A small plane in the final stages of landing was blown off a runway at East Hampton Airport on Daniel’s Hole Road on Saturday afternoon at about 4, incurring substantial damage but resulting in no injuries to those on board.

    The Cessna 182 single-engine plane was coming in normally when a strong gust of wind out of the north caused it to be blown nearly 200 feet off the runway, onto the grass in an “object free zone,” a safety area established by Federal Aviation Administration regulations. The Cessna’s landing gear reportedly collapsed as it veered off the runway. Its pilot, Lisa McCarthy, and a passenger, Tina Alano, were not harmed.

    Ms. McCarthy, reached by phone yesterday, declined to comment on the incident.

    James Ciccone, an inspector with the F.A.A., responded to the scene Saturday but did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

    Jim Brundige, East Hampton Airport’s manager, said that the member of his staff who was at the scene of the accident on Saturday was on vacation this week and unavailable for comment.

    The Cessna is registered to MAM Aviation L.L.C. of New York City, according to F.A.A. records.

    East Hampton Town Councilman Dominick Stanzione released a statement on the matter on Monday stressing a strong safety record at the airport.

    “The incident was clearly minor,” Mr. Stanzione’s statement read. “It would be misleading to read anything more into this incident than a one-time unusual accident.”

    Mr. Stanzione’s statement was related to concerns that a music festival that may be held on a closed runway at the airport this August could pose a danger to concertgoers, should a similar accident occur with as many as 9,500 people nearby.

    “The aircraft stopped . . . well outside even the farthest of several layers of parameter fencing proposed for the concert venue,” Mr. Stanzione’s statement said. “The accident was not a threat to the proposed concert venue. Importantly, safety and security protocols relative to the proposed concert venue require review and approval of the F.A.A.”

    The F.A.A. has yet to rule on the safety of the planned event. However, before Saturday’s incident, some of the private carriers at the airport had voiced worry that the chaos of a large concert and the increased air traffic of an August weekend might make for a dangerous combination.

East Hampton

Mike Dillon of Beechwood Court reported to police on May 3 that while he was mowing and mulching his lawn at around 8 p.m. an irate neighbor began yelling at him about the noise he was making. The neighbor then threw his cigar in Mr. Dillon’s face and shoved him, yelling all the while. Mr. Dillon declined to press charges, and the neighbor promised to apologize.

East Hampton Village

Police issued a number of summonses to garbage truck drivers last week for collecting trash before 7 a.m. Last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday officers ticketed drivers for Jet Sanitation, Winters Brothers, and Norsic Sanitation.

Last Thursday at about 7:45 p.m. an officer noticed a number of vehicles parked along Montauk Highway in a no-stopping zone near the Boathouse restaurant. Thirty summonses were issued. The village fire marshal was called and reported that the restaurant was over its legal capacity by 60 people. Staff members there were told not to let any more patrons inside until the crowd was smaller.

Priscilla Turner phoned police on Saturday morning to report that a golden retriever named Rex was running in traffic on Newtown Lane. The dog was corralled and taken to the East Hampton Veterinary Clinic, where its owner was identified and the two reunited.

Springs

Barrett Hawes of Springs-Fireplace Road told police on April 26 that a DVD he was expecting from Netflix was stolen from his mailbox, as had happened three days earlier, when a Netflix wrapper was left on the side of the road. No other mail was stolen, and the post office was notified.

    An April 30 incident in which an East Hampton Town engineer’s name and departmental phone number were spray-painted on the outside wall of the public bathrooms at the intersection of South Emerson Avenue and South Edison Street in Montauk has come to a close. A town employee, William Link of Kopka Court, East Hampton, revealed to police that he was responsible.

    Town police arrested Mr. Link on May 6 and charged him with third-degree criminal mischief. He was charged with the felony because of the amount of the damages — more than $250. He was additionally charged with making graffiti, a misdemeanor, and possession of marijuana, a violation. The marijuana was allegedly discovered in his Parks and Recreation Department vehicle when he was arrested.

