Police & Courts

Black smoke was visible from as far away as Montauk late Sunday afternoon when the East Hampton Fire Department received word of a raging garage fire at 11 Robert’s Lane. The family in the house escaped safely and there were no injuries.

A driver was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle when, according to East Hampton Village police, his black BMW crossed the double yellow lines on Main Street, made an illegal U-turn there in front of 16 Main, and parked.

Reports of loud leaf blowers were flying all over last Thursday and the day before, ringing in East Hampton Village’s new lawn-care equipment noise law.

Officers were sitting in a marked East Hampton Town police car Saturday night on Ed Hults Lane near Old Stone Highway in Springs when, they said, a gray Toyota in the parking lot there “backed out of a parking spot recklessly,” nearly hitting their right rear quarter-panel, and then speeding away.

A Subaru station wagon that crashed through the front doors of the East Hampton Market on Race Lane on Friday afternoon, injuring two people, was being driven by a 91-year-old man, police said.

A driver avoided injury but badly damaged a section of the Cranberry Hole Road railroad bridge in Amagansett on Tuesday evening.

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. on Monday announced he intends to create a community advisory board to give residents a direct line of communication and representation to his department. Members will discuss relevant topics with the sheriff and provide input on initiatives and policies.

A car smashed through the front doors and into East Hampton Market on Race Lane in East Hampton Village on Friday afternoon. Several people were taken by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital with minor injuries. No one was seriously hurt. 

Floyd’s murder on Memorial Day at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer as three other officers stood by was “an assault not just on Mr. Floyd and people of color, but on the equity and trust we work so hard as a department to develop,” Chief Michael Sarlo said.

Sag Harbor Village police had no trouble spotting Nicole Fader’s large camper van early on the morning of May 25 since it was parked illegally on Long Island Avenue.

Someone called police from the Egypt Beach parking lot on the afternoon of May 26 to complain about “an old man doing yoga and blocking access to the beach.”

The driver of a sport utility vehicle that crashed into Edouard Dejoux’s porch on Sunday afternoon told police that he had been drinking all day before the accident.

A gas station on North Main Street was the site of an altercation between an attendant and a customer on May 19, when the driver of a tan Honda Element was asked to move her car, as it was blocking traffic. In reply, she got out and hit the attendant in the face, he told police.

Charles Engstrom was leaving Montauk Beer and Soda on South Elmwood Avenue when he realized he had dropped his wallet. He went back inside and asked the owner, Olivia Malik, if she had seen it.

On the afternoon on May 4, Irma Suarez-Leon of Amagansett was turning left from Three Mile Harbor Road onto Jackson Street in East Hampton when her Toyota sedan hit a Honda Accord at the intersection’s stop sign.

When a woman left her house on Stephen Hand’s Path the afternoon of May 6, she saw that the order of surgical masks she had been expecting had arrived in her mailbox. Three hours later when she returned the box of masks was gone.

Sag Harbor Village police spotted a blue Mercedes-Benz heading the wrong way on Washington Street, a one-way street, on the morning of May 6, and stopped the driver. Also in Sag Harbor that morning, police noticed a gray GMC Envoy with no license plates, either front or back.

Fire broke out in one of the units at the Atlantic Bluffs co-op complex in Montauk on Saturday evening, heavily damaging a portion of the property. 

Town police were busy from April 27 through Monday evening checking on reports of construction that might or might not have been in compliance with Covid-19 restrictions.

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A young seal was spotted at Georgica Beach on April 20 with a fishing line tightly wrapped around its neck and right flipper. The seal was stable, but in need of assistance. After receiving a photograph, the Marine Rescue Center in Riverhead sent out a team as fast as possible. 

A 2011 Chevrolet drove off Crystal Drive near Morrell Street and struck a brick barrier and tree, causing the car to overturn and hit a mailbox. The tree fell across the road, damaging a parked car on the opposite shoulder. 

In Sag Harbor on Friday, village police clocked a blue 2007 Honda Civic headed south down Main Street at 39 miles per hour, almost twice the posted 20-mile-an-hour limit.

Members of the East Hampton Fire Department and East Hampton Volunteer Ambulance Association rescued a tree climber who had sustained a severe head injury while working about 40 feet up in a tree on Oakview Highway in East Hampton on Saturday morning.

A small plane overshot the end of a runway at East Hampton Airport on Saturday afternoon, knocking down a section of fence and crossing a road. There were no reports of injuries.

Two teenagers were reported to be doing pull-ups on monkey bars in Mashashimuet Park on April 15, and a caller reported it as a violation of social distancing. The teenagers were gone when police arrived.

Police said a woman entered a garage bay at Oscar’s Rock and Dirt on Hildreth Place in East Hampton and removed a 2009 Yamaha PW80 209 dirt bike valued at over $1,000.

Officers have begun enforcing social distancing, limiting visitors, and closing parks when they reach a certain capacity.

Pending positive identification, the body of the photographer Peter Beard, who disappeared from his Montauk property on March 31, was found not far from his house on Sunday.

A homeless man who stole a sport utility vehicle in New York City was found with the car in Wainscott on Friday night.

When the country’s first cases were diagnosed in Washington State, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office began working on a plan. Suffolk’s first case was diagnosed on March 8, and his office was able to implement protective measures by the next day.