Police & Courts

East Hampton Town police are working with the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's office on two separate death investigations in recent days. 

One person involved in a brawl on Folkstone Drive in Springs on the Fourth of July pulled out a machete, according to an East Hampton Town police report. 

Amagansett

Someone stole a shopping bag from under a table at Organic Krush on the afternoon of July 3. Nina Beth Roth of Manhattan said she put the bag, with a $500 black cashmere cardigan from Community, in Amagansett Square, inside, under the table while she was having lunch from 1:45 to 2:15 p.m.

East Hampton

An East Hampton man arrested earlier this year on felony drug charges is now facing four misdemeanor charges, three of them drug-related, following a traffic stop in Amagansett.

Dennis R. Walker Jr. of East Hampton has been charged with a felony for allegedly failing to register as a sex offender, his second such offense since a sexual abuse conviction in 2008. 

East Hampton Town police first pulled over a 2005 Dodge Neon driven by Milton G. Anguisaca-Buestan of Springs on Cedar Ridge Drive near Woodcock Lane Friday night. While police took him to headquarters in Wainscott for booking, his older brother, Claudio R. Anguisaca-Buestan, got behind the wheel of the Neon and drove off.

Tenia Campbell, the Medford mother accused of killing her twin daughters, intentionally suffocated them and drove to Montauk with their bodies in the car, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said yesterday at her arraignment on upgraded charges that include first-degree murder.

Villa Italian Specialties was up and running again by Tuesday morning after an oven caught fire there on Sunday afternoon.

The owner and the manager of a single-family house on Railroad Avenue in East Hampton at which 32 unrelated people were found to be living in hazardous conditions last July have pleaded guilty to 13 charges and will pay fines totaling $21,000. 

Villa Italian Specialties in East Hampton Village is temporarily closed following a fire in the store on Sunday afternoon. 

A grand jury has indicted the mother accused of killing her twin toddlers late last month and then driving to Montauk with their bodies in the car. 

A Texas woman, Allison O’Neill of Houston, called police to her Main Street residence Sunday at about 11:25 p.m. to report an intruder. Officers found a woman, highly intoxicated, sitting on a bench in the mudroom.

A 19-year-old East Hampton man was charged last week with two counts of statutory rape involving a 13-year-old girl.

Laura Hagerman, who just graduated from Bridgehampton High School, and Anais Kuss, who just graduated from Pierson High School, both said they wanted to give back to their community and continue the tradition of service to the Bridgehampton Fire Department in their families.

An Uber driver whose license had been suspended or revoked 45 times was arrested while driving in Montauk .

Near dawn on Saturday, a 21-year-old man westbound in a pickup truck on Montauk Highway went off the highway across from Brent’s Deli in Amagansett, severed a utility pole by the American Legion Hall — ending up, improbably, with the pole, severed from its base, in the bed of the truck — and finally hit a tree.

"There is nothing we can do now but hope we get justice," Rolando Garces, a brother of the victim, said after Joseph A. Grippo's indictment on second-degree murder charges was unsealed Friday morning.

Tenia Campbell's mother, Vanessa McQueen, tried to calm her down over the phone as a countywide search for Ms. Campbell and her daughters ensued. "I asked about her twin baby girls and she said they are already dead. 'I killed them with my bare hands,' " Ms. McQueen told police in a written statement.

The 2-year-olds, Jasmin and Jaida Campbell, were likely dead before their mother, Tenia Campbell, now charged with their murder, was found in Montauk with them strapped in their car seats, Suffolk County police said. 

“Barry embodied community policing and was a mentor to many officers,” Police Chief Michael Sarlo posted on the East Hampton Town Police Department’s Facebook page following a ceremonial walkout, in which his fellow officers from both the town police and the Fire Department saluted him. “His work ethic and dedication will be greatly missed by the department and the citizens he served.”

Update, June 27, 11:30 p.m.: A Medford mother was charged with the murder of her twin 2-year-old daughters, Suffolk County police announced late Thursday night. Tenia Campbell, 24, was taken into custody in Montauk County Park earlier that afternoon.

A 27-year-old Amagansett woman was charged with drunken driving at about 9 p.m. Saturday after she hit a utility pole on Industrial Road in Montauk, near Edgemere Street.

Abigail Rose Gawronski, who had been southbound in a 2007 Mazda, told East Hampton Town police she’d swerved to avoid a deer. Police, however, said she performed poorly on field sobriety tests, and she was held for the rest of the night on the misdemeanor charge. East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky released her following a Sunday morning arraignment, and she is due back in court on July 11.

A homeless man who fled after being surprised inside an East Hampton Village house on Friday night afterward broke in to a private beach cabana at the Maidstone Club, village police reported.

Detective Lt. Tony Long said a couple arrived at their Maidstone Lane house at about 9:40 p.m. to find a man inside. It appeared he had been staying there and was startled by the homeowners’ arrival. He ran off before they called 911.

Two weeks to the day after East Hampton Town’s first murder in a decade, Joseph A. Grippo, a 47-year-old with a criminal record, was arrested last Thursday in the killing of Robert Casado in Montauk’s Kirk Park.

Mr. Grippo lured Mr. Casado to the park, where he killed him with a pickax, all because they had the same love interest, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini said outside East Hampton Town Justice Court, where Mr. Grippo had been arraigned on a second-degree murder on Friday.

A Brooklyn couple reported their 2001 Lexus RX 350 stolen from their driveway in Montauk on Friday.

Jacqueline E. Mosca-Zarodkiewicz and her husband, Joseph Zarodkiewicz, told East Hampton Town police that their gray Lexus was missing when they returned to their house on Soundview Drive at about 5 p.m. They last saw it on June 16 at about 7 p.m., parked in the driveway.

A passer-by was concerned about a sick-looking raccoon on Monday evening near 77 Bay Street. It scurried into the woods as police arrived, but they said it appeared to be in good health.

“We didn’t have to wait very long for our first call,” Robert Davis, the first captain, remembered. The members were down at the firehouse on New Year’s Day when it came over. “I don’t think we were there five minutes before the tones went off. And it happened to be my uncle. He had fallen.” 

Joseph Grippo, a 47-year-old who lives on Old Montauk Highway, has been charged with second-degree murder, Suffolk County police announced late Thursday night.  

A 47-year-old man, arrested on Thursday and charged in the murder of Robert Casado, lured Mr. Casado to Kirk Park, where he killed him with a pickaxe, all because they had the same love interest, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini.

Update, June 25: Robert Clinton, whom police had been looking for since last week, has been located, Suffolk police said on Tuesday. He was not hurt. 

Originally, June 21: A 59-year-old man who may be in need of medical attention has gone missing from a group home in Water Mill, Suffolk County police said. 

Police issued a Silver Alert for Robert Clinton, who was last seen at the State Operated Community Residence at 1272 Montauk Highway in Water Mill on June 17 at about 3 p.m.