In 2001, John Claflin and Dan Roman both walked through the Suffolk County Police Academy doors as new graduates. Last week, Lieutenant Claflin and Sergeant Roman took their final walk out of East Hampton Town Police Department headquarters. In between, the pair distinguished themselves as officers who "really got the job and really got the town," Chief Michael Sarlo said.
A caller reported a dog alone in an unattended Hyundai on Park Place last Thursday morning. An officer said the dog seemed okay but waited for the return of the owner, who said that "the dog refused to get out of the vehicle and I was only gone for a moment."
Two motorists were charged in recent weeks with driving while intoxicated, and in a non-alcohol-related incident, yet another tale of caution for summer bicyclists played out last Thursday
An East Quogue man who allegedly stole a pickup truck in Riverhead on June 16 faces a grand total of nine charges after police stopped the white Ford F-150 truck on Industrial Road in Wainscott at about 5:30 p.m. that day.
Viktor Senchyshyn, 61, was charged with four felonies: criminal possession of stolen property, burglary, illegal entry with intent to commit a crime, and two counts of criminal mischief for causing over $250 damage to another person's property.
