DAN'S PAPERS, August 8, 2008 Page 44 www.danshamptons.com
Crime
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Montauk Highway onto Accabonac Road going north, I passed the shiny white Jeep Wrangler with the four yellow fog lights heading south. It was him. I made a quick u-turn and followed him. He went down Egypt Lane and turned right on Turbell, then left on Highway Behind the Pond. I decided not to follow him there. It’s a dead end. But as I headed up Turbell there he was again, heading back down Highway Behind the Pond toward me. So I turned around and continued to follow him. I don’t think it’s fair to this person to tell you up what roads and down others this person went, but it went on for the next 15 minutes, and now, with a piece of paper with his license plate number between my knees, I called the police on my cell phone. I left the Lieutenant a message. He was not in. I followed the white Jeep right to his driveway, and as I came up behind him, he rolled down his window. Obviously he had seen me following him. “I need to talk to you,� I said. “You either witnessed or participated in a robbery to my car at Damark’s Deli on Wednesday morning. I need my stuff back.� “Sir, I don’t know what you are talking about,� he said. “I’ve just come out from the city.� I drove off. This time when calling back to the police, I told them where this person lived and I asked that a policeman meet me to go over what to do. “Where are you?� they asked. “I’m heading home. I will be there in 15 minutes.� “We’ll be there,� the dispatch clerk said. Fifteen minutes later, I pulled into my driveway, and just a minute after that, a police car pulled in. The officer got out and came inside and I told him what I had found and what I had done. I gave him the address. “I think I’ll go over there and have a talk with him,� the officer said. And then he left. Ten minutes later, my son David came in the front door. David has his own place on the ocean in Montauk, but sometimes stops by my house in East Hampton to take a nap or have some food or just hang with me. I told him what had happened. He disappeared into this small guest room just off the bathroom on the main floor. “Which laptop did you lose?� he asked from in there. I was on the phone again, this time with my homeowner insurance people, finding out I had a $2,500 deductible. “It’s the small one with the big red bumper sticker on it,� I said. And then I went back to my phone call. When I looked up, there he was in front of me, holding up the small laptop with the big red bumper sticker on it. The bag I had lost was on his shoulder. I hung up the phone. “It was in my room,� David said. “Why didn’t you look in there?� “I don’t go in there. It’s your room.� “But it was in there. On the bed.� I began making a shrieking noise, which attracted my wife, Chris, who was out in the (continued on the next page)