    The graffiti was considered serious enough to warrant an executive-session discussion of it by the town board. There was some concern for the safety of the town engineer, Tom Talmage.

    Regarding potential disciplinary action by the town, Supervisor Bill Wilkinson said in an e-mail message Tuesday that he does not comment on “personnel transactions or pending appropriate discipline.”

    Mr. Talmage consulted on the construction of the bathrooms, made from modular buildings. After they had been put in place, an error was discovered: A section of a waste-line pipe that should have been cast iron had instead been installed as PVC pipe, Mr. Wilkinson confirmed this week.

    Although at first it was feared that in order to correct the mistake the buildings would have to be lifted, a switch of the pipes was easily made, Councilwoman Julia Prince, who has overseen the project, said Tuesday. The project remains well within budget and on schedule, she said, with the facilities expected to be open by Memorial Day.

    East Hampton has been under pressure from the Suffolk County Health Department to provide restroom facilities for users of the nearby section of ocean beach, Edison Beach. According to the Health Department, there must be bathrooms at public bathing beaches — those protected by lifeguards. After a drowning incident some years ago, the town decided the downtown beach must be protected.

    The Health Department threatened to shut down the beach until the restroom facilities were provided but gave the town a waiver last year, allowing the use of a portable facility instead.

With Reporting by Joanne Pilgrim

Amagansett

John Ryan, the caretaker at the Amagansett Beach Association on Indian Wells Highway, noticed that exterior copper pipes on buildings there were removed sometime between April 1 and May 4. The 200 feet of half-inch pipe and one copper backflow valve were estimated to be worth $416.

Cathy Damm, the manager at the Bass outlet store in Amagansett Square, reported on May 9 that a front window there was broken sometime the night before.

East Hampton

A garage door window and an outdoor light were broken at Nancy Ellman’s house on Central Avenue between April 22 and May 6. Police said someone used a BB gun to cause the damage.

Randy Steyert’s Dodge was hit with a beer bottle while it was parked on Whooping Hollow Road on the night of May 10 or the following morning. The rear driver’s-side door and mirror were damaged.

East Hampton Village

Frances Morey of Amy’s Lane reported a sick raccoon in the vicinity of nearby Amy’s Court on May 9. It attempted to attack her and her dog, she said. Mange was suspected, and the raccoon was euthanized on the spot.

At the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, a cellphone valued at $499 was taken from a locker in the men’s locker room on May 11.

Regina Lynch complained about parking on Cooper Lane last Thursday. There were construction vehicles blocking her driveway, she said, but when police arrived no such vehicles were found.

Someone from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation saw a seal on the beach at Georgica Pond last Thursday. The responding officer determined that the seal was in good condition, and it returned to the sea as the officer departed.

Four wooden village benches have been stolen over the past two weeks, Michael Boucker told police on Friday. The benches were valued at $3,240.

Montauk

Startled by a loud noise outside her house on Kirk Avenue on the night of May 5, Diane Koelpin saw a figure near her mailbox. She identified the person to the police, and although he denied any wrongdoing he offered to replace the damaged mailbox.

While Vincent Frasca was out on his boat on May 9, his boat trailer stayed behind at the West Lake Drive launch ramp. After Mr. Frasca brought his boat back up onto the trailer and drove to the West Lake Marina, he realized that its license plate was missing.

Emily and Mark Borek returned to their summer house on South Elroy Drive on Friday to find the back door open, clothes in the kitchen, and a blue cup in the bathroom sink. None of the items belonged to the Boreks, who had not been at the house since March 15. There was also a duck blind at the back of their property, which is on Fort Pond. The blind was not there previously, and three of the Boreks’ duck decoys were found inside it.

A man called Karin Gosman a profanity at Gosman’s restaurant on Saturday, she told police. There were no witnesses. Ms. Gosman said the man is a repeat offender. The man in turn said Ms. Gosman used a profanity against him. Police advised the two to avoid each other.

