Police & Courts

A fuel truck caught fire at East Hampton Airport during a safety test on Thursday, briefly closing the airport. 

Two East Hampton women were involved in the sole serious road-related accident reported last week.

East Hampton Village police officers searched the car of Richard Daunt of Montauk and allegedly found a plastic bag containing 17 individual smaller bags each with a white powdery substance inside.

The New York State comptroller’s office has completed another audit of the Montauk Fire District, alleging that the district overcompensated its 17 paid emergency responders and failed to resolve discrepancies in time-clock activity for three of those employees.

In April a woman reported seven broken windows at her Sag Harbor house. She told police the windows were fine last July, when she’d last been in town, but that a caretaker had since reported finding four teenagers in the house, and kicked them out.

People calling 911 in East Hampton Town won't notice a change, but come Jan. 1, for the first time in decades, calls coming from outside East Hampton Village will be handled from the town police headquarters instead of from the village's Emergency Services Building.

A Sycamore Drive woman got an unwelcome call from her plumber on April 21, telling her that her pool heater, valued at $7,500, was missing, with its pipes and lines severed. Whoever was responsible for the theft on Sycamore Drive may also have struck on Bon Pinck Way, where pool equipment was reported missing the following morning.

An immersive, 10-week-long Citizens Police Academy taught by members of the East Hampton Town Police Department gave participants an insider look at what it really takes to “protect and serve” East Hampton.

Three drivers were injured last week in accidents on local roads.

Chief Jeffrey Erickson of the East Hampton Village Police Department announced the hiring of two officers, bring the department to full strength. And he village’s emergency medical service chief, Mary Mott, and Gerry Turza, the fire and E.M.S. administrator, recognized several volunteer and paid emergency personnel for quick action during emergency calls.

Faustin Nsabumukunzi’s alleged past caught up with him last Thursday, when the Bridgehampton beekeeper was arrested and charged with immigration fraud for concealing his role in the Rwandan genocide more than 30 years ago. 

Police responded Saturday night to a report that a wind turbine had fallen off a platform at the firehouse, and found its head and blades on the ground, with debris scattered about.

A serious accident occurred on Pantigo Road on the afternoon of April 15 when a pickup truck collided with a Mercedes van that then rolled over onto its side.

A Brooklyn man has admitted guilt in a million-dollar drug dealing scheme involving cocaine meant for sale on the East End.

Sag Harbor Village police have received several reports of “swatting” calls, falsely reporting an emergency, from Main Street businesses recently, three involving Sag Pizza and another, last week, involving Apple Bank.

Has a shocking crime that took place in East Hampton Village in 1955 finally been solved? Mayor Jerry Larsen believes it has, and he isn’t alone.

East Hampton Village’s new Flock license-plate reader cameras are having an immediate effect here. Out of 18 arrests reported by village police in the last two weeks, 14 were made with the assistance of the cameras.

A coyote was spotted in the vicinity of Hither Hills State Park in Montauk on the morning of April 7. The man who reported it said he was worried about the safety of neighborhood pets.

The Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps is hoping to broaden its membership by allowing Sag Harbor residents who are in college, or doing an equivalent educational program, to be eligible to volunteer.

A vial with 1.17 grams of a “white powdery substance” was allegedly found on the driver of a 2019 Cadillac Escalade on Sunday. A “multi-drug” test determined the substance to be cocaine, police said.

Ticketed for an open container Friday night on Springs-Fireplace Road, a man walked behind the squad car and began urinating on a tree in plain sight of the officer. When the officer approached him, the man shoved the ticket at him and ran away.

A driver who sustained an injury to his shoulder in an accident on the evening of April 2 was charged afterward with misdemeanor drunken driving.

There were two water rescues on Saturday, one involving a capsized kayak and the other a surfer in distress.

“People buy illegal temporary tags online, and they get away with it until police suspect something fishy about the plate, or until they’re stopped for an ordinary traffic infraction,” according to East Hampton Village Detective Sgt. Jennifer Dunn. That was the case last week, when a temporary tag led police to discover that the vehicle's registration was apparently fraudulent.

Someone said to be dressed in a Boy Scout uniform was spotted peering into the windows of a Wheelock Walk house on Friday. Police did not find the person.

The East Hampton Town Board approved a resolution Tuesday to fire Police Officer Andrea Kess, a move her attorney said was payback for her own complaints against the Police Department.

Two fires were reported in town last week, one in East Hampton and one in Springs. 

The Emergency Services Building was crowded with Blue at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting, which featured Police Chief Jeff Erickson handing out awards and a promotion. Mayor Jerry Larsen also took part, handing out a new Top Cop award, which he said will be an annual event. 

Police and firefighters responded to Apaquogue Road following a call of a gas leak on the morning of March 18. They arrived to find a landscaper who told them he’d struck a gas line in the road while digging a hole.

A driver whose truck rear-ended a car in front of him told police he had been distracted by his dog and didn't notice that the car was braking.