A decision could be announced as early as next week as to who the next chief of the Southampton Town Police Department will be.

Amagansett

Andreas and Caroline Deutschman’s 1976 Mercedes-Benz pickup truck, with advertising signs for their new nail salon, Fresh Cut Nails, on its sides, was vandalized on Aug. 31 in the Indian Wells Beach parking lot.

A call to the police last Thursday afternoon from a driver who claimed he had been forced off the road by another vehicle ended with the caller in handcuffs, facing several charges including a felony.

At a little after midnight Saturday, East Hampton Town police received a call reporting “a body” lying on the large rock revetment that protects Montauk Point and the lighthouse.

Amagansett

A Hedges Lane man told police on Sept. 21 that he had received a call from a man claiming to be with the I.R.S. Daniel Michels said he was told he would be arrested unless he turned over certain personal information, which he began to do, but became suspicious when the caller began speaking in a rude manner. Mr.

The operator of an illegal nightclub in the basement of a house at 7 Muir Boulevard in East Hampton has agreed to pay a $20,000 fine in exchange for the criminal case against him in East Hampton Town Justice Court being adjourned.

Motor vehicle accidents led to four driving while intoxicated arrests by local police last week, while a county campaign against drunken driving netted two arrests overnight Saturday. All but one of those arrested were charged with misdemeanors.

A Montauk man arrested Sept. 30 after a routine traffic stop on the hamlet’s Main Street was indicted by a grand jury on drug trafficking charges last Thursday.

Local Police Notes

To mark National Fire Prevention Week, the Bridgehampton Fire Department will host an open house on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to educate residents on the basics of fire safety.

The Bridgehampton Fire District will not have to raise taxes in 2017 because its board of fire commissioners has agreed to tap into a reserve fund and shift some expenses around.

East Hampton Town police were called to a Springs-Fireplace Road, Springs, house on the afternoon of Sept. 25 in response to a report of domestic violence.

Amagansett

Peter Israel, who rented his house over the summer, told police that a woman he had hired to clean between rentals had been stealing various linens from the house. He did not want to press charges, but did want the situation documented.

East Hampton

A vandal armed with a BB gun damaged two storm windows on an Austin Road house sometime between Sept.

Domestic disputes — between a mother and son, the parents of a child, and an estranged couple — were at the fore of East Hampton Town police investigations last week.

East Hampton

Antonios Foskolos of Hedges Avenue was contacted on Oct. 24 by a Chase Bank officer, who wanted to know whether a card about to be opened in his name was legitimate. Mr. Foskolos told the bank it was not. A scammer apparently tried to use Mr. Foskolos’s name and address on an application, but made a mistake with other information.

Sag Harbor police received a call Friday night reporting a white utility van with ladders on its roof driving erratically on Main Street

What's on the police logs

A 1997 Chevrolet Suburban headed toward Two Mile Hollow Beach Friday afternoon crashed into a parked 2014 Chevrolet pickup truck with enough force to propel it three spaces over.

What's on the police logs.

A 19-year-old who fled a crash near Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk and stumbled in the dark for over three miles before police caught up with him was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court last Thursday on multiple charges.