The East End D.W.I. Task Force was on patrol Friday night, the day after Thanksgiving, yielding one arrest.

The fire, which originated in the basement, burned a hole in the first floor of the house at 21 Old Stone Highway in Springs.

A 33-year-old East Hampton woman driving without a license was arrested on a drunken-driving charge at 3:21 a.m. on Sunday, her third felony arrest in five years, East Hampton Town police said.

A young man walking on McGuirk Street and Newtown Lane raised suspicion last Thursday just after 2 p.m. He told police who questioned him that he was waiting for a friend to get out of school.

A 55-year-old intoxicated woman was found drinking a bottle of sake on the front lawn of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society on Main Street on Saturday at 1 p.m. Police escorted her home and turned her over to the care of her brother.

A 66-year-old man was arrested after East Hampton Town police said he discharged a 12-gauge shotgun inside his house following a domestic dispute last Thursday afternoon.

What started out as a routine winter victim-in-distress Jet Ski training session in Block Island Sound for East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue on Sunday morning ended as an actual rescue.

An East Hampton woman reported a suspicious person in the vicinity of Spaeth Lane on Dec. 11 at about 12:50 p.m. Police found a man doing landscaping work.

Sag Harbor Village police charged a man they said left the scene of an accident with drunken driving last Thursday.

Brendan Wirth, a part-time officer with the East Hampton Village Police Department, was designated a full-time officer on Friday. At its final meeting of the year, the village board and Chief Michael Tracey held a brief ceremony to welcome Officer Wirth to full-time status.

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Detectives are investigating a fire that broke out in the office building at East Hampton Indoor Tennis in Wainscott on Saturday morning — the second fire at the complex this year.

Five days after a dirt bike accident left his passenger injured, a 17-year-old who had been driving on a town road without a license was arrested on two misdemeanors, including leaving the scene of the Dec. 13 accident.

A Springs man was arrested on a drunken-driving charge on Dec. 22 at about 9:15 p.m.

Deep tire tracks were found on the baseball field at Maidstone Park on Saturday. It appeared someone had driven around the field in a circle.

A 72-year-old man was arrested Saturday in his neighbor’s house on a criminal trespassing charge. 

The homeowner, whom police did not name, arrived at her Richardson Avenue house in Springs last Thursday afternoon to find Peter E. Rellstab, who lives a few doors down, coming up from the basement. He was charged with second-degree criminal trespass, a misdemeanor.

A male suspect swiped two 12-ounce bottles of Corona Light from Brent’s General Store on Montauk Highway on Sunday evening.

A 60-year-old Sag Harbor man was arrested on a drunken-driving charge after backing a Jeep onto a Main Street sidewalk in that village in front of a police officer.

A fire at the seven-story Tower, a residential building in the heart of Montauk’s downtown, on Thursday night caused little damage. The Montauk Fire Department was called following a report of smoke in the basement of the building.

A rented U-Haul truck was not returned to Consumer Tires on Railroad Avenue. Police issued a “be-on-the-lookout” alert to local law enforcement. Detectives are investigating.