Police Log: Apple Watch Theft, Phone Scam, Controlled Substance Arrest

Tuesday, Feb. 9

At 10:42 a.m., police received information regarding a phone scam where a Hilton Avenue resident received a call from the US Treasury Department agent Dennis Grey who told the woman she owed the department money. The report was made for informational purposes.

At 8:22 p.m., a 51-year-old Kings Park man was arrested on Fort Salonga Road after officers stopped him for talking on a cell phone, having tinted windows and making an illegal U-turn. He was additionally charged with multiple counts of seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Wednesday, Feb. 10

At 11:05 a.m., police observed a 2004 Dodge Dakota with an expired inspection sticker at the intersection of Fort Salonga Road and Laurel Avenue. A DMV check also revealed the registered owner of the vehicle, who was sitting in the passenger’s seat, had a suspended license. Officers confiscated his driver’s license and forwarded it to the New York State DMV’s Driver Improvement Bureau.

At 1:03 p.m., a woman came into police headquarters to report petty larceny of her brand new Apple Watch from her place of employment. The woman told police she kept the watch in a storage room at her job, a local real estate company, and suspects a certain person of entering the storage room and stealing the watch on Jan. 24. She told police there is now a Craigslist ad for a watch similar to her’s and the person selling the watch appears to live in the Greenlawn area, which is where the suspected thief lives. The case was forwarded to a detective.

Saturday, Feb. 13

At 8:05 a.m., police received a report of a suspicious event that occurred at TD Bank’s ATM vestibule on Main Street. A man told police someone kept asking him about the ATM machine and about his transaction while he was withdrawing money from the vestibule.

Sunday, Feb. 14

At 4:59 p.m., police received a report of property damage in which an unknown person smashed a vehicle’s front driver’s side window on Norwood Avenue.