Police & Courts

At a West Lake Drive house in Montauk on Oct. 28, East Hampton Town police arrested a local man on a charge of violating an order of protection, a class-E felony.

“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.

A 2-year-old was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on State Route 27 near Upland Road in Montauk.

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.

A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.

The Southampton Town Police Department will run a Civilian Police Academy, which will teach residents about department operations, starting on Jan. 16 at 6 p.m.

East Hampton Village police pulled a vehicle over on Woods Lane after a report that it had been tailgating an ambulance. Police issued a warning after the driver apologized and said it was his wife in the ambulance.

A fire that started in a basement laundry room at 66 David's Lane at around 1:45 p.m. Wednesday was extinguished quickly by the East Hampton Fire Department.

East Hampton and Amagansett Fire Departments were among 10 Suffolk County departments that offered support to fight the wildfires in Orange County, N.Y., as a heightened wildfire risk persists statewide.

A Facebook post circulating in the community concerning a lost 2-year-old child is a scam, the East Hampton Town Police Department announced Monday morning.

A woman at the Amagansett train station reported “an older man making eye contact” with her on Friday evening and walking around her car. Eventually, she told police, he attempted to open her locked car door. Police could not find him.

Two police officers were injured in a tussle in East Hampton Village's Reutershan parking lot on Thursday night, resulting in two charges of second-degree assault, a class D felony, for an 18-year-old East Hampton man.

On the morning of Oct. 22, a caller reported a man "running in and out of traffic" near Stop and Shop. When police caught up with him, he told them he was late for court, and they waved him on.

An East Hampton man was charged with driving while intoxicated on the night of Oct. 21, his fourth drunken-driving charge in the past 15 years, a class-D felony.

A sailboat on its way from Maine to North Carolina was shipwrecked on Napeague under a clear midnight sky Oct. 22, as Vanessa Wyman and Mareson Yates attempted to navigate the local waters.

October to December is peak season in the Northeast for car-versus-deer collisions, according to the American Automobile Association, and East Hampton Town is right in the middle of it. 

A multi-agency collaboration resulted on Friday in the arrest of Om Parkash, 31, of Queens, on a charge of second-degree grand larceny, a class-C felony.

The suspect in the murder of a Brooklyn woman at a Water Mill wellness resort earlier this week was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Pennsylvania, Suffolk County police said yesterday. 

The Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad is investigating the murder of a Brooklyn woman at Shou Sugi Ban House in Water Mill, after a staff member found her body in a guestroom there on Monday around 12:30 p.m.

Two women were taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on the morning of Oct. 15 after their southbound Honda hit a telephone pole on Flamingo Avenue in Montauk, near Mulford Avenue.

Jeffrey Erickson was officially appointed chief of the East Hampton Village Police Department at Friday’s village board meeting, after a resolution to do so was unanimously passed by the board. He is the ninth chief of police since the position was created in 1920. 

Carl Irace, an East Hampton attorney who is also a Sag Harbor Village Court Justice, is in a Manhattan federal court today to argue an appeal of a case involving “distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death.”

On Saturday afternoon at the Huntting Inn, a woman caused $2,000 worth of damage to lights and lanterns, smashing them up, the manager told police, after she questioned a bartender about a former employee and objected to the response. After breaking eight lights, she got in an Uber and fled.

Police went to CVS Sunday night in East Hampton after a shopper claimed to have found no one available to help and requested a “well-being check of the employees.” There was at least one employee there when officers arrived. He said he’d been “in the back, working.”

Abraham’s Path was closed for several hours between Accabonac Road and Town Lane on Saturday afternoon after a man driving a 2015 Cadillac S.U.V. lost control of the vehicle and hit a utility pole.

A Swiss man was pronounced dead at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after going missing in the water near Gibson Lane Beach in Sagaponack on Oct. 4 around 3:30 p.m.

Two people were arrested last week on felony charges, one alleged criminal mischief and the other drug possession.

Police made two felony drunken-driving arrests on town roads in the last 10 days.

Sag Harbor Village Police documented an incident of a woman fleeing from her $19.55 bill for a glass of wine at Vin Sur Vingt Bistro on Sunday night.

A Yorkshire terrier inadvertently rode a westbound bus from the Bridgehampton train station to Babylon on Sunday afternoon without its family, prompting an unusual “lost dog” search that spanned multiple police agencies.