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An all-county law enforcement sweep conducted in the town of East Hampton on the night of July 3 resulted in seven motorists being charged with driving while intoxicated.

East Hampton Town police have charged a New York City fireman with two counts of aggravated harassment, a misdemeanor, after a series of incidents in late May and early June.

East Hampton Village police charged a Mount Sinai man with petty larceny Monday afternoon for allegedly stealing an Apple iPhone from a youth at the Main Beach pavilion.

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A local man who was charged early Sunday morning with drunken driving is said to have told the East Hampton Town police officer who arrested him that “I only had six drinks tonight.”

On Saturday night, a routine Coast Guard safety check of a 50-foot Viking yacht ended with its owner under arrest for boating while intoxicated.

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A 4-year-old child who nearly drowned in a pool in Springs earlier this month was released from the hospital this week.

Jefferson Davis Eames who has an open case stemming from an alleged road-rage incident on Neck Path in Springs in December 2013 was back in court last Thursday on a new charge.

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A two-person kayak was stolen from Sharon Gajajivain’s yard at the Oakview Highway mobile home park at some point over the past six weeks. Ms.

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East Hampton Village police have continued to crack down on dogs on the beach when they are not supposed to be, issuing eight summonses over the weekend to seven dog walkers.

A Mastic Beach man whose driver’s license has been suspended or revoked 37 times over the past 13 years was charged last Thursday night with felony unlicensed driving, following a traffic stop on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton.

Last October, Mr. Shoshi, 29, distraught over his troubled marriage to a woman in his native Kosovo, had led East Hampton Town and Village police on a manhunt after firing three rounds from a shotgun inside the Springs house he shared with his parents.

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A Sagaponack man, David Osiecki, 65, pleaded guilty on May 26 to one of two arson charges, admitting in a Central Islip courtroom that he had set the April 19, 2014, fire that seriously damaged a $34 million house on Dune Road in Bridgehampton. Its owner, Ziel Feldman, was an acquaintance of Mr. Osiecki’s.

The New York State Police Department has added at least two more squad cars to patrol in Montauk on weekend nights.

The cause of a fire at World Pie restaurant in Bridgehampton remained under investigation yesterday, four days after the blaze closed down the mainstay at the start of the busy Memorial Day weekend.

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When Edward Orr Sr., a driver for Road Runner Taxi in Montauk, picked up three people from Manhattan Friday morning at the Montauk train station, there was nothing unusual about the call. They were headed, on the first day of the big holiday weekend, to a summer rental on South Fulton Drive, a dirt road off Old West Lake Drive.

When they arrived at 99 South Fulton Drive, though, something was wrong: The house at that address was occupied. The photo they had seen online looked more like 93 South Fulton.

“The door to the house was open. They were saying, ‘Hello?

The season started a week early on local roads, with a noticeable increase in the number of drunken-driving arrests.

A woman who returned last week to her Cutter Court house found that four driveway lights had been smashed, and a couple of dog walkers who forgot to clean up after their dogs were ticketed.

A 32-year-old Northwest Woods man was arrested last week on a felony charge of sexually abusing an East Hampton High School student under the age of 17.

An fight turns physical in Amagansett, and patio chairs recently delivered to an East Hampton house go missing.

East Hampton Town police arrested a Sound Beach man on Pantigo Road in East Hampton on the afternoon of May 5, charging him with driving while intoxicated and without a valid license or registration, all misdemeanors.

Michael T. Dolson, 41, was driving a 2006 Ford west near Spring Close Highway at about 2:30 when he swerved onto the shoulder, police said, adding that he then performed poorly on all field sobriety tests.

Amagansett

A member of the Ocean Estates Property Owners Association told police on April 16 that at some point during the month of March five sign posts, each with a speed limit and a private road sign, were stolen from their positions on Shipwreck Drive. Cynthia Crain valued the missing posts and signs at $2,250. 

East Hampton

A bicycle thief targeted an Accabonac Road house last week.

Sag Harbor Village police arrested a Hampton Bays woman late Saturday night on drunken-driving charges after an East Hampton Village police dispatcher relayed a tip from a motorist of an erratic driver on Route 114. An officer spotted the car and reported seeing it swerve across the bike lane, almost striking a concrete barrier. 

Kaitlin M. Kelly, 25, was taken back to police headquarters on Division Street, where a breath test reportedly produced a reading that was twice the legal limit.

The Montauk and Springs Fire Departments held their annual dinners over the weekend to celebrate the volunteers and their accomplishments. 

In Springs, where the 50th anniversary of the Fire Department is continuing, four charter members — top photo, from left, Joseph Fitzgerald, Bruce Baldwin, East Hampton Town Councilman Fred Overton, who is a former fire chief, and Michael Collins — received plaques recognizing their five decades of service. 

Lt. Darrin Downs was named firefighter of the year.

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