Police & Courts

“Kids with a fishing net” were reported near Town Pond on the afternoon of July 31, and police went to check. One of the boys explained that he was using a pool net to retrieve a plastic bag from the pond, and he was allowed to proceed.

Last weekend was a busy one for East Hampton Village lifeguards, who made a total of 22 saves.

Two houses in East Hampton were damaged by a lightning strike late Tuesday afternoon that sent an occupant of one to the hospital. The clap of thunder that quickly followed was so loud that it shook houses miles away. 

A multi-agency police task force made two nearly simultaneous arrests around noon on Friday, resulting in multiple felony charges for two men accused of selling narcotics.

Village Justice Carl Irace instructed the pop star, appearing in court virtually from Belgium, to turn his camera on for his arraignment redo.

A resident of Beach Lane in Wainscott reported his Paris Bistro tables and chairs, together valued at $1,200, missing after he used them to set up a lemonade stand for his daughter on the morning of July 14.

The driver stayed at the scene with the man who he hit, who had "stumbled off of a grassy, sloped shoulder" and into the roadway, according to a report.

East Hampton Town on Tuesday announced that it has replaced an old, outdated Marine Patrol boat with a stateof-the-art vessel. Everything about it is new, except for its name: It is named in memory of the late Sgt. Ryan P. Lynch, a town police officer who died in 2005.

Christopher Cinque, the chief lifeguard for East Hampton Town's Montauk district, has been named the New York State Lifeguard of the Year. 

Ed Burke Jr., the attorney representing the pop star Justin Timberlake on his June 18 drunken-driving charge in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court, argued Friday morning before Justice Carl Irace that the case should be dismissed on the grounds that police had erred when processing the arrest paperwork.

An East Hampton man was arrested on the morning of July 16 on a felony charge of violating an order of protection following a domestic incident at a house on Central Avenue.

Southampton Town police detectives and the Sag Harbor Village fire marshal are still investigating the drowning death of a 2-year-old boy at a house on North Haven two weeks ago, an incident that prompted the North Haven mayor to remind village residents about New York State’s swimming pool rules over the weekend.