Police & Courts

Hundreds of Montaukers and friends from nearby communities came together Monday afternoon — with friends calling friends calling friends, until the gazebo was nearly surrounded — to stand up against antisemitism, which reared its ugly head at dawn that day when swastikas and other hateful graffiti were discovered spray-painted in several places in the hamlet.

An East Hampton Town Police dispatcher confirmed Monday morning that officers are on scene in Montauk investigating multiple incidents of antisemitic hate-crime vandalism.

Shortly before 11 p.m. on Oct. 18, “a large brown bag containing an assortment of women’s clothes” was brought to police headquarters for safekeeping after being found in front of the Dragon Hemp Apothecary on Main Street in Sag Harbor.

Mark Ripolone, formerly of Montauk, took a plea deal Tuesday in New York State Supreme Court, admitting to stealing close to $400,000 from clients over three years.

On Friday around 3 p.m., a man walked out of the Sweet Spot, the new ice cream place on Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village, without paying for his milkshake.

The East Hampton Town Police Department has given the all-clear signal at the Amagansett School after a bomb threat was received by email just before 9 a.m. Wednesday. The school — where the day's classes were just beginning — was immediately evacuated, police said in a release.

A landscaping company working on Bluff Point Road in Sag Harbor was told to turn off their leaf blowers on Monday morning, Columbus Day, not because there were no leaves on the ground yet but because leaf blowing is forbidden on holidays.

A 28-year-old Riverhead man was arrested in East Hampton on Sept. 30 and charged with two felony counts of criminal mischief in the second degree.

East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen was driving a 2009 Audi S.U.V. on the morning of Oct. 3, when it was rear-ended by a 2012 Subaru Forester driven by an 82-year-old East Hampton woman.

A federal jury convicted a Montauk fisherman on Wednesday of falsifying records in order to sell fluke and black sea bass in quantities that vastly exceeded legal limits. 

Five boaters were rescued from a 24-foot vessel named Gloria on Sept. 20, after the craft was seen taking on water about a mile off the coast in Gardiner’s Bay. Marine Patrol officers were able to tow the boat to the Gann Road launch, where it was removed from the water with some difficulty. The officers found no cause for citation.

A Queens man has been arrested on felony forgery charges after Suffolk County police said he used counterfeit $100 bills to buy merchandise at more than a dozen small businesses in the eastern part of the county.