceny, a misdemeanor.
BRIDGEHAMPTON — An outbreak of graffiti was reported to Town Police on the afternoon of March 5 after a Southampton Town Parks Department employee passed along information that someone had spray-painted the parking attendant booth at Scott Cameron Beach on Dune Road. The booth will be repainted.
HAMPTON BAYS — A woman parked her 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee on Montauk Highway while she attended church services on March 10. When she returned to her car and went to go to a local deli to grab some food, she realized that $570 was missing from her wallet. She told Town Police that she believed she left her doors unlocked.
HAMPTON BAYS — A dispute over a bar tab at Guava Tropical on Montauk Highway led to a fight at 2 a.m. on March 8 and the expulsion of one of the two people involved in the fight, which amounted to one person pulling another’s hair. Town Police took a statement and provided information to the person who was ejected from the bar on how to conduct a civilian arrest. No arrests were made.
HAMPTON BAYS — Two undomiciled men were at a Montauk Highway beverage center on the evening of March 8, when a manager there told Town Police he wanted to file a notice of trespass against the men, who were lingering near the store’s bottle exchange and redemption area. One was charged with simple trespass while the other man was served a notice of trespass.