Police & Courts

A 67-year-old East Hampton woman accused of driving her car into two teenage traffic control officers in Sag Harbor Village on May 17 pleaded not guilty to four charges — endangering the welfare of a child, harassment in the second degree, leaving the scene of an accident, and reckless endangerment — when she was arraigned Friday in front of Village Justice Carl Irace. 

“Filming TikTok videos” was a Hawthorne Avenue man’s explanation when asked what he was doing in his Ford Mustang in the One Stop parking lot after 1 a.m. on Monday. The man produced the footage to quell any doubts and left the area without incident. 

At Provisions in Sag Harbor, a woman entered the cafe area with a dog, which is against store policy, and ignored repeated requests to leave, finally stating that she would “burn this f***ing store down.” The owner got her name from a one-star review she left on Google later that day, and called police.

A silver Honda attempting to park Monday afternoon in a handicapped space in front of the restaurant Lulu in Sag Harbor drove over the curb, onto the sidewalk, and into the building, knocking aside tables in the outdoor seating area. 

With a black Samurai-style sword in hand, a 33-year-old man from Newburgh, N.Y., allegedly threatened another man on Saturday night near Camp Hero on Coast Artillery Road in Montauk. His target locked himself in his car and called police as the sword-wielder approached. 

Michael Khodorkovskiy, who pleaded guilty in April to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, a class A-II felony, for distributing cocaine in East Hampton Town and elsewhere in Suffolk County, was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision.

East Hampton Town police charged a Boston man with a felony over the holiday weekend.

A 24-year-old East Hampton man faces two weapons-related felony charges following his arrest a little after 3 a.m. on Friday.

A dispute in a Sag Harbor building resulted in multiple calls to police last week.

A woman who reported property damage on James Lane in East Hampton Village Saturday evening told police she’d found bird droppings and tree debris on her car. Asked whether she usually parks under a tree, she responded, “Sometimes, but I think people might be putting these things on my car.”

A woman charged with drunken driving was flown to Stony Brook after she drove into a tree and sustained serious facial injuries.

After an extensive search by East Hampton Town police drones, a Suffolk County police helicopter, and Southampton Town and Suffolk County K-9 units that began Friday evening, a missing 88-year-old East Hampton man was found Saturday afternoon by a town police sergeant operating a drone. 

After stopping a 2011 Cadillac CTS on East Hampton's Main Street shortly after 4 on Friday morning because of "multiple vehicle and traffic law violations," town police reportedly found a passenger sitting in the back seat with a loaded .45-caliber handgun.

A pool heater on Miankoma Lane erupted in flames on Sunday evening and the homeowner called police, who shut off the power and gas line to the heater and called the Fire Department to extinguish the remaining flames.

East Hampton Village accepted a SaveStation — a public-access automatic external defibrillator — on Tuesday afternoon, following donations from the Tintle family to the Louis J. Acompora Memorial Foundation. The station, which resembles a huge fire alarm, is now hanging at the Reutershan parking lot restrooms, next to the softball field at Herrick Park.

A 68-year-old East Hampton woman was arrested in Sag Harbor Village on Saturday after allegedly driving into two teenage traffic control officers who were attempting to give her a summons.

By failing to adhere to an East Hampton Village deadline of May 1, the Springs Fire District and Sag Harbor Village have, by default, opted to use either East Hampton Town or Suffolk County for fire and emergency medical dispatch services starting next year.

Russell Young was getting ready for bed at home in East Hampton around 10:30 on the night of March 6, when the 32-year-old’s heart, suddenly and without warning, stopped functioning as it always had before. His wife, Laura Young, immediately swung into action. A police officer’s quick response time and emergency training got them through the “crucial moments” before the ambulance arrived.

A Sag Harbor woman told police on Friday that her cat was stuck in a tree and would not come down, adding that she’d called an arborist friend who was on the way to help.

Two drivers, a man and a woman, who according to town police have been convicted within the past 10 years of driving while intoxicated, were accused of the same crime and now face felony D.W.I. charges.

A search of a Jeep pulled over for swerving turned up a substance in a clear plastic bag. It later tested positive for cocaine, police said.

A serious accident in East Hampton Village during the morning commute on Monday resulted in Main Street being closed to traffic near Mill Road for several hours as investigators worked to determine exactly what happened.

A fuel truck caught fire at East Hampton Airport during a safety test on Thursday, briefly closing the airport. 

Two East Hampton women were involved in the sole serious road-related accident reported last week.

East Hampton Village police officers searched the car of Richard Daunt of Montauk and allegedly found a plastic bag containing 17 individual smaller bags each with a white powdery substance inside.

The New York State comptroller’s office has completed another audit of the Montauk Fire District, alleging that the district overcompensated its 17 paid emergency responders and failed to resolve discrepancies in time-clock activity for three of those employees.

In April a woman reported seven broken windows at her Sag Harbor house. She told police the windows were fine last July, when she’d last been in town, but that a caretaker had since reported finding four teenagers in the house, and kicked them out.

People calling 911 in East Hampton Town won't notice a change, but come Jan. 1, for the first time in decades, calls coming from outside East Hampton Village will be handled from the town police headquarters instead of from the village's Emergency Services Building.

A Sycamore Drive woman got an unwelcome call from her plumber on April 21, telling her that her pool heater, valued at $7,500, was missing, with its pipes and lines severed. Whoever was responsible for the theft on Sycamore Drive may also have struck on Bon Pinck Way, where pool equipment was reported missing the following morning.

An immersive, 10-week-long Citizens Police Academy taught by members of the East Hampton Town Police Department gave participants an insider look at what it really takes to “protect and serve” East Hampton.