Police & Courts

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.

A cement mixer truck accidentally poured cement onto the road at the corner of Main Street and Newtown Lane on July 18 at about 8:30 a.m.

East Hampton Town police said Raymond Marisette, known around Montauk as Cheech, was found dead in a Gosman's parking lot there on Saturday morning.

A 10-year-old boy was hit by a car as he crossed Montauk Highway in Wainscott with a friend on Friday morning at about 10:18 a.m.

While on patrol on July 7 around 3:10 a.m., police noticed two men kicking at the door to Astro’s Pizza on Main Street in Amagansett.

Four homeless men living in the woods around Riverhead were charged with a slew of burglaries on the South Fork last week after one of the burglaries was reported to Sag Harbor Village.

A head-on collision last Thursday evening on Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton led to the arrest of one of the drivers on a drunken driving charge. Both vehicles were towed but neither man was injured.

Pizza was the cause of an altercation in Montauk on June 30 at around 3:20 a.m.

The Suffolk County district attorney’s driving-while-intoxicated task force put a crimp in the Fourth of July festivities for six men, five of whom police said were driving drunk in the early morning hours on Wednesday. Ten officers from eight police agencies, including the East Hampton Town Police Department, made six drunken driving arrests that day, according to Chief Michael Sarlo.

Ilse Gould was awakened at around 4 a.m. last Thursday by a loud bang, and saw lights on the back deck of the house she and her husband, Stephen Gould, own, at 84 Williams Way in Bridgehampton.

Christian Bermeo, 28, of East Hampton died in an accident involving two other vehicles on Springs-Fireplace Road Sunday evening.

Police confiscated three political signs posted on Railroad Avenue and on Gingerbread Lane on June 25, the day before the Democratic congressional primary, and two on Gingerbread Lane on Primary Day. The signs were in violation of the village code.

After stopping a Montauk driver on suspicion of drunkenness, East Hampton Town police ended up on June 20 arresting two passengers instead.

A drunken driver with a suspended license drove his van into the back of a vehicle that was stopped on the shoulder of Route 114 in East Hampton at about 9:55 p.m. on June 26, according to East Hampton Town police.

A 63-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle, but not seriously injured, in a Pantigo Road crosswalk in East Hampton Village on Saturday morning.

A man arrested last month in connection with a Southampton hit-and-run accident in April that left a delivery driver dead has been indicted, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini said on Thursday.

A 50-year-old and a 17-year-old were arrested in separate incidents earlier this month after being found in possession of liquid marijuana.

A boater got 64.5 gallons of gasoline from the fuel dock at the Harbor Marina on Three Mile Harbor for free Saturday afternoon, using a fake name when charging $270.22 to an account that did not exist, police said.

A Huntington man was arrested on Sunday morning for driving while drunk and with a license that had been suspended or revoked 13 times, East Hampton Town police said.

A fire destroyed a garage being used for storage on a Sagaponack property on Saturday night. When the Bridgehampton Fire Department was called to the property at the northwest corner of Wainscott Harbor Road and Montauk Highway at 8:35 p.m., the wooden building was already engulfed in flames.

An East Hampton man was arrested on drunken driving charges after the Toyota he was driving crashed into one of the Jewish cemeteries in Sag Harbor last Thursday.

Photos taken during what East Hampton Town police have called a road rage incident led to a felony arrest on June 10. A woman, whose name was not released, called police after a motorcyclist punched the side mirror on her new Toyota RAV-4 on June 8. The photos she took helped police get the motorcycle’s license plate number and track down its owner.

Among reports of drunken-driving arrests this week, East Hampton Town police found two drivers “passed out” in their vehicles.

A 19-inch Samsung television and the Optimum cable box it was hooked to went missing from an upstairs guest bedroom at an Accabonac Road house sometime over the winter. Linda Roth filed a police report on June 11, explaining that the items were taken between November and April.

As the families of three of the victims of the June 2 plane crash off Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett held a joint service on Friday, police divers found the plane’s wreckage, along with the body of one of the two missing victims.