Update, 5:40 p.m.: Kyle Rosko, the driver whose car rolled over onto the Maidstone Club golf course on Saturday night and was charged with felony driving while intoxicated, is expected to make a full recovery, according to his attorney, who said police have filed charges prematurely. 

Colin Astarita said Sunday evening that his client is doing well, but was "extremely upset to learn that charges had been filed against him and insists that he was not intoxicated at the time of the accident." He remains in stable condition at Stony Brook University Hospital, where he was airlifted to following the crash in East Hampton Village. 

Mr. Astarita said there has been no mention of why his client was charged and that there is no evidence to show that alcohol was a contributing factor to this accident. According to his attorney, Mr. Rosko did not admit to drinking and did not have alcohol in the car, nor were there sobriety or breath tests. A blood test, where a warrant is obtained to test his blood alcohol content, is the only potential evidence, he said, but the results take weeks. 

"It is my understanding that the police are 'still investigating' this incident, which begs the question of why the police filed a charge before their investigation had been completed?" he said, adding that no one else was injured in the accident and there were no passengers in the car. "This is extremely unfair, as Kyle is a very well-known, well-liked, and hard-working young man whose reputation can be affected by this unnecessary rush to judgment." 

Update, 8:45 a.m.: A driver who crashed his car at the Maidstone Club on Saturday night has been charged with drunken driving, East Hampton Village police said Sunday morning. Kyle Rosko, a 33-year-old living in Montauk, was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, where police released him on an appearance ticket, though he has been charged with felony driving while intoxicated. Police said he has a prior D.W.I. conviction. 

Mr. Rosko was driving a Mercedes at a high rate of speed when he lost control and drove off the road and onto the golf course at the Maidstone Club, according to police. The Mercedes became airborne and rolled over at least twice before coming to a stop on its roof.

Mr. Rosko, an agent with Douglas Elliman Real Estate, is in stable condition at Stony Brook. He is expected to be released in the coming days and will appear in East Hampton Town Justice Court to answer the charges at a future date. He was also ticketed with numerous traffic violations. 

Originally, July 2, 10:13 p.m.: A driver lost control of his older model Mercedes, rolling it over and onto the greens at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton Village Saturday night. In an unusual move, the Suffolk County medevac helicopter landed on the golf course to take the seriously injured patient to Stony Brook University Hospital.

Village Police Chief Gerard Larsen said the driver, the sole occupant of the car, was drunk, but further information on any charges were not immediately available. He said the driver suffered serious injuries in the one-car accident. Detectives are continuing to investigate. 

The accident was reported at 8:09 p.m. The Mercedes with foreign plates landed on its roof, near the eighth hole, off Old Beach Lane, on the south side of Further Lane, according to Gerry Turza, the first assistant chief of the East Hampton Fire Department. The Mercedes was so mangled that the driver had to be extricated from it by the heavy-rescue squad, which took about 10 minutes, Chief Turza said.

The East Hampton Village Ambulance Association treated the patient and turned over care to the flight paramedic on the medevac helicopter, which took him to Stony Brook University Hospital, the nearest level-one trauma center. The medevac was initially going to land at the East Hampton Airport, one of its regular landing zones, but village police had it diverted to land closer to the accident, on the greens near Egypt Lane. 

Fire police personnel closed down the road around the accident. Two fire engines also responded. The road has since been reopened, and the car was towed off the Maidstone's property. 

Sgt. Dan Roman of the East Hampton Town Police Department said Friday that he did not want to dwell on his May 15, 2015, brush with death — a motorcycle accident in Montauk that left him with multiple injuries requiring seven surgeries and nearly a year of healing and rehabilitation. Rather, it is the future and his excitement about returning to the force after 54 weeks that has him talking.

Doctors cleared him to return to full duty on May 31.

“I feel 100 percent,” he said, sitting behind his desk at headquarters.

He credits his conditioning at the time of the crash as being a key to his survival and recovery. A regular gym goer, he is a competitive amateur athlete and self-described avid ice hockey player.

“One of the biggest things that helped me recover was that I wanted to come back to work,” he said Friday. “I really enjoy this job. The camaraderie with the guys is significant. You miss it.”

A key player in his arduous rehabilitation was his physical therapist, Rachel Lys of East Hampton Physical Therapy, who has an office in downtown Montauk. Sergeant Roman is a resident of the hamlet. “She is unbelievable,” he said, and his wife, Julia Prince, “was wonderful.”

His father, Lee Roman, stayed with them for a time to help out, moving in to lend a hand with daily chores and trips to the doctor. “It was tough on my family,” he said. He has two children, Hudson, now 6, and Emily, 16. “Not being able to help them in their daily routine,” he said, was one of the most difficult things he had to learn to accept.

