Police & Courts

With two months to go until the East Hampton Town Police Department takes over the lion’s share of emergency dispatching responsibilities from East Hampton Village, questions linger about the cost of the transition and how the town department will handle the new workload. 

The shaving cream vandal struck again over the weekend, this time spraying the stuff around the interior and exterior of the men’s restroom in the Reutershan parking lot downtown Saturday night.

Town police made two similar felony-level arrests for drunken driving last week, one on Main Street in Montauk and the other in East Hampton.

A dog had been barking on and off in a fenced-in backyard for four days, a Springs-Fireplace Road neighbor reported on the night of Oct.15, adding that the house appeared to be empty and abandoned. Police went to the property and found a large black-and-white husky, “whimpering and shivering.”

East Hampton Town police have ended a search for a 61-year-old woman who went missing Tuesday night from her family’s house on Manor Lane in Springs. This is a developing story.

Alec Baldwin, the actor and co-chair of the executive committee of the Hamptons International Film Festival’s board, made headlines unrelated to the festival on Monday after the Range Rover he was driving hit a tree on Pantigo Road.

A woman called 911 Friday evening complaining that she was being harassed. A “middle-aged man” was taking pictures of her in front of Starbucks in East Hampton, she told police, who advised her that taking pictures in a public place “is a legal practice.”

In last week’s single felony-level arrest, East Hampton Town police accused a Central Islip man of driving a stolen vehicle.

Police were kept busy on the roads here last week, with six people injured in six accidents, three of which happened at the beginning of the holiday weekend.

A 31-year-old man faces felony charges for possessing forged documents following a traffic stop in Sag Harbor early Friday morning.

An “older gentleman” was at the bar at Rosie’s in Amagansett with a younger woman who “did not appear to be his daughter,” another patron, who was “concerned about her well-being,” reported Friday night. But she was the man’s daughter.

A cyclist was transported to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Friday afternoon after colliding with a BMW sedan on Route 114 in East Hampton.

East Hampton Village is soon to be the first municipality east of the Shinnecock Canal to arm its police officers not just with guns, but with EpiPens.

An 11-year-old boy was taken to the East Hampton Emergency Department with minor injuries after being struck by an S.U.V. in a crosswalk last week, and another pedestrian was struck by a van in Sag Harbor.

Maura Davis Gropper, the 67-year-old East Hampton woman who was accused in May of driving her car into two teenage traffic control officers in Sag Harbor, pleaded guilty to a single count of second-degree harassment, a violation, and was ordered to pay a fine.

Four men were seen “rearranging” the metal benches in front of the Yummylicious ice cream and frozen yogurt shop in Sag Harbor last week. They told a police officer they’d moved the benches “because they wanted to hang out.”

A Hampton Bays man was accused of choking another man at a residence on Three Mile Harbor Drive, while a traffic stop in Sag Harbor uncovered a raft of license suspensions and revocations.

A Ford pickup truck struck an Amazon delivery van at the intersection of Montauk Highway and Cranberry Hole Road in Amagansett on Sept. 17, injuring both drivers.

An East Hampton man was charged with a felony early Sunday morning after allegedly throwing a flower pot at the head of another man at Pepperoni’s Pizza in East Hampton.

Fire marshals have deemed the CMG Auto Repairs building on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton unsafe for occupation following a fire there a week ago.

A woman was stuck on a Hampton Street, Sag Harbor, roof, a caller told police on Sept. 16. An officer arrived to see her “clinging to the ridge of the roof” after finding herself locked out.

Suffolk County police have released new information concerning the murder last October of a 33-year-old woman found dead in a room at the Shou Sugi Ban House in Water Mill.

The East Hampton Town Board accepted a bid of $791,875 Tuesday for renovations to be made to the town’s dispatch center. 

The Suffolk County district attorney’s office is appealing to the public for help in identifying “Montauk Mary,” an elderly woman who was found shot to death in Montauk in the spring of 1978. 

A Sag Harbor man was injured Friday evening after his Mazda sedan collided with a tree in Wainscott. 

A West Way, East Hampton, woman’s trees are unexpectedly dying, she told police Friday afternoon, and she suspects that her next-door neighbor is to blame.

The East Hampton Fire Department was dispatched to 211 Springs-Fireplace Road at 9:54 a.m. on Wednesday in response to a report of a car on fire, but by the time firefighters arrived, "the whole shop was pretty much on fire," Chief Duane Forrester said.

Months after East Hampton Town announced it would take over responsibility for most 911 calls from East Hampton Village’s Emergency Communications Center, which had provided the service for decades, the changeover is still unfolding.

A New York City woman was charged with breaking into the Tracy Anderson Fitness Studio in Sag Harbor after hours and stealing nearly $2,000 worth of merchandise.

Gail Bomze, the 75-year-old real estate agent accused of biting a 7-year-old girl during a T-shirt toss on East Hampton’s Main Beach last month, has a day in court.