Crime & Safety

Incident Reports: Employee Uses Business Account to Pay Personal Bills

Also this week, three homeowners reported burglaries to police.

Editor's Note: The following was posted by Erica Jackson and written by written by Brendan O'Reilly. 

Crimes and suspicious incidents recently reported to the Southampton Town Police Department. 

Burglary

•  The owner of a Montauk Highway business that is currently under renovation in East Quogue told police April 18 that sometime overnight someone took copper piping by prying open a backdoor to the kitchen and entering the basement.

• A Dix Hills man told police April 20 that sometime since April 14 someone entered the garage of his house in East Quogue and took a $2,500 Yamaha blaster quad, a $2,800 power washer and a $400 Home Depot Honda power washer. No signs of forced entry could be found.

• The owner of a house in Flanders on East Street told police April 18 that he discovered the garage door was pried open and two sets of chrome rims, a clawfoot bathtub and five Chevy engines were taken. The house has been up for sale for a year, the report states. A neighbor told police that the same afternoon he had driven by the house and saw a green landscaping truck, a white van and a sedan parked there.

Larceny

• A Riverside woman’s live-in caretaker has been removing money from the woman’s bank account, according to a friend of the victim who came to police headquarters in Hampton Bays April 19 to report it. Approximately $2,000 has been taken, according to the incident report. The victim reportedly has Alzheimer's.

Identity Theft in the First Degree

• The owner of Sunday’s restaurant on Dune Road in Hampton Bays told police April 16 that her former employee, who worked for her in July 2012, has been using her business account to pay personal bills.  Since February 2013, the account has been used periodically, totally $4,013 in charges. Police detectives are following up.


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