Incident Report: Man Seen Masturbating by the Beach

Crimes and suspicious incidents recently reported to the Southampton Town Police Department east of the Shinnecock Canal.

• A Miller Place woman was walking along North Sea Road around 12:30 p.m. on May 31 when she said someone backed into her and sped off. According to police reports, the woman said the driver of a white Suburban hit her in the lower leg/knee area, and minor pain was reported, though the driver continued northbound on North Sea Road.   

• A Flying Point Road resident reported that between May 18 and May 31, someone entered her unlocked car and removed three dollar bills, and change, from her car’s change tray – as well as the ashtray itself. 

• A Southampton man reported that he was punched in the mouth by a stranger while he was dancing at a house party.  

According to police reports, the man said he was dancing at a party on North Sea-Mecox Road around 11 p.m. on May 26, when a female he didn’t know punched him, and soon thereafter left the party.  

• A Noyac resident reported on May 26 that someone had popped the hood on his car and wedged a nail into the negative terminal of his battery, preventing his car from running.

• A woman was walking on Flying Point Beach on May 28 with her friend when she said she saw a man masturbating by the dunes near the parking lot around 9:50 a.m.  

Police reports state that when they saw him, he “raised his harms and swung his body back and forth as to say ‘look at me.’”  

No further information was immediately available.