Police & Courts

East Hampton Village police stopped a driver Monday afternoon for talking on his cellphone without a hands-free device, and discovered that he was wanted in Brazil on drug-trafficking charges.

Local Police News

Whitney L. Posey, 28, was arrested on Friday outside the CVS in East Hampton Village and charged with felony possession of stolen property, two credit cards, which she had reportedly tried to use inside the store.

A young Holbrook man was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court last Thursday on three felony charges in connection with the theft of thousands of dollars worth of fishing rods and reels last year from two Montauk marinas.

East Hampton

A resident of a Boatheaders Lane apartment told police on April 12 that $210 had been taken from an envelope on a nightstand the evening before. Harry Stevenson said the door was open when he came home after midnight, but he didn’t realize that the lock was broken until the morning. Police told him they themselves had pried the door open the day before, when Mary Balreich, his landlord, complained of an unwanted guest in the room. Mr.

A rollover on Abraham’s Path in East Hampton a little before midnight Saturday resulted in an eye injury to a Connecticut man, who was taken to Southampton Hospital for treatment while under arrest on a charge of drunken driving.

East Hampton Town police found Miles A. Bouckoms of Farmington, 28, on the side of the road by the upside-down 2003 Jeep Wrangler, along with a female passenger, who had an injured wrist. The accident occurred on a fairly sharp curve a little south of the intersection of Abraham’s Path with Accabonac Road.

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East Hampton

Police were called to a Route 114 cottage on March 30, where Noelle Parker told them that while she was walking her dog, $900 in cash was stolen from her purse. It is the second time this year Ms. Parker has reported a theft from the premises while she was out. There was no sign of forced entry, police said, and no physical evidence of the theft.

A vandal punctured the rear tires on a Dodge van parked outside a resident’s Windmill Village apartment the night of March 31.

East Hampton

A crew building a deck on a Spring Close Highway house ran out of the cedar planks they were using shortly after beginning work on the morning of March 17. The contractor had left about 45 planks stacked in the driveway the day before, but they vanished during the night. Oscar Cascante valued the missing lumber at $850.

East Hampton Village

Gale-force winds downed limbs and trees all over village roads on Sunday morning.

A Bayport woman who was scheduled for release on Friday from the county jail remains in custody after being charged the day before with four more offenses.

New York State troopers arrested a Southampton Town Highway Department employee on Friday following an investigation into stolen material and the use of a payloader after business hours.

East Hampton Village police investigating a reported hit-and-run incident in the Stop and Shop parking lot off Newtown Lane on Friday were led to a private house converted into an apartment building on property behind the Race Lane restaurant.

Amagansett

The exterior of a house on Hampton Lane in Beach Hampton was vandalized last Thursday night. Steve Singer told police that two eggs had been thrown at the house, striking the front door and an outside wall.

East Hampton Village

Workers installing an irrigation system on a Georgica Road property struck a gas line on March 22. Police were able to shut the line down before firefighters arrived.

Northwest Woods

A Hands Creek Road woman went to police headquarters in Wainscott on March 22 carrying ashes from burned letters and magazines.