While the support of coworkers, friends, and relatives helped him get through his difficult time, the reaction of total strangers may have touched him the most. “I got letters from people who didn’t even live in Montauk, but were there that day. A young girl I had never met wrote me a letter, wishing me a speedy recovery. It was pretty special.”

A 15-year veteran of the force, he turns 47 in a few days. He is serving the department five days a week in the role of a duty sergeant, a job in which his years of experience can help a force that is becoming increasingly younger. Eventually, as lieutenants in the department change positions or retire, he is hoping to fill their shoes.

The East Hampton Town and Village and Sag Harbor Village Police Departments recently named their police officers of the year.

For the town, Officer Luke McNamara was named. His choice was unusual, in that this past year was his first on the job. But in a proclamation read during last Thursday’s town board meeting it was revealed that Officer McNamara had led the department in total arrests, felony arrests, and citations written.

Two particular incidents were singled out. The first occurred on New Year’s Day 2015, when James Dunlop, a retired town fire marshal, was walking on Todd Drive in East Hampton and was attacked by two roaming pit bulls. Mr. Dunlop fell to the ground, and the dogs began mauling his hands.

Officer McNamara arrived within two minutes of a neighbor’s 911 call. After deploying his stun gun against one of the dogs, he was able to coax them into the back seat of his squad car.

Mr. Dunlop had suffered lacerations to his hands and four puncture wounds that cut right through. The East Hampton Village Ambulance Association transported him to Southampton Hospital.

The other incident was the arrest following a traffic stop of Kori Fleischman, 21, on major cocaine and heroin possession charges in November. The proclamation stated that the arrest “took a distributor of cocaine off our streets.” Ms. Fleischman has not yet been indicted by a grand jury.

East Hampton Village police named Steven Niggles, a six-year veteran of the force. It was his second time receiving the honor. According to Chief Gerard Larsen, Officer Niggles led the department in felony arrests, arrests on drug charges, and charges of driving while intoxicated. He was a member of the East End anti-drunken driving team, funded by the district attorney’s office. “He’s just a really good police officer,” Chief Larsen said yesterday.

Sag Harbor’s cop of the year is Randy Steyert. “He was hired here in November 2014 and is a local,” Chief Austin McGuire said yesterday. “He spent three years working for the N.Y.P.D. in Harlem before coming back home. He was recognized for overall outstanding police work and for handling the event that happened about a year ago on Hillside Drive East in Sag Harbor.”

In that incident, Ali Wisdom was accused of threatening his cousin with a gun and then shooting out a window before fleeing. About a month later he was captured trying to re-enter the country from Mexico.

The family of Lilia Aucapina gathered with about 100 supporters outside Southampton Town Hall Tuesday demanding that the investigation into her death be reopened.

Ms. Aucapina, who was known as Esperanza, was reported missing on Oct. 10 and was found dead in the woods on Nov. 21, her body hanging from a tree just a quarter-mile from her house in Sagaponack. Southampton Town police called it a suicide.

“Only four minutes from her house, she was found,” Maria Duchi, her niece, said. “We know they searched the area and didn’t find anything.” Police said they had searched the wooded area where Ms. Aucapina was found several times after her disappearance, to no avail.

Many in the crowd on Tuesday held signs calling for the Suffolk County Homicide Squad to be called in to lead the investigation. Others held signs in both English and Spanish questioning why it took 40 days to “find a body that was four minutes from her house.” Family members’ signs pleaded for “Justice for Esperanza and family.”

Ms. Aucapina’s parents, Raquel and Miguel Parra, who flew to the United States after their daughter’s body was discovered, stood in silence next to a microphone on Tuesday, sometimes suppressing tears, as a series of speakers pointed out what they said was poor work by the police in the investigation.

Foster Maer, the senior litigation counsel of LatinoJustice, a New York City civil rights organization who played a major role in organizing the demonstration, said after the event that local police simply do not have the resources needed for such an investigation.

He also repeated a call he had made previously for the East Hampton Town police to reopen the investigation into the death of another Latino woman, Gabriela Armijos, 21, in September of last year. Her death had also been ruled a suicide, but family members questioned that determination.

Dan Montgomery, a 53-year veteran of police work and a former police chief, advises Mr. Maer’s organization. Mr. Maer said that it was LatinoJustice’s expert’s belief that Ms. Aucapina could have been killed by a chokehold that does not cause marks, and that the scene might then have been staged to look like a suicide. He claimed Tuesday that Ms. Aucapina was a victim of domestic violence. “That situation,” he said, “should lead to a full investigation.” In addition, Mr. Maer said, there were possible suspects, if she was, in fact, murdered. He said all leads should be explored.

