Jason Lee, the former Goldman Sachs managing director who was arrested last summer in East Hampton on charges that he raped a 20-year-old Irish student, was ordered Friday by New York Supreme Court Justice Barbara R. Kahn to refrain from any further contact with the woman, including through third parties.

An order of protection for a victim in cases like assault or rape is normally a standard procedure at the time of the initial arraignment. However, District Attorney Thomas Spota’s office did not request the order of protection when Mr. Lee was first arraigned on Aug. 21 based on the belief that Mr. Lee would surrender his passport and that the alleged victim was returning the next day to Ireland, Kerri Kelly, an assistant district attorney who handles sexual abuse cases, said Friday.

Mr. Lee was not actually forced to surrender his passport until Sept. 20, 30 days after his initial arraignment in East Hampton, when he was re-arraigned on the felony charge in front of Justice Kahn in the Cromarty Criminal Courts building in Riverside.

Kimberly Shalvey, the lead prosecutor on the case, requested an order of protection on May 9, saying in court that day that an agent of Mr. Lee’s had contacted the woman at her home in Ireland, frightening her. “She feels that everything she does is being watched,” Ms. Shalvey said at the time.

“We have an obligation to our client to investigate,” Andrew Lankler, one of Mr. Lee’s attorneys, said outside the courtroom Friday of his agent’s visit to the woman.

Though Justice Kahn had said on May 9 that there was nothing wrong with a defense attorney contacting a claimant, she issued the order Friday protecting the alleged victim from any contact by Mr. Lee or anyone working for him after reading an affidavit from the alleged victim regarding the incident. “The people have met their burden,” she said. The order prohibits contact at her school or house or via email, Facebook, or other social media.

Mr. Lee signed the order in the courtroom Friday. He is due back in court on July 18.

Michael DuVally, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs, said Friday that Mr. Lee is no longer an employee of the firm.

East Hampton Town’s outdoor lighting regulations will be discussed at Town Hall next Thursday night beginning at 6:30.

Several changes are proposed to the “smart lighting” code adopted in 2006, though the code itself will largely remain intact, Marguerite Wolffsohn, the town planning director, said earlier this week. The changes are designed to “facilitate lighting fixture upgrades by commercial property owners” and to “accommodate new lighting technology.”

A requirement that outdoor commercial lighting not in compliance with the code, which limits excessive light and sky glow, must be replaced with compliant lighting within three years of the law’s adoption, would remain in place. A new provision would provide a bit more time to property owners seeking to phase in changes to lighting, who would be given two years to obtain approval for a lighting plan and then two more to complete its installation. Site plan approval would be required if adding new light fixtures, not when replacing old ones.

The town planning board would have to okay any lighting plan for a nonresidential property proposing to alter over 25 percent of its gross floor area, or one that changes parking — or when there is a change of use that triggers a site plan review.

A change in the law would initially route lighting plan applications to the Planning Department, rather than the Building Department. Applicants who have received a 30-day notice from their insurance company threatening denial or discontinuance of insurance coverage if a certain outdoor light level is not maintained, would jump to the head of the line for review.

Another change would allow lights to be mounted on existing utility poles, as long as the poles are on private property. At present, their use is not permitted.

The code section lays out the standards and requirements to be considered by the planning board in reviewing lighting plans, but, as before, gives the board the power to vary or modify those requirements as long as doing so “does not negate the purposes” of the code.

While the proposed law would set a goal that light fixtures should be mounted no more than 12 feet above natural grade, higher lights could be allowed if “required by the nature of the use or the size of the structure.”

Committee members working on the legislation have debated over where to set limits on the Kelvin rating, or color temperature, of light sources. The higher the rating, Ms. Wolffsohn told the town board at a recent meeting, “the more blue light . . . the more disruptive it is at night,” and the greater the impact on the environment and human health.

The draft law allows light sources up to 3,500 Kelvin (K), but sets a “design goal” of a color temperature no greater than 3,000 K. The planning board, according to the draft, “should consider conditions on and off of the site, energy efficiency, and number of fixtures required to properly light an area.”  

The town board will also hold hearings next Thursday on several land purchases using the community preservation fund. They include the purchase of approximately 7.2 aces of land in the Stony Hill area of Amagansett, for $3.6 million. The lots, at 42 and 46 La Foret Lane and 82 Stony Hill Road, are owned by Sasfox Associates, and will be preserved for open space.

