Police & Courts

An East Hampton man driving a 2013 Ford pickup on Montauk Highway Saturday afternoon, "looked down to get a water bottle," and collided with the vehicle ahead, a 2015 Jeep.

East Hampton Town Police said that Byron Dong Ha Kim's body was found in the water off the Ocean Vista Resort, which is about a half-mile east of where he had been seen last.

Pamela Ann Gentner, 54, of Jupiter, Fla., was arrested on Aug. 12 on a charge of stealing a white Hartley romper from the Henry Lehr shop in Amagansett Square.

The Southampton Town Police Department detectives' division is seeking information about booby traps set on a nature trail in Sag Harbor that is popular among all-terrain vehicle and dirt bike riders, though the trails' use for those activities is not permitted.

A search for a man presumed drowned in the ocean near the Windward Shores resort on Napeague on Tuesday was suspended on Wednesday afternoon.

According to East Hampton Town police, a 23-year-old man from Brooklyn, identified yesterday as Byron Dong Ha Kim, had been swimming with friends in front of the resort when he and another man got into trouble.

Emergency personnel were searching Tuesday afternoon for a missing swimmer off the ocean beach at the Windward Shores resort on Napeague.

Late Sunday night on Montauk Main Street near the Plaza, Yasir Bari, 35, of Brooklyn, driving a 2016 BMW, rear-ended a parked 2010 Honda belonging to Anthony Morena of Coram and kept moving.

East Hampton Town police reported two accidents with injuries on local roads last week.

A woman's cellphone was stolen on the afternoon of Aug. 4 after she left it in her bike basket in the Amagansett Atlantic Avenue Beach parking lot. "Find my iPhone" showed it in constant transit in East Hampton until it arrived somewhere in Farmingville.

An East Hampton woman was charged on Sunday with third-degree assault after East Hampton Town police said she “forcefully bit down on the tongue” of an unidentified victim, “causing a deep laceration, substantial pain, and bleeding.”

A driver swerved across the road to avoid a collision, but ran into a dirt embankment and railroad ties.

"We've been here 26 years and nothing of this nature has ever happened," the business posted. "We were broken into, our Plexiglass barriers were smashed, our cash register broken open and destroyed."