Police & Courts

A woman called on Feb. 8 to report a “suspicious” black Cadillac Escalade parked at the dog park, but police found nothing suspicious about it. Nonetheless, the driver agreed to move it.

“Cellphone, cellphone, wallet, cellphone, car keys, wallet, wallet. . . . Underwater scooter.” So began a visit last week to the Sag Harbor Village Police Department’s property room, where everything that people turn in as “found property,” or that officers happen to find while on patrol, awaits reunion with its owner.

Sag Harbor Village police were enforcing the 20-mile-per-hour speed zone in front of the elementary school last Thursday morning when, they reported, a green 2004 Nissan Sentra whizzed by at 34 m.p.h.

A disturbance at a local restaurant, which began on Friday night at 10:30, ended at midnight, after police roused a man asleep in a stolen car in his Springs driveway.

Marc T. Dern, the Springs man charged with manslaughter following a fight that led to the death of his friend Kevin Somers of Amagansett, has been ordered held on $500,000 cash bail or $1 million secured bond.

A crash on Saturday led to a drunken driving charge for a Hampton Bays man.

Fifteen officers and three public safety dispatchers have been recognized for outstanding and dedicated acts of professional policing during 2021, the East Hampton Town Police Department announced recently.

A 72-year-old Massachusetts man was pulling in to Citarella at midday on Friday when, he told police, he was “angrily” cut off by the driver of a black sedan. He went shopping, but found a large scratch on the front passenger-side door of his car upon returning.

There were two minor accidents on local roads in recent days.

A Sag Harbor woman was arrested earlier this month on a felony charge of grand larceny.

Kevin Somers was a natural athlete with a memorable laugh — the kind of person who greeted everyone with a smile and who made people around him feel comfortable, friends recalled this week as detectives from Suffolk County’s homicide squad investigated his death.

East Hampton Town police and detectives from the Suffolk County police homicide squad are investigating the death of an Amagansett man at a house in Springs after an altercation there on Saturday night.

A passenger headed to the hospital after an accident on Springs-Fireplace Road.

After police approached a car that was blocking the entrance to the Sportime parking lot on the morning of Jan. 23, the driver ended up in custody.

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York unsealed a superseding indictment last week that charges a Montauk fisherman with both conspiracy and substantive charges in connection with a scheme to illegally overharvest fluke and black sea bass.

On the evening of Jan. 25, a patrolman found five empty Amazon boxes on the ground near a trash can on Main Street. Whoever left them there should be advised that the village now has their name and address on an official report of littering.

It took less than two days for police to make an arrest in connection with an armed robbery that took place at Montoya Communications in East Hampton on Wednesday around 5 p.m.

East Hampton Town police charged three men with felony assault following a fight on Friday night at Phoenix House, an addiction recovery facility on Industrial Road in Wainscott. A representative of that organization said in a statement on Tuesday that it is “working with law enforcement to address this incident. Phoenix House prioritizes the safety of all its residents.”

On Friday, in the middle of the night, Gabriel Butler, a 26-year-old East Hampton resident, was northbound in a 2005 Toyota on Old Northwest Road near Marion Lane, when, according to a nearby police officer, he crossed the double yellow lines multiple times.

A man wearing a ski mask, dark-colored jacket, white sweater with a dark stripe, and dark pants robbed an East Hampton store on Wednesday at about 5 p.m., town police have reported.

An East Hampton Village police officer was involved in a fender-bender on Saturday while driving on North Main Street near Cedar Street.

No one knows who left the note saying “Montauk has your number, leave now” on a 2021 BMW belonging to a 32-year-old resident of the Landing co-op community. The note was left on Jan. 17 sometime between 4 and 9 p.m., and the woman who received it told police she had no personal issues with anyone and no idea who could have left it.

Multiple people at Main Beach reported seeing two flares go up over the water last Thursday afternoon, followed by airplanes flying over. An officer used binoculars to investigate, but could find nothing suspicious.

When a man with a gun took a rabbi and three members of his congregation as hostages at the Beth Israel Congregation in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday — a situation that the hostages survived, but the gunman did not — ripples of resolve ran through Jewish houses of worship here.

A 20-year-old from Springs was lucky to avoid injury, East Hampton Town police said, following an early-morning accident on Jan. 8 in which she was charged with driving while intoxicated.

A woman called police Sunday morning to report seeing, by the side of Stephen Hand’s Path near Cedar Street, a large black garbage bag containing what looked to be “a person, or human remains.” A potentially gruesome situation turned out to be rather routine.

East Hampton Town police charged a registered sex offender last week with failing to notify the authorities of a change in his address within 10 days of moving, as is required by state law.

Last week’s storm didn’t leave large piles of snow, but it was still enough to cause a couple of accidents on local roads.

A Harbor View Avenue resident woke up on Sunday to find someone had thrown eggs at his house overnight, though nothing was seriously damaged. He called the police, who, in their written report, attributed the incident to “incorrigible youth.”

A handful of recent crashes on East Hampton Town roads resulted in minor injuries to a few of the drivers.