Police & Courts

A search was ongoing in Montauk on Wednesday for the artist Peter Beard, who wandered away from his house near Montauk Point on Tuesday night. Mr. Beard is 82 and has dementia, according to police.

An East Hampton Town police officer who was diagnosed with Covid-19 has made a full recovery and is ready to go back to work, The Star learned this week.

Putting out the flames was not the only concern on firefighters' minds during a house fire on Sunday evening, as it was the first fire since the coronavirus outbreak. 

A New York City man was identified as the operator of a Kawasaki motorcycle that hit a tree in Water Mill on Saturday afternoon.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, first responders on the South Fork are continuing to work, albeit while taking extra precautions. 

Rudolph Rando of Montauk, who was known as Rudy, died of sepsis on Sunday at San Simeon by the Sound in Greenport.

A landscaper who in late January dug up hundreds of eastern white pine tree saplings from two Northwest Woods properties, one of the lots owned by the Peconic Land Trust, was directed to do so, according to East Hampton Town police, by an East Hampton homeowner, who now faces four felony charges.     

In Noyac, a drunken driver struck multiple vehicles on a property on Highview Drive on March 18 and then tried to leave the scene, Southampton Town police said. 

Michael Lohan, the father of the actress Lindsay Lohan, was arrested on March 16 in connection with a Feb. 22 incident at the Amagansett I.G.A.

A woman stole a box of gloves from the East Hampton Urgent Care Center on March 15, according to a nurse who works there.

Patchita Tennant stood silent until the foreman of the jury finished reading the verdict: not guilty on attempted murder and first-degree assault charges in the shooting of her longtime boyfriend, Andrew Mitchell. 

Patchita Tennant broke down in tears on the witness stand Wednesday morning as she recounted the months leading up to the night when she shot and seriously injured her longtime boyfriend.