Police & Courts

This year, without community fireworks shows, backyard gatherings around the grill might be just about the only way many people celebrate the Fourth of July. This makes Tom Baker, the assistant chief East Hampton Town fire marshal, nervous, given that at least three fires recently have been attributed to ordinary propane tanks.

A 31-foot boat was briefly adrift in the North Haven mooring field on the afternoon of June 23, knocking into anchored boats nearby. The occupants had slipped their mooring before starting the engines and then could not find the keys for about 20 minutes.

East Hampton Town police took note of a black 2011 Ford that matched the description of a car involved in an unrelated incident, as it was driving along Springs-Fireplace Road.

East Hampton Village police spoke to Gus Lange, 21, at his West End Road residence last Thursday afternoon and issued him a summons for leaving the scene of a minor car crash the day before in the Reutershan parking lot behind Main Street.

A complaint of loud music coming from a house on Two Mile Hollow Road June 15 in the evening brought police to the scene, where they indeed found loud music but nobody home.

After driving off the westbound shoulder of Ely Brook Road near Hand's Creek Road in Northwest on Friday night, Luis Amon-Segarra's black 2010 Honda Civic hit a tree.

Leonardo Sorto-Hernande Milan of Bridgehampton, 27, was driving west on Swamp Road, East Hampton, on the evening of June 15 when, he told East Hampton Town police, a deer ran in front of his 2005 GMC van.

A woman called police to report that "men in red hats," carrying American flags and with rifles slung over their backs, were walking along Ferry Road. Sunday was Flag Day, and the men proved to be part of a military parade honoring the United States National Guard.

The East Hampton Town police substation in Montauk received a call on the morning of June 10 reporting an erratic driver eastbound on Montauk Highway near South Eagle Street. Police found a white 2014 Mercedes-Benz traveling almost entirely on the eastbound shoulder of the highway, and pulled it over on South Edgemere Street.

Sag Harbor Village police counted a grand total of 27 vehicles broken into on Sunday night. The calls to police started coming in at 8 p.m., and the phone kept ringing, they said, until 2 a.m.

On the night of June 6, on Route 114 in East Hampton, town police stopped a black 2020 Land Rover driven by Jefferson Salazar, 35, of Miami, and wound up charging him with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. He appeared in East Hampton Town Justice Court yesterday and was released on his own recognizance.

Police leveled the same charge on Friday night against Roger Kassokro of the Bronx, 63, after stopping his 2016 white Ford van on Stephen Hand's Path. He was released in the field with a court date of July 1.

The governor signed into law a series of policing reforms this week as part of the Say Their Name agenda. South Fork police leaders said they were on track for compliance because many progressive policies and resources are already in place in their departments.

Gennaro Giugliana, 68, of Riverhead called East Hampton Town police on the morning of June 8 to report he had rear-ended another car at the Montauk Highway-Wainscott Northwest Road traffic light. His 2018 Volkswagen sport-utility vehicle ran into a 2015 Toyota pickup truck belonging to Juan Bremon-Baez, 54, of East Hampton, he reported.

Both drivers sustained injuries. Mr. Bremon-Baez had minor bleeding; Mr. Guigliana reported back pain. They both declined medical attention.

New measures will mandate tracking of race and ethnicity in all arrest data, and require "officers to report any weapons discharge within six hours" and to "provide mental and medical help for any person under arrest or any person in custody when they require it."

The governor's signature on the reforms means New York is among the first states in the country to take formal action in light of the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in Minneapolis by a white police officer on May 25.

A driver was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle when, according to East Hampton Village police, his black BMW crossed the double yellow lines on Main Street, made an illegal U-turn there in front of 16 Main, and parked.

A Subaru station wagon that crashed through the front doors of the East Hampton Market on Race Lane on Friday afternoon, injuring two people, was being driven by a 91-year-old man, police said.

Black smoke was visible from as far away as Montauk late Sunday afternoon when the East Hampton Fire Department received word of a raging garage fire at 11 Robert’s Lane. The family in the house escaped safely and there were no injuries.

Officers were sitting in a marked East Hampton Town police car Saturday night on Ed Hults Lane near Old Stone Highway in Springs when, they said, a gray Toyota in the parking lot there “backed out of a parking spot recklessly,” nearly hitting their right rear quarter-panel, and then speeding away.

Reports of loud leaf blowers were flying all over last Thursday and the day before, ringing in East Hampton Village’s new lawn-care equipment noise law.

A driver avoided injury but badly damaged a section of the Cranberry Hole Road railroad bridge in Amagansett on Tuesday evening.

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. on Monday announced he intends to create a community advisory board to give residents a direct line of communication and representation to his department. Members will discuss relevant topics with the sheriff and provide input on initiatives and policies.

A car smashed through the front doors and into East Hampton Market on Race Lane in East Hampton Village on Friday afternoon. Several people were taken by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital with minor injuries. No one was seriously hurt. 

Floyd’s murder on Memorial Day at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer as three other officers stood by was “an assault not just on Mr. Floyd and people of color, but on the equity and trust we work so hard as a department to develop,” Chief Michael Sarlo said.

Someone called police from the Egypt Beach parking lot on the afternoon of May 26 to complain about “an old man doing yoga and blocking access to the beach.”

Sag Harbor Village police had no trouble spotting Nicole Fader’s large camper van early on the morning of May 25 since it was parked illegally on Long Island Avenue.

The driver of a sport utility vehicle that crashed into Edouard Dejoux’s porch on Sunday afternoon told police that he had been drinking all day before the accident.

A gas station on North Main Street was the site of an altercation between an attendant and a customer on May 19, when the driver of a tan Honda Element was asked to move her car, as it was blocking traffic. In reply, she got out and hit the attendant in the face, he told police.

Charles Engstrom was leaving Montauk Beer and Soda on South Elmwood Avenue when he realized he had dropped his wallet. He went back inside and asked the owner, Olivia Malik, if she had seen it.

When a woman left her house on Stephen Hand’s Path the afternoon of May 6, she saw that the order of surgical masks she had been expecting had arrived in her mailbox. Three hours later when she returned the box of masks was gone.