Police & Courts

A rally to support David Peralta, the 18-year-old from Springs who underwent emergency surgery after an alleged road rage attack in August in the parking lot of the Chase Bank in East Hampton, will be held at East Hampton Town Justice Court on Thursday at 9 a.m., and a GoFundMe campaign has been started to assist his family with medical expenses.

Two young East Hampton men were charged in recent weeks with driving while intoxicated.

Police arrived at CVS in East Hampton Village on Saturday evening in response to a complaint of over 100 people inside the store and 50 on the pharmacy line who were not socially distancing. Police did not observe any violations of state orders.

A single accident on the roads was reported last week, involving a car and a bicycle.

Wilkin Delossantos of the Bronx, 29, was charged in the Village of East Hampton this week with leaving the scene of an accident, as well as unlicensed operation of a vehicle.

The homeowners selected from among more than 30 applicants across the county will be Anthony LaFountain and Cheyenne Banville, volunteer first responders with the Springs Fire Department. Mr. LaFountain and Ms. Banville live in Springs and work in East Hampton.

Three motorists were accused of drunken driving here last week, while an Amagansett accident sent a 78-year-old man to the hospital.

​​​​​​​After watching her for a few hours on the night of Sept. 7, police said that "suspicious activity" caused them to stop Davis Eames of Neck Path in Springs on Route 27 near Old Montauk Highway in Amagansett, and to search the black fanny pack she was wearing around her waist.

Law enforcement officials in Sag Harbor, East Hampton, and Suffolk County are preparing to seek public participation on committees that will discuss police reform, mutual trust between police and the public, and racial equity, following an executive order by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in June.

A cold case of a June bike theft on Napeague Harbor Road was closed on Sept. 9. The report was redacted, but it seems the story of Kathy Weiss's $375 mountain bike, left by the side of the road with a broken chain, has come to an end.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Southampton Town police detectives are on the lookout for two men who used credit cards stolen from a car in Bridgehampton to make more than a dozen purchases on July 24 in Nassau County.

Five motorists were arrested over the weekend on charges of unlicensed operation, one of whom was found to have had his driving privileges suspended a total of 29 times over the last 13 years.