Police & Courts

When Josip Kostovic of Seaford came off the beach on Saturday morning, he found potato chips strewn all over his vehicle, which was parked near the Sloppy Tuna on South Emerson Avenue. He had last seen his 2000 GMC the day before at 2:20 p.m., and, he said, there had been no potato chips on it.

An East Hampton man was arrested last week about a month after police said he tackled and choked a former girlfriend on the sidewalk in Montauk.

Someone swiped two shirts from a sidewalk clothing rack in front of Flying Point Surf Boutique on Saturday afternoon. Two hours later, the person returned to pay for the shirts, worth $60 each. No charges were filed.

Monica M. Miller of Sag Harbor, 50, was arrested Saturday night on a felony charge of drunken driving following an accident in that village.

On patrol in Sag Harbor Saturday at about midnight, Officer Janelle Spero saw a 2002 Honda Civic make an improper U-turn on Main Street, and pulled the car over. Eric Gonzalez, 21, of Calverton was behind the wheel, and the officer reported a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car.

A dispute between neighbors last Thursday led to fisticuffs, in which one neighbor bit, choked, and punched the other, East Hampton Town Police Detective Sgt. Dan Toia said yesterday.

A Montauk man parked his 1994 BMW in the long-term lot on Lumber Lane before going to work and took a taxi home at the end of his shift Friday morning. When he returned later that afternoon, he told police, he could not find the car. Police found it in the Reutershan lot.

Workers at the East Hampton I.G.A. called police to report an intoxicated man attempting to steal a six-pack of Budweiser beer. The manager advised the man he could not steal from the store and placed the beer back on the shelf.

Antonio A. Cabrera, 32, of East Hampton was arrested last month, accused of running a skateboarder off the road on purpose.

An alleged drunken driver got some company in the back of an East Hampton Town police car on Aug. 18 after his friend interfered with an investigation.

What began as an East Hampton Town police drunken driving stop in Montauk on Saturday resulted in a charge that the driver intended to sell drugs.

The Montauk Fire Department has been awarded a $175,562 federal grant for equipment upgrades, Representative Lee Zeldin announced last week.

Kristina Marrero of Hialeah, Fla., said that while she was driving in front of the Shagwong Tavern on Main Street on Aug. 13 at about 2 a.m., a man standing in the median threw a cellphone at her car.

Ryan J. Albie was asleep on his boat, the Hatteras, docked at Offshore Marina on West Lake Drive in Montauk on Aug. 13 when, at about 3:55 a.m., he was awakened by the sound of the boat hitting something. He found four young men, who ran when confronted, on the 45-foot craft.

A Long Island Rail Road train hit a 28-year-old man who may have fallen asleep on the tracks in Southampton Village Monday, according to police.

A Mattituck man was arrested on Aug. 8 after a boating accident in Sag Harbor Bay.

East Hampton Village police arrested two people at Georgica Beach last weekend for allegedly having forged beach stickers.

A Sag Harbor woman was arrested Aug. 6 in East Hampton on a felony charge of driving while intoxicated, having been convicted of the crime within the last 10 years.

Despite difficult weather conditions Saturday morning, firefighters quickly extinguished a blaze at a bayfront house in Amagansett. The fire started after a lightning strike, Amagansett Fire Chief Bill Beckert said.

The phones lit up when customers couldn't get their supply. "There are going to be a lot of people very upset this weekend," Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini said.

East Hampton

Robert Levin called police on the morning of Aug. 6 after he discovered deep scratches in the paint on his 2017 BMW 540 sedan. He said he had not noticed any scratches the previous day. He estimated the damage would cost $1,000 to repair. 

Approximately 20 ferns planted in a flower bed on a Landfall Road house lot were taken sometime between Aug. 1 and 6, according to the homeowner, Mark Franklin.

A 44-foot Meridian yacht sank after striking the west side of the Montauk jetty last Thursday night, the Coast Guard reported Friday.

An open bag of peanut butter pretzels and two small bags of potato chips were stolen from inside a rental car parked on Jacqueline Drive on July 30.

A 31-year-old Shelter Island woman was arrested near the beach at Barcelona Neck in East Hampton last Thursday morning after police said they found pills and marijuana in her white beach bag, which was inscribed with the word “STASH.”

Brian Z. France faced a judge Monday morning on drunken driving and oxycodone possession charges.

A Wainscott woman who East Hampton Town police alleged had been driving drunk left the scene of an accident in which her passenger was injured in East Hampton on July 19.

The arrest last week by East Hampton Town police of an Amagansett man on a charge of trespassing may wind up having far-reaching consequences for anyone who sets foot on Cartwright Shoal, a peninsula in Gardiner’s Bay.

Graffiti was written on the walls of the men’s bathroom at the East Hampton Town police substation on South Embassy Street sometime on the night of July 19. Repainting will cost about $150.

Southampton Town code enforcement officers targeted illegal rentals in an enforcement operation in Bridgehampton on July 20, issuing 12 notices of violation and two field appearance tickets.

A 27-year-old driver from Montauk was arrested in that hamlet on July 15 after police said they saw him following another car too closely. Marcos Aramis Serra-Bencosme was pulled over in a 2013 Honda Accord at about 4:20 p.m. on Flamingo Avenue.