An officer on foot patrol heard yelling and saw a man sitting in his car with the interior lights on and the door open. Another officer stopped a car without headlights on. Two felony cocaine possession charges followed.     

Just after Friday midnight, an East Hampton Town police officer arrested an alleged drunken driver whose brand-new Mercedes had been clocked at 91 miles per hour on Town Lane in East Hampton, three times the 30 m.p.h. limit there.   

At about 7 a.m. on July 30, a beachgoer spotted some curious debris in the water at Main Beach, and called police, saying it looked like “safety markings” attached to “something floating in the water.” Police used binoculars and saw it was a cluster of balloons.