Police & Courts

Three motorists were accused of drunken driving here last week, while an Amagansett accident sent a 78-year-old man to the hospital.

Law enforcement officials in Sag Harbor, East Hampton, and Suffolk County are preparing to seek public participation on committees that will discuss police reform, mutual trust between police and the public, and racial equity, following an executive order by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in June.

A cold case of a June bike theft on Napeague Harbor Road was closed on Sept. 9. The report was redacted, but it seems the story of Kathy Weiss's $375 mountain bike, left by the side of the road with a broken chain, has come to an end.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Southampton Town police detectives are on the lookout for two men who used credit cards stolen from a car in Bridgehampton to make more than a dozen purchases on July 24 in Nassau County.

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

Five motorists were arrested over the weekend on charges of unlicensed operation, one of whom was found to have had his driving privileges suspended a total of 29 times over the last 13 years.

People who witnessed Charles Harrison Streep's Aug. 24 attack on David Sebastian Peralta-Mera in the parking lot behind the Chase Bank in East Hampton Village called it "brutal," but the recovery may be even more brutal for the young man who was rushed to Stony Brook University Hospital later that day, where surgeons performed an emergency craniotomy for bleeding in the brain.

A query about a car parked facing the wrong direction at the intersection of James and Jefferys Lane was answered when the driver returned to the car and explained she'd been helping a baby turtle across the road.

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 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.

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. 

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. 

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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