Police & Courts

Arrests across East Hampton Town were down last year, as were overall calls to town police, according to the department’s year-end report. Motor vehicle accidents are also trending down.

A violent assault over the weekend left one man injured and another in jail.

The East Hampton Healthcare Foundation has donated 26 two-packs of EpiPens, pre-loaded syringes that defend against the allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis, to East Hampton Town.

Kids were reported to be running amok at BonBon, a candy shop in Sag Harbor, last week. An employee told police that “very young kids” took too many candy samples and other items.

A Springs man who was charged on April 24 with a felony count of driving while intoxicated was later also charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor.

A fiery car crash on the evening of April 27 left two men injured and a heavy traffic buildup on Three Mile Harbor Road.

Police officers from East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor Village joined forces on Monday to collar a grand larceny suspect just days after he allegedly stole from a shop in Sag Harbor.

A Springs man, later charged with misdemeanor drunken driving, was injured after his truck rolled over in Montauk last week, and there were other injuries in Springs and Wainscott.

Eight teenagers involved in a fight at Smokey Buns were taken home by their parents on Friday night. The teens had been at the movie theater and went to the restaurant afterward in two groups, one of which confronted the other, possibly over a girlfriend.

A two-vehicle crash on Napeague near the Ocean Colony Resort Tuesday morning resulted in serious injuries, according to East Hampton Town police, and traffic backups on the stretch for much of the afternoon. Detectives were still investigating as of Wednesday.

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.