Police & Courts

Months after East Hampton Town announced it would take over responsibility for most 911 calls from East Hampton Village’s Emergency Communications Center, which had provided the service for decades, the changeover is still unfolding.

A New York City woman was charged with breaking into the Tracy Anderson Fitness Studio in Sag Harbor after hours and stealing nearly $2,000 worth of merchandise.

Gail Bomze, the 75-year-old real estate agent accused of biting a 7-year-old girl during a T-shirt toss on East Hampton’s Main Beach last month, has a day in court.

An e-bike rider was seriously injured Tuesday morning after colliding with a Mack truck in Montauk.

A black BMW was seen parked on Lumber Lane in East Hampton Village for two days with its engine running. An officer found the car, still running, and was able to unlock it and turn it off. He left a message for the owner, an 87-year-old from Chicago.

Sag Harbor Village police were called to the American Hotel at around 10 p.m. on Friday, following a report of a group of men “causing a disturbance” in the lobby.

Sag Harbor Village police arrested a Brooklyn man on Main Street after receiving a report that his car had “almost struck” a young T.C.O., who told police she had seen the driver head north in the southbound lane and then park against the flow of traffic.

Complaints about salespeople “attempting to distribute handbills” and “entering private yards and porches” have been appearing in the police logs since June, but the volume of complaints increased in the run-up to Labor Day: a young man, dressed in black with “Ecoshield” branding, often on an electric scooter, traveling door to door trying to get residents to sign up for the extermination service.

Most of the charges against a Latham, N.Y., man who appeared in East Hampton Town Justice Court last week stem from an incident on May 25, when he allegedly fled from a town police officer who was conducting a traffic stop on Montauk Highway in Amagansett.

A bicyclist was taken to the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department on Friday morning after being struck by a Subaru S.U.V. on Springs-Fireplace Road.

A small German shepherd jumped out of the bed of a pickup truck and tackled her goldendoodle in the field next to Sag Harbor’s Havens Beach, leaving the dog “shaking” and apparently afraid to move, a caller told police on Aug. 27.

East Hampton Town police were called to the Montauk Airport just after 8 p.m. on Aug. 26, after receiving a report of a plane crash.

Darius Petty, who last year was accused of kidnapping and robbing three young men at gunpoint in the parking lot of the East Hampton Senior Center, and was sentenced in June to three years in prison, was released from custody in July for a monthlong “grace period” before his incarceration. On Tuesday, Suffolk Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei agreed to extend the time for an additional month.

Alexandr Dyatchin, a 39-year-old Serbian national who was arrested last August for his involvement in a drug trafficking operation between Brooklyn and East Hampton, was sentenced last week to five years in prison, followed by five years of post-release supervision, by Supreme Court Justice John Collins in Riverhead.

A New York City man was charged with a felony on Saturday evening after Sag Harbor Village police stopped his 2025 Cadillac on a seatbelt violation.

A Florida resident faces two felony drunken-driving charges after Sag Harbor Village police, responding to a welfare check, found him lying on a sidewalk early on the morning of Aug. 20.

After leaving his house early Saturday, a Montauk man found a stranger asleep in his guest room when he returned late that afternoon. The intruder told police he was “unsure how, when, or why” he’d got there, adding that he’d been drinking the night before.

A 15-year-old bike rider was injured on Aug. 19 after colliding with a Chevrolet pickup truck by the side of Montauk Highway in East Hampton.

A Brooklyn man was injured early Saturday evening on Skimhampton Road in Amagansett after his Hertz rental car collided with a deer.

A 75-year-old New York City woman was arrested by East Hampton Village police on Tuesday afternoon and charged with assault in the third degree and endangering the welfare of a child, both misdemeanors, after police identified her as the person who they said had “grabbed” and “bitten” the arm of a 7-year-old child while trying to retrieve a T-shirt tossed from the pavilion balcony during an Aug. 12 concert at Main Beach.

A New York City man faces a felony charge after showing a police officer a false identification card early on Aug. 13 in the parking lot of the Montauk 7-Eleven.

Nicoly Ribeiro De Souza, the 23-year-old accused of driving under the influence into the Montauk Artists Association Art Show early on the morning of June 29 and causing $100,000 worth of damage, was ordered Wednesday by East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky to retain private counsel before her next appearance in Justice Court.

A report of “a suspicious subject sitting in the woods” led officers to a man seated on a large rock off Hand’s Creek Road. He told them he works as a home health care aide nearby, frequently takes walks, and likes to take breaks on the rock.

On an unusually quiet overnight shift last weekend, The Star's police reporter rode along with an East Hampton Town officer and got a window into a world where a 911 call can be anything from a mistake to something much worse.

A Rocky Point man was charged Sunday night with assault with a deadly weapon. East Hampton Village police said he had thrown a beer bottle at another man’s face as they were seated in a pickup truck a Montauk Highway intersection.

More than a week after the body of Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, a 33-year-old Manhattan-based Irish entrepreneur, was found on a boat docked at the Montauk Yacht Club, very little has been publicly disclosed by police about the circumstances of her death, while news outlets from around the world have attempted to surmise what might have happened. 

Staff at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett heard noises from above and discovered a man on the roof, trying to gain access to the music venue. He told police he’d “just wanted to see what his friends were doing.”

A Sag Harbor woman was injured on Aug. 6 after a westbound Mercedes sedan rear-ended her Jeep on Montauk Highway near Green Hollow Road.

A 34-year-old man faces two felony drunken-driving charges following his arrest on the night of Aug. 3.

A woman found dead aboard a boat docked at the Montauk Yacht Club on Star Island Road, was Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, 33, a Manhattan-based entrepreneur and marketing consultant originally from County Carlow, Ireland.