Police & Courts

A decapitated deer was found on land off Georgica Close Road on New Year’s Eve. The property manager called police at about 10 a.m. He was told that if the deer was moved to the road, the village’s Department of Public Works would remove it.

"The shed that houses that cables for the antennas on the Tower ignited," according to Mickey Valcich, the Montauk Fire Department's first assistant chief.

A 59-year-old man who police said was driving drunk spun his car around and hit a tree on old Stone Highway in Amagansett last Thursday evening.

Deep tire tracks were found on the baseball field at Maidstone Park on Saturday. It appeared someone had driven around the field in a circle.

Five days after a dirt bike accident left his passenger injured, a 17-year-old who had been driving on a town road without a license was arrested on two misdemeanors, including leaving the scene of the Dec. 13 accident.

A Springs man was arrested on a drunken-driving charge on Dec. 22 at about 9:15 p.m.

Local Police News

Sag Harbor Village police charged a man they said left the scene of an accident with drunken driving last Thursday.

Brendan Wirth, a part-time officer with the East Hampton Village Police Department, was designated a full-time officer on Friday. At its final meeting of the year, the village board and Chief Michael Tracey held a brief ceremony to welcome Officer Wirth to full-time status.

Detectives are investigating a fire that broke out in the office building at East Hampton Indoor Tennis in Wainscott on Saturday morning — the second fire at the complex this year.

What started out as a routine winter victim-in-distress Jet Ski training session in Block Island Sound for East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue on Sunday morning ended as an actual rescue.

An East Hampton woman reported a suspicious person in the vicinity of Spaeth Lane on Dec. 11 at about 12:50 p.m. Police found a man doing landscaping work.

A 66-year-old man was arrested after East Hampton Town police said he discharged a 12-gauge shotgun inside his house following a domestic dispute last Thursday afternoon.

A young man walking on McGuirk Street and Newtown Lane raised suspicion last Thursday just after 2 p.m. He told police who questioned him that he was waiting for a friend to get out of school.

A 55-year-old intoxicated woman was found drinking a bottle of sake on the front lawn of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society on Main Street on Saturday at 1 p.m. Police escorted her home and turned her over to the care of her brother.

A 33-year-old East Hampton woman driving without a license was arrested on a drunken-driving charge at 3:21 a.m. on Sunday, her third felony arrest in five years, East Hampton Town police said.

The East End D.W.I. Task Force was on patrol Friday night, the day after Thanksgiving, yielding one arrest.

A renter found a handgun while walking on the beach directly behind the house he was renting on Redwood Road last Thursday afternoon. An officer took the gun, a Colt .380-caliber with a magazine and holster attached, into evidence. The gun appeared to have been in the water for some time, according to Chief Austin J. McGuire.

The fire, which originated in the basement, burned a hole in the first floor of the house at 21 Old Stone Highway in Springs.

The East Hampton Library turned a slew of items like calculators, keys, watches, and bracelets, which had been in its lost-and-found area for more than a year, to police, who are keeping it locked up.

A 25-year-old man was arrested after police saw him in a car with a woman who had an order of protection against him. 

East Hampton Town police said Cristian A. Vasquez Rios of Springs was in the passenger seat of a 2013 Nissan in Maidstone Park around 11:15 p.m. on Nov. 11. Leydy Parrado was behind the wheel, police said. 

Mr. Rios was charged with misdemeanor criminal contempt and held for arraignment in the morning. Town Justice Steven Tekulsky released him on his own recognizance. 

A Sag Harbor woman and her passenger were arrested Sunday after she was stopped for alleged drunken driving, Sag Harbor Village police said.

An Amagansett man was charged with menacing with a shotgun following an argument on Saturday evening.

An East Hampton man was arrested late last month after a lengthy investigation into more than $25,000 in stolen landscaping and construction equipment.

A Montauk man wired $29,290 to a Wells Fargo account, which he was given by someone claiming to be from Apple. He filed a report on the scheme to defraud him on Oct. 23.

Three people were arrested on drunken-driving charges after accidents last week. A 17-year-old Amagansett boy hit several trees, leading to his arrest late on Saturday night, East Hampton Town police said.

A routine stop conducted by the Sag Harbor Village harbormaster led police to discover the village had been swindled out of $12,000 in boat dockage fees, Village Chief Austin J. McGuire said Monday.

Pierson High School will host an educational class to combat drug overdoses in the community next Thursday night. Attendees will be taught how to administer Narcan, which reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, and will go home with a kit with the antidote and a certificate of completion.

James S. Henry reported the yard sign in front of his Morris Cove Lane house was knocked over on consecutive days last week. He called police on Oct. 23 and then again the next day. There was no damage.

A Manorville man was arrested last week after he pulled out a box cutter and threatened his wife in front of their daughter, Sag Harbor Village police said.