The East Hampton Village Board approved the promotion of Jennifer Dunn, a police officer, to detective 3rd grade last Thursday.
“Jen started with the village in 2006 as an emergency dispatcher. She distinguished herself there, and then moved on to become an officer with the Village Police Department in 2013, where she continued to distinguish herself,” said Mayor Richard Lawler. “Today is a very special day for the village.”
Flames extending 30 feet in the air were reported last week during a raging fire on Bunker Hill Road in Amagansett.
Someone claiming to be in the fraud division at her bank called a local woman telling her she needed to wire money to a Bronx address, which she did. It happened again the next day with a different bank, but Wells Fargo’s actual fraud department caught it.
A Springs man charged recently with felony sexual abuse of a child has been indicted by a grand jury and is being held in police custody in high bail.
Justice David Filer ordered a local man held at $250,000 bail after town police accused him of sexual abuse.
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