Police & Courts

After more than 38 years of service, Manny Vilar of Springs retired on Sunday from the New York State Park police, and with mixed emotions.

East Hampton Village is seeking to formalize its relationship with the East Hampton Ambulance Association with code changes that could be implemented by January. It's unclear whether that would alter operation of the associaton, which has been run by its own bylaws for decades.

East Hampton Town police on Wednesday arrested a 13-year-old Springs School student who allegedly doctored a photo of another student, turned it into a threat of violence, and posted it on social media. Officers were able to "swiftly" deem it noncredible, according to a press release.

Appearing before Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Richard Ambro in Riverside Tuesday morning, Daniel Campbell, the driver in a 2021 hit-and-run in Amagansett, accepted the judge's latest sentencing recommendation: 90 days in jail, 90 days of community service, and five years' probation.

A Springs School student is facing disciplinary consequences after firing a BB gun on an East Hampton Middle School bus returning from a football game at East Moriches on Thursday.

A Friday night motorcycle crash on Bluff Road in Amagansett sent one person to the hospital and another to court.

On Sunday morning, officers punched a new hole in the belt of a man whose pants had fallen down on Newtown Lane. The man, 56, is well known in the village. The last hole in his belt was buckled, police said, but was not keeping his pants up. “Negative intent of exposure,” they concluded.

Marine units and other law enforcement assets from around the region were on scene Thursday afternoon searching for a 31-year-old Queens man, Dario Cholula, who went missing last night while reportedly fishing the waters off North Haven.

She was about to take off when she “felt her brakes stalling and ‘grabbing’ the runway.” After determining that the emergency brake was not engaged, and therefore not the culprit, she deemed it wise to stay on the ground.

A dispute over access to hunting grounds made the police blotter on Oct. 9 when James Hren of Further Lane, 79, reported that someone had cut down a tree on his property, which runs to Skimhampton Road. He suspected it was done by hunters, he told an officer.

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.