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What Was In the Safe



A Woodside man driving a company van to the farmers market in Springs in order to sell pickles was charged Saturday morning with 10 misdemeanors, mostly relating to possession of drugs.

East Hampton Town police said Peter Chau was pulled over on North Main Street, East Hampton, because his rear license plate was “crooked.” The officer reportedly found that Mr. Chau’s license had been suspended three times for failure to pay a fine in Queens, which led initially to his arrest.

Police then began to investigate the contents of the van, which Mr.

He Would Rather Be in Jail



A man who told East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky that “I’m not homeless. I live outside,” has spent the last few days in the county jail, charged by East Hampton Village police with trespassing.

Joseph Volper, 58, approached an officer early Friday morning, saying he thought he had left his belt and a blue blanket in a house near Hook Mill. He led the officer to the house, saying he had entered it “through a front side door that was partially open,” the officer reported, and, once inside, had “played his portable stereo” and fallen asleep on a couch.

Need New Landing Spot

Leaders of the Amagansett Fire Department have to find a new place for the Suffolk County police helicopter to land in emergencies when patients need to be airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital.

The medevac has been landing in a field behind the firehouse, between Main Street and the Long Island Rail Road tracks, but the chief said he was recently informed that pilots had raised concerns about the safety of the landing zone.

Suffolk County Police Deputy Chief Kevin Fallon confirmed by email on Tuesday that the department reassessed the area and found it was “less th

On the Police Logs 08.14.14



Amagansett

On July 17 at about 3:30 p.m., a resident of Old Stone Highway flagged down an officer on patrol and pointed out some “waste dirt with a putrid smell,” which he said had been illegally dumped onto his driveway, about 20 feet from the road. The estimated four to five yards of dirt was blocking access to three houses that share a common driveway. One of the homeowners called Bistrian’s to remove it.

East Hampton

John J.