Police & Courts

Three commercial fishermen returned safely to East Hampton last week after a scary morning at sea about 25 miles south of Fire Island.     

A Flanders man who confessed late last month to stealing trees from a Peconic Land Trust property in Northwest has been hit with more charges.

Someone has been using a backyard grill on Laforest Lane while the owner is away, according to a report filed on Monday. The owner said he found the grill in a different condition than when he left it.

A Montauk man with a history of drunken driving was charged with two felonies last week after police found him driving drunk again, this time with his 12-year-old son in the car.     

The East Hampton Village Board approved the promotion of Jennifer Dunn, a police officer, to detective 3rd grade last Thursday.     

"Senior Pods" at the Suffolk County jail keep men 55-plus safe from "reckless youth," sheriff says.

A man in a small boat was found in Otter Pond on the afternoon of Feb. 4. Someone complained, but it was not clear to police whether it was illegal.

A 34-year-old man accused of sexually abusing a child over an almost two-year period was arrested last week. The victim, whose name has been withheld, gave a statement to detectives on Feb. 3.     

A 40-year-old man who stole a teenager’s bicycle in Sag Harbor Village on Feb. 3 was arrested later that day after he was seen riding it in Noyac.     

The trial of the owner of the Petit Bleu children’s store in East Hampton Village, who was cited by code enforcement for placing two stuffed golden retrievers at the entrance to her shop, was held Monday in East Hampton Town Justice Court.

A former East Hampton Village gallery owner caused a scene at a screening of "Conscience Point," a documentary about the Shinnecock Indian Nation's decades-long battle for land preservation, at a restaurant in Sag Harbor Village Wednesday evening.

No one was seriously injured in a multi-vehicle accident on East Hampton's Main Street Tuesday afternoon. 

The owner of the New Age, a commercial fishing vessel from Montauk that took on water Wednesday morning, forcing its crew to evacuate the boat 25 nautical miles south of Fire Island, raced to his boat and is now aboard, heading for a New Jersey port in an effort to save it. 

A Southampton woman managed to drive away after allegedly causing a three-car accident in the parking lot of the Springs Presbyterian Church on Jan. 26, even though a witness reached inside her car and took the keys out of the ignition.

A Flanders man used a shovel to dig up hundreds of white pine saplings from property on Old Northwest Road in East Hampton late last month.

When Douglas Moore arrived at his South Endicott Place house on Jan. 31, after being away for about a month, he found a pickup truck in the driveway and that his bed had been slept in.

This summer an entry-level firefighting class is being planned in Wainscott, making it the perfect time for people on the South Fork to get involved in the fire service, local fire chiefs say. 

A car with a baby on board crashed into the Surf Lodge in Montauk on Sunday morning, and the driver, the child’s father, took off with her in her car seat without reporting the accident. East Hampton Town police found them later at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

New York State's new laws when it comes to evidence being turned over to the defense were brought into focus during a court conference Monday for Joseph Grippo, the man accused of killing Robert Casado with a pickaxe in Montauk last June. 

Police are looking for the public's help in identifying a man captured on surveillance video at one of two houses that were broken into in East Hampton on Thursday night. 

A 125-pound steel anvil was stolen from a backyard on Hand’s Creek Road sometime between Nov. 29 and Jan. 15. Wayne B. Hermann said the anvil had been on his property for over 30 years.

First responders were recognized Tuesday evening for saving the life of a man who had fallen from his bicycle in Montauk in September and was in cardiac arrest.

Some parents might have walked away after their child committed murder, too horrified to cope. Shelley Gilbert did the opposite. After her son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., shot and killed his 70-year-old father on Jan. 4, 2015, she paid for his defense attorneys, expert witnesses, and psychiatric examinations. “What he did was not him, it was his disease," she said. (Third in a Series)

A North Sea man was stopped in Noyac on Sunday night for a traffic infraction and later charged with misdemeanor drunken driving.

A construction worker who was shingling a new modular home in Montauk fell from scaffolding at least two stories high on Friday afternoon and died of his injuries.

A man was seriously injured when his pickup truck slammed into a tree and burst into flames on Friday just before midnight. 

A construction worker fell from scaffolding at least two stories high on Friday afternoon in Montauk and died, East Hampton Town police said.

A fire erupted at a PSEG Long Island substation in Bridgehampton on Friday morning, but a spokeswoman said no customers were affected by the blaze. 

A new group called the Common-Sense Coalition, made up of officials representing Long Island government and law enforcement, has been formed to recommend changes to New York State’s controversial bail reform law. Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. is among the members.     

At about 6:55 a.m. on New Year’s Day, in their first arrest of 2020, East Hampton Town police charged a 24-year-old man with assault and menacing, saying he had punched another man in the face multiple times and pointed a kitchen knife at him during a fight at their Indian Hill Road, East Hampton, residence.