Police & Courts

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.

Sag Harbor Village police were flagged down by a bicyclist after an S.U.V. forced him out of his lane, and he then tried to get the driver to pull over.

An accident next to the 1770 House in East Hampton Village on Friday claimed the life of a local man.

Flames extending 30 feet in the air were reported last week during a raging fire on Bunker Hill Road in Amagansett.

What was reported as a suspicious van parked on Buck’s Path on the evening of March 31 turned out to be its driver taking a phone call.

Justice David Filer ordered a local man held at $250,000 bail after town police accused him of sexual abuse.

A Springs man charged recently with felony sexual abuse of a child has been indicted by a grand jury and is being held in police custody in high bail.

Someone claiming to be in the fraud division at her bank called a local woman telling her she needed to wire money to a Bronx address, which she did. It happened again the next day with a different bank, but Wells Fargo’s actual fraud department caught it.

A driver and his passenger were both arrested by Sag Harbor Village police in the early morning hours on Sunday, one charged with drunken driving and the other with resisting arrest.

An East Hampton man faces up to four years in prison after he was found guilty of felony-level driving while intoxicated on March 16.

On Saturday a shoplifter struck at Dôen on Madison Street in Sag Harbor, stealing a pair of black shoes. Employees told police she had “heavy Botox to her face.”

Footage of Justin Timberlake’s adjudicated June 2024 drunken-driving arrest in Sag Harbor will soon be released in redacted form, according to court documents filed Friday by the pop star’s lawyers.

East Hampton Village police arrested a man on Saturday night they say was driving while intoxicated with a child in the vehicle, a felony.

An East Hampton man was charged late last week with multiple counts of rape in what police say was child abuse involving a girl who was 10 years old when it began.

Reports of a suspicious vehicle in Montauk on Saturday night turned out to be several Patchogue residents having dinner alfresco and stargazing.

Tears were shed on both sides of the courtroom when the driver in a June 2025 Springs car accident that killed one teenager and injured six others was sentenced in Suffolk County Criminal Court in Riverhead on Wednesday.

An East Hampton man could be facing up to four years in prison if he is convicted of what police allege is grand larceny.

Youth Hoops may be a program for children in kindergarten through sixth grade, yet a squabble between two coaches in Sag Harbor last week was bad enough to require a call to police.

After swerving to avoid a deer on Napeague, a local man and his passenger hit a tree and were injured.

Update: East Hampton Town police have identified a man found dead in Clearwater Beach in Springs on Tuesday, and said his death did not appear to be suspicious.

An East Hampton woman had run-ins with police in both East Hampton and Southampton Towns last week, both leading to felony charges.

Two men accused of driving while intoxicated have been found to have prior D.W.I. convictions in the past 10 years, and now face elevated charges.

A Hampton Bays man accused of multiple crimes against a child was arrested in the early morning hours Saturday.

Four people, including a 1-year-old baby, were injured last month in automobile accidents on local roads.

A woman hit a pothole on Fireplace Road in Springs Saturday. It was so large, she told police, that it damaged a tire on her Chevrolet beyond repair.

The ghost of Justin Timberlake’s adjudicated June 2024 drunken-driving arrest in Sag Harbor resurfaced this week, with the pop star’s lawyers fighting the release of video footage from the incident.