Police & Courts

Last Thursday afternoon, a woman returned to her parked car in the lot behind 87 Newtown Lane to find a golf ball had struck the windshield, leaving numerous large circular cracks. The ball was found in the parking lot.

The full extent of what happened in Sag Harbor Cove on July 26, a sunny Sunday when a Brooklyn family went fishing by the North Haven bridge and almost lost their lives in a fast-moving current, was not known until this week. It is now clear that as many as half a dozen people had come close to drowning.

East Hampton Town police allegedly spotted marijuana in the ashtray of a Honda parked outside the 7-Eleven in Montauk. Upon searching the car, they also reported finding hallucinogenic mushooms and a tab of Ecstasy.

A Montauk woman is facing a number of charges, including two Leandra's Law felony counts of driving while intoxicated with minor children in the car, following a traffic stop on the night of July 26.

Brendan Clavin, 31, was last seen on surveillance footage captured by the Riverhead Library on Tuesday at around 6:30 a.m.

A new fire department substation officially opened in the Northwest section of East Hampton on Saturday morning. The 3,800 square-foot, one-story building on Old Northwest Road will bring fire and ambulance equipment closer to properties in the Northwest Fire Protection and Water Supply Protection Districts.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and East Hampton Village Police Department detectives are seeking help from the public and offering a cash reward of up to $5,000 for any information on the women, who were in the store at 4:53 p.m. on July 23.

A 43-year-old East Hampton resident was arrested on July 30 in connection with several reports of lewd behavior at a Miller Lane house in East Hampton.

A woman was leaving the Gulf gas station on Hampton Street in Sag Harbor on the evening of July 22 when she saw a young child, visibly upset, running across the road yelling "Mommy" and continuing on the side of the road.

Southampton Town police have found the two teenagers who went missing last week from their homes in Flanders.

A mom told town police that she had been distracted by her 5-year-old daughter in the backseat when she drove off Northwest Road and into a tree on the afternoon of July 20.

East Hampton Village police responded to a social distancing complaint. There were 30 guests present, whereas the limit is now 50, so there were technically no violations, although officers asked the homeowner if the guests could be more spread out and wear masks. She said she would do her best.