Police & Courts

Ilse Gould was awakened at around 4 a.m. last Thursday by a loud bang, and saw lights on the back deck of the house she and her husband, Stephen Gould, own, at 84 Williams Way in Bridgehampton.

Christian Bermeo, 28, of East Hampton died in an accident involving two other vehicles on Springs-Fireplace Road Sunday evening.

Police confiscated three political signs posted on Railroad Avenue and on Gingerbread Lane on June 25, the day before the Democratic congressional primary, and two on Gingerbread Lane on Primary Day. The signs were in violation of the village code.

After stopping a Montauk driver on suspicion of drunkenness, East Hampton Town police ended up on June 20 arresting two passengers instead.

A drunken driver with a suspended license drove his van into the back of a vehicle that was stopped on the shoulder of Route 114 in East Hampton at about 9:55 p.m. on June 26, according to East Hampton Town police.

A 63-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle, but not seriously injured, in a Pantigo Road crosswalk in East Hampton Village on Saturday morning.

A man arrested last month in connection with a Southampton hit-and-run accident in April that left a delivery driver dead has been indicted, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini said on Thursday.

A 50-year-old and a 17-year-old were arrested in separate incidents earlier this month after being found in possession of liquid marijuana.

A boater got 64.5 gallons of gasoline from the fuel dock at the Harbor Marina on Three Mile Harbor for free Saturday afternoon, using a fake name when charging $270.22 to an account that did not exist, police said.

A Huntington man was arrested on Sunday morning for driving while drunk and with a license that had been suspended or revoked 13 times, East Hampton Town police said.

A fire destroyed a garage being used for storage on a Sagaponack property on Saturday night. When the Bridgehampton Fire Department was called to the property at the northwest corner of Wainscott Harbor Road and Montauk Highway at 8:35 p.m., the wooden building was already engulfed in flames.

An East Hampton man was arrested on drunken driving charges after the Toyota he was driving crashed into one of the Jewish cemeteries in Sag Harbor last Thursday.

Photos taken during what East Hampton Town police have called a road rage incident led to a felony arrest on June 10. A woman, whose name was not released, called police after a motorcyclist punched the side mirror on her new Toyota RAV-4 on June 8. The photos she took helped police get the motorcycle’s license plate number and track down its owner.

Among reports of drunken-driving arrests this week, East Hampton Town police found two drivers “passed out” in their vehicles.

A 19-inch Samsung television and the Optimum cable box it was hooked to went missing from an upstairs guest bedroom at an Accabonac Road house sometime over the winter. Linda Roth filed a police report on June 11, explaining that the items were taken between November and April.

As the families of three of the victims of the June 2 plane crash off Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett held a joint service on Friday, police divers found the plane’s wreckage, along with the body of one of the two missing victims.

Sag Harbor Village police arrested three men, Hector A. Suruy-Velasquez, 25, of Riverhead, Antoine Chin, 34, of Flanders, and Marco Quiran Saban, 37, of Southampton, at 4:47 p.m. on June 5 for allegedly going into a house on Rysam Street in the village without permission.

A 52-year-old man from Bohemia was driving under the influence of methamphetamine in East Hampton, according to East Hampton Town police, who said they found five small Ziploc bags, three glass pipes, and one plastic tube, all containing a white residue, in a backpack on the passenger floor of his car. The residue later tested positive for methamphetamine.

The 19-year-old woman who passed out following a drug overdose and was found on a trail in the Grace Estate in Northwest Woods, East Hampton, on Sunday morning has died.

Rescuers saved the life of a 19-year-old who was found barely breathing from an apparent overdose in front of a Dunemere Lane house in East Hampton Village on Friday morning. Police, alleging that he had ransacked and damaged the interior, then arrested him on felony charges.

A father, who was not named, called police to let them know that his son had lost his Google Chromebook. The son left his backpack at 71 Newtown Lane on May 18. When he went back to get it on May 28, it was gone.

With the Coast Guard suspending its search for the two missing people and the plane that crashed Saturday, the East Hampton Town Police Department is officially calling it a recovery effort.

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Over $5,000 has been reported missing from a bank account belonging to a Montauk church.

A 66-year-old man from Philadelphia was ticketed after police found a dog named Houdini locked inside a car in Sag Harbor Village on Friday afternoon.

A 19-year-old East Hampton woman was found lying on a trail in the Grace Estate Preserve in Northwest Woods Sunday morning, unresponsive, apparently from an overdose.

An East Hampton Village police officer on his way to assist the Suffolk County district attorney’s driving-while-intoxicated task force in Southampton on Saturday evening ended up being called to duty a little earlier than expected.

A Brooklyn man broke into a house on Valley Street in East Hampton Sunday evening, but did not get far with the items he stole, according to East Hampton Town police.

An Oceanside man was arrested on a felony drunken driving charge due to a prior conviction after he swerved into oncoming traffic and onto the shoulder on the afternoon of May 13.

In a Saturday evening 911 call, police were alerted that youths were skateboarding near the Janet Lehr Fine Arts Gallery off Park Place. An officer did not find any youths or skateboarders when he went to investigate.