Springs

After locking up her bike at the Springs School on May 2, Lucinda Murphy returned about three hours later to find the red 10-speed gone. She valued the bike at $200.

Dawn Flagg noticed that two birdbaths and a Havahart trap went missing from her property on Copeces Lane sometime between May 9 and last Thursday. A landscape company was working at her house at that time, she said.

A harassing phone call was made to Barbara and Jeffrey Marcus’s house on Sycamore Drive on Friday. Ms. Marcus told police she felt threatened. She said such calls have been made repeatedly. The alleged caller was warned against doing so again.

    Matthew Norklun first publicly stepped into the whole dogs-on-beaches mess when, on Sept. 3, 2008, he left a bag of dog feces — duly labeled with the date and name of the beach where it had been collected — on the steps of East Hampton Village Hall. He was found guilty of littering, and fined $500.

    “I’m just trying to help out,” he said in an interview with The Star this week, when asked to explain the four phone calls he has made since May 8 to the East Hampton Village Police Department, to report dogs running wild on Georgica Beach.

    As of the second Sunday of May, the ordinance banning dogs and vehicles from the beach between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. is in full effect.

    For the past 20 years, Mr. Norklun, an actor and successful magazine and advertising model (and onetime lifeguard) who lives in East Hampton, has tried to do his part to help rid village beaches of animal waste. “You’re barefoot, you’re walking in urine, you’re walking in feces, why is that acceptable?” he asked.

    His usual tactic is to approach people on the beach who have not cleaned up after their dogs, and politely ask them to do so. Sometimes this works, he said, sometimes it does not.

     Frustrated with a problem that just hasn’t gone away, Mr. Norklun has gotten into the habit of calling in the cavalry. “When the police write a ticket, it has more impact than someone asking you to not do it,” he said.

    Police responded to two of Mr. Norklun’s recent complaints by informing dog owners of the ordinance; in the other two cases, the dogs were gone by the time they arrived.

    According to Chief Gerald Lar­sen, Mr. Norklun’s are the only complaints to have come forward thus far this season.

    “We don’t have officers patrolling the beach full time yet,” said Chief Larsen.

    With summer looming, Mr. Norklun and the police expect violations to pile up in the weeks ahead. “All the signs may not be in place at this point, but we’re gearing up, and everything will be in place by Memorial Day,” said Chief Larsen.

    In the meantime, Mr. Norklun is staunch in his efforts to rein in the dogs. “I saw a dog kill a seal one day,” he said. “I’ve been attacked. I’ve become the dog Nazi. Now people know me. I stopped one woman on the beach with her dog, and she said, ‘Oh, you’re that guy.’ ”   

    Despite the lone-ranger reputation he may have earned in some dog-walker circles, Mr. Norklun has behind-the-scenes emotional and financial support. His littering fine was paid for by admirers from Florida to East Hampton, he said. “Almost everyone who contributed said, ‘Look, don’t use my name.’ ”

    Mr. Norklun had his own explanation for why his supporters might be reticent: “Dealing with the village board is like dealing with Tony Soprano,” he said. “You ruffle some feathers, and you’re not going to get a building permit or anything that is discretionary to the village board.”

    While Mr. Norklun admits many people do not agree with his methods, he claims that there are a greater number who appreciate his efforts, and who have thanked him for taking action that they haven’t had the nerve to take themselves.

    “Nobody wants to deal with it. I do go to the beach every day, so I care about it. It’s time to stop being polite. The dogs certainly are not.”

    An Amagansett man escaped with injuries that were not life-threatening after a Friday crash on the Napeague stretch of the Montauk Highway in which his truck flipped on its side.

    East Hampton Town police reported that the injured man, Gustavo Torres, the superintendent of the Windward Shores Ocean Resort on Napeague, told them a man driving a tan Toyota Tundra pickup passed him in a no-passing zone, then suddenly slammed on the brakes. According to Mr. Torres, he was forced to choose between veering toward Cyril’s Fish House, which was crowded with its usual roadside bar patrons, or the right shoulder.

