Police & Courts

The Town of East Hampton has agreed to extend the current scheduling of its police force.

Local Police Records

About 40 officers of the East Hampton Town Police Department are at loggerheads with Chief Michael D. Sarlo this week after refusing to accept scheduling changes he had proposed.

Two drivers were arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court on Sunday after being arrested by town police while another was arraigned last Thursday.

Three people are facing drunken driving charges, including a Springs woman arrested on Dec. 14.

A Conklin Terrace woman, whom police did not name, told them on Dec. 4 that a male co-worker had repeatedly come to her house without calling and let himself in.

An East Hampton man, Eduardo Vazquez-Dominguez, was released by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department on Monday after posting $10,000 in bail despite an active Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainment request. Mr. Vazquez-Dominguez, 33, was charged with three felonies Saturday night, including drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident, and unlicensed driving. 

East Hampton Town police charged four motorists with drunken driving between last Thursday and Monday, with one facing a felony charge because he had a drunken driving conviction within the last 10 years.

A 2004 Mini Cooper parked in front of a Boatheaders Lane North house was vandalized during the day Friday. The vehicle had extensive damage to the front end, back window, and exterior and interior.

Luis Eduardo Valladares, also known to Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents as Luis Eduardo Valladares Arias, is being held in county jail after being arrested last Thursday on charges of criminal contempt.

An Eastport man has been charged by the East Hampton Town police with assaulting and attempting to rob a Northwest Woods man on the night of Nov. 7.

Residents of the Montauk Fire District will be asked to select a fire commissioner on Tuesday in voting from 2 to 9 p.m. at the firehouse on Flamingo Avenue.

Police say that Randall Taylor Rivera stole money from the bank account of a deceased Montauk woman. He was arraigned on Tuesday on eight felony charges.

Two classified ads for used vehicles that appeared in last week’s East Hampton Star were part of a broad pattern of attempted scams that used eBay gift cards and facsimile eBay notifications in an attempt to defraud would-be buyers.

The East Hampton Town Police Department, with other law-enforcement officers, conducted a sweep against drunken driving on the night before Thanksgiving and early Thanksgiving morning, which resulted in three arrests.

A Springs man arrested on a misdemeanor menacing charge on Nov. 21 was held overnight and arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court the following day.

The driver of an eastbound 2017 Mercedes-Benz and his passenger were taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Nov. 14 after their car veered sharply off Montauk Highway on the Napeague stretch, crashed into several trees, and rolled over near Shipwreck Lane.

Two blue five-gallon jugs of sulfuric acid were found on Nov. 15 on the side of the road near the intersection of Toilsome Lane and Dayton Lane.

Leaving the scene of an accident is the charge facing a Manhattan man who has a house on South Endicott Place in Montauk.

Two college friends are free after being arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Sunday, although one is headed for residential drug treatment.

A Montauk man has been arrested for the second time in less than two months on a felony cocaine possession charge.

Colder weather and rain may be the explanation for a remarkably quiet week on the roads, with just one arrest on a drunken driving charge. Eric M. Peterson, 47, of Springs, was arrested by East Hampton Town police early Sunday after a traffic stop on West Lake Drive in Montauk. Failing roadside sobriety tests, he was taken to headquarters, where a breath test produced a reading of .19 of 1 percent, high enough to raise the misdemeanor charge to the aggravated level. He was released without bail later that morning. 

Another Springs resident arrested over the weekend was Carol K.

Three men have been arraigned on felony charges over the last eight days in connection with a May 15 beating and robbery of a local man.

The first frost may be upon us, but police were nevertheless busy on the roads at a level usually seen during the summer.

Four out of five people involved in auto accidents between last Thursday and Saturday were taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital by an East Hampton ambulance.

An officer patrolling the vicinity of Herrick Park on Halloween evening spotted a youth lighting a firecracker. Questioned, the juvenile admitted having four others. They were confiscated, and the youth’s mother was called.

Several cellphone calls to 911 from near Liars’ Saloon on West Lake Drive in Montauk, which apparently were accidental, led to the arrest of two men on Saturday.

A 45-pound pumpkin and a decorative Halloween skeleton were stolen from the front porch of a Gann Road house sometime between Friday and Sunday afternoons.

In his 25 years in business, John Papas said he only closed the doors to his eponymous cafe once for an extended period — three years ago when he undertook a major renovation. That was until the early hours on Sunday when a fire broke out in the relatively new kitchen at John Papas Cafe.

East Hampton

The sign on Route 114 guiding drivers to East Hampton Airport was found vandalized with spray paint on Friday. James Brundige, the manager, told police he had seen the sign free of graffiti two days earlier.

A former tenant, apparently trying to retrieve some possessions, damaged the door to one of the apartments at Hampton Mews on Montauk Highway at some time since August. The report was redacted, and no charges were filed.

Douglas DeGroot, the owner of the Buckskill Tennis Club, called police on Oct.