Police & Courts

An accident during the morning commute on Tuesday had traffic backed up for miles. 

East Hampton Town police said a 39-year-old Springs man beat a child with a leather belt and a cow-tail whip.

Police received word that “an older man” sitting in a Toyota Prius at Two Mile Hollow Beach had exposed himself to another man at about 6:30 p.m. on July 17. Police found an 89-year-old man sitting in his Prius. He denied any wrongdoing and left. The caller did not want to press charges.

Fire departments and emergency medical service agencies across the South Fork were kept busy over the weekend in less than ideal weather conditions.

In Montauk last week, an East Hampton Town Police officer made the rounds of bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, inspecting the locations as well as certain records that are supposed to be readily available.

Robert K. Futterman was high on marijuana and took clonazepam before an accident in Bridgehampton on Tuesday, a Suffolk County assistant district attorney said on Wednesday.

A portion of Montauk Highway between Snake Hollow Road and Newlight Lane has been shut down while Southampton Town police investigate the two-car crash, and traffic is being diverted down Newlight Lane and Snake Hollow Road.

A real estate broker with a history of drunken driving-related arrests, including one for boating while intoxicated just last week, has been charged in connection with the crash in Bridgehampton on Tuesday that sent a mother and young child to the hospital. 

The man, who was in his 50s, had been fishing off Montauk Point on a boat based in Niantic, Conn.

 A Sag Harbor man was arrested late Saturday night after crashing a boat into a North Haven bulkhead, injuring himself and two passengers.

Someone stole an antique copper apple-butter kettle, weighing about 60 pounds and measuring 3 by 3 feet, from a Bluff Road property between June 21 at 4:30 p.m. and June 30 at 9:30 a.m. It is worth approximately $800. Police notified local antiques stores and told proprietors to keep an eye out for it.

A Greenlawn man was charged with a felony after throwing a cement block through the windshield and rear window of a 2018 Tesla that was parked at a rental house on Big Reed Path in Montauk on Saturday night, East Hampton Town police said.

An under-age man was arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge after flipping the Honda Odyssey he was driving in Amagansett on Friday night.

A head-on collision involving a pool company truck injured five people and shut down a portion of Noyac Road in North Sea during rush hour on Thursday afternoon. 

A 20-year-old was arrested on a felony assault charge after stabbing his mother following a birthday party at their house in Springs on July 7, East Hampton Town Justice Court records show.

East Hampton Town police are working with the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's office on two separate death investigations in recent days. 

Dennis R. Walker Jr. of East Hampton has been charged with a felony for allegedly failing to register as a sex offender, his second such offense since a sexual abuse conviction in 2008. 

East Hampton Town police first pulled over a 2005 Dodge Neon driven by Milton G. Anguisaca-Buestan of Springs on Cedar Ridge Drive near Woodcock Lane Friday night. While police took him to headquarters in Wainscott for booking, his older brother, Claudio R. Anguisaca-Buestan, got behind the wheel of the Neon and drove off.

One person involved in a brawl on Folkstone Drive in Springs on the Fourth of July pulled out a machete, according to an East Hampton Town police report. 

Amagansett

Someone stole a shopping bag from under a table at Organic Krush on the afternoon of July 3. Nina Beth Roth of Manhattan said she put the bag, with a $500 black cashmere cardigan from Community, in Amagansett Square, inside, under the table while she was having lunch from 1:45 to 2:15 p.m.

East Hampton

An East Hampton man arrested earlier this year on felony drug charges is now facing four misdemeanor charges, three of them drug-related, following a traffic stop in Amagansett.

Tenia Campbell, the Medford mother accused of killing her twin daughters, intentionally suffocated them and drove to Montauk with their bodies in the car, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said yesterday at her arraignment on upgraded charges that include first-degree murder.

The owner and the manager of a single-family house on Railroad Avenue in East Hampton at which 32 unrelated people were found to be living in hazardous conditions last July have pleaded guilty to 13 charges and will pay fines totaling $21,000. 

Villa Italian Specialties was up and running again by Tuesday morning after an oven caught fire there on Sunday afternoon.

Villa Italian Specialties in East Hampton Village is temporarily closed following a fire in the store on Sunday afternoon. 

A grand jury has indicted the mother accused of killing her twin toddlers late last month and then driving to Montauk with their bodies in the car. 

An Uber driver whose license had been suspended or revoked 45 times was arrested while driving in Montauk .

A Texas woman, Allison O’Neill of Houston, called police to her Main Street residence Sunday at about 11:25 p.m. to report an intruder. Officers found a woman, highly intoxicated, sitting on a bench in the mudroom.

Near dawn on Saturday, a 21-year-old man westbound in a pickup truck on Montauk Highway went off the highway across from Brent’s Deli in Amagansett, severed a utility pole by the American Legion Hall — ending up, improbably, with the pole, severed from its base, in the bed of the truck — and finally hit a tree.

A 19-year-old East Hampton man was charged last week with two counts of statutory rape involving a 13-year-old girl.