Police & Courts

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters were dispatched at 11:42 p.m. Tuesday to 74 Oakview Highway in East Hampton, where they found a small cottage engulfed in flames.

East Hampton Town police reported just one drunken-driving arrest last week.

A Long Island City woman told police on Jan. 12 that her East Hampton fiancé’s daughters had been “talking bad about her to the family.” She wanted her complaint on file, and police obliged.

East Hampton Town police reported charging a 39-year-old Amagansett woman with criminal possession of stolen property, a class E felony, on Jan. 23.

There is only one East Hampton Town Police Officer of the Year for 2022 — Bradley Hughes — but “we easily could have had three or four officers of the year this past year,” Police Chief Michael Sarlo said this week.

A 36-year-old Bay Shore man with a prior drunken-driving conviction was hit with two felony charges last Thursday, one for driving while intoxicated and the other for driving with a revoked license.

A neighbor’s floodlight was shining into a woman’s Franklin Avenue, Sag Harbor, bedroom on Friday night and she called police to complain about it.

One man was was charged with two felonies on the morning of Jan. 12 after reportedly fleeing when police attempted to pull him over. Another man was charged with two misdemeanor counts of driving while intoxicated after being clocked at 56 miles per hour in a 30-m.p.h. zone.

Two cases, one involving drunken-driving charges against a Montauk fishing-boat captain and another involving an assault charge against an East Hampton man, were recently resolved in town justice court.

A house on Queen’s Lane in East Hampton was the scene of two assaults on the night of Jan. 7, allegedly perpetrated by men with the same last name. East Hampton Town police did not spell out their relationship, if any.

On Saturday afternoon at the Ladies Village Improvement Society, a man sorting through donated clothes found a plastic bag containing “a white powdery substance” and called police. An officer took possession of the bag for storage in the evidence locker until it can be destroyed.

An East Hampton man is facing two drunken-driving charges stemming from a crash he allegedly caused late on Saturday afternoon. No one was injured in the incident.

For her role in the March 2022 heist at the luxury retail store Balenciaga in East Hampton Village, Baseemah Davis of Newark, N.J., has been sentenced to two to six years in prison, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney announced Tuesday.

The Southampton Town Police Department and Suffolk County Crime Stoppers are searching for four men who they say used fake $10 and $20 bills to buy merchandise at Walgreens in Bridgehampton Commons last week.

Two men were charged with drunken driving last week, in what was otherwise a quiet week on local roads.

“Degraded, inadequate, and poorly maintained.” That’s how East Hampton Town Police detectives characterized the safety management systems at the Maidstone Gun Club’s 200-yard rifle range during an investigation into a bullet, allegedly originating from the club, that struck a Merchants Path house on Aug. 5, 2022.

A “tall white male” was asking patrons at the post office Saturday afternoon if they’d give him some money so he could “restore a broken flagpole,” and someone called in a report of peddling. By the time police arrived, the man had departed.

The East Hampton Village Ambulance Association has hired a lawyer to fight what it says was an illegal transfer of its ambulance service certificate from the association to the village government without its agreement, notification, or use of administrative protocols required by state law. The transfer could lead to billing for ambulance services.

A 22-year-old Montauk man is facing drunken-driving charges after he lost control of his car on Abraham’s Path Sunday morning.

In Suffolk County Criminal Court on Thursday, Marc Dern of Springs pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the Feb. 5, 2022, death of Kevin Somers, a friend and fellow Maidstone Club employee. 

A 40-year-old man living on Toilsome Lane called police last Thursday afternoon to report “suspicious activity.” He had discovered a plastic bag wrapped tightly around the branch of a tree on his property and wanted his finding documented.

According to East Hampton Town police, a 26-year-old man entered a house at 13 West Drive in East Hampton without permission and refused to leave when asked. After arresting him, police discovered a small ziplock-style plastic bag in his pocket containing a powdery white substance, later determined to be cocaine.

On Christmas morning, there was a head-on collision on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road near Ingalls Road in Springs, in which a 27-year-old Springs man was charged with driving while intoxicated.

A dog on North Haven was at the heart of the hubbub on Christmas Eve. It had gone into the bay on that frigid morning, the Sag Harbor Village Police chief said, only to find itself in need of an “ice rescue.”

A woman who gave police her address as Brooklyn reported that thieves had stolen items from a Middle Lane mailbox four times between Nov. 2 and Dec. 17. The missing parcels, she said, include a Christmas ornament, artwork, a Luna brand blanket, and clothing. The thief will be charged with larceny if found; the matter was referred to the detective squad.

The wild weather that arrived in town late Friday afternoon prompted multiple road hazard calls to police. The blast of artic air, which brought blustery winds that downed numerous trees, was also blamed for one weather-driven accident.

A family dispute in August over a check-writing incident led to the arrest last Thursday of a Sag Harbor man on charges of grand larceny.

Three of the defendants in a midday theft of $94,000 in handbags from the Balenciaga store in March on East Hampton’s Newtown Lane have now been sentenced.

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney announced Friday that a jury has found Alcides Lopez-Cambara guilty in the 2020 murder-robbery of Marco Grisales, whose last known address was in Sag Harbor.

A set of gang-related indictments last week was notable for zigzagging across Long Island, from a murder at a Farmingville nightclub to a shooting outside Lee Zeldin’s Shirley house, to an armed carjacking in Wantagh, to East Hampton. Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney announced on Dec. 12 that the gang, called No Fake Love, or NFL, has been broken up.