It was another week of North Fork police calls that ranged from the bizarre to the downright baffling: a man soliciting money at a funeral, a pair of hunters who couldn’t agree on whose woods they were in, a mysterious bucket-hatted stranger looking for a ride to a party and a complaint about apple-throwing youths at a state park. In Greenport, someone took aim again at Flock cameras with tape and possibly wire cutters, while an intoxicated man kept officers busy with three separate calls in one afternoon — beginning with a threat to urinate in front of a cop and ending with a missing cellphone tantrum at a local hospital. Police responded to 48 incidents last week. Here are some of the highlights.

Oct. 12 – Around 5 p.m., police were called to a Main Road funeral home in Mattituck, following a report of a man asking people for money. Responding officers spoke with a 65-year-old man with no known address and advised him not to ask people for money during a funeral service. The 65-year-old man told police he was “already leaving” the area, and left without incident.

Around 6:45 p.m., a woman who runs a food pantry in the Adams St. parking lots in Greenport told police she believed that a local man who has been known to panhandle on Front St. appeared to have followed her home. Responding officers canvassed the area in search of the man without success, according to a police report.

Around 8:45 p.m., police received a report of a black SUV failing to maintain its lane near Main Bayview Road and Cedar Dr. in Southold. Responding officers also observed the vehicle failing to maintain its lane, according to a police report, and initiated a traffic stop. The driver, Brian Flanagan, 58, of Huntington, peformed poorly on field sobriety tests, according to police, and was arrested for alleged driving while intoxicated.

Around 11:30 p.m., police were called to Beebe Drive in Cutchogue, for a report of an individual in a dark SUV “honking and ringing the doorbell.” Responding officers spoke with a 57-year-old Bronx man who said he was a home health care aide, looking for a Fawn Lane address that turned out to be in Centereach.

Oct. 13 – Around 8 a.m., police were called to Moores Woods in Greenport, for a report of two individuals hunting without permits in the village woods. Two hunters who do have permits to hunt in Moores Woods confronted the permitless hunters, and then appear to have contacted village officials. The permitless hunters were gone when police arrived, but in a subsequent phone call, a West Islip man told police he and his son believed they were on Southold Town property, where their DEC permits allow them to hunt.  

Around 12:30 p.m., police were called to Front St. in Greenport for a report of a local man, well-known to police, possibly being intoxicated. Police spoke with the man, who agreed to leave the area without incident.

Around 2 p.m., police were called to the parking lot of Hallock State Park Preserve, after a man identified only as Raymond called Southampton Police to complain about youths throwing apples at the location. Southampton Police relayed the complaint to their Southold counterparts. Responding officers spoke with a manager at the preserve, who told them that not only were there no youths throwing things in the area, but there aren’t even any apples.

Around 8 p.m., police received a report of “an unknown subject wearing a bucket hat and coat and potentially soliciting neighbors” on Gillette Dr. in East Marion. Police canvassed the area and made contact with a local man, who denied soliciting anything. He said he knocked on a door of a resident in the area “in order to ask to use a cell phone to call his friend ‘Russ’ who was supposed to pick hi8m up to go to a party in Greenport Village that night.”

Around 9 p.m., a patrol officer noticed that a Flock camera the corner of Front St. and Moores Lane had been “tampered with.” The following day, an officer observed that someone had put tape over the lens of the Flock camera and left a message on a cardboard sign, which wasn’t detailed in the report, near the camera. A detective was notified. Around 9 a.m. the following morning, police noticed that the wires appear to have been cut on a Flock camera at the corner of Main St. and Knapp Place.

Oct. 14 – Around midnight, a Southold parent and teenager told police that the teenager had been communicating with an unknown subject on Tik Tok, and sent explicit photos to that person, who then threatened to post the pictures unless they received $500. The teen had previously sent a code for a $30 gift card to the individual, and the person was demanding more money, according to a police report. The teen blocked the individual on Tik Tok and a detective was notified.

Around 1 p.m., police were called to Front St. in Greenport for a report of four “intoxicated individuals” — all of them well-known to police — when one of the men appeared to be unconscious, according to a police report. Police found a 62-year-old man, “highly intoxicated” and “partially clothed.” Paramedics were sent to the location due to the level of the intoxication, the report said, and the man was transported to a local hospital.

Around 11 p.m., police received a report of a vehicle failing to maintain its lane, headed eastbound on Main Road near Depot Lane. Responding officers located the vehicle parked, with the ignition off, at a location on Depot Lane. The driver, a 70-year-old Cutchogue woman, told police she was “waiting for her daughter to come home so she could park her vehicle in the driveway without getting blocked in.”

Also around 11 p.m., a patrol officer observed a vehicle driven by a 24-year-old Greenport man “make a northbound turn at the intersection of Front St. and Main St. and travel in the opposite lane,” before initiating a traffic stop, according to a report. The vehicle had a “paper license plate,” the report said, and it turned out to be unregistered and uninsured. The driver was issued multiple traffic tickets and the car was towed away.

Oct. 15 – Around 10:30 a.m., a Nassau Point Road resident reported a 13-foot boat washed up on the beach. Police contacted the owner, who said she would retrieve the boat by the weekend.

Around 11 a.m., police were called to South St. in Greenport for a report of a male possibly having a medical episode. In fact, it was an intoxicated 29-year-old Riverhead man, who refused medical attention – and “repeatedly stated his is going to urinate in front of [the responding officer],” according to a police report. He “was taken to the restrooms at Mitchell Park. Three hours later, at 2 p.m., police were again called to the same address on South St. for “reports of a male urinating.” Police canvassed the area but did not locate anyone matching the description. Two hours after that, around 4 p.m., police were called to a hospital in Greenport for a report of a disturbance. There, they found the same man who had been so intoxicated that morning he threatened to urinate in front of a cop. The individual was “argumentative and irate” about losing his cell phone, according to the third police report on the Riverhead man in a single day.

Around 2:30 p.m., a patrol officer observed a vehicle traveling in the area of Elijahs Lane and Main Road in Cutchogue, with a suspended registration – and initiated the traffic stop. A 28-year-old Southold man, who said he was on the way to work in Mattituck, was driving a vehicle similar to one associated with a recent larceny. The driver appeared to acknowledged being in the area where the larceny took place, according to a police report, but said he was there “looking for wireless headphones he had lost while riding his bike earlier.” He denied any involvement in the larceny.

Oct. 16 – Around 7 p.m., a patrol officer on Main Road in Greenport West observed a vehicle crossing over the double yellow lines in the middle of the road and initiated a traffic stop. The officer “observed multiple cans of Modelo [beer] inside the vehicle and could smell the odor of an alcoholic beverage” on the driver’s breath, according to a police report, which said the driver was unsteady on his feet, had glassy eyes and performed poorly on standardized field sobriety tests. Kevin Guzhnay Yanzanguano, 27, of Southold was arrested for alleged driving while intoxicated.

Oct. 18 –  Around 2 p.m., a patrol officer observed a vehicle run a red light at the intersection of Route 48 and Westphalia Ave. in Mattituck, after which the driver “exit[ed] the vehicle and urinated” on Westphalia Ave, according to a police report. The driver, who possessed a NY state learner’s permit “had bloodshot eyes and was unsteady on his feet,” the report said. After allegedly performing poorly on field sobriety tests, which were administered through a Language Line translator, Paul Peralta-Bravo, 40, of Middletown was arrested for alleged driving while intoxicated.

All individuals named in police reports are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. Charges may be reduced, dismissed or result in an acquittal.