Police & Courts

When Edward Orr Sr., a driver for Road Runner Taxi in Montauk, picked up three people from Manhattan Friday morning at the Montauk train station, there was nothing unusual about the call. They were headed, on the first day of the big holiday weekend, to a summer rental on South Fulton Drive, a dirt road off Old West Lake Drive.

When they arrived at 99 South Fulton Drive, though, something was wrong: The house at that address was occupied. The photo they had seen online looked more like 93 South Fulton.

“The door to the house was open. They were saying, ‘Hello?

The season started a week early on local roads, with a noticeable increase in the number of drunken-driving arrests.

A woman who returned last week to her Cutter Court house found that four driveway lights had been smashed, and a couple of dog walkers who forgot to clean up after their dogs were ticketed.

A 32-year-old Northwest Woods man was arrested last week on a felony charge of sexually abusing an East Hampton High School student under the age of 17.

An fight turns physical in Amagansett, and patio chairs recently delivered to an East Hampton house go missing.

East Hampton Town police arrested a Sound Beach man on Pantigo Road in East Hampton on the afternoon of May 5, charging him with driving while intoxicated and without a valid license or registration, all misdemeanors.

Michael T. Dolson, 41, was driving a 2006 Ford west near Spring Close Highway at about 2:30 when he swerved onto the shoulder, police said, adding that he then performed poorly on all field sobriety tests.

Amagansett

A member of the Ocean Estates Property Owners Association told police on April 16 that at some point during the month of March five sign posts, each with a speed limit and a private road sign, were stolen from their positions on Shipwreck Drive. Cynthia Crain valued the missing posts and signs at $2,250. 

East Hampton

A bicycle thief targeted an Accabonac Road house last week.

Sag Harbor Village police arrested a Hampton Bays woman late Saturday night on drunken-driving charges after an East Hampton Village police dispatcher relayed a tip from a motorist of an erratic driver on Route 114. An officer spotted the car and reported seeing it swerve across the bike lane, almost striking a concrete barrier. 

Kaitlin M. Kelly, 25, was taken back to police headquarters on Division Street, where a breath test reportedly produced a reading that was twice the legal limit.

The Montauk and Springs Fire Departments held their annual dinners over the weekend to celebrate the volunteers and their accomplishments. 

In Springs, where the 50th anniversary of the Fire Department is continuing, four charter members — top photo, from left, Joseph Fitzgerald, Bruce Baldwin, East Hampton Town Councilman Fred Overton, who is a former fire chief, and Michael Collins — received plaques recognizing their five decades of service. 

Lt. Darrin Downs was named firefighter of the year.

What's on the East Hampton police logs for this week.

A house on Georgica Road in East Hampton Village was burglarized sometime between April 17 and last Thursday, when the homeowner called police.

East Hampton Town police said two men were driving drunk early Sunday morning.