Police & Courts

On the evening of Oct. 11, for at least the third time this year, someone drove home in the wrong car, thinking it was theirs and prompting a report of a stolen vehicle.

East Hampton Town police reported two traffic accidents involving injuries last week, both in Springs.

An attorney for the family of the two young women who died this summer in a fire at a rented house in Noyac has written to Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney asking why his office has not pursued criminal charges in the Aug. 3 tragedy.

Mourners filled the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor on Thursday afternoon to remember Kent I. Feuerring of Sagaponack, the pilot who died last Thursday when the small seaplane he was flying crashed at the edge of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton.

The manager of Brent’s called police Monday afternoon to say that three or four customers in hunting clothes had been “acting strange” and lingering outside the store. Cleaning staff later discovered a garbage bag filled with deer remains in the Dumpster.

There were three arrests for driving while intoxicated in East Hampton Town this week and one in the village.

A part-time employee in the East Hampton Village Department of Public Works was arrested on Friday for allegedly vandalizing village and private property, including the side of a village police car, in August. 

A funeral for Kent I. Feuerring of Sagaponack, a pilot who died when his small plane crashed at the edge of Three Mile Harbor last Thursday, will be held on Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor. Visiting hours will be Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton.

Four people were arrested in Montauk on Oct. 5 following an early morning raid in which a multi-agency team of investigators found $35,000 in cash, “drug distribution paraphernalia,” a 9-millimeter handgun, cocaine, and enough fentanyl to “kill over 1,000 people,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney’s office announced last week. 

A youth riding a bicycle on Division Street in Sag Harbor was struck by a car last Thursday afternoon and fell off the bike. Police found him lying on the ground at the intersection of Union Street and called his mother, who brought him to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital to be treated for bruises on his back.

A Sept. 19 mattress fire at a house on Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village has led to two court summonses for its Florida homeowner, who is charged with failing to maintain proper fire-safety equipment.

A neighbor called police just after midnight Sunday to complain about loud music coming from a house on Jones Road. Someone inside said they didn’t realize that music playing inside the house was also blasting from the outdoor speakers, and turned them off.

A small plane crashed on the edge of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton on Thursday at about 12:30 p.m., killing the pilot, Kent I. Feuerring of Sagaponack.

After allegedly “stabbing a locked bedroom door with a large kitchen knife trying to make entry,” an East Hampton man was charged with criminal possession of a weapon with intent to use.

Weighed down by discovery documents turned over to him by a Southampton assistant town attorney, the defense lawyer Edward Burke told The Star on Friday that his clients, Pamela and Peter Miller, are "beyond traumatized" following an Aug. 3 fire at their Spring Lane house in Noyac that left two sisters dead.

Police said they’d clocked a man driving 80 miles an hour in a 55-m.p.h. zone, and that he’d crossed the double yellow line “to pass numerous vehicles in an unsafe manner.” The car smelled like marijuana, they added, and the driver exhibited signs of “cannabis intoxication.”

In arrests this week, one person was accused of stealing from the Inter Deli in East Hampton, another of criminal possession of fentanyl and driving while intoxicated, and third of sexual abuse.

People see firefighters in their trucks, police officers writing tickets, and ambulances streaking by, but they don’t see the public safety dispatchers, who coordinate any emergency response in East Hampton Town and are also specially trained to give guidance over the phone on everything from CPR to childbirth to electrocution and even getting a car out of submerged water.

A flurry of mid-September overnight car break-ins in Montauk, Amagansett, and Springs has had victims and residents taking to social media to bemoan an apparently organized racket and warn others about the incidents. Police say they’re on the case but have no suspects.

A dog left alone in a Porsche prompted a wellness check on Sept. 20 after its owner went into John Papas Cafe to pick up a food order. Someone called police, who arrived and said the dog was fine.

Jamal Johns of Newark is the latest defendant to accept a plea deal for his part in a March robbery at the East Hampton Balenciaga, when five people made off with $94,000 worth of handbags from the luxe Newtown Lane retail shop.

An early morning car crash on Woods Lane in East Hampton Village on Monday ground traffic to a halt for four hours and sent Delvair Dias, 73, to Stony Brook Hospital. East Hampton Fire Department personnel utilizing the jaws of life extricated Mr. Dias from his severely damaged vehicle.

Local police made two drunken-driving arrests in the town last week and one in the village.

Daniel Campbell, the 20-year-old driver in an August 2021 hit-and-run in Amagansett that claimed the life of 18-year-old Devesh Samtani, "will not be sentenced on Thursday," Tania Lopez, a Suffolk County district attorney spokeswoman, said. The Samtani family, frustrated that the judge had said Mr. Campbell would get no jail time, has hired a high-profile defense lawyer to plead their case that he should in fact spend some time in prison for his actions. 

Daniel Campbell's sentencing hearing in the Amagansett hit-and-run case that led to the death of Devesh Samtani in August 2021 was pushed off to Nov. 3, and an attorney for the Samtani family believes the judge could rescind his no-jail offer.

Thieves hit a pop-up jewelry shop at Gurney’s Resort and Spa on Labor Day weekend. A woman grabbed a hat from a display, the shopowner told police, and tossed it to a friend seated on a couch nearby; the two then left the premises, hat in hand. The owner, Hayley Denman, said it was a cheap hat, but that not long after, one of the women had returned and dropped a $5,400 diamond butterfly necklace into her purse before fleeing. The women, who will be charged with grand larceny if found, were last seen getting into an Uber.

This is the last weekend of the year that East Hampton Town beaches will have lifeguards. Lifeguards will protect East Hampton Village beaches during weekends until Columbus Day, Oct. 10.

East Hampton Town Justice Court records show several defendants recently paid their fines after being arrested in late August or early September of last year.

“Todd” was the only identity a man would give when police found him sleeping in the doorway of Stella and Ruby, a children’s clothing store on Main Street in Sag Harbor, last Thursday night. Todd, who said he had come from the city to look for work, was told he couldn’t sleep in the street.

Seven men, all of them in their 30s or 40s, were charged last week with drunken driving. One allegedly damaged several pieces of property before being arrested.