Police & Courts

Police find themselves all too often in the role of social workers. The Flying Point Foundation for Autism is working to help them navigate this role when it comes to dealing with children and adults on the autism spectrum, because, as its founder said, a “minor emergency involving” someone on the spectrum “could go off the rails in a heartbeat.”

“I am truly sorry for ruining your lives,” a tearful Daniel Campbell, the driver in an August 2021 hit-and-run that led to the death of Devesh Samtani, told a courtroom full of Mr. Samtani's friends and family at his sentencing hearing on Thursday. "The loss of your son’s life will be with me forever.”

A photograph of a dirt-spattered bolt without a nut was highlighted in a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report on Kent Feuerring’s fatal seaplane crash in the early afternoon of Oct. 6.

A Harbor View Drive resident told police on Sunday that a drunken man had been banging on his door at 3 that morning. At 3:08 a.m., a neighbor called as well, saying there was a drunk on his front lawn who kept approaching his front door. Officers escorted the man home.

On Oct. 25, April Gornik and her husband were walking along Route 114 on North Haven when she was struck from behind, on her shoulder, by the passenger-side mirror of a pickup truck, which then sped by. The accident has renewed calls to lower the speed limit on that stretch of the road.

After allegedly striking and breaking a bedroom door in a Cosdrew Lane basement a woman was charged with second-degree manacing.

Two young men were charged last weekend with driving while intoxicated on local roads.

A driver whom Sag Harbor Village police did not identify admitted to doing doughnuts in the parking lot of 373 Main Street late Saturday night, just before her car rolled over.

Nicole Greenwood, the 35-year-old woman critically injured in a motorcycle crash on Bluff Road in Amagansett on the night of Oct. 21, has died from her injuries.

A 28-year-old Springs man was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving an injury, a felony, after an Oct. 16 incident near the corner of Railroad Avenue and Lumber Lane in East Hampton Village.

After more than 38 years of service, Manny Vilar of Springs retired on Sunday from the New York State Park police, and with mixed emotions.

Police intercepted a 58-year-old New York City woman who was on her way to the library Friday morning after a 71-year-old man called to say she had been walking across his property. After the woman explained that she was new in town, officers gave her directions to the library, but did not throw the book at her for trespassing.

East Hampton Village is seeking to formalize its relationship with the East Hampton Ambulance Association with code changes that could be implemented by January. It's unclear whether that would alter operation of the associaton, which has been run by its own bylaws for decades.

A 63-year-old Southampton woman and a 27-year-old Hampton Bays man were charged with driving while intoxicated by town and village police recently.

Marine units and other law enforcement personnel from around the East End were still searching this week for a 31-year-old Queens man, Dario Cholula, who went missing on the evening of Oct. 19 while fishing off North Haven in a small kayak.

East Hampton Town police on Wednesday arrested a 13-year-old Springs School student who allegedly doctored a photo of another student, turned it into a threat of violence, and posted it on social media. Officers were able to "swiftly" deem it noncredible, according to a press release.

Appearing before Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Richard Ambro in Riverside Tuesday morning, Daniel Campbell, the driver in a 2021 hit-and-run in Amagansett, accepted the judge's latest sentencing recommendation: 90 days in jail, 90 days of community service, and five years' probation.

A Springs School student is facing disciplinary consequences after firing a BB gun on an East Hampton Middle School bus returning from a football game at East Moriches on Thursday.

A Friday night motorcycle crash on Bluff Road in Amagansett sent one person to the hospital and another to court.

Marine units and other law enforcement assets from around the region were on scene Thursday afternoon searching for a 31-year-old Queens man, Dario Cholula, who went missing last night while reportedly fishing the waters off North Haven.

On Sunday morning, officers punched a new hole in the belt of a man whose pants had fallen down on Newtown Lane. The man, 56, is well known in the village. The last hole in his belt was buckled, police said, but was not keeping his pants up. “Negative intent of exposure,” they concluded.

East Hampton Town police reported two traffic accidents involving injuries last week, both in Springs.

A dispute over access to hunting grounds made the police blotter on Oct. 9 when James Hren of Further Lane, 79, reported that someone had cut down a tree on his property, which runs to Skimhampton Road. He suspected it was done by hunters, he told an officer.

She was about to take off when she “felt her brakes stalling and ‘grabbing’ the runway.” After determining that the emergency brake was not engaged, and therefore not the culprit, she deemed it wise to stay on the ground.

On the evening of Oct. 11, for at least the third time this year, someone drove home in the wrong car, thinking it was theirs and prompting a report of a stolen vehicle.

An attorney for the family of the two young women who died this summer in a fire at a rented house in Noyac has written to Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney asking why his office has not pursued criminal charges in the Aug. 3 tragedy.

Mourners filled the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor on Thursday afternoon to remember Kent I. Feuerring of Sagaponack, the pilot who died last Thursday when the small seaplane he was flying crashed at the edge of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton.

The manager of Brent’s called police Monday afternoon to say that three or four customers in hunting clothes had been “acting strange” and lingering outside the store. Cleaning staff later discovered a garbage bag filled with deer remains in the Dumpster.

There were three arrests for driving while intoxicated in East Hampton Town this week and one in the village.

A part-time employee in the East Hampton Village Department of Public Works was arrested on Friday for allegedly vandalizing village and private property, including the side of a village police car, in August.