Police & Courts

An allegedly drunken driver rear-ended another car at a stop sign in downtown Montauk earlier this month.

East Hampton Town police reported that Deborah M. Fisher, a 79-year-old driving without a valid license, was headed north on Cross Highway in a two-door 2014 Ford sedan, which had stopped at the light at Montauk Highway.

An East Hampton Town police officer, who is also the Police Benevolent Association president, filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court in Riverhead against an East Hampton family after he got hurt during a call at their house.

While on foot patrol by Pizza Village on Main Street very early Sunday morning, officers were approached by “a highly irate female” who said there was a fight in front of the Memory Motel. Police found a Massapequa man bleeding from the mouth.

At Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting, Police Chief Michael Tracey recognized members of his department and of the village volunteer ambulance service who had recently saved two lives.

Michael Gaines, a suspect in last week's fatal shooting, was arrested in North Carolina.

In Montauk last week, a 21-year-old man, asked by East Hampton Town police to produce identification, pulled out drugs instead.

East Hampton Town police are investigating the death of a man in the parking lot at the Montauk Marine Basin on Thursday morning. 

Police are offering a reward for information leading to an arrest in connection with a homicide on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation on Friday, and police are seeking information on the location of a man they believe has information pertinent to the investigation. 

The Shinnecock Nation advised residents of a possible active shooter on the nation's territory following a fatal shooting there Friday morning. 

A 15-year-old boy sustained a head injury and a broken leg after being hit by a Whitmores van in East Hampton last Thursday afternoon.

The owner of a high-end rental house in Springs that East Hampton Town officials are trying to shut down appeared before an East Hampton Town justice this week along with the alleged house manager.

A woman from Nova Scotia hit an electric utility pole on Route 114 at about 5:20 a.m. on Saturday, closing a portion of the main thoroughfare between Sag Harbor and East Hampton for nearly 12 hours.

The East Hampton Fire Department responded to four grill fires over the past week. All were the result of excess grease and poor cleaning, serving as a reminder that residents need to tend to their barbecue grills, Chief Gerard Turza Jr. said.

A 77-year-old man was arrested on Aug. 5 after he struck a woman multiple times with a leather belt and pulled her hair, in front of children, according to East Hampton Town police.

East Hampton

A car struck and injured a bicyclist in an accident in front of Brent's Deli on Montauk Highway in Amagansett late Thursday morning. 

An alleged drunken driver hit an electric utility pole on Route 114 in East Hampton Saturday morning, closing a portion of the main thoroughfare between Sag Harbor Village and East Hampton for several hours. 

An officer on foot patrol heard yelling and saw a man sitting in his car with the interior lights on and the door open. Another officer stopped a car without headlights on. Two felony cocaine possession charges followed.     

At about 7 a.m. on July 30, a beachgoer spotted some curious debris in the water at Main Beach, and called police, saying it looked like “safety markings” attached to “something floating in the water.” Police used binoculars and saw it was a cluster of balloons.

The attorney for Tenia Campbell of Medford, who is accused of killing her twin toddlers in Montauk in June, has formally submitted notice that he is working on a psychiatric defense.

Just after Friday midnight, an East Hampton Town police officer arrested an alleged drunken driver whose brand-new Mercedes had been clocked at 91 miles per hour on Town Lane in East Hampton, three times the 30 m.p.h. limit there.   

East Hampton Town officials obtained a temporary restraining order last week to stop parties, photo shoots, product launches, and other commercial activities at a 10,000-square-foot house in Springs.     

Jhony Chumi-Rodas, 30, died on Sunday night when his Dodge Ram pickup truck hit a traffic light stanchion on Route 24, Southampton Town police said. 

East Hampton Town fire marshals are investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed the cottage in the early morning hours on Monday. 

The family of an 11-year-old boy from Eagan, Minn., accidentally him left behind at Main Beach on the evening of July 23. The boy’s father phoned police just after 8 p.m. when he realized he had left the boy at the beach.

The driver thought he had hit a deer, but when he got out of his car on East Lake Drive in Montauk on Saturday night he was shocked to see a man in the grass on the side of the road.

Two men driving on Springs-Fireplace Road in Springs without valid licenses were charged over the weekend with felony driving while intoxicated. Each has previously been convicted of the crime.

Arnold S. Rivas-Ovalle of Springs, 23, was caught Saturday at about 2:10 a.m. driving a 2010 Mazda on the shoulder of the road, said East Hampton Town police, who clocked his speed at 55 miles per hour in a 40 m.p.h. zone. His blood alcohol was reportedly above .18, over twice the legal limit, leading to an aggravated D.W.I. charge.

East Hampton Town announced that officials obtained a temporary restraining order to stop promoters' parties, photo shoots, product launches, and other commercial activities at a 10,000-square-foot house at 145 Neck Path in Springs.

A Montauk man was arrested in East Hampton on the evening of July 22 after allegedly disobeying an order of protection.