Crime & Safety

Police: Sag Harbor Man Arrested For Burglarizing East Hampton Home

The incident occurred earlier last week.

A Sag Harbor man was arrested last Monday afternoon for breaking into a home and taking items from an East Hampton home twice, according to East Hampton Village Police.

Police responded to a call of trespassing and burglary at a Huntting Lane home at about 3 p.m. last Monday, March 9.

The homeowner told police she saw, through the surveillance camera, an unknown man enter her home and take a gift card from the kitchen table, police said.

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An investigation identified Raymond Card, 64, as the man in the surveillance video, according to police.

An officer then saw Card traveling westbound on Railroad Avenue and conducted a traffic stop to speak to him, then transported him back to headquarters to be interviewed, police said.

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Card admitted to taking a $100 gift card at 11 a.m. that morning and to previously entering the home back in January and taking a $50 bill on the kitchen counter, according to police.

He was charged with two counts of second degree burglary and fifth degree criminal possession of stolen property, according to police.

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