Police & Courts

An accident during the morning commute on Tuesday had traffic backed up for miles. 

Police received word that “an older man” sitting in a Toyota Prius at Two Mile Hollow Beach had exposed himself to another man at about 6:30 p.m. on July 17. Police found an 89-year-old man sitting in his Prius. He denied any wrongdoing and left. The caller did not want to press charges.

Fire departments and emergency medical service agencies across the South Fork were kept busy over the weekend in less than ideal weather conditions.

In Montauk last week, an East Hampton Town Police officer made the rounds of bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, inspecting the locations as well as certain records that are supposed to be readily available.

East Hampton Town police said a 39-year-old Springs man beat a child with a leather belt and a cow-tail whip.

Robert K. Futterman was high on marijuana and took clonazepam before an accident in Bridgehampton on Tuesday, a Suffolk County assistant district attorney said on Wednesday.

A portion of Montauk Highway between Snake Hollow Road and Newlight Lane has been shut down while Southampton Town police investigate the two-car crash, and traffic is being diverted down Newlight Lane and Snake Hollow Road.

A real estate broker with a history of drunken driving-related arrests, including one for boating while intoxicated just last week, has been charged in connection with the crash in Bridgehampton on Tuesday that sent a mother and young child to the hospital. 

The man, who was in his 50s, had been fishing off Montauk Point on a boat based in Niantic, Conn.

 A Sag Harbor man was arrested late Saturday night after crashing a boat into a North Haven bulkhead, injuring himself and two passengers.

Someone stole an antique copper apple-butter kettle, weighing about 60 pounds and measuring 3 by 3 feet, from a Bluff Road property between June 21 at 4:30 p.m. and June 30 at 9:30 a.m. It is worth approximately $800. Police notified local antiques stores and told proprietors to keep an eye out for it.

A Greenlawn man was charged with a felony after throwing a cement block through the windshield and rear window of a 2018 Tesla that was parked at a rental house on Big Reed Path in Montauk on Saturday night, East Hampton Town police said.