Police & Courts

A 28-year-old Springs man who has spent much of his adult life behind bars is headed back to an upstate penitentiary after being sentenced to six years’ imprisonment on Tuesday.

At 8:15 a.m. last Thursday, a pickup truck sideswiped a 19-year-old skateboarder on Accabonac Road in East Hampton and drove away.

The driver of a pickup truck that crashed in Northwest Woods Sunday morning was seriously injured, according to East Hampton Town police.

It was another week of mayhem on local roads, with numerous arrests, several repeat offenders, and many uncooperative drivers.

A Springs man has been held in county jail since his arrest early Sunday morning, unable to post the $10,000 bail set by East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana later that day.

Amagansett

Last September, a Manhattan couple with a house in Amagansett told police, they left their 2003 Chevrolet pickup with a mechanic at the Mobil station on Main Street for maintenance work, and to keep it safe for the winter. On Dec. 5, Catherine Russell said, they received notification that the truck had crossed the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and that there was not enough money in an E-ZPass account to pay the toll. That same day, the truck was involved in an accident on Montauk Highway in Southampton.

The death of a woman inside a Gurney’s Resort hotel room on July 5 is not considered suspicious, East Hampton Town police said this week.

Three people were taken to South­ampton Hospital on the Fourth of July after a two-car accident on the corner of Fort Pond Boulevard and Crandall Street in Springs.

A woman from Louisiana who has allegedly been following the actress and singer Betty Buckley wherever she goes will be arrested for trespassing if she appears on Saturday at the Bay Street Theater’s summer benefit, where Ms. Buckley will be performing.

A 20-year-old Sag Harbor woman was charged with drunken driving in Montauk early Saturday morning after her 2009 Lincoln Suburban swerved onto the shoulder of West Lake Drive near the docks and head-on into a 2015 Chevrolet Camaro.

Officers patrolling Amagansett Main Street near the Stephen Talkhouse during the early morning hours of July 1 “overheard the sound of breaking glass,” according to an incident report.

A traffic stop led to the arrest of David Schiavoni of Water Mill early Tuesday morning on a felony charge of violating an order of protection.

One of the Maidstone Club's security staff told police a pickup had been parked in the lot with a note saying the owner would pick it up.

Bruce Bates, the longtime emergency preparedness coordinator for East Hampton Town, turned himself in last Thursday morning after being notified by the office of the Suffolk County District Attorney that he was about to be arrested and charged with grand larceny.

East Hampton Town police arrested Freddy Romeo Mendoza-Gutierrez early Sunday morning on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road in Springs, saying his 2008 Ford had been swerving into the oncoming lane.

An officer on patrol on the morning of June 21 noticed pieces of white porcelain on the ground at the parking lot at the end of South Lake Drive in Montauk. Going into the restroom to investigate, she found that a urinal and a mirror had been smashed, and the toilet paper, soap, and towel dispensers had all been destroyed.

All charges against the former Sag Harbor Schools official Susan E. Guinchard Kinsella were dismissed this week.

Police arrested a town resident earlier this month on charges relating to a series of contacts of a sexual nature with a 12-year-old girl back in 2011.

Two young people were arraigned Saturday morning in East Hampton Town Justice Court, each accused of battling police.

A Sag Harbor Village police detective who had been suspended last year resigned from his post on Friday.

A taxi driver in Montauk who received a parking ticket on Memorial Day weekend and wound up with additional charges will have his day in court next month.

A man was arrested early Friday morning after running his 2004 Chevrolet into the sand on the side of Cranberry Hole Road near Promised Land in Amagansett.

Amagansett

An electrical contractor, Davis Zeledon, called police on June 11 to report the theft of over 500 feet of copper wiring from a work site on Oceanview Lane, stolen sometime in May. Worse yet, the thief cut open a 400-amp meter pan to get at some more wiring, damaging it beyond repair. The wiring was valued at almost $1,700, the meter $1,200.

East Hampton

An Oakview Highway mobile home resident called police on the evening of June 8 after finding a window of her 2011 Hyundai smashed.

The Springs Fire District Board of Fire Commissioners has a new member. Jerry Sheehan was appointed on Monday night to fill the vacancy left when Chris Harmon resigned last month.

East Hampton

Jason A. Gutterman was in his office at the Dutch Motel on Pantigo Road when he heard a crash, and then another. Looking out the window, he saw a man standing by his car, a 1994 Chrysler Concord, then racing away. Mr. Gutterman ran out to the parking lot to find that the Chrysler’s rear window and front windshield had been smashed. He estimated repairs at $750.

Police were called to Long Lane last Thursday afternoon.

A Springs man who gave police two different names in recent years following arrests for drunken driving was charged again on Saturday, and this time his fingerprints betrayed him.

The justices of East Hampton and Southampton Towns will be on hand for a forum called “Judging in the Hamptons” at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton on Monday night at 7.

After a tumultuous Memorial Day weekend, with multiple daily arrests for driving while intoxicated, the roads were noticeably calmer last week.

A 2 a.m. altercation at the Stephen Talkhouse that began between two women and spread to others sent police there on May 31.

Sometime between April 26 and May 17, someone stole the registration stickers off two boat trailers stored behind the Marine Museum on Bluff Road. In addition, Raymond Hartjen told police, the license plate on one trailer was removed.