Police & Courts

Four people were hospitalized last week after two cars collided on Hand’s Creek Road in East Hampton. Police said a driver fell asleep at the wheel of her Toyota sedan on the afternoon of Aug. 17. The car swerved into the oncoming lane and crashed head-on into a Honda sedan.

Late Saturday night, police found a man on Bay Street described as “highly intoxicated” who said he was “attempting to adjust the driver’s seat” of a parked BMW that police said did not belong to him. While he does own a BMW, they said, that one was not his.

Update: Sag Harbor Village police said Saturday that a 16-year-old girl reported missing on Thursday had been located and is safe.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority detectives have charged a Bronx man with robbery, saying that in East Hampton last month, he stole money from another train rider and then brandished a knife in his face.

Just weeks after the sentencing of the woman who drunkenly drove through the Montauk Art Show last year, destroying many paintings, photographs, and handmade crafts, the event was targeted again, this time falling victim to thieves and vandals.

East Hampton Town police reported multiple accidents last week as local roads fill up for the final weeks of summer.

No crime was committed on Aug. 12 on Front Street in Springs, where police responded to a report that a man was holding a shotgun. Police said it was in fact a BB gun, which the man told them he uses to scare off squirrels and other small animals.

An East Hampton man with two convictions for driving while intoxicated on his record was arrested again last week, charged this time with a felony.

An East Hampton couple and their two dogs made it out safely after their house on Drew Lane caught fire around 5:30 on Tuesday afternoon, but the house was badly damaged. 

The family of the Irish-born woman who died last summer on a boat docked at Star Island in Montauk has filed a wrongful-death suit against the man who owned the boat.

Two jet aircraft collided on the ground at East Hampton Town Airport on Aug. 5, causing minor damage to both planes but no injuries.

Two Georgica Beach beachgoers had an altercation on Aug. 5 after one accused the other of taking pictures of girls on the beach. Police said the man was taking pictures, but not of girls.

With “smart glasses” — which look like normal eyeglasses but have built-in computer technology — making their way into courtrooms, New York, fearing surreptitious recording, has taken the unprecedented step of banning them.

A westbound Long Island Rail Road train approaching the station in East Hampton Village struck a car attempting to cross the tracks at around 7:20 Friday morning at the Newtown Lane and Railroad Avenue crossing.

A woman accused of stealing over $20,000 worth of merchandise from the Ralph Lauren Double RL clothing store in East Hampton Village was a no-show in court last week.

Five people were injured on the afternoon of July 28, with three taken to the hospital, after two cars collided on Old Stone Highway in Amagansett.

A former co-treasurer of the Sag Harbor Elementary School PTA will be required to pay $14,487 in restitution after pleading guilty to stealing over $10,000 from the group, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced this week.

A high rip current risk over the weekend was responsible for 137 ocean lifeguard saves (some preventive actions, some true saves) on the weekend starting July 30, according to Jeff Thompson, Amagansett’s chief lifeguard, who said 90 percent of those occurred on the stretch of beach in downtown Montauk that lifeguards call Hotel Row.

A group involved in a “singing ritual” were questioned by police on Havens Beach in Sag Harbor around midnight on July 28 after someone called in a noise complaint for “chanting.” The group left the beach immediately.

Keith Webster, the driver who is accused of crashing through the gates of the Georgica estate of Beyonce and Jay-Z, appeared in East Hampton Town Justice Court last week for the first time since his arraignment for the July 15 incident.

Attorneys for Ryan Benitez, a former East Hampton Town building inspector who is facing bribery and official misconduct charges, and his former co-worker, Evelyn Calderon, facing the same charges, appeared in court in Riverhead on Tuesday, where they conferenced with the judge in his chambers before leaving the courtroom. 

The woman who police said drove through an art show on the downtown green in Montauk in the overnight hours in June 2025 and was subsequently charged with driving while intoxicated pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years of probation in East Hampton Town Justice Court.

A Montauk man riding an electric bike at 3 a.m. on July 6 was injured after crashing into a parked car.

In the week’s only drug-related arrest, a Massachusetts man is facing a felony charge for possession of a hallucinogen. 

Individuals wearing camouflage in a field on Sarah’s Way in East Hampton Village alarmed a resident on Saturday afternoon. Police found a family playing on their own property with airsoft guns.

Companies controlled by the billionaire industrialist Ira Rennert agreed last month to a $150 million settlement with 1,373 Peruvians who claim they were exposed to lead and other toxic substances as children growing up near the companies’ metal smelting and refining complex in La Oroya, Peru.

A woman was injured after the car she was driving was rear-ended by a Jeep and pushed through a fence at the Watchcase Factory condominiums.

A man facing a misdemeanor drunken driving charge appears to have made things worse for himself. 

A driver trying to back his Porsche into a parking space on Newtown Lane last Thursday found a traffic control officer standing in the spot. The T.C.O. called police, saying the driver was yelling at her to move and had reversed the car in her direction.

A local woman was injured on Friday morning near the Mobil gas station in Amagansett after her car rolled away and knocked her down.