Headstone Desecrated in East Quogue Cemetery

Southampton Town police reported the following incidents on Nov. 25.

Hampton Bays

• Police responded to a parking lot on Montauk Highway West after a Laurel woman said she was robbed of $10 in cash on Nov. 19 at about 4:30 p.m. She said she stopped to open her wallet when a man forcibly grabbed the cash out of her hand and ran away. The alleged victim was completely uncooperative, police said. She told police she didn’t want to pursue the incident.   

• A Ponquogue Avenue homeowner said a man who he rents a room to punched him in the face for no reason on Nov. 10. He called police at about 1:10 p.m., but did not wish to press charges.

East Quogue

• A woman reported her husband’s headstone was spay painted sometime between Nov. 12 and 15. Whoever spray painted it could be charged with cemetery desecration, a misdemeanor.

• The front window of a Montauk Highway house was broken and a real estate sign was found in the bushes next to the window when the damage was discovered on Nov. 18.  No word on the cost of repairs.

Westhampton

• On Nov. 20, a Southold woman reported multiple items missing from the hanger she leases. Two stainless tool boxes, a work table, six aircraft headsets, a life raft, and four sail boat instruments were reported missing. She said she hasn’t been in her hanger for at least 18 months and is currently involved in a legal dispute over the hanger and its contents.

• The top from a Diamond Plate toolbox, which was locked in the bed of a truck parked on Cooke Street, was removed and hundreds of dollars worth of tools were stolen from inside the box. A Bosch air compressor, worth $300, a Senco 15-gauge trim gun, worth $350, a Bosch framing gun, worth $189, a DeWalt screw gun kit, worth $230, and two 100-foot extension chords, worth $100, were reported missing on Nov. 21 at about 1:30 p.m. The theft occurred the day before.

• Three televisions and a cellular service booster were stolen from a house on Bay Meadow Lane sometime between Oct. 14 and Nov. 11. The televisions were worth between $649 and $1,000. Police said a front window was pryed open on the house.  Numerus household items, like placemats and decorations, were found piled in a basket and left by a rear sliding glass door that was found open when the homeowners discovered the burglary.

• Condenser oil and copper tubing from within an air conditioning unit was stolen from a unit on a house on North Quarter Road on Nov. 17. 

Remsenburg

• A green copper driveway lamp was stolen from the end of a driveway on Basket Neck Lane on Nov. 15.  It was worth about $60.

Riverside

• The bathroom window in a vacant Vail Avenue house was broken with a piece of concrete between Nov. 10 and 15.  There was no other damage inside the house. 

Flanders

• On Nov. 14, a student at Suffolk County Community College on Speonk-Riverhead Road reported her Apple MacBook Pro stolen from the study lounge in the Orient building. She filed a police report five days later. The computer was valued at about $500. 

• A resident on Oak Avenue called police on Nov. 18 at about 5 p.m. when a woman came to his door asking for help and then another woman tried to get into his house a few minutes later. The latter was yelling, “Tell her to come out” and then tried to kick in his door, damaging it. The women had fled already when police arrived.