Ripped from the somewhat exciting pages of old issues of The Star . . .

Laney Ettel of Virginia Beach was having dinner Friday night at Gurney's Star Island Resort in Montauk when, she told police, her purse went missing.

Marlene Julie Pabon of the Bronx, 40, was charged on the morning of Aug. 16 with menacing a police officer after she allegedly brandished an eight-inch folding knife at him.

Among arrests in town last week was one in Montauk involving an East Hampton Town traffic control officer.