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T.E. McMorrow
Reporter

E-mail: mcmorrow@ehstar.com

Articles by this author:

  • Police Seek Help in Burglary Investigation (News)

    Police release surveillance camera images of red Jeep that may have a connection to the May 7 burglary of Springs house..

    By:  T.E. McMorrow
  • Cops Couldn’t Convince Her (Police)

        A Wainscott woman who refused to be searched at East Hampton Town police headquarters following a car crash Sunday afternoon stripped off all her clothes in protest, according to the arrest report.
        Responding to a call reporting the 5 p.m. crash on Springs-Fireplace Road near Shadom Lane, police came upon a 2004 Chrysler that had gone off the road into a tree. The driver, Skyler M. Boothe, 33, told the officers she’d been talking on her cellphone and had lost control of the car.

    By:  T.E. McMorrow
  • Police Close a Loophole (Police)

        The East Hampton Town Police Department and the County District Attorney’s Office have closed a loophole in arrest procedures following a not-guilty verdict handed down in March by a local jury.

    By:  T.E. McMorrow
  • ‘Cripple’ Transforms Guild Hall (Arts)

       Much like a chrysalis, the stage of Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater is undergoing a living transformation as the company of actors put together by director Stephen Hamilton embody their roles in the Martin McDonagh play “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” which opens for a very limited run on Wednesday.

    By:  T.E. McMorrow
  • Cavett’s Tick Hall Before Z.B.A. (Government)

        Dick Cavett’s Tick Hall, one of seven McKim, Meade, and White houses on the Montauk ocean bluffs, and two houses on the waterfront on the other side of the Montauk peninsula, have made for interesting agendas at recent East Hampton Town Zoning Board meetings. The latter, an  application for erosion-control work on Soundview Drive, was approved on Tuesday. A hearing on Mr. Cavett’s application met with favorable response on April 23, although a decision is pending.

    By:  T.E. McMorrow
  • Ex-Police Officer Arrested (News)
    Misdemeanor charges for a pistol-toting dad who said he was concerned about an open school door and showed officials a New York police ID, which he had claimed was stolen from him about seven years ago.
    By:  T.E. McMorrow
  • Felony D.W.I. Arrest Follows Crash (Police)

        An Amagansett man who drove his 2010 Ford into a utility pole on Friday night was drunk at the time, according to East Hampton Town police, and wound up charged with an alcohol-related felony, aggravated driving while intoxicated.
        The crash happened less than a mile from Kevin J. Somers’s house on Abram’s Landing Road. A witness, who said the crash happened right outside his house, told police that Mr. Somers, 37, had climbed out of his wrecked car and asked to use his bathroom.

    By:  T.E. McMorrow
  • Running Amok in the Yard (Police)

        An enraged man made quite a mess of a front yard on Granada Place in the early morning hours Sunday.
        Toby Logue called police to report that a man he’d worked with in the past was very drunk and running amok in his front yard, destroying various items there. Mr. Logue said he’d been awakened by the sound of his front door slamming and “a grunting sound.” The man fled the scene before officers arrived.

    By:  T.E. McMorrow
  • Rape Defendant Pleads Guilty (Police)

        Fidel Castro-Brito, an East Hampton man charged with 76 counts of rape involving girls as young as 9, pleaded guilty as charged in State Supreme Court, Riverhead, last Thursday.
        East Hampton Town police said at the time of his arrest that Mr. Castro-Brito, 24, had found his victims, who ranged in age from 9 to 16, through the Internet. The investigation took the police across jurisdictional lines, with all the assaults occurring in downstate New York.

    By:  T.E. McMorrow
  • Ex-N.Y.C. Cop Arrested After He Flashed 'Stolen' Badge (Police)

    Misdemeanor charges for a pistol-toting dad who said he was concerned about an open school door and showed officials a New York police ID, which he had claimed was stolen from him about seven years ago.

    By:  T.E. McMorrow