Police & Courts

An 18-year-old from East Hampton was charged last week with felony criminal contempt, among other charges, after town police said he disobeyed a court order in a domestic violence case.

One of the pivotal members of the Montauk drug ring broken up by police last summer is headed to state prison for six years.

East Hampton Village police spotted a motorcyclist speeding on Sunday morning, but instead of stopping, the motorcyclist took off, passing several cars, until he eventually stopped in Sagaponack.

Eddie Diaz, 31, was walking a friend’s dog on Pantigo Road last Thursday at 2 a.m. when he tied it to a tree. He then left the area and could not remember where he had tied the dog up. An officer found it in front of 61 Pantigo Road and reunited it with its owner.

Two drivers with drunken-driving records were charged with felony driving while intoxicated last weekend after police said they were caught driving at excessive speeds.

The 21-year-old Springs man accused of killing his aunt’s dog late last year may soon take a plea deal if a Suffolk County Criminal Court justice is satisfied with written material supplied during a court appearance on Friday.

A 54-year-old East Hampton woman was charged on Sunday with a felony after she allegedly assaulted her elderly mother.

A Suffolk County bus driver called police because she believed a man had followed her in a Jeep while she made routine stops between the East Hampton Village train station and Montauk on March 10 and again on March 17.

A man who reported a fire at an East Hampton house ended up being taken away in handcuffs on March 8 after police found him evasive in answering questions, according to Detective Sgt. Dan Toia.

On Tuesday, Mr. Cohen will be the moderator for the East End for Opportunity’s forum Driving in East Hampton: What You Need to Know, which will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. at the East Hampton Library.

East Hampton Town police arrested an apparent drunken driver in the early morning hours on Saturday in Springs. An officer saw a 2016 Ford F-250 heading south on Three Mile Harbor Road near Fort Pond Boulevard when the driver failed to signal turning left around 2:50 a.m., according to a report.

Police were called to 159 Main Street about a man urinating on the sidewalk outside a white 18-wheeler on Friday morning at about 8:15 a.m. Police noted that the East Hampton Library is at 159 Main Street, and found no sign of an 18-wheeler.

An 18-year-old East Hampton man was involved in an accident that left one man dead in Flanders Tuesday morning.

A fight that broke out inside the Point Bar and Grill in Montauk on Saturday night led to a drunken-driving arrest.

A Big Red Med Disposal Box has been placed at the East Hampton Town Police Department’s Montauk precinct on South Embassy Street.

Two patrons police described as elderly at the East Hampton Senior Citizens Center on Springs-Fireplace Road got into a fight on March 1 around 11:15 a.m. One man punched another, causing an abrasion.

Sag Harbor Village police are investigating how more than $55,000 was siphoned from accounts belonging to Sag Pizza and LT Burger.

A drunken driver hit a stop sign and an intersection sign for Spinner Lane and Floyd Street in East Hampton before driving onto a Floyd Street property and then fleeing the scene late last month.

Two men got into an argument on Sunday morning that led to a physical altercation with another man after a party at a house on Muir Boulevard.

East Hampton Town police charged a 62-year-old man with heroin possession after picking him up on arrest warrants on Feb. 25.

Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying and finding a woman who stole approximately $6,000 in merchandise from a Southampton Village grocery store last month.

A 24-year-old man was arrested in Sag Harbor on Friday afternoon after police said he violated a court order and threatened another man with a rubber mallet.

A Danbury, Conn., man was arrested on a drunken-driving charge after an accident Friday night in which he hit the HomeGoods building in Wainscott, East Hampton Town police said.

Several youths lit fireworks on Brandywine Drive on Feb. 16, according to Mark Lombardo, a neighbor. Extra patrols were requested for Saturday nights.

Police received a noise complaint on David’s Lane on Feb. 5 at about 12:15 p.m. An officer spoke to a contractor at a neighboring house who said he was breaking up concrete. The officer went back to the woman who had complained, and she said she would contact the village because she “did not approve of the changing landscape.”

An 18-year-old East Hampton man fled on foot, police said, after he crashed a car while driving drunk in Amagansett on Saturday night just after midnight.

East Hampton Town police officers were investigating a suspicious knock on a door at a house on Hawthorne Street in Springs on Jan. 20 when they heard the sounds of a car crash.

A woman in labor called police from a Nissan in front of 61 Hampton Street on Jan. 30 around 12:40 p.m. Police helped her into the back seat of her car until the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps arrived. About 10 minutes after the ambulance got her to the hospital, she gave birth, police said.

The rules sign at Indian Wells Beach was damaged by birdshot sometime on Jan. 22. Police said pellets remained in the sign. It will cost about $200 to replace.

Following a one-car accident in Wainscott last Thursday night, Jake A. Early, 21, of Sag Harbor was arrested on a drunken-driving charge.