A Springs man who has been wanted by the New York Police Department for over nine years was arrested in East Hampton Village Saturday morning and charged with driving while intoxicated. Police in Queens arrested him on the same charge in 2005, but he failed to appear in court and a warrant for his arrest has been outstanding ever since.

Village police said they spotted Juan Romero Garcia’s 2002 Volkswagen speeding along Montauk Highway near Jericho Road and swerving across lane lines, and that the driver failed roadside sobriety tests.

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James Kelley, the East Hampton postmaster, called police on April 6 about a homeless 64-year-old man whom he wanted removed from the post office building. Police said they saw no reason why the man, who rents a post office box in the Gay Lane building, should be removed. The man said he had merely gone in to get his mail.

William DeJonge reported suspicious activity at his house at 18 Laforest Lane, occurring at some point since October.

East Hampton Village police allegedly clocked the driver of a 2012 Mercedes Benz at 73 miles per hour on Woods Lane early in the morning of April 8 before the car crashed into shrubbery and a fence while turning into the driveway of 75 Woods Lane. The driver, Elizabeth Ann Damark, was arrested on multiple charges including felony drunken driving.

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A brush fire that broke out in Water Mill on Monday burned over three and a half acres and came close to a house before firefighters were able to extinguish it.

Bridgehampton Fire Chief Gary Horsburgh said Tuesday that a man was out in an open field behind 153 Little Noyac Path with a lawn mower when the fire began at about 11:35 a.m. “He must have hit a rock and sparked the fire,” Chief Horsburgh said. “It really went up fast.”

He immediately called for help from the North Sea Fire Department, whose jurisdiction abuts the area.