    On Monday and again Wednesday, during conversations with The East Hampton Star, Mr. Torres described his injuries as moderate, and he said pain was preventing him from resuming work. He said that his breathing had been difficult since the accident, which sent him to the emergency room at Southampton Hospital.

    Mr. Torres said that his 1995 Mitsubishi Montero had rolled onto the driver’s side when its wheels left the paved shoulder and reached roadside grass. He was pulled from the vehicle’s passenger-side door by a man who arrived moments later.

    He described what happened in a Monday conversation: “After my job, I was going to the Montauk I.G.A. I got to the highway. There was not traffic. I pulled out and was going 45, 50 miles per hour. I was in no rush.”

    Going on, Mr. Torres said he had seen the pickup “come up fast.” He alleged that the driver “tried to hit me in back. He came too close a couple of times. I thought he was drunk or something.”

    “I put my blinker on to the right to let him pass. He passed me and stopped completely. I saw his brake lights. I tried to avoid a collision. I pushed my brakes. I saw the smoke coming out of my tires. I was going side to side. I thought I was going to die.”

    Police reported that the man who Mr. Torres alleged caused the accident turned out to be Mark E. Dombrowski, 55, of Montauk. They ticketed him with passing in a no-passing zone, a traffic violation. East Hampton Town Police Detective Lt. Chris Anderson said yesterday that police were continuing to look into the matter.

    Detective Anderson said that in giving police a statement at the scene of the accident, Mr. Torres had not mentioned his belief that he was intentionally cut off by Mr. Dombrowski. Mr. Torres said police had spoken with him again this week.

    Mr. Dombrowski, a retired New York City firefighter, had been charged in 2005 — and then cleared — of third-degree assault as a hate crime, a felony, following a roadside struggle after he allegedly forced a Latino man, Luis Ochoa, also of Montauk off the road. Had Mr. Dombrowski been convicted he could have faced a maximum four-year jail term.

    The charges were dropped, however, when Mr. Ochoa’s injuries were deemed insufficient for the assault charge by the Suffolk district attorney’s office. Conviction would have required a sustained physical injury, which had not occurred. It was reported in news accounts from the time that in advance of his court appearance, Mr. Dombrowski, of his own accord, attended anger management sessions and an anti-bias class.

    Mr. Dombrowski referred requests for comment to his lawyer, Gordon Ryan of Amagansett, who had no comment.

    Rightly or wrongly, Mr. Torres believes malice was to blame, and said he has retained legal counsel.

    Mr. Torres said that it was his opinion that “When somebody does something like that, he’s trying to kill somebody. I have plenty of years driving, trust me.”

    Mr. Torres said he was a safe driver and said he was happy living on the South Fork.

    “I really enjoy the area. I clean the beach in front of the resort. I call in when I see seals that need help on the beach. I really love this area. I have a 10-year-old daughter. Thank God she was with her mother at that time.”

The East Hampton Town Police Department has said that the human remains found on a Gardiner's Bay beach Sunday were, according to the Suffolk medical examiner, those of a 20-to-30-year-old man of unknown ethnic background.

In a release to the media Tuesday morning, authorized by East Hampton Chief Ed Ecker, police said that the autopsy, completed Monday, had determined that the man had been small in stature, and that there were no obvious signs of trauma. Chief Ecker confirmed reports that the body was found without a head.

A local resident walking his dogs found the body at about noon Sunday in the surf line between Big Albert's Landing Beach and the Bell Estate. An East Hampton Town Marine Bureau officer was the first on the scene; he confirmed that the body was human. The town police dive team was called in to search the surrounding area. After an investigation on the beach, the body was taken to the Suffolk Medical Examiner's office in Hauppauge.

