Police & Courts

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A man described to police as “a drunk 20-something,” wearing black shorts and T-shirt, was staggering through traffic on Flamingo Road around dinnertime on June 8, prompting a call to police. He was gone by the time they arrived, and a search yielded no results.

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.

The blaze that destroyed a house at 3 Fair Hills Lane in Bridgehampton Friday night had been "unfortunately burning for quite a while before anyone dialed 911," according to Nick Hemby, the chief of the Bridgehampton Fire Department.

A fire completely destroyed one house on Fair HIlls Lane in Bridgehampton and damaged three others, one of them severely, late Friday night, according to Southampton Town police.

On Memorial Day, “pool jumpers” hit an Amagansett property. A woman was returning home after a day at the beach when she saw three men and two women leaving her backyard, dripping wet. One of the men told her husband he had “always admired” their house before they all walked off.

A driver in a "newer style" Range Rover fled the scene of an accident last Thursday afternoon in Amagansett.

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney alleged on Monday that Mark Ripolone, 34, "financially exploited his customers, most of them small businesses."

A woman thrown overboard when her boat exploded Sunday afternoon in the waters off North Haven survived the incident, though the boat did not, according to the New York State Harbormaster and Bay Constable Association.

East Hampton Village police were notified by town cops on Saturday night about an erratic driver who may have been in an accident in Amagansett, and found the man on Main Street near David’s Lane, driving “recklessly.”

Someone couldn’t negotiate a turn onto Cedar Street on Friday night and hit the berm, fence, and ultimately the office building at Saskas Surveyor Company. The driver fled, leaving behind parts from a red Ford Mustang.

A garbage truck, a plumbing van and a pickup truck one day; a pickup and two S.U.V.'s the next.

Concerned that the takeout she had gotten for dinner would slide off the seat, a woman reached over, lost control of her car, and ran into a tree.

It didn’t take long for the East Hampton Village lifeguard squad to get called into action this season, and their save of two boys caught in a rip current provided a good chance to educate the young swimmers about the dangers of such currents and how to deal with them.

Police were called on the morning of May 16 to 66 Newtown Lane, where an older man was reportedly yelling profanities. Officers found him sitting on a bench, not yelling anymore. He said was waiting for a store to open, and was “tired of this place.”

Another mass shooting has claimed the lives of school children, with at least 19 students and two teachers dead in Uvalde, Tex., after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday. The deadly attack has police and schools on the South Fork on high alert, though no specific threats have been identified.

East Hampton Town police lodged a felony charge of driving while intoxicated early Saturday morning after seeing a 2001 black Dodge swerving over the double lines on Springs-Fireplace Road.

A man who police said is homeless was charged with petty larceny at the Montauk 7-Eleven store.

A woman called police last Thursday to ask if they knew where to find a "male soul mate." An officer told her that police have no special knowledge about the location of soul mates and asked if she was okay, or felt the need to go to the hospital. She said no, she was healthy and in good spirits.

Two drivers whose cars had been stopped on the side of the road, plus one whom police pulled over for a reported traffic violation, are now facing charges of driving while intoxicated.

Joseph Grippo's appearance in Suffolk County Criminal Court on Thursday was markedly different from the last time he appeared there before Justice Stephen L. Braslow. Instead of insults, Mr. Grippo apologized to the judge, who on April 25 had held him in contempt and ordered him out of the courtroom.

Three people were charged with driving while intoxicated in the last week.

A mysterious "foaming chemical" was observed on the shoulder of Montauk Highway in Amagansett on the afternoon of May 3. By the time they arrived, the officers could not locate the spill.

Joseph DeCristofaro has been named the first honorary chief in the East Hampton Fire Department's 132-year history.