Police & Courts

The owner of a popular water recreation business was killed while riding his skateboard on Middle Line Highway in Noyac on Friday evening.

A 39-year-old Flanders man died Wednesday night after a car crash on Montauk Highway near the Bridgehampton Commons.

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons received an anonymous bomb threat via email on Dec. 24 stating that a group called “Funning” had placed explosives inside the synagogue and also inside every synagogue in New York State. The threat was reported to police two days later. It was ultimately deemed non-credible, but police remained on site for some time that day.

Officers were called to check on the well-being of a youth running barefoot through the Reutershan Parking Lot on the evening of Dec. 19. Police couldn’t find anyone matching that description.

Town and village police charged two men with felonies in recent days following separate incidents, one at a house in East Hampton and another in the Reutershan Parking Lot.

Robin Murphy was elected Dec. 12 to the office of fire commissioner in the Bridgehampton Fire District. Voters also overwhelmingly approved changes to the Length of Service Award Program.

A 35-year-old resident of Flower Hill, a small village in Nassau County, was seen starting a fire and then cleaning up ash behind the power station off Old Stone Highway in Springs on the afternoon of Dec. 11. A police officer ticketed him for an illegal “open burn.”

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Dec. 9, on Abraham’s Path near Asa’s Path in Amagansett, a town police officer pulled over a black 2011 BMW with temporary Alabama license plates and “an exhaust system that was modified to amplify sound.” It resulted in felony D.W.I. charges, one of two such incidents here in recent days.

A woman was found sleeping in her car on Washington Street in Sag Harbor at 4 a.m. on Friday. She told an officer she’d had too much to drink at Murf’s Tavern and had intended to sleep only for a few hours before driving home.

Tenia Campbell, accused of smothering her twin daughters and leading police from multiple jurisdictions on a search spanning 40 miles from Medford to Montauk in June 2019, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of first-degree murder, a class A violent felony.

Southampton Town police have arrested two alleged shoplifters and two alleged accomplices who they say ran off with about $1,500 in merchandise from T.J. Maxx in Bridgehampton on the afternoon of Nov. 30.

Voters in fire districts across the South Fork can head to the polls Tuesday to elect commissioners who will oversee budgets, provide equipment, maintain facilities and trucks, and support training for volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians. The only contested race locally is in Bridgehampton.