The detective declined to say whether arson had been positively identified as the cause until town police receive a complete report from the county squad, which collected evidence in the hours after the fire.

East Hampton Town and Village and Sag Harbor police chiefs, noting there are few Spanish-speaking and few African-American officers on the South Fork, said in interviews this week that they were concerned about diversity in their departments.

Phone and online scams are on the rise, and many of the con artists behind them are targeting older people.

Several defendants have been brought into court on drug-related arrests.

Joseph R. Dowling, 24, was found with heroin and needles when East Hampton Town police detectives arrested him Friday afternoon.

An Orange County man, Michael J. Lounsbury, 34, was jailed over the weekend in lieu of $10,000 bail following his arrest in downtown Montauk a little after midnight last Thursday.

Christian R. Fusco of Ronkonkoma, 25, put his head and shoulder through a window after yelling at people inside.

What's on the logs.

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced a major arrest sweep of East End drug dealers on Tuesday. The result, he said, is the destruction of two big operations, one dealing in cocaine; the other, heroin.

A trial in East Hampton Town Justice Court on July 12 resulted in a not-guilty verdict for Nicholas Sebastian Spoerl, a carpenter who lives in Sag Harbor. Mr. Spoerl had been accused of reckless driving and endangerment.

What police later called a road-rage confrontation ended on Route 114 in East Hampton on the morning of April 16, 2014, when Mr.

David Farshadfar, 25, of Tenafly, N.J., was arrested in downtown Montauk early Sunday morning on misdemeanor drug possession charges, after East Hampton Town police allegedly found him in possession of a quantity of hallucinogenic mushrooms

Amagansett

A red, white, and blue Trek mountain bike was stolen from the entrance to Indian Wells Beach around 7 a.m. on July 16. Mark Crandall told police he had left the bike along with his flip-flops in the sand while he went for a short walk.

After several weeks of numerous drunken-driving arrests, many following car crashes, last week was strikingly calm. One arrest followed a crash; another resulted from a traffic infraction.

Joseph R. Dowling of Sag Harbor, 24, has been indicted on two felony charges citing the sale of heroin to an undercover agent.

An East Hampton woman was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a March incident involving attempted forgery.

East Hampton

An Oakview Highway homeowner realized on July 23 that one of three kayaks he had stored near a shed in late June was missing.

A former East Hampton High School football star who, police said, used his Sag Harbor neighbors’ mailboxes to deal heroin in that village, was charged on Friday afternoon with two felonies, possessing heroin with an intent to sell and actually selling it.

East Hampton Town police said one of those arrested, Nicholas Leguillow of Hewlett, 43, was taken to the hospital after his breath test produced a dangerously high reading.

East Hampton

A black Maserati parked outside Club Leo on Three Mile Harbor Road was vandalized overnight July 16.

New York State police arrested Steven M. Mezynieski, the owner of an eponymous Southampton excavation company.