Police & Courts
A woman was found dead on a boat docked off Star Island Road in Montauk before dawn on Tuesday, according to Suffolk County police.
Men in tactical police gear, at least two carrying rifles and at least one masked, converged on an Amagansett house on Monday evening in what the East Hampton Town police chief said was “a criminal investigation conducted by multiple federal law enforcement agencies, and was not solely an immigration case.”
A drunken neighbor tossed a chicken wing off a deck and “almost struck one of his children” late Saturday night, a Montauk Highway renter told police, which led to a “brief argument” between the parties, though he said the neighbor and his partner later came over and “attempted” to apologize.
Four people were assessed by responders from the Montauk Fire Department, but declined further treatment, after they were struck by a woman trying to park her Honda sedan near the Montauk Brewing Company. Also in Montauk, a Volvo S.U.V. struck an e-bike on Main Street, resulting in injuries to the 13-year-old bicyclist.
A fire that burned a scar the size of a football field into the woods on the north side of the railroad tracks on Napeague on July 16, temporarily closing the road and halting train service, could have been much worse, Chris Beckert, the chief of the Amagansett Fire Department, said this week.
A caller reported three youths lying “in the middle of Suffolk Street,” next to a black S.U.V., at around 3 in the morning on July 14 in Sag Harbor. The three told police they were waiting for a friend and were out on the street because their vehicle had no air-conditioning.
Toyotas were on a tear this week, with four accidents on local roads resulting in injuries.
East Hampton Town police made three late-night arrests last week, all of them ending in felony charges, from assault to forgery to drug possession.
A driver was injured and East Hampton Village Main Street was closed for more than an hour on Wednesday after a massive tree limb fell without warning
A brush fire along the north side of Montauk Highway on a remote stretch of Napeague was reported on Wednesday afternoon and burned an area roughly the size of a football field before being extinguished.
East Hampton Town continues to make investments in its dispatch capabilities, with the town board most recently approving a $1.5 million bond issue for improvements to its dispatch center on July 3.