Police & Courts

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.

A Springs man, later charged with misdemeanor drunken driving, was injured after his truck rolled over in Montauk last week, and there were other injuries in Springs and Wainscott.

Eight teenagers involved in a fight at Smokey Buns were taken home by their parents on Friday night. The teens had been at the movie theater and went to the restaurant afterward in two groups, one of which confronted the other, possibly over a girlfriend.

A two-vehicle crash on Napeague near the Ocean Colony Resort Tuesday morning resulted in serious injuries, according to East Hampton Town police, and traffic backups on the stretch for much of the afternoon. Detectives were still investigating as of Wednesday.

What some thought could be military ordnance found on Two Mile Hollow Beach turned out to be military in nature, but not an imminent danger.

Police charged a Riverhead woman with a felony in the early hours of Sunday morning after they said they found her to be intoxicated with two children in the car in Amagansett.

A flashlight-carrying man walking near Church Lane in Springs early Saturday morning was taken to the train station after he told police his friends had left him without a ride home to Hampton Bays after a night out drinking.

The woman who police said drove through an art show on the downtown green in Montauk in the overnight hours last June was offered three years of probation.

The manager of a North Main Street business reported a “defaming” Yelp review to police last week. He identified the writer of the review as a former employee.