Police & Courts

Called to a house on Willow Drive on Nov. 17, at around 9 a.m., the Montauk Fire Department quickly learned that there were no fire hydrants immediately nearby from which to get the water it needed.

A 10-year-old was taken by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Friday after he was struck by a car while crossing the street a short distance from the Springs School.

Luis M. Sagbay-Coyago was driving without headlights on, East Hampton Town police said this week, when he was pulled over on Old Fireplace Road in Springs shortly after 7 p.m. on Nov. 17.

House painters showed up at the wrong Atlantic Avenue, Amagansett, address on the morning of Nov. 10. They discovered their mistake about 45 minutes later when the homeowner contacted police about two suspicious vehicles on the property.

Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming has teamed with Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon and his Sheriff’s Transition and Re-entry Team, New Hour LI, and the Sound Justice Initiative on a clothing drive to help those transitioning to life after incarceration.

Three drivers who crashed their vehicles on town and village roads recently found themselves facing alcohol-related charges.

The driver in a fatal crash in Amagansett that took the life of a mother walking her children in January took a plea deal last week, accepting a felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.

Two recent car accidents on East Hampton Town and Village roads resulted in injuries, including a suspected concussion suffered by an 8-year-old girl in a crash on the afternoon of Nov. 9.

Two cousins who are members of the Gosman family of Montauk pleaded guilty in federal court in Central Islip on Thursday to one felony count of criminal conspiracy for their role in a scheme to purchase illegal fluke and black sea bass from a Montauk fisherman, the federal Department of Justice announced on Thursday.

Multiple fire departments are battling a fire at a house on Willow Lane in Montauk, with crews from as far west as Southampton having been called in for help.

Dirt bikers have been illegally building a track, jumps, and wooden platforms off an established nature trail at the Soak Hides Dreen, according to a Rivers Road resident who called police on Oct. 25. The bikers are usually there around 3 p.m., the resident said. Officers were given photos as evidence.

Lacking a valid driver’s license, car registration, inspection sticker, or insurance card can get a driver into trouble, as evidenced by two arrests in Sag Harbor this week.

New York State police are seeking information on a Nov. 5 shooting on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation that killed a Sag Harbor man.

Police in East Hampton Town and Village and Sag Harbor made several arrests on the roads during the last two weeks.

A Sag Harbor resident reported seeing a female hunter perched on a stand at a Suffolk Street Extension house, taking aim at deer in the cemetery.

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini has opened a new office, called the Office of Immigrant Affairs, that will work to broker trust between at-risk communities and law enforcement. Made up of expert prosecutors and bilingual staff, it aims to improve the handling of the increasing number of crimes targeting immigrants.

Why did the deer cross the road?

Because rutting season is in full swing, leading to at least 10 deer-versus-car collisions over the last week on local roads. No injuries to drivers were reported, but in many cases, vehicle damage was estimated at more than $1,000. Crashes were most often in the early morning or at twilight.

The race for the office of Suffolk district attorney pits the incumbent, Tim Sini, against Ray Tierney, a veteran prosecutor who is making his first run for elected office.

Errol Toulon Jr., a Democrat who was elected to his first term as Suffolk County sheriff in 2017 cross-endorsed by the Conservative Party, says he is seeking re-election this year because he has some “unfinished business” to take care of.

Just before 4 a.m. on Sunday, an unruly man and woman who had been kicked out of a nightclub on Three Mile Harbor Road put up such a fuss that the police had to be called.

In an effort to provide mental health support for police officers, East Hampton Village and the Police Benevolent Association union have agreed to require members of the village’s Police Department to be evaluated by a psychotherapist every three years, Mayor Jerry Larsen announced at a village board meeting on Friday.

Early Saturday morning, police pulled over a suspected drunken driver in a white Dodge sedan that had been seen speeding through the village. Police followed and stopped the car on Springs-Fireplace Road. The driver, a 21-year-old Riverhead man, told police he was “late to work and may have been driving a little fast.”

It was a light week on the roads for officers, with a single drunken-driving arrest — in Montauk — among the East Hampton Town, Village, and Sag Harbor police.

A Colorado missing persons case has resulted in a suspected murder arrest for a man whom police found staying at the Sag Harbor Inn. The victim, Masany Cruz, was 29.

In recent weeks, the East Hampton Town Police Department has received enough reports of items missing from vehicles to call them “a string of larcenies.” In most of the incidents, the cars were unlocked and parked in people’s driveways.

Sag Harbor Village police have stepped up their patrols of narrow village roads on the lookout for oversize commercial trucks, which are prohibited from using certain streets unless they are making local deliveries.

The East Hampton Town Police Department’s bomb squad was called in last Friday afternoon when an intact World War II explosive device was found in the sand on Sammy’s Beach. Three Mile Harbor was closed as the squad investigated the ordnance, reporting that it was ultimately “detonated and destroyed without incident.”

A felony driving while intoxicated charge confronts a Wainscott man, who, police said, was under the influence of alcohol when they stopped him last Thursday in East Hampton.

A New York City man was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of contempt of court after allegedly having entered a house he had been ordered not to.

On the lookout for explosives, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives aided the East Hampton Town Police Department in the search of a Montauk house on Sept. 16, for which they had a state-issued warrant.