Police & Courts

State Attorney General Letitia James has announced the sentencing of a Bridgehampton investment adviser to one to three years in prison for what she described as a “multi-million-dollar securities and loan fraud scheme that cheated dozens of New Yorkers out of nearly $7 million.

On May 25, the day before a fire tore through Maison Close restaurant at 435 East Lake Drive in Montauk, David Browne, the chief fire marshal for the town, did a routine fire inspection and found 11 violations. Four involved improper use of electrical cords and three more cited overdue servicing of fire suppression equipment. In the official report from the fire marshal's office none of those were blamed, and the cause of the fire was listed as undetermined.

This week Senior Chief Nathaniel J. O’Connell relieved Master Chief William B. Harris, who has served as Officer in Charge of Station Montauk for the past four years.

A June 17 traffic stop on Pantigo Road in front of East Hampton Justice Court led to felony weapons charges for an Islip Terrace man.

After pleading guilty in January to first-degree manslaughter in the 2022 death of Kevin Somers, Marc Dern of Springs was sentenced in a negotiated disposition Monday to five years in prison and five years of supervised release.

On Friday at about 1:30 p.m., police received a call about “a possible deceased human body” found on a beach at Montauk State Park. Officers determined it to be “the silicone lower part of a female mannequin.”

It won’t just be birds, helicopters, and seaplanes trailing banners up above East Hampton Village beaches this summer — add drones to the list.

The big booms are back, it seems, in Montauk. Late last Thursday night, a caller reported hearing one in the vicinity of the Surf Lodge. An officer responded but couldn’t find anything amiss, and the call was deemed “unfounded.” Two nights later, two more people made similar reports, but again, officers found nothing.

The East Hampton Town Police Department is seeking the public's help in finding Lucas T. Desario, a town resident who was last seen several days ago. Mr. Desario's vehicle and belongings were found on South Eton Street in Montauk earlier today.

Surveillance camera footage helped police catch a man in a red truck who stole “Steven Tekulsky for Sag Harbor Justice” signs not far from the police station on Division Street in Sag Harbor on Saturday afternoon. He was charged with petty larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, low-level misdemeanors.

In the absence of other contested races in the upcoming Sag Harbor Village elections, all eyes have turned to the race for Sag Harbor Village justice, which pits two attorneys against each other. Steven Tekulsky, at present an East Hampton Town justice and an associate Sag Village justice, is running against Carl Irace, a Sag Harbor resident with no formal judicial experience.

Adina Azarian, an East Hampton real estate broker, her 2-year-old daughter, Aria, and her nanny, Evadnie Smith, who were killed in a plane crash along with the pilot, were like a family, Ms. Azarian had written. While she was a single mother, Ms. Azarian wrote that “the reality is, I do have a partner in raising her, she just happens to be a lovely woman with a backbone from Jamaica. . . . Every family is unique and in ours Aria rules the roost. . . ”