Police & Courts

In simpler times, the most prevalent scam to be on the lookout for was the so-called "Nigerian Prince" email scam, in which a fraudster would send out an email that persuaded a potential "mark" — often an older adult — to wire them some money in order to trigger the release of a bigger pot of money that was coming the victim's way. More recently, scammers have gotten menacingly creative and even use technology to take advantage of victims.

Police officers conducted routine liquor-license checks of bars, restaurants, and liquor stores in Montauk, Springs, and East Hampton over the last two weeks, finding that all had up-to-date documentation.

The East Hampton Town Police Department responded this week to multiple calls about speeding drivers on residential streets.

A Sag Harbor resident witnessed a worker loudly draining a Porta-Potty on Meadowlark Lane before 7 a.m. on April 12 and called the police. The worker was done with his task by the time an officer arrived, and told the officer he was unaware that the village prohibits noisy work before 8 a.m.

Residents of Springs were jarred on Monday evening as a Suffolk County police helicopter and Southampton Village K-9 unit aided in a search for a man who had fled his house on Neck Path on a bicycle after brandishing what appeared to be a gun.

East Hampton Town police recently levied drunken-driving charges against two men who had been convicted of D.W.I. within the last 10 years.

Whose trees are these? A village employee called in the law on Saturday afternoon when he suspected a Lockwood Lane homeowner was illegally pruning trees on village property. The pruning is paused for now, while a code enforcement officer investigates.

Van Kay Quick, who retired as a captain after a 35-year career in the East Hampton Town Police Department, had been a president of the East Hampton Police Benevolent Association and the Police Association of Suffolk County and spearheaded the computerization of the department's records in the late 1980s.

Someone broke into the basement of the Memory Motel in Montauk on March 26 and destroyed more than $250 worth of bottles of Jagermeister and Maker’s Mark liquors. Employees cleaned up the mess.

East Hampton Town police spent Tuesday morning investigating an anonymous email threat received overnight by multiple school districts and ultimately deemed it “noncredible.”

The Sag Harbor Village treasurer told village police last Thursday that money had been stolen from a village payroll account to the tune of $10,200 via fraudulent checks.

Shane Filasky of East Hampton has been sentenced to one to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony count of third-degree attempted robbery of an East Hampton store on Jan. 26, 2022.