East Hampton Town police are continuing their investigation, in conjunction with the medical examiner's office and Suffolk police. Police have asked that anyone with information about missing persons in the area phone the town detective division at 631-537-7575.

    The Emergency Communications Department of East Hampton Village put out a press release and began a brochure campaign this week to alert the public that when calling 911 for help, providing certain details can prove critical: the name of the cross street, and as specific an address as possible.

    The department answers 911 calls from Montauk Point to Bridgehampton. As the release pointed out, “there are six separate fire and ambulance departments and three police departments” in that coverage area.

    The call for greater public awareness of how the 911 system works comes in the context of the death of Lanny Ross, a former Amagansett fire chief, in November. He had a heart attack, and his wife, Sherri, called 911 and gave her exact address, 419 Montauk Highway in Wainscott; dispatchers; however, routed emergency personnel to a duplicate street address in East Hampton. It was not until 13 minutes after her initial call that help arrived.

    In that case, the address information provided was indeed quite precise, though the tape of the 911 call reveals that it was not until dispatchers asked Ms. Ross for a cross street that they realized their mistake. Mr. Ross was pronounced dead at the hospital. Sherri and Lanny Ross’s estate has filed a notice of claim against East Hampton Village and the various departments and entities (including the village police) involved in the incident, leaving open a window of opportunity to sue for damages.

    The village’s press release also assured readers that, “Help is being sent while we are on the phone with you; answering our questions will not delay help!”

    A spokesperson for the Village Emergency Communications Department, reached by phone yesterday, said no particular incident inspired the public-relations push, and insisted this was simply an education campaign conducted in light of the massive annual influx of out-of-towners that will commence in earnest this week and accelerate over the summer.

Amagansett

A Harold McMahon Plumbing worker who was called to fix an outdoor shower at Maire Jaanus’s house on Mako Lane told her that 12 inches of copper pipe, valued at $50, had gone missing from the shower sometime between April 24 and May 17.

East Hampton

From April 30 to May 4 someone posted items for sale on the Craigslist Web site and listed with them the phone number of Robert Norrby of North Cape Lane. Mr. Norrby, who said he has received more than 100 calls about the items, told police he does not own them. He has flagged the postings as spam but has been unable to get Craigslist to resolve the problem.

The postal service delivered a rug to Daniel Hsu of Malcolm Avenue on May 11, he told police, but when he returned home two days later, the rug, worth $100, was nowhere to be found.

An East Hampton High School student’s iPhone 3G in a black rubber case was taken from her bag while she was in class on May 18. She said the phone was worth $219.

Someone drove through a field at an East Hampton Town park off Stephen Hand’s Path, making tire-track “doughnuts,” Richard Webb of Pantigo Road reported last Thursday. The damage was estimated at $200.

East Hampton Village

A possibly injured seal was found near Egypt Beach last Thursday. Police were informed by the town’s animal control office and the Marine Patrol that personnel from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation would respond.

Someone wrote “9-11 Truth Now” in black on a stop sign on Baiting Hollow Road on Friday. Seven similar graffiti markings, including “World911Truth.org,” were discovered in the vicinity that same day.

Andrew Tobin of Northwest told police of an injured baby squirrel on the sidewalk near Main Street and Hunting Lane on Friday. A wildlife rescue volunteer removed the squirrel.

Joseph Schreick of Springs and Orion Mims of Manhattan got into an argument over parking on Park Place on Saturday. Mr. Mims reportedly uttered a profanity at Mr. Schreick and threw a crumbled piece of paper in his face. He told police he did no such thing, but apologized to Mr. Schreick.

Montauk

Seven perennial plants, valued at $175 in all, were stolen from the garden at the Second House Museum sometime between April 24 and May 15, Catherine Keogh, the gardener there, reported.

A glass door at Dave’s Grill was shattered in the early morning hours of May 15. Dave Marcley, the owner, was informed of the incident by a Scan Security employee. Mr. Marcley said the damage would cost $200 to repair.

