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SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — Police received a call reporting that a man wearing ripped clothing with a gun was on Main Street early morning Sunday. According to the report from Sag Harbor Village Police, almost immediately, before officers got to the scene, East Hampton Village Police dispatch contacted Sag Harbor and informed them that their department had immediate access to surveillance video of the area and that the surveillance video showed no one at the scene where the gunman was supposed to be. Two Sag Harbor officers “conducted an extensive canvass of the area, with negative results,” the police report states, concluding that the call was “swatting,” similar to what was once commonly known as “turning in a false alarm.” If the caller were to be identified by police, under New York State’s Penal Law 240.50, the caller would face arrest under a charge of falsely reporting an incident in the third degree, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. That charge would be raised to a felony if the caller had a prior conviction for the same crime, with the caller facing up to four years in state prison if convicted.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — A man came into police headquarters a little after 1 a.m. on Saturday morning, reporting that his backpack had been stolen from his car, which had been parked on Main Street since 4:30 the previous afternoon. The backpack contained an iPad, a stethoscope, a blood pressure cuff and various documents, the man told police. However, police investigating the report checked surveillance video available to them from Main Street cameras, and observed no one other than the owner of the car and backpack going to the vehicle in the time that it was parked there.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — An officer was dispatched to an Archibald Way construction site last Thursday morning. Workers on the site have begun work before 8 a.m., in violation of village code. An officer spoke with the foreman at the site, telling the foreman that such work was prohibited until 8 a.m. The foreman agreed that all work would stop until the clock struck 8.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — “Kids yelling” on Oliver Street was the complaint police received the evening of March 19. An officer went to investigate, but found no children, yelling or otherwise, the report states.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — A store on Bay Street was victimized by a man using a credit card scam on March 2. The “theft of services” was reported on March 19. The man had made three purchases in the store on March 2 totaling $1,606.82, using a credit card number he had in his phone. No physical card was run through the machine. Police are investigating.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — A pedestrian approached an officer on foot patrol on Madison Street the afternoon of March 18, reporting that there was a vehicle parked outside a home with its trunk open, and that the trunk had been open for an extended period of time without any activity. The officer went to the house and knocked on the door. The resident told the officer that he had been unpacking items from the car and had forgotten to close the trunk. “No further action taken,” the report states.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — Police received a complaint early afternoon on March 17 that there was a vehicle illegally parked on a grassy area on Grand Street. An officer went to investigate, and discovered that the vehicle was parked legally, as the grassy area was in the right of way. The officer contacted the complainant, informing them of the situation.
