Police & Courts

There was a three-vehicle accident on Sept. 13, at the Montauk Highway-Spring Close Highway intersection in East Hampton. At around 9 a.m., East Hampton Town police said, Kevin P. Kelly of Hauppauge, 55, was eastbound in a 2006 Mack utility truck when he was briefly distracted and ran into a trailer attached to a stopped 2001 Dodge pickup truck.

The truck driver, George E. Cooper of Kings Park, 21, told police he was trying to make a left onto Spring Close when it happened. Meanwhile, a third vehicle, a New York State Parks and Recreation Ford pickup driven by Justin J.

“I was lost, so I was looking at my phone, and I hit that car that came out of nowhere,” Maryann Z. Hommel of Long Beach, 31, told East Hampton Town police after rear-ending a 2007 Mercedes-Benz on Montauk Main Street early on the morning of Sept. 13.

A report of a horse running wild brought police to Accabonac Road, near the train trestle, on the afternoon of Sept. 13.

A warrant has been issued here for a man arrested in East Hampton Village last month, Edwin Fernando Gomez Llivisaca, 21, whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had requested be held in custody. Instead, he was released after bail of $2,000 was posted for him.

A State Supreme Court of Appeals has reversed the conviction of a Springs man, William Cuthbert, who was found guilty in December 2014 of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct following a jury trial in East Hampton Justice Court, presided over by Justice Stephen Tekulsky.

The driver of a 2010 Isuzu delivery truck ignored a clearance sign at the train trestle on Accabonac Road, near Hook Mill Lane in East Hampton, and hit it on Aug. 30 at about 1:20 p.m.

Drug overdoses caused the death of Hallie Ulrich, 22, last Thursday morning and the death the next day of her close friend, Michael Goericke, 28, according to police.

A paddleboarder landed on Gardiner’s Island on Aug. 26 and walked around taking pictures, one of which was posted on Instagram. The owner of the island, Robert Goelet, “wants the subject advised not to return to island, and the picture removed from Instagram to prevent others from entering island,” police reported, but “does not wish to pursue criminal charges.”

A Springs man is being held in county jail after being arrested Monday on felony charges of stealing another’s identity for the purposes of fraud, as well as six related counts of petty larceny.

A Manhattan man survived a rollover crash in a rented 2017 Volkswagen that snapped an electricity pole in half at the side of Montauk Highway in Montauk Sunday night, before he was arrested on drunken driving charges.

There was a three-vehicle pileup on Newtown Lane, east of Park Place, on the morning of Aug. 25, shortly before 9.

Dylan Eckardt of Montauk, who pleaded guilty in January to a reduced charge of driving with ability impaired by alcohol, along with speeding, running a stop sign, and driving without a license, still owes East Hampton Town Justice Court $1,519 in fines. Ordered back into court on July 6, he asked Justice Steven Tekulsky for an additional 90 days to pay. According to court records, he has paid just $120 thus far of the $1,639 he owes.

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