Police & Courts

Carl Irace, an East Hampton attorney who is also a Sag Harbor Village Court Justice, is in a Manhattan federal court today to argue an appeal of a case involving “distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death.”

Police went to CVS Sunday night in East Hampton after a shopper claimed to have found no one available to help and requested a “well-being check of the employees.” There was at least one employee there when officers arrived. He said he’d been “in the back, working.”

Abraham’s Path was closed for several hours between Accabonac Road and Town Lane on Saturday afternoon after a man driving a 2015 Cadillac S.U.V. lost control of the vehicle and hit a utility pole.

A Swiss man was pronounced dead at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after going missing in the water near Gibson Lane Beach in Sagaponack on Oct. 4 around 3:30 p.m.

A Yorkshire terrier inadvertently rode a westbound bus from the Bridgehampton train station to Babylon on Sunday afternoon without its family, prompting an unusual “lost dog” search that spanned multiple police agencies.

Police made two felony drunken-driving arrests on town roads in the last 10 days.

Two people were arrested last week on felony charges, one alleged criminal mischief and the other drug possession.

Sag Harbor Village Police documented an incident of a woman fleeing from her $19.55 bill for a glass of wine at Vin Sur Vingt Bistro on Sunday night.

Christian Gutierrez, a 21-year-old from East Hampton, died in a motorcycle accident in Riverhead on Sunday morning, according to Riverhead Town police.

A Sag Harbor woman reported a “rather unpleasant aroma in the air” near Main Street on Saturday. An officer informed her that the smell was likely coming from the nearby sewage plant. The woman disagreed, claiming she is “very experienced in these smells,” and asked the officer to search each garbage can for a dead deer.

After allegedly throwing a 60-inch Samsung television onto the floor of his living room, an East Hampton man was arrested at his house on Boatheaders Lane last Thursday night on a charge of third-degree criminal mischief, a class-E felony.

It was only 15 minutes from the time Kent Feuerring took off from East Hampton Town Airport in his Seamax M-22 on the pristine morning of Oct. 6, 2022, until the right wing separated from the plane, causing him to crash in Three Mile Harbor. It took nearly two years for the National Transportation Safety Board to release its final report on the fatal accident, which they did last week, blaming the manufacturer for using a nut that couldn’t handle the job it was given.

A man in a dark sedan left the scene of a collision with a 2018 Subaru at the intersection of Stephen Hand’s Path and Cedar Street in East Hampton on the afternoon of Sept. 17.

A woman who had parked at Amber Waves Farm in Amagansett reported a stolen car last Thursday morning. On the scene, police noticed a car matching the description about 200 feet away. The woman confirmed that it was hers.

When Robert J. (R.J.) Capozzola, a paid paramedic with East Hampton Village, helped save a woman who was choking on a piece of steak at the Palm restaurant on Aug. 7, he said he wasn’t thinking about much, just doing his job.

Historically, an idea stretching through the English common law system to ancient times maintains that criminal court is a public forum. But virtual court — a change introduced during the pandemic — has stuck around, altering court proceedings and increasing the efficiency of local courthouses.

An East Hampton man told village police he was looking down at his phone last Friday afternoon when his 2016 Chevrolet pickup truck ran into a 2018 Tesla at the intersection of Pantigo and Accabonac Roads.

A 34-year-old homeless man accused of kidnapping and robbing three young East Hampton men at knifepoint on Sept. 3 pleaded not guilty to five felony charges at his arraignment before Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei on Wednesday.

Acting East Hampton Village Chief of Police Jeffrey J. Erickson has passed the Civil Service police chief exam, and will be officially promoted to the rank of chief when the village board meets on Oct. 18. He will become the ninth police chief in the history of the East Hampton Village Police Department.

After a man exposed himself in front of two women whom he’d been hanging out with near the Montauk 7-Eleven store on the morning of Sept. 7, they called the police. He ran off.

Two local women received threatening emails from an unknown sender on the afternoon of Sept. 4, with photos of their homes attached, demanding that $2,000 be sent to a Bitcoin code.

The pop star Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to an amended charge of driving with an impaired ability, a violation, in an appearance Friday morning in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court stemming from his June 18 drunken-driving charge.

A car flipped over on Montauk Highway near Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton on Sept. 3, following a collision that resulted in multiple hospitalizations. The driver told police the sun's glare blinded her.

The Bridgehampton man charged with illegally carrying a loaded Glock and two high-capacity magazines on Main Street in East Hampton Village pleaded not guilty before Suffolk County Justice Richard Ambro on Thursday.

East Hampton Village police responded Sunday afternoon to Herrick Park, where a man had been reported “inhaling cleaning products.” He told an officer he wasn’t “huffing,” just blowing sand out of his phone.

East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo has urged town residents to “be mindful of basic crime prevention practices, such as locking cars and front doors at night, paying attention to surroundings, and promptly reporting suspicious activity,” following a string of apparently unrelated crimes.

Round trip, an ambulance ride from Springs to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital takes between two and three hours, depending on the circumstances. From Montauk, it takes a minimum of three hours. So say two of the ambulance drivers who make these trips regularly, who know "every bump" in the road along the way.

An East Hampton man was hospitalized following a collision with a 2023 Chevrolet while cycling north on King Street in the village on the morning of Aug. 16.

A Bridgehampton man was arrested on charges of illegal firearms possession on Saturday night following a traffic stop on East Hampton Main Street shortly after 8. 

An East Hampton Town justice sent a homeless man to Suffolk County jail without bail Thursday following the man's arrest on eight combined charges of robbery, attempted robbery, and kidnapping. Police allege that on Tuesday evening he approached three people — all male East Hampton residents, one of them a juvenile — in a parking lot on Springs-Fireplace Road, where he held a knife to the throat of one victim, demanded money, and "ordered" them to drive to an A.T.M.