Police & Courts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

The absence of stop signs at a four-way intersection in East Hampton was at least partly to blame for an accident that injured two men on Friday morning.

Multiple disturbances last week involved people yelling obscenities in public places.

A tree ultimately stopped Sophie Laffont's Mercedes on Friday, after it struck a fire hydrant on the side of Accabonac Road in East Hampton

Three people were injured in a head-on collision in Montauk Friday morning in the most serious of a handful of traffic accidents last week.

A homeowner on East Lake Drive in Montauk was surprised to see a stranger in his driveway a little after 5 a.m. on Sept. 22. He was yet more surprised when the man, who had a loaded small-bore rifle with him, demanded that he return his missing cellphone.

Two harbormasters patrolling near the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett were called to investigate a possible boat fire on Saturday evening. The boat's owner told them that his engines "just smoke a lot."

In an ongoing investigation into a hit-and-run accident on Aug. 10 that led to the death of Devesh Samtani, 18, a summer visitor who was one of hundreds walking in the dark on a narrow road after a huge house party in Amagansett, a new report said that there had been 10 people packed into the sport-utility vehicle that Daniel M. Campbell was driving.

A Sag Harbor woman was charged with endangering the welfare of a child on Sept. 14 after a verbal dispute at a Harbor Avenue house turned physical.

Chief Gerard Turza Jr. said several workers decided to burn assorted debris at a construction site, but it was "nothing of consequence, other than stupidity."

Among last week's road accidents were one in which a pedestrian was hurt and two involving drivers who apparently failed to brake for stop signs.