Police & Courts

Police were called to Riverhead Building Supply on Railroad Avenue Friday afternoon to check on a possible counterfeit $100 bill. It turned out to be a false alarm because the firm’s “detector pen was low on ink, making the bill appear counterfeit.”

There was only one arrest in East Hampton this past week on drunken driving charges; it came after a one-vehicle accident around midnight Monday.

A woman who racked up 53 parking tickets in the Village of East Hampton, mostly between May and August of 2017, totaling $9,170, had her day in court on Jan. 29.

Police visited a garage sale on Lumber Lane Saturday, after noticing a sign illegally posted at the intersection of Gingerbread and Race Lanes. The man running the sale had obtained a permit for it from the village, as required, but was unaware that signs advertising such sales cannot be posted on public property in the village.

Mayhem in the workplace as well as the home last Thursday morning brought out East Hampton Town police. An arrest was made on a felony assault charge at a Bluff Road, Amagansett, construction site and two other people were arrested following alleged domestic violence incidents.

Police responded to a complaint from a David’s Lane woman, who said a landscaper working on a neighboring property had crossed over onto her land.

A Main Street, Sag Harbor, resident was awakened a little before midnight Friday by the sound of a car crashing through a split-rail fence and into the stoop of her house.

In an unusually quiet week on the roads, East Hampton Town and Village Police Departments made no arrests on drunken driving charges; however, a Springs man was arrested by Sag Harbor Village police just before midnight Saturday.

A man who had been living in a group home remained in county jail yesterday morning, after being charged by East Hampton Town police with misdemeanor menacing with a weapon, which was a fork.

A five-judge grievance committee of the Appellate Division of New York State Supreme Court has ordered that an attorney based in East Hampton, James R. Fischer, be prohibited from practicing law for at least 18 months.

East Hampton Town police made three arrests last weekend on misdemeanor drunken-driving charges.

An officer was sent to investigate a report of a gray goose with a possible broken leg on David’s Lane the day after Christmas. When the officer arrived, the goose was gone.