Police & Courts

In what Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney described as "meticulously planned heists," a pair of thieves allegedly targeted a wealthy woman with residences in Sag Harbor and Manhattan and made off with cash, art, guns, jewelry, fine wines, and other items valued at more than $1 million.

A group of young women, possibly juveniles, stole eight bottles of Fireball Whiskey, worth $36.72, from the Gulf gas station on Hampton Street in Sag Harbor Saturday night.

A New York State judge has dismissed a lawsuit against NYCO Chemists III, which does business in East Hampton as White’s Apothecary, in which the pharmacy had been accused of overfilling prescriptions for opioid painkillers.

A 14-year-old girl suffered a laceration to her head on Friday when she was hit by a three-foot section of hollow metal tubing thrown by a juvenile from the top of the radar tower at Camp Hero in Montauk.

A body that washed up on the beach at the Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island on Nov. 8 has been identified by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office as Dario Cholula. 

Jamal Johns, one of five people who participated in a March robbery at the luxe retailer Balenciaga’s East Hampton shop, was sentenced on Friday to three and a half to five years in prison, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney has announced.

A Westhampton Beach woman attended a fund-raiser at Gurney’s Friday night, and won a white vase and three pillows. Afterward, she asked a bellhop to put the items in her car, and he set the vase on a bench near the valet booth while retrieving a cart to ferry her belongings to her car. When the bellhop returned, the vase was gone. On Saturday, a member of Gurney’s staff returned it. 

Sag Harbor Village on Sunday night police charged a driver — who was injured when he crashed his car into a telephone pole — with drunken driving.

Lawyers for the family of two young women killed in a Noyac rental-home fire this summer have taken their case to federal court.

A body was found washed up on the beach at the Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island on Friday but has yet to be identified by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A Springs woman called police for the second time in two weeks on Nov. 4 to say she had found a dead swan near her house. Police reported that the carcass was intact and appeared undamaged, but that its head was missing.

East Hampton Town police reported a single alcohol-related arrest on local roads last week.