Police & Courts

A man who drove across a lawn in Springs and into a parked truck narrowly avoided striking the house, according to town police. He was charged with drunken driving.

After responding to a domestic incident last week, town police charged an East Hampton man with rape and forcible compulsion.

The Suffolk County district attorney’s office confirmed Thursday that the victim of a cold case murder from 1978 in Montauk has been identified — and linked to a New Jersey serial killer.

A cygnet swan standing in the middle of Cove Hollow Road and blocking traffic on Nov. 2 proved to be uninjured and eventually flew to Georgica Pond.

The Sag Harbor School District and its superintendent, Jeff Nichols, have been named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed this week by the parents of Cesar Adrian Albarracin Guncay, a sixth grader at Pierson Middle School who drowned in the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania while on a school trip in May.

A major structure fire that broke out just before 11 a.m. Friday in Montauk was still being tended to by emergency personnel late into the afternoon.

In Wainscott, when only one of the two drinks a man ordered from 7-Eleven through DoorDash was delivered, he complained to police. He eventually received both drinks.

A Sag Harbor man found driving with a learner’s permit and a previous conviction for drunken driving was charged with felony-level D.W.I. last week.

A prominent East Hampton attorney turned himself in Wednesday on 11 felony counts of possession of material containing child sexual performance and was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court.

A 33-year-old led town police on a brief pursuit late Sunday night before they caught up with him. He faces several charges.

Someone called police to report a group of people sitting in the back of a parked van in the Sportime lot on Saturday night, not moving. They were playing poker, police said.

A driver who collided with a tree near the Whalebone Village complex on the afternoon of Oct. 19 was later charged with drunken driving. 

A man was buying a newspaper last week in Sag Harbor, he told police, when someone came up behind him and grabbed “his pectoral area and nuzzled his ear.”

Two women stole a pumpkin from a bench outside Amber Waves Farm in Amagansett Saturday. 

An e-bike rider was hit by a car and injured just after midnight Sunday on Main Street in Amagansett, among other collisions.

A woman who is already in legal hot water with East Hampton Village seems to have found herself in more of it after a new arrest last Thursday.

A man flagged down police on Main Street in Sag Harbor Saturday night to tell an officer that a woman dining at Tutto il Giorno had “told his kids to shut up.”

Hope Livingston, a former Sag Harbor P.T.A. treasurer, was sentenced to five years of probation and restitution after pleading guilty to third-degree grand larceny and agreeing to a plea deal with county prosecutors. 

Six months after her arrest, Evelyn Calderon, formerly of the East Hampton Town Building Department, took a deal in a Riverhead court Wednesday, pleading guilty to 10 counts of bribery and official misconduct. She was sentenced to 840 hours of community service, five years of probation, and a $29,200 fine. 

George Orwell and “1984” were repeatedly invoked during a panel discussion of surveillance technology at LTV Studios Tuesday, particularly the Flock Safety license plate readers that have appeared here and across the country.

Two men jumped out of a passing car and attacked a man walking at 2:30 a.m. last Thursday near Queens Lane, according to police, who said that while the victim did appear to be injured, he refused to identify his assailants except to say they were “friends” of his.

Ryan Benitez, a former East Hampton Town building inspector, admitted Thursday to accepting bribes in exchange for expediting building permits and certificates of occupancy in 2024 and early 2025.

Forged documents led to the arrest of a Barnes Landing man last week.

A handyman from Hampton Bays was arrested Friday and charged with three felonies in connection with two burglaries in Amagansett in June. At his arraingment in East Hampton Town Justice Court, it came to light that he is out on bail on similar charges in Southampton Village.

LTV Studios in Wainscott will be the site of a forum on the controversial Flock Safety cameras as well as the proliferating use of drones and the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Tuesday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. 

A man was reported to be “crying in the road” on North Main Street on Sept. 14, but police were unable to find him. 

An accident on Montauk Highway in Wainscott last week that left two drivers injured was caused by sun glare, according to East Hampton Town police. 

A “shirtless and stumbling” man was arrested Saturday afternoon after being involved in a car accident police said was caused by his drinking and driving. 

A 30-foot sailboat named Piper, out of Dartmouth, Mass., was anchored and seemingly abandoned 100 yards off Main Beach in East Hampton Village over the weekend, while its owner apparently found shelter in a parking kiosk.

An East Hampton Village police sergeant one day away from retirement was injured last week in an accident on school grounds.