Police & Courts

Last week, an attorney for Vrbo filed a motion with the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, asking that it dismiss Vrbo as a defendant in a civil suit involving a fatal fire at a Noyac rental house last August.

A Sag Harbor man was charged on Feb. 13 with second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor, for allegedly disobeying an order of protection issued in East Hampton Town Justice Court in December.

Several unidentified “white things” were reported floating in the harbor off West Water Street in Sag Harbor on Feb. 13. Police told the caller that while they couldn’t determine what the things were, they didn’t present a hazard.

Residents who live on or near Second House Road have been advocating for flashing yellow lights to be installed at each end of the school zone there. A crash last week, which took down a utility pole and saw a driver charged with drunken driving, has renewed their concerns.

A Feb. 5 crash involving three cars led to the arrest of an East Hampton man on drunken-driving charges.

In East Hampton Town Justice Court, two drunken-driving cases, one of them dating back to December of 2019, were recently resolved.

At least one of the four people sentenced in the March 2022 thefts at the luxury Balenciaga store in East Hampton Village committed the daytime heist while wearing a GPS ankle-monitor as part of a sentencing in similar previous crimes, Raymond A. Tierney, the Suffolk County district attorney, said on Monday night at a meet-and-greet in Amagansett hosted by the East Hampton Town Republican Committee.

East Hampton Town police last week charged two men with second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor, alleging they violated court-imposed orders of protection.

It wasn't quite like the high-end handbag heist last year at Balenciaga in East Hampton, but police are searching nonetheless for two men who they say stole $1,500 worth of purses from Marshall's in the Bridgehampton Commons last month.

A 50-year-old woman went to East Hampton Village police headquarters on Feb. 8 around 6 p.m. to report that she accidentally left her license plates on the Aston Martin that she had just traded in at a dealership. She was unable to recover the plates and was given Department of Motor Vehicles paperwork to fill out.

Big winds, accompanied by a brutal blast of cold weather, brought reports last weekend of numerous downed tree limbs across the area, blowing garbage from an overstuffed Dumpster, frozen pipes that burst in the cold, and one wind-damaged car.

Kenny’s Tipperary Inn in Montauk was the scene last month of the arrest, on numerous criminal charges, of two brothers in a case that has since raised questions about their past business practices.