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Driver Not Paying Attention

Thu, 08/27/2020 - 08:47

Deborah Metrick of New York City, 46, was stopped in traffic on Stephen Hand's Path near Bull Path last Thursday afternoon when a 2011 Ford pickup rear-ended her brand-new BMW. The driver, 34, Michael Collins of Southampton, told East Hampton Town police he'd been "looking down at a paper" and did not see Ms. Metrick, who complained of back pain but refused medical help.

John Hulse of East Moriches, 22, told police he "started panicking" after hitting the passenger side of a 2020 Nissan belonging to Jean Graham, 62, of Wantagh, late Friday night at the intersection of South Euclid Avenue and South Edgemere Street in Montauk. Mr. Hulse left the scene of the crash, but was later located in the parking lot at 352 West Lake Drive. Town police questioned him at the Montauk substation, where he said that the Nissan had cut in front of him. Ms. Graham said she had pain in her body, but declined treatment.

In Montauk the next morning, Don Mendelson, 67, was coming down Glenmore Avenue and John Panico Jr., 54, down Greenwich Street. At the intersection, Mr. Panico waited at the stop sign but Mr. Mendelson did not, police said. As he turned left, his 2009 Nissan collided with Mr. Panico's 2019 Dodge pickup. Mr. Mendelson, who "presented traveler's insurance," police reported, refused medical attention for head pains.

East Hampton Village police reported a three-car accident on Aug. 18, in front of 13 Woods Lane, beginning when Toshitaka Yonehara, 47, of New York City, driving a 2000 Chevrolet, rear-ended a 2012 Ford van driven by Luis Romero-Romero of Hampton Bays, 46. The van was propelled into a 2002 Toyota with Shaun Williams, 36, of Boston at the wheel. Both the van and the Toyota had been stopped in traffic. The cars were not seriously damaged. Mr. Romero-Romero complained of elbow pain but declined medical attention.

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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