Police & Courts

An East Hampton man who recently moved to Springs was arrested early Monday morning on a felony drunken-driving charge by the East Hampton Village police. Jesse Scott Lien, 33, reportedly told police he had had “a couple of beers” when he was pulled over on Montauk Highway near Green Hollow Road. Police said he was driving on the shoulder of the road at the time.

Failing roadside sobriety tests, he was arrested on the drunken-driving charge, as well as several other charges, and was taken to police headquarters.

Last Thursday was the final day in 2014 for criminal cases to be adjudicated in East Hampton Town Justice Court. Several men learned that day that they would be spending the holidays, as well as the next few months, in county jail after being sentenced for various misdemeanor crimes.

Michael J. Perrone, 48, who is originally from Oakdale but has split much of his time this year between Montauk and the county jail, was sentenced to two six-month terms, to run concurrently. It was the second time this year that he had been sentenced to jail by East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R.

An attorney from Shoreham received some stern words from East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana before she agreed to a plea bargain for his client that had been worked out with the district attorney’s office without consulting her first.

Chad A. Leat, 58, was arrested on a drunken-driving charge by East Hampton Village police on Nov. 15. His attorney, Austin M. Manghan III, had negotiated for Mr.

A Springs man already facing a felony burglary charge in East Hampton Town Justice Court may now be facing Christmas in jail after having been arrested again early Saturday morning.

Southampton Town police said Monday that Lucas M. Ward, 21, was a participant in a fight at a house party on Montauk Highway in Speonk. According to Sgt. John Boden, Mr. Ward and a friend, Joshua R. Kulp, 21, of Speonk, were upset that they had been asked to leave the party. Mr. Kulp allegedly began throwing lawn furniture and bottles at a 2008 Mercedes-Benz parked outside, and then left with Mr.

Two motorists collided last weekend with utility poles on the two main arteries in and out of Sag Harbor. One is facing charges of driving while intoxicated.

The first crash, on Hampton Street at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, involved a 2013 Volkswagen Beetle driven by Julia M. Hentschel, 18, of Wainscott. Sag Harbor Village police said she was standing by the car, whose airbag had deployed, when they arrived.

A Springs man accused of stealing decorative cast-iron lawn pots from a neighbor was arraigned Sunday morning in East Hampton Town Justice Court on charges of petty larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

Joseph A. Hawkins, 23, told East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana that one of his jobs was scalloping.

“How much do you make scalloping?” she asked. “I forget,” said Mr. Hawkins. She continued to question him and he continued to give vague answers.

“Don’t you think you might have to do something to make a living?” Justice Rana finally asked.

East Hampton Village

A woman from Orchard Lake, Mich., who made a series of purchases totaling $166,000 earlier this year from Lord and Guy, a Main Street auction house dealing in antiques and fine art, called police on Dec. 10, complaining that she had returned several items to the store a few months ago and had not yet received her money back. The items returned included a ring, a Rolex watch, and a diamond and sapphire gold necklace, altogether valued at $48,000.

A revote in the Bridgehampton Fire District’s commissioner race has been scheduled for next month after the district found that two people who were no longer residents of the district had cast ballots.

With 175 votes on paper ballots there was a tie between Philip Cammann and John O’Brien, but once write-in votes were counted, the vote went in Mr. O’Brien’s favor. However, because there was no legal certainty as to whom the two nondistrict residents voted for and such a small margin separated the candidates, a revote will be held.

“We chose Jan.

Two men suffered serious injuries when the all-terrain vehicles they were riding crashed into each other in the woods behind the Montauk recycling center on Sunday afternoon.

East Hampton

A hacker broke into the Fingerhut account of an Oakview Highway woman last month and changed the mailing address. Fingerhut was notified and is monitoring the account. Eileen Schaefer told police no purchases had been made on the account.

East Hampton Village

An anonymous caller told police that occupied cars were parked on Mill Hill Lane for extended periods of time Friday evening.

A Hampton Bays woman charged with drunken driving after her passenger died in an early morning single-car crash in Southampton Village on April 19 pleaded guilty on Nov. 21 to vehicular manslaughter, a felony.

Allison J. Rydberg, 26, admitted that her blood-alcohol level was well over twice the legal limit at the time of the accident, and that she had been driving at an excessive speed.

Tad Scharfenberg, her attorney, said last week that she would be sentenced on Feb.

There was just one arrest this past cold and rainy week on charges of driving while intoxicated, that of an Amagansett man, Robert J. Badkin, 51. Mr. Badkin was pulled over on Edgemere Street in Montauk, near where his business is located, last Thursday evening.

East Hampton Town police said the motorist failed roadside sobriety tests and was taken back to headquarters in Wainscott, where his breath test was reportedly recorded as .12 of 1 percent. A reading of .08 or higher triggers the D.W.I. charge.

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