Police & Courts

A three-vehicle pileup on Montauk Highway in Wainscott sent two people to Southampton Hospital on July 25. The accident occurred in the westbound lane at around 12:15 p.m., in front of the Wainscott Village Shopping Center.

A Greenport man who allegedly diverted funds from a Sag Harbor clothing store where he was working into his own account, was picked up on a warrant Friday morning and charged with grand larceny in the third degree, a felony.

An Eastport man arrested for the second time this month for drunken boating tried to escape by diving off a dinghy dock a little after midnight Monday, according to Sag Harbor Village police.

Police were dispatched to the Nature Trail just after noon on July 17, after a 911 caller reported seeing three teenagers catching ducks with a net.

At 8:15 a.m. last Thursday, a pickup truck sideswiped a 19-year-old skateboarder on Accabonac Road in East Hampton and drove away.

Owners of the Grey Lady on West Lake Drive in Montauk were arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Monday on multiple charges including overcrowding and having converted the restaurant and bar into a nightclub.

Last week was relatively quiet on the roads in comparison to other weeks this summer. East Hampton Town police made four arrests and Sag Harbor police made one, all on driving while intoxicated charges as misdemeanors.

A 28-year-old Springs man who has spent much of his adult life behind bars is headed back to an upstate penitentiary after being sentenced to six years’ imprisonment on Tuesday.

Amagansett

Last September, a Manhattan couple with a house in Amagansett told police, they left their 2003 Chevrolet pickup with a mechanic at the Mobil station on Main Street for maintenance work, and to keep it safe for the winter. On Dec. 5, Catherine Russell said, they received notification that the truck had crossed the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and that there was not enough money in an E-ZPass account to pay the toll. That same day, the truck was involved in an accident on Montauk Highway in Southampton.

A Springs man has been held in county jail since his arrest early Sunday morning, unable to post the $10,000 bail set by East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana later that day.

It was another week of mayhem on local roads, with numerous arrests, several repeat offenders, and many uncooperative drivers.

A traffic stop led to the arrest of David Schiavoni of Water Mill early Tuesday morning on a felony charge of violating an order of protection.