Jordan Oney of Montauk, 28, was charged with two misdemeanors following an Oct. 27 incident on DeForest Road in Montauk, where Mr. Oney allegedly grabbed “an orange-handled sword” and lunged at another person during a verbal altercation.
He was charged with second-degree menacing and criminal possession of a weapon with intent to use it, and will be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court at a future date.
He’d seen people on Town Pond and was concerned, a village resident told police on Dec. 16. An officer responded to see several men skating and playing ice hockey. No action was necessary.
Several people were injured in a collision in Springs between an S.U.V. and a Jeep last week, and George Watson of the Dock bar and grill was injured while riding his bicycle in Montauk.
A plaque installed outside Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Emergency Medical Technician room last week officially dedicates the space to the late Randy Hoffman of East Hampton, a critical-care E.M.T. who worked with fire and ambulance departments across the South Fork and was credited with saving at least two lives during his long tenure as a first responder.
East Hampton Village is now home to 14 Flock license plate reader surveillance cameras, which amounts to one for every 108 full-time residents, if you go by the 2020 census data. They're heralded by local police for aiding in enforcement and investigations, but they use a technology that has proven controversial nationally with those concerned about civil liberties.
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