Police & Courts

An East Hampton Village police officer on his way to assist the Suffolk County district attorney’s driving-while-intoxicated task force in Southampton on Saturday evening ended up being called to duty a little earlier than expected.

A Brooklyn man broke into a house on Valley Street in East Hampton Sunday evening, but did not get far with the items he stole, according to East Hampton Town police.

An Oceanside man was arrested on a felony drunken driving charge due to a prior conviction after he swerved into oncoming traffic and onto the shoulder on the afternoon of May 13.

In a Saturday evening 911 call, police were alerted that youths were skateboarding near the Janet Lehr Fine Arts Gallery off Park Place. An officer did not find any youths or skateboarders when he went to investigate.

An electric heat gun fell onto a bed on Friday afternoon, igniting a fire in a house in Springs where construction was underway, an East Hampton Town fire marshal said this week.

The disappearance of a masonry saw from the roadside on Church Street in East Hampton Village on May 7 led to the arrest of Jan R. Gutierrez of Springs on a charge of grand larceny.

A village resident came to police headquarters on Cedar Street in late afternoon on May 1, reporting that large amounts of “crackers and Cheerios on the ground” had been dumped at the Nature Trail on David’s Lane. The amount was “much more than the ducks could eat, which could support the rat population,” the man said.

East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor Village police made five arrests on drunken driving charges in recent days. Those charged were first-time offenders and the charges were at the misdemeanor level. East Hampton Village police also reported an April 30 arrest this week.

The town recently reached a $120,000 settlement with Lt. Susan Ralph, who said she was passed over for promotions given to male officers and experienced retaliation after complaining to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The town has continued to deny any wrongdoing.

ag Harbor Village police are investigating the theft last week of two teak memorial lawn benches from the property of the Cormaria Retreat House on Bay Street. The retreat is run by nuns from the order of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary.

On the evening of April 20, according to East Hampton Town police, Raymond K. Berry, 29, took a car belonging to Alison Miller from a driveway at 3 Ninth Street in Springs and drove it through a Gardiner Avenue yard and around a swimming pool before abandoning it in a nearby driveway and running away.

A broker with Sotheby’s was given a summons on Friday for having real estate signs too big under the village code in front of a listing on Further Lane.

Just after 3 a.m., an East Hampton Town police officer on patrol noticed a 2011 Nissan Juke with Alabama license plates parked in the Kirk Park lot, where overnight parking is prohibited.

A jury in East Hampton Town Justice Court convicted an East Hampton resident last Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving, as well as a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. It was the first of two trials Justin Michael Hogan, 46, will face.

East Hampton Town police arrested four men last week on misdemeanor drunken-driving charges. One of them, Diego A. Zelayandia of Flanders, if convicted, could lose his driving privilege in New York State for five years, or even for life.

An East Hampton man complained to police that every time he goes to the post office, there is a truck parked in the fire zone, loading and unloading cargo. He asked police for extra patrols to stop the truck from parking there.

East Hampton man says guns were legally registered to him.

A man who recently pleaded guilty in district court to breaking into the Amaden Gay Agency in East Hampton Village on March 12 was arrested by East Hampton Town police on April 17 and charged with two more counts of burglary.

For years it has been a given in East Hampton and across the East End that calls to the police and resulting arrests were on an upward trend. During the first quarter of 2018, however, local police jurisdictions as well as police across the county saw the trend reversed.

Three members of the Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps were surprised with awards from the Suffolk County Regional Emergency Services Committee over the weekend during the Corps’ annual awards dinner at 230 Elm in Southampton.

Police received three reports of seals in distress on village beaches last week. The first call came on the morning of April 9 from someone walking a dog on Main Beach.

Terry Wallace, the owner of Wallace Gallery in East Hampton, who is being sued by the nephew of Edith Bouvier Beale over the ownership of a small portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, has made a motion to have the case dismissed.

Two men were arrested last weekend by East Hampton Town police on misdemeanor drunken-driving charges.

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A Southampton man who already was facing criminal charges in Sag Harbor and Southampton was arraigned last Thursday in East Town Justice Court on multiple charges, including one felony. Kory Roebuck MacWhinnie had been arrested on April 4, his 30th birthday, by East Hampton Village police, who said he had been driving a 2017 Cadillac Escalade at 45 miles an hour on Main Street near Town Pond, where the speed limit is 30.

South Fork fire departments were mobilized to fight two fires on Tuesday — one in Springs that destroyed a house in the afternoon and another on Sag Harbor’s Main Street that night, where disaster was averted thanks to firefighters and a quick-thinking chef.

In a decision released on Monday, an Amagansett man, Arthur W. Bijur, was found not guilty of violating the county’s “social host” law, as well as the Town of East Hampton’s mass gathering law following a bench trial in January before East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky.

A Yaphank woman who got lost in Springs with a friend early Saturday morning has been in county jail ever since, either because she is unable to meet the $500 bail set for her in East Hampton Town Justice Court, or because of an unrelated matter in Suffolk County District Court.

At some point on the afternoon of March 25, a “do not enter” sign at the intersection of West Lake Drive and Montauk Highway was knocked down by a vehicle, which left the scene.

East Hampton Town police charged two men over the holiday weekend with drunken driving, with one charge a felony.