Ms. Aucapina was granted an order of protection from family court in Riverside against her husband, Carlos Aucapina, just a few days before her disappearance.

Ms. Duchi said her aunt described the day she received the order of protection as “one of the happiest days of her life.”

Mr. Aucapina said last month during an interview with his lawyer present that the couple were not in the process of getting a divorce and that the order of protection was to give his wife “more space.” He was arrested twice for allegedly violating that order, once after being questioned by Southampton Town Police the night his wife was reported missing and later by East Hampton Town Police.

Speaking to the press along with his lawyer last month, he denied any involvement in his wife’s disappearance and expressed concern that there were few, if any, Spanish-speaking detectives involved in the investigation.

As of press time, Mr. Aucapina’s lawyer had not responded to several requests for comment. Southampton Town Police Chief Robert Pearce did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Lilia needed our support,” said Cristina Banados, director of advocacy for the Retreat, an East Hampton domestic violence agency. “She had it, but it was not enough.”

Ms. Aucapina’s sister Martha Parra had flown from Ecuador with her parents after learning of her sister’s death. Speaking through a translator on Tuesday she said the family is not accusing any particular person of wrongdoing. “We just want answers.”

East Hampton Town police are investigating a Friday morning motor vehicle accident in which a pedestrian crossing Montauk Highway in Montauk was critically injured.

According to Detective Sgt. Greg Schaefer, the victim, Mariana Guanga-Baculima, was flown by helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital, where she is in critical but stable condition. Her family has been notified and is at the hospital, he said. While the detective did not have her exact age, he said she was born in 1982.

The accident occurred around 6:30 a.m. The area around the crosswalk between the 7-Eleven and the I.G.A. was cordoned off by police, with a detective photographing the scene. A GMC was parked in the eastbound lane, about 10 feet past the crosswalk. Detective Schaefer was still receiving information from the scene when he spoke Friday morning, so he could not confirm the make or model of the vehicle involved.

A clerk at the 7-Eleven said Ms. Guanga-Baculima was an assistant manager at the store. The accident occurred about a half-hour after sunrise.

The detective asked that anyone who has information about the accident call the police at 631-537-7575.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's new state budget includes more funding for public education, with the impact of that money expected to vary by district.

According to numbers released on April 1 by the state, the Sag Harbor School District will receive $140,835 more in the 2015-16 year than this year. Jennifer Buscemi, the school's business administrator, said it is slightly more than the district initially guessed it would receive.

"The additional funds will be used to fund any program changes" in the second draft of Sag Harbor's budget, Ms. Buscemi said in an email. "Since state aid funds less than 5 percent of our overall budget, slight changes in our year-to-year state aid do not have a significant impact on the delivery of educational programs for our students," she said. The second draft of the budget will be discussed during a workshop on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

The state numbers show that Springs School is slated to receive, overall, about $288,530 more than this year's total. Among other things, the money will offset the cost to send district students to the Child Development Center of the Hamptons charter school and help pay for special education services. Thomas Primiano, the school treasurer, said the increases were "a nice surprise."

"In our earlier budget presentations, we were trying to find areas to help close our budget gap," Mr. Primiano said. "Having more state aid than we thought . . . directly helps us do that." Another budget workshop in Springs is set for Monday at 7 p.m.

Amagansett will receive about $18,900 more next school year and Bridgehampton will receive about $38,200. Montauk will receive about $84,000 more.

East Hampton, where state support makes up about 4.3 percent of the district's total budget, will receive an increase of about $186,000.

"It's still up for discussion how the board wants to utilize the additional funds," said Isabel Madison, East Hampton's assistant superintendent for business. Another school board budget workshop in East Hampton is set for Tuesday at 6 p.m.

Jason Lee, who is accused of raping a 20-year-old Irish woman in East Hampton in 2013, waived his right to a trial by jury on Tuesday and will instead be tried by New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kahn in her Riverside courtroom beginning next week.

Jury selection in the high-profile case was to have begun next week, but that step is no longer necessary. The trial is set to begin on April 8. Witnesses will be called and testimony will be heard, just as in a jury trial, but Justice Kahn will be the sole judge of fact as well as the decider of law.

In addition to the rape charge, Mr. Lee faces charges of assault in the third degree and sexual misconduct, both misdemeanors. He is being represented by Andrew Lanker and Edward Burke Jr.

Mr. Lee was arrested in East Hampton in August of 2013, charged with raping an Irish student visiting the South Fork after meeting her and her friends at a restaurant in Wainscott.

