A young Holbrook man was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court last Thursday on three felony charges in connection with the theft of thousands of dollars worth of fishing rods and reels last year from two Montauk marinas.

East Hampton

A resident of a Boatheaders Lane apartment told police on April 12 that $210 had been taken from an envelope on a nightstand the evening before. Harry Stevenson said the door was open when he came home after midnight, but he didn’t realize that the lock was broken until the morning.

East Hampton

Police were called to a Route 114 cottage on March 30, where Noelle Parker told them that while she was walking her dog, $900 in cash was stolen from her purse. It is the second time this year Ms. Parker has reported a theft from the premises while she was out.

Whitney L. Posey, 28, was arrested on Friday outside the CVS in East Hampton Village and charged with felony possession of stolen property, two credit cards, which she had reportedly tried to use inside the store.

Local Police News

Sag Harbor Village police arrested a Hampton Bays woman late Saturday night on drunken-driving charges after an East Hampton Village police dispatcher relayed a tip from a motorist of an erratic driver on Route 114. An officer spotted the car and reported seeing it swerve across the bike lane, almost striking a concrete barrier. 

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A Springs man was charged with drunken driving early Friday morning, almost two years to the day since his last arrest on the charge. Alex M. Naranjo, 29, now faces two felony counts.

A man who skipped town after his sister put up $10,000 collateral through a bail bondsman was brought back to East Hampton in handcuffs last Thursday, the money probably gone and extended jail time likely ahead.

Police news this week

A 65-year-old man who spent 34 years without a driver’s license following his first arrest for drunken driving was charged with the same offense on Sunday, this time with an additional charge of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a felony.

The Sag Harbor Village Police Department is without a detective after its sole detective was brought up on disciplinary charges.

East Hampton Village

A Dayton Lane resident was back to his old habits of calling 911 without an emergency. Police stopped at his house at about 3 a.m. on April 26, and he appeared to be intoxicated but was not a threat to himself or anyone else, police said in a report.

A Rockland County man was arrested within hours of the discovery of a break-in at the Sag Harbor Variety Store at 114 Main Street in the village Saturday morning.

East Hampton Village police stopped a driver Monday afternoon for talking on his cellphone without a hands-free device, and discovered that he was wanted in Brazil on drug-trafficking charges.

A pedestrian was flown to Stony Brook University Hospital with a head injury Saturday night after being hit by a car in Bridgehampton.

A Manhattan man said that $8,400 was stolen from his backpack at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter on Friday even­ing.

 

Amagansett

Jonda Stillwell and Kim Webb, caretakers of a Barnes Hole Road residence, told police last Thursday that sometime after May 12 a glass sliding door had been shattered by a rock.

James Barrett Lucas of Southampton, 52, has been in the county jail in Riverside since Saturday, charged with three felonies related to driving while intoxicated.

National E.M.S. Week, which began on Sunday and runs through Saturday, is a time to honor and say thank you to emergency medical service providers. The East Hampton Village Ambulance Association is using the occasion to put the call out for more volunteers to help it save lives and give back to the community.

Two people with a history of drug use crossed paths last Thursday afternoon in a unit of the Oakview Highway trailer park in East Hampton, and both were sent to the county jail on Saturday, where they remained as of yesterday.