Police & Courts

Swan injuries and stolen license plates are among the items on the police logs this week.

The Hess station in Wainscott was the scene Sunday of two alcohol-related arrests, with a third made later that day about a quarter-mile away, also in Wainscott.

Anthony D. Sosinksi, the captain of a Montauk lobster boat, was charged Saturday morning with boating while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, as well as reckless operation of a vessel.

The final witness for the prosecution testified Monday about the timing and content of numerous text messages Jason Lee had sent and received on the morning of the alleged rape in 2013.

East Hampton Town police last week charged two men and a Montauk teenager who were duck hunting from a blind on Fort Pond with trespassing, saying they had used a house on the pond, at 82 South Elroy Street, without permission. The men, Matthew Cuomo of Springs, 25, and James F. DePasquale, 24, of Montauk, were additionally charged with drawing electricity from the house. All the charges are misdemeanors.

The trio cooperated fully with the police, turning themselves in after they were notified that a complaint had been made.

East Hampton Village police allegedly clocked the driver of a 2012 Mercedes Benz at 73 miles per hour on Woods Lane early in the morning of April 8 before the car crashed into shrubbery and a fence while turning into the driveway of 75 Woods Lane. The driver, Elizabeth Ann Damark, was arrested on multiple charges including felony drunken driving.

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A Springs man who has been wanted by the New York Police Department for over nine years was arrested in East Hampton Village Saturday morning and charged with driving while intoxicated. Police in Queens arrested him on the same charge in 2005, but he failed to appear in court and a warrant for his arrest has been outstanding ever since.

Village police said they spotted Juan Romero Garcia’s 2002 Volkswagen speeding along Montauk Highway near Jericho Road and swerving across lane lines, and that the driver failed roadside sobriety tests.

A brush fire that broke out in Water Mill on Monday burned over three and a half acres and came close to a house before firefighters were able to extinguish it.

Bridgehampton Fire Chief Gary Horsburgh said Tuesday that a man was out in an open field behind 153 Little Noyac Path with a lawn mower when the fire began at about 11:35 a.m. “He must have hit a rock and sparked the fire,” Chief Horsburgh said. “It really went up fast.”

He immediately called for help from the North Sea Fire Department, whose jurisdiction abuts the area.

East Hampton Village

James Kelley, the East Hampton postmaster, called police on April 6 about a homeless 64-year-old man whom he wanted removed from the post office building. Police said they saw no reason why the man, who rents a post office box in the Gay Lane building, should be removed. The man said he had merely gone in to get his mail.

William DeJonge reported suspicious activity at his house at 18 Laforest Lane, occurring at some point since October.

An East Hampton woman is facing charges after she was injured in Sag Harbor early Sunday morning in a serious car accident.

Sag Harbor Village police said they responded at about 2:20 a.m. to  crash on Hampton Street and found a severely damaged 2007 Cadillac. Laura E. MacPherson, 28, was behind the wheel and conscious, police said, but had to be extricated from the car by the Sag Harbor Fire Department’s heavy rescue squad.

A helicopter flew her to Stony Brook University Hospital with unspecified injuries. She was released on Tuesday.

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Here from Ireland, woman known only as Fiona offers tearful recollection of the incidents of Aug. 20, 2013.

Aside from a cut on his cuticle consistent with nail biting, Mr. Lee appeared to have no injuries when photographed after the alleged incident, East Hampton Town Police Detective Ryan Hogan testified Thursday.