Police

D.W.I.s Spike, as 11 Are Arrested

T.E. McMorrow
If the past week was any indication, drivers will need to be especially watchful on local roads this summer. The week saw 11 arraignments in East Hampton Town Justice Court involving defendants charged with driving while intoxicated.
On the Police Logs 06.16.16

Star Staff
What's on the police logs this week:
‘Miracle’ Rescue of a 2-Year-Old

Taylor K. Vecsey
A 2-year-old nearly drowned on June 1 when he fell into the water at a Montauk marina and couldn’t be found for several minutes.
He Can’t Go Home Again

T.E. McMorrow
East Hampton Town police charged two men with felony criminal contempt in recent days for violating orders of protection.
Grand Jury Indicts Driver

T.E. McMorrow
Ronald A. King Jr., 39, accused by East Hampton Town police of taking a single mother’s car on Memorial Day weekend and destroying it in a drunken crash, was indicted by a grand jury in Riverside Friday on multiple felony charges.
Accused: ‘I Did What I Did’

T.E. McMorrow
On Amagansett Main Street at a little after midnight Friday, East Hampton Town police spotted a 1991 Dodge pickup truck with a burnt-out taillight hanging by wires, and wound up charging its driver, Zachary Persico of Springs, 27, with felony drunken driving.
On the Police Logs 06.09.16

Star Staff
What's on the police logs this week:
Fatality on Further Lane

Taylor K. Vecsey
Investigators are trying to determine what caused a masonry worker to fall to his death at an oceanfront construction site in East Hampton Village Tuesday morning.
Weekend Was Calmer

T.E. McMorrow
Calls for police assistance over the Memorial Day weekend were up from last year’s, although Chief Michael Sarlo of the East Hampton Town Police Department said the overall tenor and tone in the streets was calmer.
Single Mother’s Car Totaled

T.E. McMorrow
A Sag Harbor single mother with a 2-month-old son has been left without a vehicle, after her 2005 Jeep Cherokee was taken without her permission and destroyed, the driver crashing into a LIPA pole, and then into a tree Saturday night in Springs.