Police & Courts

Five lounge chairs belonging to the Ocean Dunes Apartments, which were padlocked and left on the beach last Thursday night, were stolen.

A 28-year-old from Nashville, with a history of drunken driving in Tennessee, was only in town over the weekend to attend a wedding with his parents and girlfriend, but now has to return to East Hampton Justice Court to answer felony drunken-driving charges.

A Springs man was back in East Hampton Town Justice Court last week, this time charged with violating an order of protection issued earlier this year following an alleged sexual assault.

A motorcycle was found abandoned in the ocean surf just east of the East Hampton-Southampton town line on Sept. 25 at about 8 a.m. A passer-by pulled the 2013 Yamaha out of the water, but police said it was totaled by seawater damage. An officer was unable to contact the owner, who lives on Town Line Road, to ascertain whether the motorcycle had been stolen.

An elderly man was found with what police are calling serious physical injuries on an East Hampton road Sunday afternoon.

In a telephone interview this week, Martin Drew disagreed with Jim Grimes’s version of the events that led to his arrest.

A 2010 Toyota hit a train trestle last week, but unlike the familiar trestle collisions in East Hampton Village, the height of the vehicle was not the cause.

A Noyac man convicted a little over a year ago on a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge will be back before East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana today on the same charge, this time classified as a felony.

A 69-year-old Main Street resident called police on Sept. 18 after she received a letter from a man in Toronto saying someone at her address was the next of kin for a dormant bank account worth $7.4 million. She said no one by that name had ever resided at her house.

A report of a horse running wild brought police to Accabonac Road, near the train trestle, on the afternoon of Sept. 13.

Over the last two summers there have been a number of cocaine-related felony arrests of Montauk restaurant employees, and there was yet another last weekend.

There was a three-vehicle accident on Sept. 13, at the Montauk Highway-Spring Close Highway intersection in East Hampton. At around 9 a.m., East Hampton Town police said, Kevin P. Kelly of Hauppauge, 55, was eastbound in a 2006 Mack utility truck when he was briefly distracted and ran into a trailer attached to a stopped 2001 Dodge pickup truck.

The truck driver, George E. Cooper of Kings Park, 21, told police he was trying to make a left onto Spring Close when it happened. Meanwhile, a third vehicle, a New York State Parks and Recreation Ford pickup driven by Justin J.

“I was lost, so I was looking at my phone, and I hit that car that came out of nowhere,” Maryann Z. Hommel of Long Beach, 31, told East Hampton Town police after rear-ending a 2007 Mercedes-Benz on Montauk Main Street early on the morning of Sept. 13.

A warrant has been issued here for a man arrested in East Hampton Village last month, Edwin Fernando Gomez Llivisaca, 21, whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had requested be held in custody. Instead, he was released after bail of $2,000 was posted for him.

A State Supreme Court of Appeals has reversed the conviction of a Springs man, William Cuthbert, who was found guilty in December 2014 of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct following a jury trial in East Hampton Justice Court, presided over by Justice Stephen Tekulsky.

The driver of a 2010 Isuzu delivery truck ignored a clearance sign at the train trestle on Accabonac Road, near Hook Mill Lane in East Hampton, and hit it on Aug. 30 at about 1:20 p.m.

Drug overdoses caused the death of Hallie Ulrich, 22, last Thursday morning and the death the next day of her close friend, Michael Goericke, 28, according to police.

A paddleboarder landed on Gardiner’s Island on Aug. 26 and walked around taking pictures, one of which was posted on Instagram. The owner of the island, Robert Goelet, “wants the subject advised not to return to island, and the picture removed from Instagram to prevent others from entering island,” police reported, but “does not wish to pursue criminal charges.”

A Springs man is being held in county jail after being arrested Monday on felony charges of stealing another’s identity for the purposes of fraud, as well as six related counts of petty larceny.

A Manhattan man survived a rollover crash in a rented 2017 Volkswagen that snapped an electricity pole in half at the side of Montauk Highway in Montauk Sunday night, before he was arrested on drunken driving charges.

There was a three-vehicle pileup on Newtown Lane, east of Park Place, on the morning of Aug. 25, shortly before 9.

Dylan Eckardt of Montauk, who pleaded guilty in January to a reduced charge of driving with ability impaired by alcohol, along with speeding, running a stop sign, and driving without a license, still owes East Hampton Town Justice Court $1,519 in fines. Ordered back into court on July 6, he asked Justice Steven Tekulsky for an additional 90 days to pay. According to court records, he has paid just $120 thus far of the $1,639 he owes.

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A number of car crashes on local roads ended in alcohol-related charges over the holiday week.

East Hampton

Vandals hurled eggs at a Berryman Street residence Sunday night. Gabrielle Scarpaci was in the living room when she heard something hit the house, she told police. The vandals had fled by the time she ran outside. An Andersen window screen was damaged.

Forks for Bobcat forklift machines were stolen from the Bistrian Sand and Gravel facility on Springs-Fireplace Road sometime between Aug. 18 and Friday.

There was a three-vehicle pileup on Aug. 22 on Route 114 in East Hampton, in a construction work area near Cove Hollow Road.

East Hampton Town police were called in to defuse a physical altercation in the parking lot of the I.G.A. late Saturday afternoon.

Two women were arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Monday on felony counts, one charged with assault and the other with burglary.

Mary N. Nikaido of Hackensack, N.J., 34, was westbound in downtown Montauk early Sunday morning when East Hampton Town police pulled her over, saying she had been swerving across lane lines.

East Hampton Town police are investigating the circumstances behind the death of a man whose body was found washed up on a beach area on Star Island in Montauk about 7 a.m. Friday.

A 15-year-old bicyclist was injured around 8:30 a.m. last Thursday when he collided with a car near the Montauk Highway intersection with Wainscott Northwest Road.