Police & Courts

Last Thursday afternoon, a woman returned to her parked car in the lot behind 87 Newtown Lane to find a golf ball had struck the windshield, leaving numerous large circular cracks. The ball was found in the parking lot.

East Hampton Town police allegedly spotted marijuana in the ashtray of a Honda parked outside the 7-Eleven in Montauk. Upon searching the car, they also reported finding hallucinogenic mushooms and a tab of Ecstasy.

Brendan Clavin, 31, was last seen on surveillance footage captured by the Riverhead Library on Tuesday at around 6:30 a.m.

A new fire department substation officially opened in the Northwest section of East Hampton on Saturday morning. The 3,800 square-foot, one-story building on Old Northwest Road will bring fire and ambulance equipment closer to properties in the Northwest Fire Protection and Water Supply Protection Districts.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and East Hampton Village Police Department detectives are seeking help from the public and offering a cash reward of up to $5,000 for any information on the women, who were in the store at 4:53 p.m. on July 23.

A 43-year-old East Hampton resident was arrested on July 30 in connection with several reports of lewd behavior at a Miller Lane house in East Hampton.

A mom told town police that she had been distracted by her 5-year-old daughter in the backseat when she drove off Northwest Road and into a tree on the afternoon of July 20.

Southampton Town police have found the two teenagers who went missing last week from their homes in Flanders.

East Hampton Village police responded to a social distancing complaint. There were 30 guests present, whereas the limit is now 50, so there were technically no violations, although officers asked the homeowner if the guests could be more spread out and wear masks. She said she would do her best.

Several people called 911 on Sunday after watching girls who could not swim struggling in the water near the North Haven side of Sag Harbor Cove. Adults who went in after them were soon in trouble too. Good Samaritans at a nearby marina who heard the commotion leapt into action to save them.

A woman was leaving the Gulf gas station on Hampton Street in Sag Harbor on the evening of July 22 when she saw a young child, visibly upset, running across the road yelling "Mommy" and continuing on the side of the road.

A 15-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl have been reported missing by their families in Southampton Town, and police there are seeking the public's help looking for them. Noell Reyes, 15, and Ana Munguia, 14, both of Flanders, are boyfriend and girlfriend, Southampton Town police said Thursday, and may be together.

East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor Village Justice Courts are closed temporarily after an employee tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week. Some 155 people who visited the courts between July 6 and July 20 have been notified.

Michael Clancy left his 1998 Mercedes-Benz in the Fresh Pond Park parking lot on July 15 and went to a nearby bench to have a half-hour’s conversation with his father. While he was gone, someone punctured the front seat with Mr. Clancy’s own pen, which was still stuck in the seat, and stole $40 from the center console.

Upon backing a Hampton Tank Gas Service truck into an Amagansett driveway on Friday afternoon, Robert Coleman hit a parked 2020 Volkswagen, damaging the backs of both vehicles. A police report noted that there were multiple parked cars in the driveway.

East Hampton Village police arrested an East Hampton masseur on Sunday, charging him with two misdemeanor counts of "forcible touching" and one of "unauthorized practice of profession," a felony. 

The body of a boater who went missing off a rowboat in Fort Pond in Montauk on Sunday evening was recovered by East Hampton Town Police Dive Team members on Monday shortly after 5 p.m.

A 40-foot commercial fishing boat sank on Saturday morning after a yacht of about the same size crashed into it in dense fog not far from the mouth of Montauk Inlet, about a quarter-mile from land.

East Hampton Town Police and Marine Patrol continued the search on Monday for a boater who went missing in Fort Pond in Montauk on Sunday evening around sunset.

Police and fire department divers were searching Fort Pond in Montauk on Sunday evening for a missing swimmer who had jumped into the water from a small boat, along with some companions, shortly before sunset.

Early on Saturday morning, Charles Teller of West Orange, N.J., 64, crossed the double yellow lines on Stephen Hand's Path in East Hampton and rear-ended a 2006 Honda driven by Richard Kalbacher, 28, of East Hampton, who was slowing down for the light on Route 114.

In a fiery 2 a.m. crash more dramatic than harmful, Matthew Porcelli's motorcycle erupted in flames on Sunday as he was riding east on Montauk Highway near Surf Drive in Amagansett.

Sick raccoons were roaming the village last week. One was reported at 229 Main Street on the morning of July 8. Police confirmed that the animal was acting oddly and advised the caller to contact a removal service.

According to East Hampton Town police, a 21-year-old Montauk man met a girl under the age of 15 online and had sex with her on two occasions. The father of the underage girl became suspicious after seeing her social media posts and contacted police.

Chase Wintjen of East Hampton, 27, was headed east on Jermain Avenue in Sag Harbor near the Division Street intersection last Thursday night when police noticed him talking on his cellphone.

A serious accident on Old Montauk Highway in Montauk, in which five people were taken to the hospital, was the price of a teenage driver’s idea of “fun,” police reported this week.

When exiting his Uber near 701 Montauk Highway late last Thursday night, Anthony Alfonso said he and his friends were arbitrarily attacked by an unknown group of men.

On Friday night as the holiday weekend began, a gray 2019 BMW was eastbound on Old Montauk Highway in Montauk, near Fir Lane, when it hit a parked Chevrolet, swerved into the oncoming lane, veered back onto the shoulder, and wound up in bushes by the roadside.

The owners of two Montauk nightspots and the manager of another were arrested over the July Fourth weekend on low-level charges having to do with alcohol storage and signs — allegations that may lead to more serious consequences.

There was an accident in the parking lot of the Red Horse complex on Friday night as a driverwas trying to exit to the right, onto Montauk Highway, where the sign says entrance only.