35 Truck Safety Summonses

Thu, 05/23/2019 - 06:33

By Taylor K. Vecsey

September 27, 2018

Sag Harbor Village police assisted the State Department of Transportation in conducting safety checks on 22 commercial vehicles last Thursday.

Chief Austin McGuire said village police set up an area to check trucks at Havens Beach starting at about 7:30 a.m. Police pulled trucks over throughout the village and directed them to the beach for the inspections.

By day’s end, police wrote 35 summonses after inspectors found safety violations, for instance bald tires, and 17 trucks were taken out of service because of the severity of the violations found. Among the most egregious was that one truck was towing a machine that was 1,000 pounds heavier than allowed.

“The commercial enforcement division takes these very seriously,” Chief McGuire said.

Long Days on the Fire Line In Orange County

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.

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Awards for Good Policing in Handgun Scuffle

“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.

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On the Police Logs 11.21.24

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.

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Head-On Collision on Route 27

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.

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