Met by Flying Liquor Bottle

At 2:37 a.m. on Sunday, East Hampton Town police received a 911 call from a man threatening to “do some real bad things to the environment.” The call was logged in as coming from an “intoxicated subject” on Town Lane.

At 3:14 a.m., police located Christopher Verity, 22, near or in a Town Lane residence near Abraham’s Path in Amagansett.

The first officer to arrive was greeted with a flying liquor bottle, police said, which came close to striking him. When confronted, Mr. Verity, who police said appeared either drunk or drugged, took off running into the woods, but was soon apprehended. He reportedly fought back while being handcuffed, screaming obscenities at the officer.

At police headquarters in Wainscott, while he was being photographed and fingerprinted, he fainted, collapsing to the floor. When he came to, he appeared to be having trouble breathing, and was taken to Southampton Hospital as a precautionary measure.

He was to have been arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court yesterday on three misdemeanor charges: resisting arrest, reckless endangerment, and falsely reporting an emergency.

In his 22 years, Mr. Verity, an Amagansett fisherman, has appeared frequently in the local court. A number of his cases, starting when he was a teenager, have been sealed. In one of his most recent arrests, in September 2014, he was charged with drunken driving after plowing a pickup truck across the lawn of the Bridgehampton National Bank on Gingerbread Lane, East Hampton, near to the John M. Marshall Elementary School, where students were being dropped off at the start of classes. He had fallen asleep behind the wheel, passengers in the truck told police. 

That case is no longer pending, and the record has been sealed, according to the court clerk’s office.