Sag Harbor

Janice D’Angelo of Lincoln Street reported on Sunday that a goat was in her neighbor’s yard. This was deemed legal as long as the goat remained on private property, and police took no further action.

Lynn Thommen said that on Sunday around noon one of four or five young adults in a silver sedan tossed a live lobster onto Main Street near the Sag Harbor Variety Store. Ms. Thommen turned the creature over to a traffic control officer who left it with the harbormaster.

Springs

An outboard motor wrapped in a tarp was taken from beneath Simon F. Kitcke’s dock at Gerard Drive sometime between March 1 and Saturday. Luis Castro, a caretaker at Mr. Kitcke’s house, said he last saw the motor, valued at $37, in November.

Wainscott

A man entered the Hess gas station on Montauk Highway on May 14 and demanded that Julia Hristona sell him cups. He planned to drink alcohol from them, she said. She refused and told him to leave. He did so but came back angry, and he was subsequently removed by police and told not to return.

    Two men were charged with driving while impaired last Thursday after police said they crashed their cars into each other at the intersection of King Street and Gingerbread Lane in East Hampton Village.

    Peter D. Grabowski, 28, did not stop at the stop sign on King Street, he told police, and Jason B. Carey, 39, who was headed down Gingerbread Lane, crashed into him at around 7:30 p.m.

    East Hampton Village police said both men appeared to be intoxicated. They charged Mr. Grabowski with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, and Mr. Carey with driving while ability impaired, a violation.

    Mr. Grabowski’s arrest report indicated that there is an active warrant for his arrest from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Although he lives in Sag Harbor, Mr. Grabowski is reportedly a citizen of Australia.

    He was additionally charged with driving without a license and failing to stop at a stop sign, both violations.

    Both men were held overnight by police and arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court. Mr. Carey, who also lives in Sag Harbor, was arraigned by East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana and released on his own recognizance. Justice Rana released Mr. Grabowski on $1,000 bail.

    Village police nabbed another man they said was driving while intoxicated at 3:30 last Thursday morning.

    In addition to three driving while intoxicated charges, Ian Kelleher of Wainscott picked up a felony aggravated driving without a license charge. Mr. Kelleher also faced an elevated charge of aggravated driving while intoxicated.

    According to police, Mr. Kelleher moved from his lane unsafely and drove on the shoulder of Montauk Highway near Jericho Road that morning. He told police he had had “two or three vodkas” and allegedly failed roadside sobriety tests.

    Mr. Kelleher was also charged with moving from his lane unsafely, a misdemeanor. He was also cited for four violations, including failing to use a designated lane, driving on the shoulder, driving without a license, and driving without insurance.

    Justice Rana released Mr. Kelleher, 35, later that morning on $2,500 bail.

    Last Thursday, police charged Colin C. Keillor of East Hampton Village with driving while intoxicated and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Police said they found a prescription bottle with the label removed after they arrested Mr. Keillor at 12:50 a.m.

    According to reports, Mr. Keillor did not stop at the intersection of Cove Hollow Road and Route 114. Upon stopping him, police said he was unsteady on his feet and put him into a police vehicle. When an officer attempted to move Mr. Keillor’s car off the roadway, he found the prescription bottle. Police did not say what was in the bottle that would warrant the misdemeanor possession charge.

    Justice Rana released Mr. Keillor, 36, later that morning on $500 bail.

    On Feb. 16, East Hampton Town police charged Rosemarie A. Rash with driving while intoxicated after she allegedly failed to dim her high-beams when approaching an officer on Abraham’s Path near Accabonac Road in East Hampton.

    Police said Ms. Rash, who lives in Montauk, drove into the oncoming lane of traffic and then fumbled for her identification when she was pulled over by police. According to reports, Ms. Rash was “swaying forwards and backwards and had to raise her arms to keep herself balanced.”

    Ms. Rash, 69, was held overnight by police and arraigned the following morning by East Hampton Town Justice Catherine A. Cahill, who released her on her own recognizance.