Police & Courts

A passer-by who gave her name only as Sophie reported Friday afternoon that “two Black men were smoking weed in front of Murf’s Tavern” in Sag Harbor. Officers dismissed the call: It is no longer illegal in New York State for adults to smoke marijuana.

A woman out for a walk found the body of a Middle Island man in front of a house on Industrial Road near Navy Road in Montauk on the morning of Jan. 21, East Hampton Town police said this week.

On Jan. 8, someone called the Suffolk County CrimeStoppers line alleging the “illegal dumping of records” off the trustee road at Barcelona Point. An officer went to investigate that afternoon, but “was unable to check all of the access roads in the area before it got too dark,” according to the report.

On Monday, four and a half years after her arrest, Tenia Campbell of Medford was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for suffocating her twin 2-year-old daughters to death. She was arrested a few miles west of Montauk Point on June 27, 2019, after a search involving multiple police jurisdictions.

Peter Aviles — sought by police for the last 13 months in connection with a million-dollar heist that happened in Sag Harbor on Sept. 25, 2022 — was charged with burglary in the second degree, a class C violent felony this week.

East Hampton Town announced on Friday the ratification of contracts with its Police Benevolent Association and the Superior Officers Association, including amendments focusing on wages, revised shift calculations, the addition of Juneteenth as a recognized holiday, field training compensation, equipment and technology implementation, and a revised work schedule.

A 15-year-old boy from East Hampton was safely reunited with his family on Monday, almost five days after he had been reported missing.

On Jan. 11, at the Mobil gas station on Main Street, passers-by noticed what turned out to be “fire suppression materials” sprayed all over the pavement there. An employee told police that his jacket had “got caught on an extinguisher pin” the night before, which apparently “activated the system in error.”

Update: An East Hampton teen reported missing last Wednesday has been located and is on his way back home to be reunited with his family.

East Hampton Town police arrested a 55-year-old East Hampton man early Sunday morning on drunken-driving charges, which were elevated to the felony level because of a previous D.W.I. conviction within the past 10 years.

A police chase just before 1 a.m. Monday ended with a car full of teenagers crashing into the Hedges Inn in East Hampton. No one was seriously injured, but the car was so deeply embedded in the inn that the village building inspector was called to the site because the police were concerned that extracting the car could cause the front of the inn to collapse.

Following a road rage incident Saturday morning, a 28-year-old East Hampton woman reported that two middle-aged men in a Jeep had followed her into the long-term parking lot on Lumber Lane and confronted her. “If you’re going to give us the finger, we will teach you a lesson,” the men reportedly told the woman, before slamming her door shut. Police responded but were unable to locate a vehicle with two men matching her description.