Police & Courts

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.

Two neighbors on Georgica Road called police Saturday because one has been trimming the other’s hedge, which he does not want trimmed. The trimmer called the work a “neighborly gesture” based on his neighbor’s neglect of “landscaping and upkeep.”

A maintenance worker in a Newtown Lane building housing a luxury women’s fashion shop was charged with burglary on Monday after police spotted him on camera stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise.

Near midnight Sunday, a driver on Three Mile Harbor Road near Karlsruhe Cross Highway in Springs hit a pothole and lost control of his S.U.V.

On Georgica Beach on Saturday morning, multiple chairs and tiki torches set up around a smoldering, unattended fire between the first and second jetties caused some alarm.

A trailer reported missing in Southampton in July popped up in East Hampton on Aug. 31, resulting in the arrest of the man towing it.

East Hampton Town police charged a Springs man with felony-level driving while intoxicated on Aug. 22 after he had turned into a Pantigo Road parking lot at 2:15 that morning.

A man accused of living in his vehicle at Ditch Plain in Montauk told police he leaves every night and does not sleep there. When they asked him about reports that he had been talking to women and calling them pretty, he said he is “just friendly when he is surfing.”

A man police said was waxing poetic about his rescue dog during a traffic stop is facing a felony drug charge and charges of resisting arrest after they reportedly found cocaine in his car on Friday night.

According to a report released this week, two men arrested in Amagansett in mid-June and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, are still at large, awaiting future court appearances.

Four people were hospitalized last week after two cars collided on Hand’s Creek Road in East Hampton. Police said a driver fell asleep at the wheel of her Toyota sedan on the afternoon of Aug. 17. The car swerved into the oncoming lane and crashed head-on into a Honda sedan.

Late Saturday night, police found a man on Bay Street described as “highly intoxicated” who said he was “attempting to adjust the driver’s seat” of a parked BMW that police said did not belong to him. While he does own a BMW, they said, that one was not his.

Update: Sag Harbor Village police said Saturday that a 16-year-old girl reported missing on Thursday had been located and is safe.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority detectives have charged a Bronx man with robbery, saying that in East Hampton last month, he stole money from another train rider and then brandished a knife in his face.

Just weeks after the sentencing of the woman who drunkenly drove through the Montauk Art Show last year, destroying many paintings, photographs, and handmade crafts, the event was targeted again, this time falling victim to thieves and vandals.

East Hampton Town police reported multiple accidents last week as local roads fill up for the final weeks of summer.