A 29-year-old East Hampton woman went to police headquarters on March 4 to report being the victim of sexual assault, stemming from an incident on Feb. 23 at a house in town.
A heavily redacted police report indicated a female friend was a possible witness to the crime, which is being investigated by detectives as a case of a first-degree criminal sex act under a provision indicating the victim was “incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless.”
As reports of crimes of a sexual nature have apparently increased, those cases have drawn attention — not only because of their brutality, but also because allegations of abuse strike at deeply held assumptions about safety in a place that has seen itself as insulated from such offenses.
Two bicyclists were injured on local roads last Thursday in separate incidents.
After charging a Springs man with misdemeanor drunken driving on Sunday, East Hampton Town police added a more serious drug charge.
A Brooklyn woman who came here to visit a friend for the weekend instead spent the weekend in jail after East Hampton Village police recovered a large number of items stolen from the Ralph Lauren Double RL clothing store on Main Street and arrested the woman they say stole them all.
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