Police & Courts

Attorneys for Ryan Benitez, a former East Hampton Town building inspector who is facing bribery and official misconduct charges, and his former co-worker, Evelyn Calderon, facing the same charges, appeared in court in Riverhead on Tuesday, where they conferenced with the judge in his chambers before leaving the courtroom. 

The woman who police said drove through an art show on the downtown green in Montauk in the overnight hours in June 2025 and was subsequently charged with driving while intoxicated pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years of probation in East Hampton Town Justice Court.

A Montauk man riding an electric bike at 3 a.m. on July 6 was injured after crashing into a parked car.

In the week’s only drug-related arrest, a Massachusetts man is facing a felony charge for possession of a hallucinogen. 

Individuals wearing camouflage in a field on Sarah’s Way in East Hampton Village alarmed a resident on Saturday afternoon. Police found a family playing on their own property with airsoft guns.

Companies controlled by the billionaire industrialist Ira Rennert agreed last month to a $150 million settlement with 1,373 Peruvians who claim they were exposed to lead and other toxic substances as children growing up near the companies’ metal smelting and refining complex in La Oroya, Peru.

A woman was injured after the car she was driving was rear-ended by a Jeep and pushed through a fence at the Watchcase Factory condominiums.

A man facing a misdemeanor drunken driving charge appears to have made things worse for himself. 

A driver trying to back his Porsche into a parking space on Newtown Lane last Thursday found a traffic control officer standing in the spot. The T.C.O. called police, saying the driver was yelling at her to move and had reversed the car in her direction.

A local woman was injured on Friday morning near the Mobil gas station in Amagansett after her car rolled away and knocked her down.

East Hampton Town police and the Coast Guard are investigating the death of a man found unconscious Tuesday on a boat off the coast of Montauk Point.

Police said that Edward Garbowski, 62, may have suffered a medical emergency while clamming on Friday.

A 63-year-old Bronx man with no criminal history was arrested Wednesday afternoon at Beyonce and Jay-Z’s house in East Hampton Village’s Georgica neighborhood after he drove his Subaru through the property’s security gate.

Update: Jessica M. Morocho Aguagallo, a 16-year-old Sag Harbor resident reported missing last week, was located and returned safely to her family Sunday night.

Following two recent fatal shootings by ICE agents, one in Maine and one in Texas, the appearance on Monday of two Suffolk County Sheriff vehicles parked with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection truck on Long Wharf in Sag Harbor created a stir.

An East Hampton driver who told police he was trying to avoid a deer on Montauk Highway was taken to the emergency room last week after his Hyundai sedan collided with a utility pole and overturned.

In the early morning hours Saturday, someone named John reported that he was “trapped inside Dive Bar” in Montauk by a drunk who was refusing to let him leave.

The Stop & Shop in East Hampton Village was cleared out late Friday morning after an apparent freon leak was detected inside the supermarket.

A cyclist was injured on the night of July 1 in a hit-and-run collision at the intersection of Flamingo Avenue and Manor Road in Montauk.

A Southampton man who was arrested Sunday night faces two felony counts and several lesser charges after a boat he was operating struck a stone jetty in Sag Harbor Bay, seriously injuring two of his passengers.

An East Hampton man faces three felony charges after allegedly producing forged documents to a town police officer in Montauk. 

A man caused a disturbance at the 7-Eleven in Montauk around 4 a.m. on Monday, an employee reported to police, saying that the man “partially ate” two Philly Cheesesteak sandwiches before putting them back on the counter and refusing to pay.

A man was rescued three miles southwest of Montauk Wednesday free-floating in the ocean with no life jacket. The one thing the man did have — an emergency position-indicating radio beacon — allowed Coast Guard Station Montauk and the Air National Guard to locate and save him.

A Brooklyn woman and a Montauk man are facing upgraded charges after being charged with drunken driving late last month. 

A Manhattan man has been harassing and menacing people on the streets of East Hampton Village.

Two drivers were at odds on North Main Street about what happened to a Manhattan man’s Mercedes-Benz on the afternoon of June 23, in an incident involving “metal objects and red liquid” and damages to the tune of $3,700.

Heavy damage was reported last week after a Springs teenager crashed his car on Springs-Fireplace Road near Shadom Lane in that hamlet. 

Sag Harbor Village police have released information about a man who had been making threats around the village in the past month. 

One member of a group of motorcyclists “speeding and riding erratically,” according to East Hampton Village police, was left injured Sunday afternoon after he hit the rear of a car stopped on Main Street.

After reporting suspicious people in her driveway, an Oyster Pond Lane woman told police on June 17 that they might have been neighbors who sometimes use her driveway as a shorter path to their house.