Police & Courts

A 44-foot Meridian yacht sank after striking the west side of the Montauk jetty last Thursday night, the Coast Guard reported Friday.

A Sag Harbor woman was arrested Aug. 6 in East Hampton on a felony charge of driving while intoxicated, having been convicted of the crime within the last 10 years.

Despite difficult weather conditions Saturday morning, firefighters quickly extinguished a blaze at a bayfront house in Amagansett. The fire started after a lightning strike, Amagansett Fire Chief Bill Beckert said.

East Hampton Village police arrested two people at Georgica Beach last weekend for allegedly having forged beach stickers.

The phones lit up when customers couldn't get their supply. "There are going to be a lot of people very upset this weekend," Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini said.

East Hampton

Robert Levin called police on the morning of Aug. 6 after he discovered deep scratches in the paint on his 2017 BMW 540 sedan. He said he had not noticed any scratches the previous day. He estimated the damage would cost $1,000 to repair. 

Approximately 20 ferns planted in a flower bed on a Landfall Road house lot were taken sometime between Aug. 1 and 6, according to the homeowner, Mark Franklin.

A Mattituck man was arrested on Aug. 8 after a boating accident in Sag Harbor Bay.

A 31-year-old Shelter Island woman was arrested near the beach at Barcelona Neck in East Hampton last Thursday morning after police said they found pills and marijuana in her white beach bag, which was inscribed with the word “STASH.”

An open bag of peanut butter pretzels and two small bags of potato chips were stolen from inside a rental car parked on Jacqueline Drive on July 30.

Brian Z. France faced a judge Monday morning on drunken driving and oxycodone possession charges.

The arrest last week by East Hampton Town police of an Amagansett man on a charge of trespassing may wind up having far-reaching consequences for anyone who sets foot on Cartwright Shoal, a peninsula in Gardiner’s Bay.

Southampton Town code enforcement officers targeted illegal rentals in an enforcement operation in Bridgehampton on July 20, issuing 12 notices of violation and two field appearance tickets.