Police & Courts

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.

When officers approached John P. Detmer, he reportedly dropped a plastic bag containing over 500 milligrams of cocaine from his pants pocket.

Suffolk police are investigating the death of a Bridgehampton native whose body was found by the side of the road in Patchogue on Saturday night.

“I’d like to apologize to the people of Montauk,” Elvin Silva-Ruiz, accused of arranging for the shipment of cocaine and oxycodone from Puerto Rico to Montauk and arrested in a major drug bust last summer, told a Suffolk County Criminal Court judge at his sentencing last Thursday morning. 

Strong winds on Saturday night gave people on a raft off Havens Beach a hard time. After calling 911 at 5:05 p.m., the caller rowed his own boat out to the raft and towed it back to shore. 

An 18-year-old with a learner's permit crashed a 2002 Porsche Carrera on Saturday afternoon and was charged with misdemeanor D.W.I.

The Southampton Town Police Department has joined more social media platforms in an attempt to further reach the community.

A bicyclist was seriously injured in a car accident in front of Damark's Market Deli on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton late Monday afternoon.

Elvin Silva-Ruiz, accused of arranging for the shipment of cocaine and oxycodone from Puerto Rico to Montauk, was arrested last August at Kennedy Airport, where he was getting ready to board a flight to Puerto Rico to pay for more drugs.

As Montauk residents began their day last Thursday, a couple walking a trail in Kirk Park made a gruesome discovery: a man unconscious and with severe head injuries. He died at the hospital a short time later. Suffolk County homicide detectives are investigating his death as a murder.

An anonymous caller reported a man riding a moped with an infant strapped to his chest on Bay Street on Friday at about 5:45 p.m. Police looked for the moped, but could not find it.

Omar E. Leon-Saldana, a 19-year-old who lives in East Hampton, was found with his seatbelt on, asleep in the driver’s seat of a running vehicle by the side of the road on Sunday night. East Hampton Town police said he was unconscious when they found him, but appeared intoxicated when they woke him up.

The family of the man who was killed in Montauk last week is preparing for his funeral services, while homicide detectives continue to investigate what led to his death on a path in Kirk Park. 

Brian France pleaded guilty to misdemeanor driving while intoxicated Friday, with his sentence held in abeyance for a year while he completes community service.

A 22-year-old man was arrested on a sex abuse charge Thursday, accused of inappropriately touching a 9-year-old girl, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said in East Hampton Town Justice Court. 

Wilson Rolando-Morales, a native Ecuadorian who had been living in East Hampton for three years, surrendered on Thursday morning, his attorney, John O'Brien of Noyac, said. Mr. O'Brien entered a plea of not guilty on his client's behalf. 

Update, June 7, 1:30 p.m.: Suffolk County police have identified the man killed in Kirk Park in Montauk on Thursday morning as Robert Casado. Mr. Casado was 38 and lived in Montauk. No further information was released. 

Lois H. Kleinberg’s cat woke her up at 5:45 a.m. and she smelled smoke. Through her window she saw flames shooting from her neighbor’s roof. When she and her husband ran outside, embers were landing on their roof and deck.

A 22-year-old from Manhattan was charged with drunken driving on the morning of Memorial Day after his 2008 Mini Cooper crashed into a tree on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton.

The alleged kingpin in what investigators called the largest narcotics distribution ring in and around Montauk, which raked in as much as $100,000 in three weeks last summer, will spend the next decade behind bars.

A 56-year-old man with a history of drunken driving was slapped with several charges on Saturday afternoon, including a felony under Leandra’s Law, after East Hampton Town police reported finding him driving while intoxicated in Amagansett with two teenagers in the car.

Possible gunshots were reported in the vicinity of Maidstone and Susan Streets last Thursday evening around 9:30. Police searched the area but found nothing.

A 69-year-old East Hampton man is being held on $50,000 bail after an investigation revealed he had been abusing a girl sexually for more than three years, East Hampton Town police said.

A Queens resident was found on Sunday with 45 grams of marijuana in his car during a traffic stop in Amagansett.

An East Hampton doctor has admitted to being part of a trio that submitted $8 million in fraudulent Medicaid bills, New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced on Friday.

In the midst of the East Hampton Little League season, the ball field at Maidstone Park was severely damaged overnight, causing the league to move games and practices because of the vandalism.