Police & Courts

A 2011 Chevrolet drove off Crystal Drive near Morrell Street and struck a brick barrier and tree, causing the car to overturn and hit a mailbox. The tree fell across the road, damaging a parked car on the opposite shoulder. 

Members of the East Hampton Fire Department and East Hampton Volunteer Ambulance Association rescued a tree climber who had sustained a severe head injury while working about 40 feet up in a tree on Oakview Highway in East Hampton on Saturday morning.

A small plane overshot the end of a runway at East Hampton Airport on Saturday afternoon, knocking down a section of fence and crossing a road. There were no reports of injuries.

Police said a woman entered a garage bay at Oscar’s Rock and Dirt on Hildreth Place in East Hampton and removed a 2009 Yamaha PW80 209 dirt bike valued at over $1,000.

Two teenagers were reported to be doing pull-ups on monkey bars in Mashashimuet Park on April 15, and a caller reported it as a violation of social distancing. The teenagers were gone when police arrived.

Pending positive identification, the body of the photographer Peter Beard, who disappeared from his Montauk property on March 31, was found not far from his house on Sunday.

Officers have begun enforcing social distancing, limiting visitors, and closing parks when they reach a certain capacity.

When the country’s first cases were diagnosed in Washington State, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office began working on a plan. Suffolk’s first case was diagnosed on March 8, and his office was able to implement protective measures by the next day.     

Two North Fork companies are working together to provide face shields to fire departments, ambulance agencies, and hospitals across the East End for use when dealing with patients suspected of having Covid-19.     

A 31-year-old man was arrested on a drunken-driving charge on Saturday in Water Mill. Other motorists called Southampton Town police about a “reckless, erratic” driver on Montauk Highway around 10 p.m.

A homeless man who stole a sport utility vehicle in New York City was found with the car in Wainscott on Friday night.

Police received a complaint on April 8 that respirator masks were being sold out of their original packaging and there was possible price gouging going on at a business on the Circle.