Police Report: Larceny Hits the North Fork

Larceny reports this week include several missing street signs and $800 worth of scrap metal.

Street Signs Gone Missing:

• A 71-year-old Greenport woman reported to on July 28 that someone stole street signs worth $500 together that represented her business from a location on Bay Avenue sometime between July 26 and July 28, police said. The woman said that the signs had been removed from a street pole where other advertisements are located and that she does not have any problems with any other businesses in the area.
• In a related earlier incident, a 53-year-old Mattituck woman reported to police on July 24 that someone stole a wooden street sign from the corner of Manhanset Avenue and Champlin Place in Greenport that represented her business, police said. The woman said that the sign had been smashed off and taken and that other signs in the vicinity had been turned to face opposite directions.
• A 64-year-old Southold woman who is a representative for the Arshamomaque Colony Association reported to police on July 26 that someone had stolen the $300 sign for Ruch Lane located at the intersection of Ruch Lane and Route 48 in Southold, police said. She said the incident occurred sometime between July 24 and July 26.

Radios and Scrap Metal Reported Stolen:

• A 44-year-old Mattituck man reported to police on July 27 that someone stole $800 worth of scrap metal from his Laurel bicycle business on Route 25 on July 26, police said. The man said that an unknown person removed four Ford aluminum centerline 8-holed rims and well over 100 pounds of copper.
• A 48-year-old East Marion woman reported to police on Sunday that two Motorola radios had been stolen from two vans parked at her property at Kayleighs Court that same day, police said. The woman told police that she suspected the crime was done by people she had just fired from her business, police said.