Southold police got a call on Sept. 4 from a worried Edison, N.J. mom who couldn’t locate her 19-year-old son. She had found an online receipt showing he had taken an Uber from New Jersey to a Sigsbee Road address in Mattituck the previous night. When police arrived at the address, looking for the young man, all the homeowner could tell them was that her teenage granddaughter might know him — but that she was still at school.
When the granddaughter got home, she admitted to cops that the young man had snuck in through her window and stayed the night. Officers found the teen Romeo “hiding in her bedroom.” The homeowner told the young man he wasn’t welcome back, according to a police report, and cops escorted him to headquarters to await the arrival from New Jersey of his mother.
Elsewhere last week, Southold police responded to a late-night Greenport bar brawl that left an allegedly intoxicated Shelter Island Heights man in a bouncer’s headlock. They took a report from a Fishers Island homeowner who suspects a cleaning lady swiped $12,000 in jewelry — yet waited more than a month to report the theft. Southold cops also fielded complaints last week ranging from an unregistered golf cart to a puzzling report about missing $100 bills in New Suffolk and retrieved an old firearm unearthed from a Southold garden. Officers also dealt with trespassers in a cemetery, a man found snoozing in someone’s backyard and a Greenport man who allegedly decided to take a boozy dip in the harbor at a private dock at Stirling Cove.
Soon after midnight on Sept. 1, an allegedly intoxicated Shelter Island Heights man called police to report that he’d been assaulted at a waterfront restaurant and bar at the end of Main Rd. in Greenport, and that a bouncer had put him in a headlock, according to a police report, which said that cops interviewed all involved parties, including a witness. The Shelter Island man, 41, told police he had gotten into a verbal altercation with another patron at the bar that escalated into pushing and shoving. A bouncer at the establishment separated the two men, before the Shelter Island man “attempted to re-engage” the man with whom he’d been feuding. At that point, according to the report, the bouncer told police he put the Shelter Island man in a “crossface/headlock hold” and escorted him out of the bar, after he refused to leave on his own. Both men involved in the feud “appeared highly intoxicated, acknowledged they had consumed too much alcohol and left … without further incident.”
On Sept. 1, a Darien, CT woman with a home on Fishers Island reported that $12,000 in jewelry had gone missing from her summer home in July, after her cleaning lady had been to the residence to clean. The homeowner told police that on either July 18 or 19th, the woman had been to the house to clean — and that on July 20 she noticed a gold bracelet and a platinum diamond sapphire ring with a checkerboard design — each worth about $6,000 — were missing. It was unclear from the report why the homeowner waited more than a month to report the missing items, but she was advised, according to the report, that due to the delay the items may have already been pawned. She was unable to provide further information besides the cleaning lady’s name to police, who notified a Southold detective.
Around 11 a.m. on Sept. 1, a Greenport West man told police he walked past a group of men who were drinking on Front St. — who he said made a comment about his daughter in Spanish. The men were interviewed by police, and denied either drinking at the location or making a comment about the man’s daughter.
Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 1, a 70-year-old Mattituck man learned the hard way that you can’t drive an unregistered golf cart on a public roadway. Following a complaint from a neighbor, the golf cart owner was located near Sound Beach Drive and Inlet Drive in Mattituck and advised “of the requirements to register a golf cart with NY [state] and not operate same on public roadway until he does so.” The responding officer escorted the man and the golf cart to his home, according to a police report.
On Sept. 1, a New Suffolk man reported a theft that sounded more like a riddle. When the man went to sleep on his couch around 10 p.m. the night before, he had ten $100 bills in his wallet, which was in the pocket of the jeans he was wearing. But when he woke up the next morning, there were only eight $100 bills in his wallet. The man told police there was no one at the Orchard St. residence when he went to sleep, that he neither spent the money nor had guests over the previous day. “No cameras around and he has no suspects or leads,” the police report concluded.
On Sept. 2, a Laurel residence reported to police that it appears that sometime in the early morning hours, someone went through her car on Bray Ave., though she was initially unsure if anything was taken.
On Sept. 2, a 84-year-old Mattituck woman reported an incidence of identity theft. She told police she was contacted by a bank in Boston about an account that was opened in her name. While the woman told police she was not at a financial loss, she was advised to monitor her bank accounts.
On Sept. 2, a 52-year-old Laurel man called 911 and “mentioned something about a bike before hanging up.” Police responded to a Mattituck location but were unable to locate the man, who they believe had been calling about a prior incident involving his bicycle. Later that day, he called to report a “possible fight in the area” of the New Bethany Cemetery on Main Rd. in Mattituck. Responding officers arrived to find the man intoxicated and unable to describe what happened, according to a police report. The man led police into a wooded area where there were four other men, and all “appeared to be highly intoxicated.” All parties denied any altercation and there were no visible signs of injuries, police said. Four of the men appeared to be living in the wooded area, while the fifth man told police he “had come … to drink alcohol.” Police notified the president of the cemetery’s board committee, who signed a notice of trespass against the men — meaning they could face arrest if they return.
On Sept. 2, police were called to a Cox Lane in Cutchogue for a report of male subjects arguing outside of a business on that road. A 19-year-old Cutchogue man told police that a juvenile had attacked him and ripped his shirt, and provided a description of his alleged attacker. Police located a 16-year-old Cutchogue teen in a car with his girlfriend, 19, who is also his legal guardian, according to a police report. The juvenile admitted losing his temper, police said, but the victim declined to press charges.
On Sept. 3, a Soundview Ave. resident in Southold reported to police that someone had rummaged through her unlocked car and stolen a $10 roll of quarters. She requested that the incident be documented.
On Sept. 4, police received a report of a man sleeping in a backyard on 5th Ave. in Greenport. Police located the sleeping man, 32, who has no known address, and advised him that a notice of trespass had been signed against him by the homeowners, and that he could face arrest if he returns to the location. The man told police he was tired from not sleeping the past few nights, and left the area.
On Sept. 4, a Southold woman contact police to report that she’d found what appeared to be a firearm buried in her Tuckers Lane garden. Police transported the weapon, which had no serial number “due to the age of the firearm,” to police headquarters.
On Sept. 4, a security guard at Mattituck Jr./Sr. High School reported that an unknown man walked onto the tennis court during a girls tennis match “and was watching the girls.” Two coaches on hand told police the man was asked to leave, and he returned to his car and drove off. A police report identified the man, 58, as from Manhattan.
On Sept. 5, a Stirling Cove resident in Greenport reported a disturbance at a private dock there. Responding officers found a car with Colorado plates, saw clothing on the bench near the dock — and noticed a Greenport man, 50, in the water. According to a police report, the man appeared intoxicated, though he claimed he only began drinking when he arrived at the Stirling Cove location. The man was advised to take his clothes, walk home — and return to retrieve his car when he is no longer intoxicated.
On Sept. 6, George Pope, 29, of Riverhead, was arrested and charged with harassment, after a 54-year-old Greenport woman said Pope threatened her. Officers located Pope at Lakeside Garden Apartments and arrested him. A day earlier, according to police reports, officers were called to the apartment complex to respond to complaints that Pope was intoxicated at the apartment complex and wouldn’t leave.
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.
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Love has no cost — even what must have been a HUGE Uber bill