Police & Courts

A Brooklyn man was injured early Saturday evening on Skimhampton Road in Amagansett after his Hertz rental car collided with a deer.

A 75-year-old New York City woman was arrested by East Hampton Village police on Tuesday afternoon and charged with assault in the third degree and endangering the welfare of a child, both misdemeanors, after police identified her as the person who they said had “grabbed” and “bitten” the arm of a 7-year-old child while trying to retrieve a T-shirt tossed from the pavilion balcony during an Aug. 12 concert at Main Beach.

A New York City man faces a felony charge after showing a police officer a false identification card early on Aug. 13 in the parking lot of the Montauk 7-Eleven.

Nicoly Ribeiro De Souza, the 23-year-old accused of driving under the influence into the Montauk Artists Association Art Show early on the morning of June 29 and causing $100,000 worth of damage, was ordered Wednesday by East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky to retain private counsel before her next appearance in Justice Court.

A report of “a suspicious subject sitting in the woods” led officers to a man seated on a large rock off Hand’s Creek Road. He told them he works as a home health care aide nearby, frequently takes walks, and likes to take breaks on the rock.

On an unusually quiet overnight shift last weekend, The Star's police reporter rode along with an East Hampton Town officer and got a window into a world where a 911 call can be anything from a mistake to something much worse.

A Rocky Point man was charged Sunday night with assault with a deadly weapon. East Hampton Village police said he had thrown a beer bottle at another man’s face as they were seated in a pickup truck a Montauk Highway intersection.

More than a week after the body of Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, a 33-year-old Manhattan-based Irish entrepreneur, was found on a boat docked at the Montauk Yacht Club, very little has been publicly disclosed by police about the circumstances of her death, while news outlets from around the world have attempted to surmise what might have happened. 

Staff at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett heard noises from above and discovered a man on the roof, trying to gain access to the music venue. He told police he’d “just wanted to see what his friends were doing.”

A Sag Harbor woman was injured on Aug. 6 after a westbound Mercedes sedan rear-ended her Jeep on Montauk Highway near Green Hollow Road.

A 34-year-old man faces two felony drunken-driving charges following his arrest on the night of Aug. 3.

A woman found dead aboard a boat docked at the Montauk Yacht Club on Star Island Road, was Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, 33, a Manhattan-based entrepreneur and marketing consultant originally from County Carlow, Ireland.

A collision on Pantigo Road Friday, near Maple Lane, sent an Amagansett man to Stony Brook Hospital’s new East Hampton Emergency Department and resulted in a charge of drunken driving.

Nicoly Ribeiro De Souza, the 23-year-old accused of driving her Nissan Rogue onto the Montauk Green in the early hours of June 29 and knocking down the tents of the Montauk Artists Association Art Show, was back in East Hampton Town Justice Court on July 30.

An Amagansett man called police around 1 a.m. on Friday after spotting a pair of shoes, not his, on his lawn.

Sag Harbor Village Justice Carl Irace was appointed in late June to represent Cruz Eduardo Sanchez-Gutierrez, an alleged member of the street gang MS-13, in a death penalty-eligible federal racketeering case that includes charges of murder and conspiracy to murder.

A woman was found dead on a boat docked off Star Island Road in Montauk before dawn on Tuesday, according to Suffolk County police.

Four people were assessed by responders from the Montauk Fire Department, but declined further treatment, after they were struck by a woman trying to park her Honda sedan near the Montauk Brewing Company. Also in Montauk, a Volvo S.U.V. struck an e-bike on Main Street, resulting in injuries to the 13-year-old bicyclist.

Men in tactical police gear, at least two carrying rifles and at least one masked, converged on an Amagansett house on Monday evening in what the East Hampton Town police chief said was “a criminal investigation conducted by multiple federal law enforcement agencies, and was not solely an immigration case.” 

A drunken neighbor tossed a chicken wing off a deck and “almost struck one of his children” late Saturday night, a Montauk Highway renter told police, which led to a “brief argument” between the parties, though he said the neighbor and his partner later came over and “attempted” to apologize.

Toyotas were on a tear this week, with four accidents on local roads resulting in injuries.

East Hampton Town police made three late-night arrests last week, all of them ending in felony charges, from assault to forgery to drug possession.

A fire that burned a scar the size of a football field into the woods on the north side of the railroad tracks on Napeague on July 16, temporarily closing the road and halting train service, could have been much worse, Chris Beckert, the chief of the Amagansett Fire Department, said this week.

A caller reported three youths lying “in the middle of Suffolk Street,” next to a black S.U.V., at around 3 in the morning on July 14 in Sag Harbor. The three told police they were waiting for a friend and were out on the street because their vehicle had no air-conditioning.

A driver was injured and East Hampton Village Main Street was closed for more than an hour on Wednesday after a massive tree limb fell without warning

Two drivers were charged last week in unrelated cases with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance after East Hampton Town police found bags containing a “white rock-like substance” in their vehicles.

A brush fire along the north side of Montauk Highway on a remote stretch of Napeague was reported on Wednesday afternoon and burned an area roughly the size of a football field before being extinguished.

A man “with white hair and a blue jacket” took another patron’s phone during a movie at the Regal Cinema and said he would not return it. He later told police he’d taken the phone to “make a stand” because the owner was talking loudly on it during the movie.

A Brooklyn man was arraigned recently on multiple misdemeanor charges related to a May 25 accident that injured four passengers in his Mercedes S.U.V., according to police.

East Hampton Town continues to make investments in its dispatch capabilities, with the town board most recently approving a $1.5 million bond issue for improvements to its dispatch center on July 3.