Police & Courts

He hit a tree and was found "unresponsive and having difficulty breathing," then police said they found three small plastic bags of a “white rock-like substance,” later determined to be cocaine, in the car.

When David Plotkin collapsed while biking on Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, bystanders and lifeguards jumped into action, helping to perform CPR for 15 minutes as they waited for an ambulance. That Mr. Plotkin survived is thanks to their quick action.

Marlene Julie Pabon of the Bronx, 40, was charged on the morning of Aug. 16 with menacing a police officer after she allegedly brandished an eight-inch folding knife at him.

Another late-night car accident has rattled residents of Hampton Street (Route 114) in Sag Harbor. Early Saturday morning, near a curve in the road at Division Street, an 18-year-old was charged with driving while intoxicated after flipping his car onto another that was parked in its owners' driveway. The incident echoed several other crashes in the same vicinity. 

Four men were charged with driving while intoxicated on local roads over the past weekend.

Leandre Hadden of Philadelphia was fishing last week for porgies and sea bass off Block Island, on the Fin Chaser party boat out of Star Island Yacht Club, Montauk, when he discovered $970 had gone missing from his person.

A teenage get-together Sunday night on Arbor Path wasn't what a mother signed up for when she gave her two daughters permission to have some friends over. She returned from a night out to a house full of juveniles who wouldn't leave.

Among arrests in town last week was one in Montauk involving an East Hampton Town traffic control officer.

An unlicensed 16-year-old from Montauk was eastbound on Montauk Highway in Amagansett just before midnight on Sunday when, she later told East Hampton Town police, she felt a pain in her head and either passed out or fell asleep at the wheel.

Laney Ettel of Virginia Beach was having dinner Friday night at Gurney's Star Island Resort in Montauk when, she told police, her purse went missing.

A second person accused of stealing $94,000 worth of handbags from a high-end retail store in East Hampton Village has pleaded guilty to grand larceny, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office announced on Friday.

A charge of third-degree assault followed a car accident that led to an altercation.

On Saturday night well after hours, when most lifeguards are home and dry, Thomas Casse was at a dinner party at the Montauk Shores Condominiums just east of Ditch Plain when another attendee, Sophie Walton, first heard a faint cry for help.

It was a busy Saturday night on Georgica Pond for the East Hampton Town Marine Patrol as numerous people were ticketed last week for illegally harvesting blue-claw crabs — an ever-growing poaching problem, say town officials, and one that they are struggling to get the upper hand on.

On Aug. 4, without naming the individual, East Hampton Village posted a press release announcing the 30-day suspension of a volunteer emergency medical services worker from the Village Ambulance Association after “hostile work environment” complaints filed against him were “found to be valid.” While the village may not have named him, by that point Randy Hoffman, the longtime critical-care E.M.T. who was told of his suspension the day before, had already named himself, sharing his side of the story and expressing his frustration with the decision.

In on accident in Springs at around 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 9, a 2005 Audi left the road and hit a retaining wall, a basketball hoop, and a mailbox at a house on Guernsey Lane, sustaining significant damange. A trail of fluid from the accident led police to the vehicle, which the driver had parked at her nearby home.

After police pulled over a Sagaponack man for going 90 miles per hour ina. 30 m.p.h. zone, a slew of charges followed incouding two felonies and misdemeanors for allegedly driving while intoxicated.

Bike vs. car; dump drunk vs. Suburban, Suburban vs. Suburban.

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney has secured a guilty plea from the first of five people accused of stealing $94,000 worth of handbags from the luxury retailer Balenciaga in East Hampton Village in March.

The manager at Sag Harbor’s popular Corner Bar, told Sag Village police last Thursday morning that a patron who had become ill after eating a dish of mussels was harassing the restaurant.

After receiving a congratulatory call on the afternoon of July 27, an East Hampton woman thought she had won $25 million in a Publisher’s Clearing House giveaway. All she had to do to collect, said the caller, was to wire $850 to an undisclosed Chase Bank branch. She contacted police last Thursday after realizing she’d been scammed.

The criminal case against Charles Streep of East Hampton and Manhattan, stemming from a highly publicized altercation in a bank parking lot two summers ago, ended in December when Mr. Streep pleaded guilty to a greatly reduced charge of disorderly conduct. His adversary has since filed a civil case against him.

There were numerous reports of vandalism via spray paint and graffiti in East Hampton Village last Thursday, beginning with a police car that was parked in the lot behind headquarters on North Main Street. Someone sprayed its entire passenger-side blue.

Jay Rowe of Springs was sentenced to up to 12 years in state prison Thursday for the March 2021 kidnapping and robbery of a woman in Springs, an incident that began in the school parking lot around dismissal time.

A 21-year-old on a bicycle was struck by a Mercedes-Benz in East Hampton, but had only minor injuries.

Half a dozen drunken-driving charges were lodged this week, including for two incidents that happened on Napeague.

Just because there is flat water doesn’t mean lifeguards can relax. It was a green-flag day up at Maidstone Park last Thursday when lifeguards needed to call in a Jet Ski for assistance for a father and son who were swimming in the calm waters but got too close to the jetty on an incoming tide, according to John Ryan Jr., chief of the East Hampton Town’s lifeguards.

The house at 3 Spring Lane in Noyac where two young women died in an early-morning fire on Aug. 3 lacked the permit required under Southampton Town code for property owners who rent out their houses, the town confirmed this week. "There will be charges filed against the homeowners," an assistant town attorney said.

A woman pulled a 2018 Subaru into the North Main Street I.G.A. lot on Aug. 2 and suddenly realized she was in the wrong vehicle. It was identical to her own Subaru, parked someplace else.

Following a July 31 incident at the town-owned 140 Springs-Fireplace Road apartments, one man was charged with third-degree misdemeanor assault.