Incidents: Residents Continue To Receive Alarming Phone Calls Seeking Money

The East Hampton Town police released the following reports on July 8: 

• On June 14, an East Hampton woman told police a caller, speaking Spanish, who instructed her that he had her boyfriend hostage and that she had to wire him $1,500 or he would be harmed. Her boyfriend was contacted and he is fine.  Police believe this is part of an ongoing scam that they are investigating in conjunction with other East End agencies. 

• A Montauk resident went to the Montauk precinct after she received a call on her cellphone from a man demanding money to release her kidnapped brother on July 7 at about 1 p.m. The police are investigating what they believe is a scheme to defraud.

• Police also believe the call another East Hampton woman received on July 1 is part of a scam. A caller told the woman in Spanish that her son had been in an accident that the two people in the vehicle got out and broke her son's arm and leg. He also asked for $1,500 or they would shoot him. Her son was fine and she did not wire them the money.

• A Springs man received a similar call on July 2. He told police the caller said his brother was in an accident and that there was a gun pointed at his head. To release him, $2,500 had to be sent to him. 

• While in Montauk, an East Hampton woman also received an alarming phone call on July 2, but hung up after the caller said she needed to send money to save her on. After speaking to both of her sons, she called police. 

• The same threatening type of call was received by a Montauk woman at the Snug Harbor Motel on June 29, but it was not reported until July 2. The caller asked for $1,000.

• A Wainscott man was also told that his brother was in an accident on July 3 and needed $2,500 in compensation for damages. The man went to police headquarters to file a complaint after speaking to his brother who said he was not in an accident.

• AN East Hampton woman filed a similar report on July 3.

• A blue and white soft long surfboard, worth about $400, was stolen from the Royal Atlantic Beach Resort on South Emerson Avenue in Montauk. The Prinston, NJ, woman who filed the report said she last saw the board tied to the roof of her vehicle on July 2 at 10 p.m., but it was gone the next morning by 10:30.

• A School Street resident in Springs reported her Social Security card stolen from her house on June 20, police said this week. She told police someone got in through a window by placing two concrete blocks on a small cooler. She found the window open.

• The back window on a 2006 Honda Accord was broken while it was parked in a driveway on Mulford Avenue in Montauk on June 29, sometime between 2 and 3:50 a.m. The car owner estimated about $400 in damage.

• A door handle inside a garage on Island Drive leading to the residence was broken off and missing, according to a report filed by the homeowners on June 18. Nothing appeared missing inside the residence. 

• A Montauk business was burglarized sometime between June 28 and July . According to a report, a $500 gift card to Restoration Hardware was missing from a gift box that had been wrapped with a ribbon and left inside Linda Burkhardt Kitchen & Bath on Montauk Highway.