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SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — Sag Harbor Village Police arrested Wendy Gonzales, 33, and charged her with misdemeanor assault early Monday morning following an altercation that occurred at Murf’s Tavern on Division Street the day before. Police said Gonzalez was in a heated dispute with another woman, whom she punched and shoved to the floor, striking the woman repeatedly about the face and body with a closed fist causing injuries, with the victim taken by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for treatment. Police initially questioned and detained Gonzalez, however, did not proceed with the arrest as the victim was highly intoxicated and unable to assist police with any statement about what had occurred. However, late Sunday morning, the victim came into headquarters on Division Street, and made a complaint about the altercation and about Gonzalez, who then was contacted by police and told that there was now a criminal complaint against her. Gonzalez soon turned herself in. She was due to be arraigned in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court on the misdemeanor charge Monday morning.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — An officer on patrol last Thursday evening came across a child walking alone near Jermain Avenue and Ackerley Street, near the elementary school, crying. When the officer approached the girl and asked if she was okay, she responded that her mother was supposed to pick her up at the school at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, but never showed up, causing her to become upset. The officer was about to escort the child to her residence when the mother showed up, explaining that she and the child were inadvertently at opposite ends of the school. The child “went home with her mother without incident,” the report concludes.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — Police received a report of a man passed out in a vehicle on Bay Street a little after midnight on Friday. An officer located the vehicle, in which a man was sleeping behind the wheel, with the engine turned off. The officer knocked on the window, waking the man up. The man explained that he was resting and not in distress. The man said that he was about to visit his family, but had been staying in his vehicle for a couple of days before making the trip. “No further action required,” the report concludes.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — A village resident came to police headquarters on November 20 to report that he had been scammed by someone posing as a representative of the computer hardware company HP. He said he bought a printer and was not happy with it. He told police he eventually made contact with someone he believed to be a tech representative of HP. The man then granted this individual access remotely to his computer. The tech support person said he was unable to fix the problem and asked if the man wanted a full refund, the village resident told police. The man said that he then provided his bank account information so that he could be issued a refund for the printer, for $349.99, but instead accidentally typed in $35,000 as opposed to the proper amount. The man claiming to be an HP representative then told the man that he needed to go to his bank and transfer the money back to a specific account. While the man went to the bank, he told police, he left the man on the phone with full access to his computer. At the bank, the man completed a wire transfer to a Wells Fargo account from his personal checking account of $34,600. The man told police that he now believes that this was a fraudulent wire transfer. He said that he’s canceled that bank account and needs documentation of the incident.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — A village resident who was recently issued a trespass warning was spotted across the road from the location where he was not supposed to enter, frightening the protected party, who called the police. The man told police that he simply was out for a walk but agreed to stay away from the protected location in the future.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — Police received a noise complaint concerning a Main Street address a little before midnight on November 18. An officer responded and reported finding that there was loud music coming from the third floor. The officer contacted the person on the third floor, who stated that he did not realize how late it was and would stop playing music. “No further action was needed,” police reported.
