Police & Courts

A 39-year-old Florida man has been charged in East Hampton Town with felony criminal contempt after a domestic incident in which police said he showed up drunk at a Montauk residence and harassed a person whom he had been ordered to stay away from.

Reflecting a trend among police agencies across the country, officers of the East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor Village Police Departments will soon be outfitted with body cameras thanks to grants received from New York State's Department of Criminal Justice Services.

A confused driver reported a traffic hazard at around 7:30 a.m. on March 7. The light at the three-way intersection of Baiting Hollow Road, Toilsome Lane, and Woods Lane appeared to have been turned so that it faced the wrong direction. Police blamed the wind and called for maintenance on the light.

A retired East Hampton builder is raising money to bring a mobile trailer resembling a small house — complete with kitchen, living room, and bedroom — to the community here to teach kids what to do if a fire breaks out at home.

Last month he was named the East Hampton Town Police Department’s Officer of the Year, and now Bradley Hughes has been promoted to police sergeant.

A caller reported several dozen construction nails lying in the road at the North Main Street-Main Street cutoff on the morning of Feb. 27. Police and the Highway Department made quick work of the cleanup, with no damage to vehicles reported.

Legislation introduced at last week’s East Hampton Village Board to create a standalone Ambulance Department “to provide a municipal paid and volunteer general ambulance service in the village and contracted-for areas of the Town of East Hampton” so alarmed a faction of the ambulance corps that it scheduled an emergency meeting. The law will be the subject of a public hearing on March 17.

In a case dating back to October of 2021, East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky sentenced a 29-year-old East Hampton man on Feb. 15 to a six-month revocation of his driver’s license and two years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while intoxicated.

More eggs reported stolen from Iacono’s: On Feb. 20, Amanda Iacono told police that two men, one of whom she named, had taken four dozen eggs, priced at $8 a dozen, from the farm’s honor-system egg stand, but had left only $22.

A 55-year-old Springs man was charged with misdemeanor criminal contempt on Feb. 22, after allegedly violating an order of protection.

When a fire department call comes over the radio, oftentimes there are four members of the Stanis family dashing out the door, including Amanda Stanis, the East Hampton Fire Department's new official photographer.

Police arrested three men on drunken-driving charges on East Hampton Town roads this week. One of the incidents involved a car accident.