Police & Courts

The Shinnecock Nation advised residents of a possible active shooter on the nation's territory following a fatal shooting there Friday morning. 

The owner of a high-end rental house in Springs that East Hampton Town officials are trying to shut down appeared before an East Hampton Town justice this week along with the alleged house manager.

The East Hampton Fire Department responded to four grill fires over the past week. All were the result of excess grease and poor cleaning, serving as a reminder that residents need to tend to their barbecue grills, Chief Gerard Turza Jr. said.

A car struck and injured a bicyclist in an accident in front of Brent's Deli on Montauk Highway in Amagansett late Thursday morning. 

A 15-year-old boy sustained a head injury and a broken leg after being hit by a Whitmores van in East Hampton last Thursday afternoon.

A 77-year-old man was arrested on Aug. 5 after he struck a woman multiple times with a leather belt and pulled her hair, in front of children, according to East Hampton Town police.

A woman from Nova Scotia hit an electric utility pole on Route 114 at about 5:20 a.m. on Saturday, closing a portion of the main thoroughfare between Sag Harbor and East Hampton for nearly 12 hours.

East Hampton

An alleged drunken driver hit an electric utility pole on Route 114 in East Hampton Saturday morning, closing a portion of the main thoroughfare between Sag Harbor Village and East Hampton for several hours. 

At about 7 a.m. on July 30, a beachgoer spotted some curious debris in the water at Main Beach, and called police, saying it looked like “safety markings” attached to “something floating in the water.” Police used binoculars and saw it was a cluster of balloons.

An officer on foot patrol heard yelling and saw a man sitting in his car with the interior lights on and the door open. Another officer stopped a car without headlights on. Two felony cocaine possession charges followed.     

The attorney for Tenia Campbell of Medford, who is accused of killing her twin toddlers in Montauk in June, has formally submitted notice that he is working on a psychiatric defense.

East Hampton Town officials obtained a temporary restraining order last week to stop parties, photo shoots, product launches, and other commercial activities at a 10,000-square-foot house in Springs.     

Just after Friday midnight, an East Hampton Town police officer arrested an alleged drunken driver whose brand-new Mercedes had been clocked at 91 miles per hour on Town Lane in East Hampton, three times the 30 m.p.h. limit there.   

Jhony Chumi-Rodas, 30, died on Sunday night when his Dodge Ram pickup truck hit a traffic light stanchion on Route 24, Southampton Town police said. 

East Hampton Town fire marshals are investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed the cottage in the early morning hours on Monday. 

A Montauk man was arrested in East Hampton on the evening of July 22 after allegedly disobeying an order of protection.

Two men driving on Springs-Fireplace Road in Springs without valid licenses were charged over the weekend with felony driving while intoxicated. Each has previously been convicted of the crime.

Arnold S. Rivas-Ovalle of Springs, 23, was caught Saturday at about 2:10 a.m. driving a 2010 Mazda on the shoulder of the road, said East Hampton Town police, who clocked his speed at 55 miles per hour in a 40 m.p.h. zone. His blood alcohol was reportedly above .18, over twice the legal limit, leading to an aggravated D.W.I. charge.

The family of an 11-year-old boy from Eagan, Minn., accidentally him left behind at Main Beach on the evening of July 23. The boy’s father phoned police just after 8 p.m. when he realized he had left the boy at the beach.

The driver thought he had hit a deer, but when he got out of his car on East Lake Drive in Montauk on Saturday night he was shocked to see a man in the grass on the side of the road.

East Hampton Town announced that officials obtained a temporary restraining order to stop promoters' parties, photo shoots, product launches, and other commercial activities at a 10,000-square-foot house at 145 Neck Path in Springs.

An accident during the morning commute on Tuesday had traffic backed up for miles. 

Fire departments and emergency medical service agencies across the South Fork were kept busy over the weekend in less than ideal weather conditions.

In Montauk last week, an East Hampton Town Police officer made the rounds of bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, inspecting the locations as well as certain records that are supposed to be readily available.

Police received word that “an older man” sitting in a Toyota Prius at Two Mile Hollow Beach had exposed himself to another man at about 6:30 p.m. on July 17. Police found an 89-year-old man sitting in his Prius. He denied any wrongdoing and left. The caller did not want to press charges.

East Hampton Town police said a 39-year-old Springs man beat a child with a leather belt and a cow-tail whip.

Robert K. Futterman was high on marijuana and took clonazepam before an accident in Bridgehampton on Tuesday, a Suffolk County assistant district attorney said on Wednesday.

A real estate broker with a history of drunken driving-related arrests, including one for boating while intoxicated just last week, has been charged in connection with the crash in Bridgehampton on Tuesday that sent a mother and young child to the hospital. 

A portion of Montauk Highway between Snake Hollow Road and Newlight Lane has been shut down while Southampton Town police investigate the two-car crash, and traffic is being diverted down Newlight Lane and Snake Hollow Road.

The man, who was in his 50s, had been fishing off Montauk Point on a boat based in Niantic, Conn.