Police & Courts

Two Maseratis were reported speeding on Lily Pond Lane. The drivers were found, actually in Lamborghinis, parked at Georgica Beach. Both told police that "they were not speeding and were only having their photographs taken while on Lily Pond Lane," a report says.

Fredi R. Nashipucha, 22, of First Street in Springs, was semiconscious when East Hampton Town police found him early Sunday morning standing by his black 2019 Ford Mustang on Springs-Fireplace Road.

An East Hampton man driving a 2013 Ford pickup on Montauk Highway Saturday afternoon, "looked down to get a water bottle," and collided with the vehicle ahead, a 2015 Jeep.

East Hampton Town Police said that Byron Dong Ha Kim's body was found in the water off the Ocean Vista Resort, which is about a half-mile east of where he had been seen last.

A search for a man presumed drowned in the ocean near the Windward Shores resort on Napeague on Tuesday was suspended on Wednesday afternoon.

According to East Hampton Town police, a 23-year-old man from Brooklyn, identified yesterday as Byron Dong Ha Kim, had been swimming with friends in front of the resort when he and another man got into trouble.

The Southampton Town Police Department detectives' division is seeking information about booby traps set on a nature trail in Sag Harbor that is popular among all-terrain vehicle and dirt bike riders, though the trails' use for those activities is not permitted.

Emergency personnel were searching Tuesday afternoon for a missing swimmer off the ocean beach at the Windward Shores resort on Napeague.

East Hampton Town police reported two accidents with injuries on local roads last week.

A woman's cellphone was stolen on the afternoon of Aug. 4 after she left it in her bike basket in the Amagansett Atlantic Avenue Beach parking lot. "Find my iPhone" showed it in constant transit in East Hampton until it arrived somewhere in Farmingville.

An East Hampton woman was charged on Sunday with third-degree assault after East Hampton Town police said she “forcefully bit down on the tongue” of an unidentified victim, “causing a deep laceration, substantial pain, and bleeding.”

Late Sunday night on Montauk Main Street near the Plaza, Yasir Bari, 35, of Brooklyn, driving a 2016 BMW, rear-ended a parked 2010 Honda belonging to Anthony Morena of Coram and kept moving.

The full extent of what happened in Sag Harbor Cove on July 26, a sunny Sunday when a Brooklyn family went fishing by the North Haven bridge and almost lost their lives in a fast-moving current, was not known until this week. It is now clear that as many as half a dozen people had come close to drowning.

East Hampton Town police allegedly spotted marijuana in the ashtray of a Honda parked outside the 7-Eleven in Montauk. Upon searching the car, they also reported finding hallucinogenic mushooms and a tab of Ecstasy.

A Montauk woman is facing a number of charges, including two Leandra's Law felony counts of driving while intoxicated with minor children in the car, following a traffic stop on the night of July 26.

A driver swerved across the road to avoid a collision, but ran into a dirt embankment and railroad ties.

"We've been here 26 years and nothing of this nature has ever happened," the business posted. "We were broken into, our Plexiglass barriers were smashed, our cash register broken open and destroyed."

Last Thursday afternoon, a woman returned to her parked car in the lot behind 87 Newtown Lane to find a golf ball had struck the windshield, leaving numerous large circular cracks. The ball was found in the parking lot.

Brendan Clavin, 31, was last seen on surveillance footage captured by the Riverhead Library on Tuesday at around 6:30 a.m.

A new fire department substation officially opened in the Northwest section of East Hampton on Saturday morning. The 3,800 square-foot, one-story building on Old Northwest Road will bring fire and ambulance equipment closer to properties in the Northwest Fire Protection and Water Supply Protection Districts.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and East Hampton Village Police Department detectives are seeking help from the public and offering a cash reward of up to $5,000 for any information on the women, who were in the store at 4:53 p.m. on July 23.

A 43-year-old East Hampton resident was arrested on July 30 in connection with several reports of lewd behavior at a Miller Lane house in East Hampton.

East Hampton Village police responded to a social distancing complaint. There were 30 guests present, whereas the limit is now 50, so there were technically no violations, although officers asked the homeowner if the guests could be more spread out and wear masks. She said she would do her best.

Several people called 911 on Sunday after watching girls who could not swim struggling in the water near the North Haven side of Sag Harbor Cove. Adults who went in after them were soon in trouble too. Good Samaritans at a nearby marina who heard the commotion leapt into action to save them.

A woman was leaving the Gulf gas station on Hampton Street in Sag Harbor on the evening of July 22 when she saw a young child, visibly upset, running across the road yelling "Mommy" and continuing on the side of the road.

Southampton Town police have found the two teenagers who went missing last week from their homes in Flanders.

A mom told town police that she had been distracted by her 5-year-old daughter in the backseat when she drove off Northwest Road and into a tree on the afternoon of July 20.

A 15-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl have been reported missing by their families in Southampton Town, and police there are seeking the public's help looking for them. Noell Reyes, 15, and Ana Munguia, 14, both of Flanders, are boyfriend and girlfriend, Southampton Town police said Thursday, and may be together.

East Hampton Village police arrested an East Hampton masseur on Sunday, charging him with two misdemeanor counts of "forcible touching" and one of "unauthorized practice of profession," a felony. 

East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor Village Justice Courts are closed temporarily after an employee tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week. Some 155 people who visited the courts between July 6 and July 20 have been notified.

Upon backing a Hampton Tank Gas Service truck into an Amagansett driveway on Friday afternoon, Robert Coleman hit a parked 2020 Volkswagen, damaging the backs of both vehicles. A police report noted that there were multiple parked cars in the driveway.