Also proposed is the acquisition, for open space and possible future parkland, of 2.9 acres at 85 Bull Path in East Hampton, owned by John Conran, for $1.1 million.

In Montauk, a purchase of 3.6 acres at 8, 18, and 36 Fentwood Road is proposed. The lots are owned by Celia and Costas Paleologos, and would cost $870,000.

The land purchase, according to a town board resolution, would allow for the rerouting of part of the North Neck trail. The Bull Path and Montauk purcases would help the town fulfill a state-imposed requirement to buy $2.2 million worth of parkland to offset the revenue received from the sale of East Hampton’s share of the Poxabogue Golf Course to the other part owner, South­ampton Town. The requirement is a condition of obtaining state approval to divest the Poxabogue land of its park designation so that it could be sold.            Hearings will also be held next Thursday on a proposed law that would authorize more members of the town’s public safety division, not just building inspectors, to issue stop-work orders; on establishing time-limited and resident-only parking areas in downtown Montauk and prohibiting taxi parking in those lots, and on several code amendments intended to bring the town into compliance with state Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems guidelines.

They include a prohibition on feeding geese, adding a section on stormwater management and erosion and sediment control, and prohibiting illicit discharges and connections to the stormwater system.

Two Springs men ended up in Stony Brook University Hospital Monday night after a fight on Clinton Street in Springs. Capt. Chris Anderson of the East Hampton Town Police Department said one of the men swung a machete at the other, inflicting "several serious wounds to his torso."

Jose Javier Garces Hernandez, 24, fled the scene after striking down Jose Maria Jiminez, 26. Police tracked down Mr. Garces Hernandez to a house at 423 Springs Fireplace Road. He was treated by emergency medical technicians before being airlifted to  Stony Brook. He had reportedly suffered a serious blow to the head.

He was charged with felony assault and misdemeanor possession of a weapon. Captain Anderson said further charges were possible as the investigation continues.

Police are investigating the cause of the fight, which took place in front of  Mr. Jiminez's house at 63 Clinton Street at about 8:12 p.m. Mr. Jiminez was taken first to Southampton Hospital, then flown to Stony Brook, where he underwent emergency surgery.

Update, May 29: On Wednesday morning, a small motor home parked in a residential driveway in Springs was destroyed after a fire started in its engine.

The Springs Fire Department was called to 60 Hildreth Place at about 8:15 a.m. Chief Ben Miller said the owner, whose name was not released, was planning to leave for a Mets game and had started the vehicle’s engine. He then moved another vehicle in the driveway, and when he returned to the motor home, found its belts on fire. The chief said he tried to move the motor home, but by then the engine was dead. He grabbed a fire extinguisher to try to put out the flames, but they spread quickly, Chief Miller said.

“When I got there the engine compartment was fully involved,” the chief said. The department was concerned about the possible explosion of propane tanks in the vehicle — a 20-pound cylinder behind the passenger seat and on-board propane. They were able to remove the cylinder, and the on-board tank relieved itself through a safety device without a problem.

“We were aware and conscious of the gas that was in there. We took all the precautions necessary that we were away from the hazards as much as possible,” David King, the first assistant chief, who was first on the scene, said. “The tires did not pop.” 

The back of the 25-foot motor home was about 15 to 30 feet away from the house, the chief said, adding that the department did a good job of knocking down the flames quickly and containing the fire to the vehicle. “If it had been turned around in the other direction. it would have been a little more tenuous,” Chief King said.

The fire was extinguished in about five minutes, but not before the fire had burned the roof of the motor home and destroyed its interior. The Fire Department remained on the scene for about an hour. making sure there were no small pockets of fire left.  No injuries were reported. The East Hampton Town fire marshal’s office is investigating the exact cause.

Original story: A camper was fully engulfed in flames in a driveway in Springs on Wednesday morning.

The Springs Fire Department was called to 60 Hildreth Place for a vehicle fire at 8:16 a.m. The first responding chief reported a camper was ablaze.

The East Hampton Town Fire Marshal's office was asked to respond as well.

It was not immediately clear what caused the camper to catch fire.

Check back for more information as it becomes available.