If convicted on the rape charge, he faces a minimum of five years in state prison.

The East Hampton High School boys basketball team prevailed 52-47 over sixth-seeded Islip in a tumultuous first-round Class A playoff game at the high school Tuesday night, setting up a game Friday at second-seeded Harborfields, which on Tuesday handily defeated Amityville.

Should the Bonackers win Friday, they would play for the county Class A championship on Tuesday at Walt Whitman High School in Huntington Station at 8 p.m. Bayport-Blue Point, with which third-seeded East Hampton split in the regular season, is the top-seeded A team.

Islip, as had Bayport, played the 3-point-shooting Bonackers man-for-man, though the guards, Kevin Fee, Brandon Kennedy-Gay, and Kyle McKee, each of whom drove to the hoop when opportunities arose, were by no means Johnny-one-notes. But it was East Hampton's defense that most impressed the team's coach, Bill McKee.

The visitors pretty much had their way with McKee's charges' 1-3-1 zone in the first half. But, with Fee and, at times, McKee shadowing the county's second-leading scorer, Frankie Basile (25 points per game) in the second, the tide began to turn.

The Buccaneers held a 10-point lead early in the third, by the end of which it had been cut to 7. A strong fourth quarter, during which Fee, the sophomore guard, who was unstoppable, scored 9 of his 15 points, clinched the heady win. A 3-pointer by Fee, who had been fed by McKee, and a subsequent floater by Fee in the lane, which gave East Hampton a 47-46 lead, its first since early in the first quarter, had the gym in an uproar. Moments later, a 3 by Kennedy-Gay, which put East Hampton up 50-47 with less than two minutes remaining, effectively nailed down the lid.

"Islip only had 2 points in the fourth, both on foul shots," Coach McKee said as he looked at the scorebook afterward. "We played fantastic defense."

Kennedy-Gay finished with 17 points, Fee, as aforesaid, with 15, and McKee with 11. Brandon Johnson, the inside man, playing the game of his life to date, had 11 rebounds and was, said the elder McKee, "one of the reasons our defense worked so well. Every time Basile looked to drive, Brandon was there."

A powerful winter storm beginning to affect Long Island on Monday has prompted East Hampton Town and Village officials to take action. 

Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. and Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell declared a state of emergency effective at 4 p.m. on Monday. Meanwhile, the town and village will open a joint emergency operations center at 4 p.m. to field storm-related calls. Village residents should call 631-907-9796, and town residents should call 631-907-9743. Emergencies, however, should be reported by phone at 911.

The imminent severe snowstorm, according to a statement issued by Mayor Rickenbach, will create conditions, such as possible whiteouts, coastal erosion, and flooding, that "threaten or imperil the public safety of the citizens of this municipality."

Residents have been urged to stay off the roads through Tuesday. Vehicles cannot be parking on public roads during the state of emergency and may be towed and ticketed as necessary. Officials will continue to monitor conditions, and warming centers will be opened if needed.

Town and village highway departments will have plows on standby to help fire or emergency medical services get to calls. 

Mayor Rickenbach has directed all departments to "take whatever steps necessary to protect life and property, public infrastructure, and other such emergency assistance deemed necessary." 

Continue to check back with The Star throughout the storm for more information.

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A strong winter storm that could bring as much as 20 inches of snow and high winds to eastern Long Island is expected to arrive around mid-day on Monday.

The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard watch for much of the Northeast for a low-pressure system that is moving slowly eastward. It said that the first bands of snow associated with the "potentially historic winter storm” would begin to be felt along the East Coast on Monday afternoon.

The weather service said that travel during the storm would be extremely dangerous due to heavy snowfall and strong winds with whiteout conditions likely.  Smaller roads may become impassable, and strong winds may down power lines and tree limbs.

East Hampton Town officials posted an alert Sunday warning residents to monitor National Weather Service advisories, network news channels, L.T.V. channels 20 and 22, and the town website for further information. “Regardless of the track of this storm it appears that a significant snowfall is likely, and residents should take all necessary precautions prior to Monday afternoon,” they said.

With predicted water levels to be higher than usual during an incoming tide late Monday into Tuesday, coastal flooding from the blizzard appeared likely. This timing coincided with the National Weather Service's expectation that the highest winds would begin to be felt after midnight on Monday, with gusts up to 57 miles per hour from the northeast over the open waters.

The East Hampton Town and Village were in the planning stages for the storm Sunday morning with a meeting of emergency responders and key departments planned for village police headquarters in the afternoon.

High winds and tapering snow flurries are expected to end late Tuesday. Clear and cold conditions are forecast for Wednesday.

National Weather Service forecast.