Police & Courts

The Southampton Town Police Department has alerted the public to a phone scam involving graphic photos depicting an execution-style murder.

School administrators have announced two town hall-style meetings about the dangers of vaping. The first is on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at East Hampton High School, followed by a Southampton High School session next Thursday, also at 7 p.m.

An argument over an alleged therapy dog led to a disturbance at John’s Pancake House in Montauk on the morning of Sept. 17.

A 20-year-old man driving drunk crashed his car into two buildings in Springs and came to rest in between them just after midnight on Friday. He was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, where he is listed in critical condition. 

An East Hampton woman only noticed her china was missing when she moved the locked cabinet away from the wall to clean behind it and the back of the cabinet came off.

The manager at the CVS pharmacy in East Hampton Village, who was accused earlier this month of shooting her boyfriend at their home in Flanders and then fleeing with their 3-year-old daughter, was back in court last week, flanked by a dozen supporters.

A man tossed a liquor bottle from his boat to another boat docked at Gurney’s Resort and Marina on Star Island Road in Montauk on Sept. 1, breaking a woman’s nose and leading to an assault charge.

A proposal from the Springs Fire District to remove an unutilized 150-foot-tall communications tower behind the firehouse on Fort Pond Boulevard, and replace it with a 180-foot-tall tower to improve radio and pager communications for fire, ambulance, and police personnel, came before the East Hampton Town Planning Board on Sept. 11.

Applications for Southampton Town affordable housing units at Sandy Hollow in Southampton and Speonk Commons are still being accepted, the town announced Wednesday.

An alleged drunken driver lost control of his car, causing it to roll over in Wainscott on Monday night, injuring his two passengers, including a woman who was partially ejected.

A Manhattan woman was charged with driving while intoxicated in the early morning hours of Friday after Sag Harbor Village police warned her multiple times not to get behind the wheel.

To mark this year’s 100th anniversary of the American Legion, members of Sag Harbor’s Chelberg and Battle Post 388 have created a remembrance journal to honor the service of village veterans. The book will be presented to members at a dinner celebrating the centennial on Tuesday, and then made available to the public.

Police have asked for the public’s help to identify two people in connection with crimes committed on the South Fork this summer.

A well-liked woman who has worked at the CVS pharmacy in East Hampton Village for 15 years was arrested last week after she shot her boyfriend in their Flanders home and then fled, leading to a statewide Amber Alert for their 3-year-old daughter.

When Rick King’s neighbors on 19th Street played loud music and were yelling on Sunday at about 9 p.m., he told police he blasted an air horn and yelled back, out of frustration.

A 32-year-old Southampton man was arrested Saturday in Springs on two charges, including a felony, after he allegedly violated an order of protection. 

With the start of the school year comes the start of a new session for Southampton Town’s Youth Court. The program is a way for high school students to earn community service credits and build their college résumé, while learning about the criminal justice system. High schoolers work together to hold real trials for juvenile offenders, and a jury decides on a sentence for the offender. Cases heard in youth court range from trespassing, driving without a license, and under-age drinking to harassment, possession, and theft.

The woman accused of shooting her child's father inside their Flanders home and then taking off with their 3-year-old, causing police to issue an Amber Alert, was the victim of domestic abuse, her criminal defense attorney claims. 

Police have released a photo and are asking for the public's help in identifying the person who placed screws in Daniel's Lane and Potato Road, leading to half a dozen flat tires in June and July.  

A 59-year-old Hampton Bays man was charged with driving while intoxicated Monday night after he attempted to pass cars on Napeague in a no-passing zone. East Hampton Town police said Joseph W. Sinclair’s 2014 Jeep, heading west

Someone threw a handful of sand at Harry Ellis on Friday evening, knocking his glasses into the water near his East Lake Drive house.

East Hampton firefighters saved two dogs from inside a house Sunday afternoon after fire broke out on the deck, causing heavy smoke as it spread into the house. The fire began after renters lit two citronella candles and left them sitting on deck furniture while they were out, according to David “Buzzy” Browne, the chief East Hampton Town fire marshal.

A Bellport man was arrested in Amagansett Monday morning at 10 on a felony criminal mischief charge after he allegedly scratched the paint on the side of a 2019 Ford rental car. Police charged Felipe Zamora Luna, 38, with felony criminal mischief, but did not offer a reason why he vandalized the Hertz rental vehicle, only saying that the damage exceeded $1,500. East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky released him on his own recognizance.

A 66-year-old paperback called “The World of Li’l Abner,” with a cover price of 35 cents, turned up recently in a pile of old books destined for an Amagansett yard sale, and if the owner, who declined to be identified, hadn’t noticed the name of John Steinbeck on the cover, it would have been sold by now for a nickel.

East Hampton firefighters saved two dogs from inside a house where a fire broke out on the deck, causing heavy smoke as it spread inside on Sunday afternoon, Chief Gerard Turza Jr. said. 

Over in Sag Harbor early Monday morning, Nikita S. Bykov of Brooklyn was charged with felony grand larceny after he allegedly stole a purse, containing $5,000 in cash, at Murf’s Backstreet Tavern.

Two 32-year-olds were arrested on drunken driving charges over the weekend.

“A fireman is a fireman, and when somebody calls for help you try to help, and I feel like we got that call,” said Tom Bock, one of three new drivers with the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, courtesy of the East Hampton Fire Department.

Two men were arguing on Saturday evening at around 8:30 about a car being blocked in, in a North Main Street parking spot. The man who called police said the other man was trying to gain access to his Bentley convertible.

Amagansett firefighters extricated a man from a silver Toyota sport utility vehicle that had been struck by a delivery truck in front of Cirillo’s I.G.A. on Montauk Highway Thursday afternoon.