Services for Tyler Miller Valcich, who died on Monday at Southampton Hospital, will be held at the Montauk Firehouse on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A Mass will be said at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk on Monday at 11 a.m., followed by burial at Fort Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Valcich, who was 20, worked as a mechanic for his family's businesses, Mickey's Carting and Mickey's Montauk Mowing. His parents are Mitchell (Mickey) Valcich and Valinda Miller Valcich. His sister Carin Valcich also survives.

A 2011 East Hampton High School graduate, he graduated from the Universal Technical Institute the following year. He was also a volunteer firefighter with the Montauk Fire Department.

His family has suggested donations to the fire department, 12 Flamingo Avenue, Montauk 11954.

    A man who allegedly attacked another man with a machete in Springs Monday evening was released from East Hampton Town police custody yesterday after his family posted $5,000 bail. Jose Javier Garces Hernandez, 24, of Rutland Drive, was charged with felony assault and misdemeanor possession of a deadly weapon following the incident.

    Police found Jose Maria Jimenez, 26, lying in the street in front of his Clinton Street residence, bleeding badly from multiple wounds to his torso. He was taken first to Southampton Hospital, then airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery. His condition was not known as of yesterday afternoon.

    Police tracked Mr. Garces Hernandez, who was reportedly covered in blood, to a house at 423 Springs-Fireplace Road. He was treated by emergency medical technicians, then flown to Stony Brook as well.

    In court today, Mr. Garces Hernandez appeared still in pain and woozy. His attorney, Melissa Aguanno, told Justice Lisa R. Rana that the man, who is from the Dominican Republic, “is a legal resident here in East Hampton for six or seven years. His father is here, his brother is here, and so is the complaining witness’s sister, who is my client’s girlfriend.”

    It was the “complaining witness” (the alleged victim) who began the fight, the lawyer said in arguing for low bail.

    “Don’t argue the case here,” Justice Rana warned her. She set bail at $5,000, the amount the prosecution had requested.

    The defendant’s brother and girlfriend left the building and returned a short time later with the $5,000. While clerks counted out the money, Mr. Garces Hernandez waited in the court’s cell, still wearing a hospital gown and socks. An officer took off his handcuffs, and he staggered out into the parking lot, leaning on his girlfriend and his brother.

Quamine T. Taylor, who sneaked into the hip-hop impresario Sean Combs’s East Hampton house two years ago and spent 20 hours drinking liquor and soda, eating food, wearing Mr. Combs's bathrobe, and reportedly smoking his cigars, was back in East Hampton Town Justice Court Saturday after being arrested on a warrant in Westhampton Beach on Friday.

Mr. Taylor, 32, eventually served 120 days in county jail, after pleading guilty to one count of misdemeanor criminal trespass for entering and staying in the Hedges Banks Road house belonging to Mr. Combs.

Mr. Taylor was arrested again in August 2013 after an East Hampton Town police officer spotted him less than a quarter-mile from Mr. Combs’s house, following a report of a suspicious person walking in the area. Police said they found a small packet of marijuana on him during a search. He was supposed to return to court later that month but failed to appear, prompting East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana to issue a bench warrant for his arrest.

On Friday, Westhampton Village police questioned him about an unrelated matter, and discovered the warrant. They arrested him and turned him over to East Hampton Town police.

Justice Rana began Saturday's arraignment reminding Mr. Taylor about his last court date. “You did not appear,” she said. She then asked him where he now lives. Mr. Taylor gave an East New York address.

“What were you doing in Westhampton?” she asked.

“I was just going to hang out. Can I just plead guilty?” he said.

“No,” Justice Rana said, and set bail at $100, telling Mr. Taylor that he will be returned to court on Thursday.

“I’m going to spend a week in jail. It’s just a small bag of marijuana,” he said.

He was taken back to the prisoners’ bench, while other defendants were being arraigned. “Bail,” he said loudly at one point, shaking his head. Justice Rana looked at Mr. Taylor. “Really?” she asked.

“I’m sorry, your honor,” Mr. Taylor said.

Mr. Combs was in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, receiving an honorary doctorate from Howard University.

Outside the courthouse, as Mr. Taylor was led to a waiting police van to be taken to headquarters and then to county jail, he said to a photographer, “Tell The East Hampton Star that Oprah Winfrey’s next.” He repeated the sentence, then smiled. “Just kidding,” he said as ducked his head and climbed into the van.

