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Police & Courts

Rape Charges for Excavator

New York State police arrested Steven M. Mezynieski, the owner of an eponymous Southampton excavation company.

Aug 11, 2016
Quieter Week on the Roads

After several weeks of numerous drunken-driving arrests, many following car crashes, last week was strikingly calm. One arrest followed a crash; another resulted from a traffic infraction.

Aug 4, 2016
On the Police Logs 08.04.16

East Hampton

An Oakview Highway homeowner realized on July 23 that one of three kayaks he had stored near a shed in late June was missing. John Whitney described the kayak as a blue Wilderness Systems Pungo model, valued at $750.

A driver’s license and Chase credit card  was stolen from a Bolton, N.Y., woman’s purse in the early morning hours of July 24 at Club Leo on Three Mile Harbor Road.

Several Indian Hill Road residents have received voice-mail messages from someone posing as an agent of the Internal Revenue Service, demanding money.

Aug 4, 2016
Indicted for Dealing Heroin

Joseph R. Dowling of Sag Harbor, 24, has been indicted on two felony charges citing the sale of heroin to an undercover agent.

Aug 4, 2016
Check Forgery Is Alleged

An East Hampton woman was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a March incident involving attempted forgery.

Aug 4, 2016
Mushrooms, Pot Brownies

David Farshadfar, 25, of Tenafly, N.J., was arrested in downtown Montauk early Sunday morning on misdemeanor drug possession charges, after East Hampton Town police allegedly found him in possession of a quantity of hallucinogenic mushrooms

Jul 28, 2016
Former Football Star Charged

A former East Hampton High School football star who, police said, used his Sag Harbor neighbors’ mailboxes to deal heroin in that village, was charged on Friday afternoon with two felonies, possessing heroin with an intent to sell and actually selling it.

Jul 28, 2016
On the Police Logs 07.28.16

Amagansett

A red, white, and blue Trek mountain bike was stolen from the entrance to Indian Wells Beach around 7 a.m. on July 16. Mark Crandall told police he had left the bike along with his flip-flops in the sand while he went for a short walk. When he returned, the flip-flops remained, but the bicycle, valued at $250, was gone.

East Hampton

A driver for Home Town taxi told police that he had been dispatched to a Goodfriend Drive address June 23 to pick up eight passengers headed to the Stephen Talkhouse.

Jul 28, 2016
Not Guilty in Road-Rage Confrontation

A trial in East Hampton Town Justice Court on July 12 resulted in a not-guilty verdict for Nicholas Sebastian Spoerl, a carpenter who lives in Sag Harbor. Mr. Spoerl had been accused of reckless driving and endangerment.

What police later called a road-rage confrontation ended on Route 114 in East Hampton on the morning of April 16, 2014, when Mr. Spoerl’s 2002 Subaru Forester collided head-on with a 2008 Chevrolet utility truck owned by Blue Tides Irrigation of Southampton and driven by Steven S. Setek of Wading River. Thomas J.

Jul 28, 2016
Cops: Ex-Bonac Star Used Neighborhood Mailboxes to Sell Heroin

Joseph R. Dowling, 24, was found with heroin and needles when East Hampton Town police detectives arrested him Friday afternoon.

Jul 22, 2016
High Bail for Upstate Driver

An Orange County man, Michael J. Lounsbury, 34, was jailed over the weekend in lieu of $10,000 bail following his arrest in downtown Montauk a little after midnight last Thursday.

Jul 21, 2016
Drug-Distribution Ring Busted

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced a major arrest sweep of East End drug dealers on Tuesday. The result, he said, is the destruction of two big operations, one dealing in cocaine; the other, heroin.

Jul 21, 2016