Police & Courts

A pickup truck and a Subaru collided last Thursday morning at the Wainscott Northwest Road turnoff from Route 114, the Sag Harbor Turnpike.

East Hampton Town police detectives and Suffolk County Crime Stoppers are searching for a man who stole four custom Capt. Neil Faulkner fishing rods from a boat docked at West Lake Marina on Aug. 26 at approximately 3:10 a.m.

Update: A total of five luxury vehicles has now gone missing from driveways in East Hampton Town and Village since Friday night. As of Wednesday afternoon, one of them has been recovered.

Update: East Hampton Town police have confirmed that the body of "a middle-aged female" was found on the beach between Edward V. Ecker Sr. County Park and the Navy Road town beach in.

The Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Southampton Town Police Department detectives are searching for a man who stole a Rolex watch and a wallet containing credit cards from a vehicle parked at Gibson Beach in Sagaponack on July 30.

A driver and passenger were taken to the hospital after car struck utility pole while avoiding impact.

There were as many as 90 unrelated people, not wearing face masks or maintaining required social distance, partying at 16 Industrial Road in Montauk on the night of Aug. 30, according to an East Hampton Town code enforcement officer who charged the tenant of the house with "willful violation of health laws and criminal nuisance in the second degree, creating conditions that endanger others."

This week's stolen paddleboard belonged to Mike Lumi. The blue-and-white board, valued at $1,000, was last seen leaning on his front gate at 187 Essex Street. 

A 48-year-old East Hampton man who police say fled following a Sunday night car accident is facing felony charges of drug possession and driving while intoxicated.

East Hampton Town police are investigating whether there is a connection between break-ins at Amagansett Seafood and Bostwick's Chowder House in East Hampton between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Hundreds of people gathered in Southampton Village on Saturday morning for a Back the Blue rally to support police officers, law enforcement, and the armed services. 

Around midnight , the captains of a 90-foot yacht and an 88-foot yacht, docked at the Sag Harbor Yacht Club, reported thousands of dollars in damage after an unknown boat created "a huge wake" that pushed the yachts up against the dock.

The night of Aug. 24 was a busy one for East Hampton Town police, who were called to no fewer than three accidents on local roads.

East Hampton Town police charged a Springs man with child endangerment after he used an app to chat with a 14-year-old girl, allegedly offering to pay her $305 in exchange for nude photographs, and asking to meet her in person.

A graduate of East Hampton High School, "sustained serious head trauma requiring emergency surgery" after a road rage confrontation on Aug. 24 in East Hampton Village, according to police.

A Springs 18-year-old was charged Saturday afternoon with stealing a car, driving it into another vehicle, and fleeing the scene.

At least four people were injured at an engagement party on Saturday night in Bridgehampton following an explosion involving a fire pit, according to the Southampton Town Police Department.

Deborah Metrick of New York City, 46, was stopped in traffic on Stephen Hand's Path near Bull Path last Thursday afternoon when a 2011 Ford pickup rear-ended her brand-new BMW.

Lina Lopez-Alvarez, 29, of Springs failed to dim the headlights of her black 2008 Ford at 4 a.m. Saturday, causing a "dangerous glare" for oncoming traffic.

On Monday at 8 p.m., on Route 27 outside the Montauk Community Church, William Bock of Montauk, in a 2014 Jeep Wrangler, veered across the road and collided head-on with an oncoming 2017 Ford Suburban, injuring the Ford's driver and her passenger as well as himself.

It has been a long summer for a Long Point Road homeowner whose address is mistakenly listed in the popular app Waze as the location for the restaurant Le Bilboquet.

The East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue and Auxiliary Squad has been officially designated an emergency rescue and first aid squad by New York State.

On Wednesday around 7 a.m., Mary Anne Jules, 61, a former athletic director at the Bridgehampton School, was hit by a work van while jogging in her Water Mill neighborhood, according to Southampton Town police.

East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana, who also presides over Sag Harbor Village Justice Court, will face a roomful of allegedly undocumented drivers there on Friday, Sept 4. Sag Harbor police said they charged seven of them last week.

An East Hampton man was arrested on multiple weapons charges on Friday morning following a raid at his residence at 21 Wireless Road. Police said the extensive search produced 17 firearms, all found inside the house: six assault weapons, five shotguns, five rifles, and a loaded 25-caliber handgun.

Charles Harrison Streep, a 31-year-old nephew of Meryl Streep, was arrested early Thursday at his house on Pondview Lane in East Hampton Village in what police called “a road rage assault."

After Byron Kim was swept away in a rip current off a Napeague beach and a rescue mission became a recovery effort, friends recalled the struggle to save him and the challenges of calling for help.

Following a morning raid of a house in East Hampton on Friday, police arrested a man on multiple weapons charges. 

Although there did not appear to be an immediate danger when a smoke alarm at Wainscott’s LTV building alerted the East Hampton Fire Department at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, “We didn’t really take any chances,” East Hampton Fire Department Chief Gerard Turza said.

Pamela Ann Gentner, 54, of Jupiter, Fla., was arrested on Aug. 12 on a charge of stealing a white Hartley romper from the Henry Lehr shop in Amagansett Square.