 The three occupants of a Mercedes involved in a crash at about 4 a.m. Saturday morning on Bluff Road between Hand Lane and Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett were able to walk away from the vehicle unhurt, despite the fact that the car flipped over, landing on top of a parked truck, then flipped through the air again, landing back on its tires.

The owner of the truck, Pete Vaziri, who is caretaker for a couple of the houses between Hand Lane and Atlantic Avenue, was on the scene this morning, assessing what was left of his 1980 Chevrolet, its windows shattered and roof crushed into the cabin of the vehicle. He had left the truck parked in a client’s driveway.

“It started there,” he said, sharing details that police had provided to him. He pointed at the row of thick hedges on the north side of Bluff Road that had been torn out of the ground by their roots, apparently the first thing the westbound Mercedes came in contact with. “They were airborne,” he said of the car, which continued crushing and ripping through hedges as it flew through the air, until it landed, roof-down, on top of his truck. After bouncing off his truck, police told him, it continued to hurdle westward until crashing on top of a split rail fence on a neighboring property, demolishing part of it. In all, the impact area from the crash covered about 25 yards. “It looks like a hurricane,” Mr. Vaziri said of the damaged area. 

Burton Josephs, who lives east of where the accident occurred, took a break from his morning jog when he saw the accident scene. “Thirty years I’ve been here,” he said, complaining that speeding on Bluff Road, which is frequently used as a bypass for drivers trying to avoid the traffic on Amagansett Main Street during the summer, has gotten out of hand. “The speeding is pervasive. It’s Porsches, pickup trucks, and S.U.V.s. Right across the socio-economic landscape.”

The identity of the cars’ occupants have not been released. Mr. Vaziri said that police told him alcohol was not a contributing factor in the crash.

Emergency workers responded to a motorcycle accident in Montauk on Monday evening, as the Memorial Day wekeend was winding down.

The accident occurred on South Fox Street and Montauk Highway at about 6:45 p.m. First arriving units immediately called for a Medevac helicopter to fly into East Hampton airport to transport one patient to Stony Brook University Medical Center.

It was not immediately clear if the accident involved only a motorcycle, but no other patients were taken to the hospital. 

Traffic was diverted off Montauk Highway down West Lake Drive, briefly.

One ambulance was already out of the area, transporting a bicyclist who was struck by a vehicle in front of Ruschmeyer's on Second House Road. That patient was taken to Southampton Hospital.

No more details were immediately available.

     East Hampton Village police arrested a New York man Sunday morning after he reportedly left the scene of an accident near Hook Mill. Ian Simpson Reisner, 45, faces several charges including driving with ability impaired by drugs.

     According to Chief Gerard Larsen, Mr. Reisner was headed west at about 11 a.m. when he sideswiped a car parked on Pantigo Road near the windmill and drove away without stopping. Several witnesses called 911, and an officer caught up with the car at the nearby Schenk parking lot, though not before it chardstruck a sign near the entrance to the lot.

     The officer found Mr. Reisner to be unsteady and slurring his speech. Roadside sobriety tests were administered, which police said he failed. He was taken to headquarters, where a breath test produced a reading of .06, too low for a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated but high enough for the drug-related misdemeanor charge.

     Mr. Reisner refused to have his blood drawn, the chief said. A blood test is the only admissible way for a court to determine the level and type of drugs in the body.

     Because he was arrested after East Hampton Justice Court had completed its Sunday arraignments, Mr. Reisner spent the next 20 hours in a holding cell at Cedar Street headquarters.

     With his attorney, David Smith, by his side, he stood before Justice Lisa R. Rana, handcuffed, on Monday morning. She asked him his occupation.

     "I'm a real estate developer in New York," he answered. Mr. Reisner is a founding partner in Parkview Development, which, according to its web site, focuses on luxury hotels and high-end residential structures in the city. Before he founded the company in 2003, he was a managing director at Salomon Brothers.

     "I see you have a liquor license," the justice said. "I have a bar and nightclub in a hotel I own in New York," he replied, speaking of Out NYC, which opened in 2012 in Hell's Kitchen.

     The court asked how often he came to East Hampton. "Five or six times each summer. My family owns a house in Water Mill."

     "I'm going to have to set some bail. Five Hundred dollars," Justice Rana said. Mr. Smith posted the bail at headquarters, and Mr. Reisner was released, with a return date of June 19.

            "Once the facts come out, we believe this will be resolved in a favorable manner," Mr. Smith said later, declining to further comment.