Police & Courts

Town and village police charged two men with felonies in recent days following separate incidents, one at a house in East Hampton and another in the Reutershan Parking Lot.

Robin Murphy was elected Dec. 12 to the office of fire commissioner in the Bridgehampton Fire District. Voters also overwhelmingly approved changes to the Length of Service Award Program.

A 35-year-old resident of Flower Hill, a small village in Nassau County, was seen starting a fire and then cleaning up ash behind the power station off Old Stone Highway in Springs on the afternoon of Dec. 11. A police officer ticketed him for an illegal “open burn.”

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Dec. 9, on Abraham’s Path near Asa’s Path in Amagansett, a town police officer pulled over a black 2011 BMW with temporary Alabama license plates and “an exhaust system that was modified to amplify sound.” It resulted in felony D.W.I. charges, one of two such incidents here in recent days.

A woman was found sleeping in her car on Washington Street in Sag Harbor at 4 a.m. on Friday. She told an officer she’d had too much to drink at Murf’s Tavern and had intended to sleep only for a few hours before driving home.

Tenia Campbell, accused of smothering her twin daughters and leading police from multiple jurisdictions on a search spanning 40 miles from Medford to Montauk in June 2019, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of first-degree murder, a class A violent felony.

Southampton Town police have arrested two alleged shoplifters and two alleged accomplices who they say ran off with about $1,500 in merchandise from T.J. Maxx in Bridgehampton on the afternoon of Nov. 30.

Voters in fire districts across the South Fork can head to the polls Tuesday to elect commissioners who will oversee budgets, provide equipment, maintain facilities and trucks, and support training for volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians. The only contested race locally is in Bridgehampton.

Sarah Maslin Nir, an author and New York Times journalist who has been nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize, has filed suit in New York State Supreme Court against a former Stephen Talkhouse bouncer, claiming he raped her on a beach in Springs in 2001 when she was 18 years old and he 31.

A blue Mazda pickup truck belonging to a 25-year-old Texas woman got stuck on Navy Beach in Montauk on the evening of Nov. 29. Two officers were able to push the vehicle to safety. The woman left the beach that night with an East Hampton Town-style souvenir: a ticket for lacking a beach-driving permit.

Suffolk County and East Hampton Town law enforcement agencies are seeking help from the public in identifying two men suspected of burglarizing Kenny’s Castaways, a Montauk bar and restaurant, on Nov. 9.

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Montauk man said to be responsible for spray-painting swastikas and antisemitic phrases in the hamlet on Oct. 30 and Nov. 11.