Police & Courts

An East Hampton man complained to police that every time he goes to the post office, there is a truck parked in the fire zone, loading and unloading cargo. He asked police for extra patrols to stop the truck from parking there.

East Hampton man says guns were legally registered to him.

A man who recently pleaded guilty in district court to breaking into the Amaden Gay Agency in East Hampton Village on March 12 was arrested by East Hampton Town police on April 17 and charged with two more counts of burglary.

For years it has been a given in East Hampton and across the East End that calls to the police and resulting arrests were on an upward trend. During the first quarter of 2018, however, local police jurisdictions as well as police across the county saw the trend reversed.

Three members of the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps were surprised with awards from the Suffolk County Regional Emergency Services Committee over the weekend during the Corps’ annual awards dinner at 230 Elm in Southampton.

Police received three reports of seals in distress on village beaches last week. The first call came on the morning of April 9 from someone walking a dog on Main Beach.

Terry Wallace, the owner of Wallace Gallery in East Hampton, who is being sued by the nephew of Edith Bouvier Beale over the ownership of a small portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, has made a motion to have the case dismissed.

Two men were arrested last weekend by East Hampton Town police on misdemeanor drunken-driving charges.

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A Southampton man who already was facing criminal charges in Sag Harbor and Southampton was arraigned last Thursday in East Town Justice Court on multiple charges, including one felony. Kory Roebuck MacWhinnie had been arrested on April 4, his 30th birthday, by East Hampton Village police, who said he had been driving a 2017 Cadillac Escalade at 45 miles an hour on Main Street near Town Pond, where the speed limit is 30.

South Fork fire departments were mobilized to fight two fires on Tuesday — one in Springs that destroyed a house in the afternoon and another on Sag Harbor’s Main Street that night, where disaster was averted thanks to firefighters and a quick-thinking chef.

In a decision released on Monday, an Amagansett man, Arthur W. Bijur, was found not guilty of violating the county’s “social host” law, as well as the Town of East Hampton’s mass gathering law following a bench trial in January before East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky.

A Yaphank woman who got lost in Springs with a friend early Saturday morning has been in county jail ever since, either because she is unable to meet the $500 bail set for her in East Hampton Town Justice Court, or because of an unrelated matter in Suffolk County District Court.

At some point on the afternoon of March 25, a “do not enter” sign at the intersection of West Lake Drive and Montauk Highway was knocked down by a vehicle, which left the scene.

East Hampton Town police charged two men over the holiday weekend with drunken driving, with one charge a felony.

A Springs man who recently finished his term of parole following a stint in county jail is back behind bars after being pulled over in a traffic stop around midnight on Sunday

Jorge L. Marin, 29, of Montauk was arrested by East Hampton Town police after a traffic stop on Montauk Highway in East Hampton early Saturday morning and was charged with two felonies: possession of liquid marijuana, a controlled substance, and possession of a stolen debit card

Two women who came to Montauk for the St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday had their wallets stolen while they were at the bar at the Memory Motel on Main Street. It appears from the redacted incident report that police have a suspect or two in mind, perhaps from surveillance video. Police are investigating.

According to the East Hampton fire marshal’s office, it appears the fire was ignited by embers that flew out of the chimney.

East Hampton Town police detectives are investigating the apparent theft of a Volvo sport utility vehicle from the driveway of a couple’s house on Oyster Shores Road in East Hampton.

A vacant lot on Koala Lane was targeted by an arboreal-minded thief sometime between last October and Feb. 26. Brian McGrath, the owner of the property, said that there were now 44 holes on his property where once stood white pines.

East Hampton Town police made three arrests last weekend on drunken driving charges. All three arrested were driving Ford F-150 pickups.

East Hampton Town police made two arrests over the weekend on misdemeanor drunken driving charges, the first early Saturday and the second early Sunday.

Derrick Lamont Short, 38, who had been freed on parole on Feb. 20 after serving a year and a half of a three-year prison term for attempted criminal possession of a weapon, is in county jail in Riverside after his parole board stepped in and ordered him held without bail.

Kevin Joe Simmons was arrested Tuesday by East Hampton Village police, who alleged that he had burglarized the Amaden Gay Agency’s Gay Road office while spending Monday night there.

East Hampton

A computer bag belonging to Gregory Monaco was stolen from inside a 2014 Cadillac parked outside a Middle Road residence during the overnight hours on Feb. 21. While the bag did not appear, from the incident report, to have contained a laptop, Mr.

Patrick John Dowd Jr., 32, who was arrested by East Hampton Town police on Feb. 28, was indicted by a grand jury Monday on a felony charge of drunken driving for the second time in less than five years. He is being held without bail.

Although an order of protection had been issued in early February by East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky requiring a Springs woman to avoid threatening or intimidating her daughter, police were called to the Montgomery Avenue residence they share on Feb. 21 after the younger woman reported that her mother had again flown into a rage and banged on her bedroom door while screaming and cursing.

A Springs man was picked up by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Friday from the Suffolk County jail in Riverside, one day after he was scheduled to be released. He had been held on a detainer request.

Valon Shoshi of Springs was convicted of two felonies at the end of a six-day jury trial in New York State Criminal Courts building in Riverside last week, aggravated criminal contempt and criminal contempt of court. He is now in the county jail in Riverside and scheduled to be sentenced on March 22.