Police & Courts

Three motorists were charged this week with driving while intoxicated, all three charges first-offense misdemeanors.

Benjamin Z. Kitburi was already unconscious when he was pulled from the water shortly after 7:30 p.m. by three nearby surfers, according to East Hampton Town police.

Joseph Grippo of Montauk, facing a trial for murder, took a plea deal on Monday to first-degree manslaughter for the killing of Robert Casado three years ago. 

One hit-and-run collision was among this week's traffic accidents in Springs, East Hampton, and Montauk.

Three men from away and two residents were charged over the past week with driving while intoxicated.

East Hampton Village officials called police on July 5 to report litter scattered along Buell Lane between Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church and the library — cups, water bottles, and other detritus. A caterer was initially suspected, but was eventually vindicated. Public Works employees came by to clean up the mess.

A confrontation over a parking spot at the Meadow Street lot in Sag Harbor led last Thursday to the arrest of an East Hampton woman.

East Hampton Village police on Sunday arrested six people affiliated with a Tax the Rich protest that traveled east from Southampton Village over the course of the weekend. Town police arrested six more people on Monday; all are facing charges of disorderly conduct, a violation.

A Georgica Road resident went to police on June 25 to document the theft of $20,000 worth of cooking utensils and china on June 25, stolen sometime since January. The house was being renovated, she said, and many different construction companies had been in and out. The missing items were stored in a cardboard box by the front door.

A man who refused to pay his food and drink bill at Rowdy Hall was charged with theft of services, disorderly conduct, and “exposure of a person."

Dr. Russell Windsor of Amagansett, a 70-year-old orthopedic surgeon, had been cycling in the vicinity of the Lobster Roll when, police said, he veered from the shoulder into the eastbound lane of traffic and was hit. As police investigated, Montauk Highway was closed for several hours in both directions.

In one accident traffic was piling up and the driver had no time to stop, in another sun glare may have played a role, and in a third it was rain-slicked roads

According to the Southampton Town Police Department, an 11-year-old boy was struck by a pickup truck and killed on Townline Road in Sagaponack at 5:28 p.m. last Thursday.

The second big holiday weekend of the season brought with it numerous arrests for drunken driving, both in East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor Village.

The East Hampton, Sag Harbor, and Amagansett Fire Departments responded Tuesday night to a structure fire at 171 Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton Village.

Update, July 3, 6 p.m.: East Hampton Town police said late Sunday afternoon that a 70-year-old bicyclist from Amagansett had died in an accident that closed Montauk Highway on the Napeague stretch earlier that day. 

Southampton Town police on Thursday afternoon received a call about a man who was seen slumped over the steering wheel of a white van in the parking lot of the Bridgehampton Commons shopping center.

A South Burlington, Vt., man was arrested on Montauk Highway near Pantigo Place in East Hampton early on the morning of June 20 and charged with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, and no fewer than 16 traffic infractions.

An anonymous caller reported last Thursday night that a man was chugging vodka from a “champagne-colored” GMC on Division Street in Sag Harbor. Officers found the vehicle and the man, who didn’t want to give them any personal information, but showed them the jug from which he’d been drinking water.

A Calverton man was charged with disorderly conduct and intoxication in Sag Harbor Sunday night after police were called to check on a fight at the Corner Bar.

A Montauk property owner accused by East Hampton Town of renting his house more than 50 times over nine months could be facing over $200,000 in fines after being issued dozens of appearance tickets for alleged violations of the town's rental registry law. His attorney says "there are lots of reasons why the town's case is not going to be acceptable to an East Hampton Town jury."

Three recent traffic accidents on local roads resulted in injuries.

Local and county law enforcement agencies have put out a call to the public for help identifying a man they say assaulted a person in East Hampton on June 18.

Five accidents were recorded on local roads in recent weeks, one of which, on June 13, was witnessed by East Hampton Town Superintendent of Highways Stephen Lynch.

An East Hampton man with three prior driving-while-intoxicated convictions within the past 15 years was charged with felony D.W.I. on the afternoon of June 10.

A “Let’s Go Brandon” yard sign was stolen from a Deep Woods Lane, Amagansett, property on Saturday night. The homeowner told police he’d had the sign on his lawn for six months.

Near midnight on June 6, a Montauk man was charged by East Hampton Town police with disorderly conduct, obstructing traffic, and resisting arrest.

Lt. Chelsea Tierney was among five officers of the East Hampton Town Police Department who were recently promoted. Lieutenant Tierney, along with Lt. Daniel Toia, Detective Sgt. Ryan Hogan, Sgt. Ryan Fink, and Detective Luke McNamara, took the oath of office in the main meeting room at Town Hall on Tuesday.

Residents of Hampton Waters, off Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton, have been rattled by a pit bull attack that injured one of their neighbors on the afternoon of May 31, and the community is still wondering just whose dog it was that bit Stuart Strauss hard above one eye, inflicting bloody scratches and bruises.

A Springs man was charged with aggravated drunken driving, a misdemeanor, on the morning of June 6, after a 911 call reporting a man passed out in a car on Cedar Ridge Road in that hamlet.