Fugitive Found in Montauk

Thu, 11/30/2023 - 08:45

November 30, 2023

A man with sex crime charges pending in North Carolina was taken into custody at the commercial fishing dock off West Lake Drive in Montauk on Nov. 17.

According to the Dare County Court clerk's office, the man, Philip D. Robinson, 33, has been wanted on charges of second-degree sex offense, a felony, and sexual battery, a misdemeanor, since 2018. The official East Hampton Town Police report indicates he had been working as a deckhand on a vessel called Evening Prayer.

Town police got a call from the Coast Guard at about 4 p.m. on Nov. 17 requesting help with the arrest. Robinson, whose address on record is in North Kingstown, R.I., was then turned over to the custody of the Suffolk County Police Department.

As of Monday afternoon, he was still being held at the County Correctional Facility in Yaphank pending extradition to North Carolina.

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.

Nov 21, 2024

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.

Nov 21, 2024

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.

Nov 21, 2024

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.

Nov 21, 2024

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