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SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — Sag Harbor Village Police are investigating a report they received Sunday of a possible burglary at a Grand Street home. The resident of the house had recently died, and his family members were cleaning it out when they discovered that a deadbolt lock on an exterior door had been damaged, apparently by someone forcing their way into the house. In addition, the woman making the report to police, the owner’s daughter, pointed out that a large oil painting by the artist Hjalmar Cappy Amundsen, which had been hanging on the wall, was missing. Amundsen’s paintings, mostly nautical in nature, usually bring at least $1,000 apiece. The woman told police that she believes that someone broke into the house after the owner’s death and stole the painting. No one other than the woman and her brother had access to the home, she told police, though an extra set of keys, which had been kept in the backyard, was also missing. Police checked the home and the surrounding area as well, hoping to find surveillance cameras that were active, which might show what had happened, but were unsuccessful in their quest.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — Village Police were called to quell a disturbance on Main Street outside a bar a little before midnight on October 20. A bartender at the bar explained that a man had been shouting obscenities at the bar, and had been asked to leave, when he threw a punch at the bartender. The bartender did not want to press charges, but wanted the man removed. The officer responding noted that the man who had been thrown out of the bar admitted he may have used racial slurs and “continued making several racial remarks during the interview,” the report reads. The man told the officer he was visiting his mother in Sag Harbor. The woman was contacted and came to pick up her son.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — The owner of a house on Harding Terrace contacted Village Police last Thursday morning to report that there was an unknown man dressed in black in the backyard. An officer went to investigate but couldn’t find the man. The owner of the property then contacted police again, explaining that it appeared that the man may have been an insurance agent who was looking at the home.
SAG HARBOR VILLAGE — Village Police received a report Sunday afternoon of an abandoned vehicle with one car door open parked on Bay Street. An officer went and examined the vehicle, finding a cell phone plugged in and charging, car keys in the cupholder, and the wallet belonging to the registered owner of the vehicle in the center console. When police tried to contact the owner, they instead spoke with his mother, “who refused to believe that the phone call was not a scam.” Police asked the woman to contact her son and tell him that his property was safe and was being held for him at police headquarters.
