Police & Courts

Police from various departments are investigating after a body was found in the woods in Montauk Thursday afternoon.

Sag Harbor Village police say one man with mental health issues has been responsible for a string of disturbing incidents in the village recently.

A Flanders woman was charged Friday night, on Springs-Fireplace Road near Queens Lane in East Hampton, with a felony count of driving while intoxicated. 

East Hampton Village police arrested a Middle Island man last week who they say stole over $10,000 from his former employer.

A $4,000 bill for bottle service was disputed early Monday morning at Bounce Beach Montauk by a couple who told police they’d already spent $5,000 on food and drinks that evening.

In the days following a rafting accident that claimed the life of a Sag Harbor sixth grader, interviews with students on the trip and their parents offered a sense of what occurred that day on the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania.

An East Hampton man was having a cup of coffee at Louse Point in Springs at 6 a.m. on May 29 when someone called in a report of a suspicious person. The man told police he likes to drive to various locations to see the scenery.

Train service out of Southampton was temporarily suspended Wednesday after an eastbound train hit a landscaping vehicle in Bridgehampton.

The Carbon County Coroner’s Office and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission released additional details about the rafting accident on the Lehigh River that claimed the life of a Sag Harbor sixth grader during a school trip on Wednesday.

As reports of crimes of a sexual nature have apparently increased, those cases have drawn attention — not only because of their brutality, but also because allegations of abuse strike at deeply held assumptions about safety in a place that has seen itself as insulated from such offenses.

After charging a Springs man with misdemeanor drunken driving on Sunday, East Hampton Town police added a more serious drug charge.

It’s official — the newest member of the Sag Harbor Village Police Department is an adorable yellow Lab named Gillies, who was sworn in as a police therapy dog this week.

A visitor from Newtown, Mass., was cited for public urination at 2 a.m. on Saturday near Amagansett Hardware. Police said he was “highly intoxicated,” refused to provide identification, and “adamantly denied” urinating in public even though he’d been caught on an officer’s body camera.

A sixth grader in the Sag Harbor School District died Wednesday in a rafting accident on the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania while on the annual class trip to the Poconos. The tragedy was confirmed by Jeff Nichols, the district superintendent, just before 11 p.m.

A Brooklyn woman who came here to visit a friend for the weekend instead spent the weekend in jail after East Hampton Village police recovered a large number of items stolen from the Ralph Lauren Double RL clothing store on Main Street and arrested the woman they say stole them all.

Two bicyclists were injured on local roads last Thursday in separate incidents.

At 2 a.m. Saturday in Montauk, a man called police to say he’d been kicked out of Dive Bar Pizza and that the bouncers had been “rude” to him.

A two-car accident on Route 114 left two people injured last week.

A postal worker from Moriches who allegedly raped a 15-year-old in his mail van was arrested by East Hampton Town police on May 14.

After spotting a car driving up Oakview Highway with no lights on in complete darkness, town police charged a Springs man with felony-level driving while intoxicated.

Police are still investigating the cause of a four-car accident on Montauk Highway in East Hampton Village Monday that left two people injured and the road closed for several hours.

A head-on collision on Montauk Highway near the Amagansett railroad crossing last week left four people injured.

After reading of bullying at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in last week’s issue, another man came forward to tell police that he has been harassed during the group’s meeting at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor.

Arrests across East Hampton Town were down last year, as were overall calls to town police, according to the department’s year-end report. Motor vehicle accidents are also trending down.

A violent assault over the weekend left one man injured and another in jail.

The East Hampton Healthcare Foundation has donated 26 two-packs of EpiPens, pre-loaded syringes that defend against the allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis, to East Hampton Town.

Kids were reported to be running amok at BonBon, a candy shop in Sag Harbor, last week. An employee told police that “very young kids” took too many candy samples and other items.

A Springs man who was charged on April 24 with a felony count of driving while intoxicated was later also charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor.

A fiery car crash on the evening of April 27 left two men injured and a heavy traffic buildup on Three Mile Harbor Road.

Police officers from East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor Village joined forces on Monday to collar a grand larceny suspect just days after he allegedly stole from a shop in Sag Harbor.