Police & Courts

A traffic stop led to the arrest of David Schiavoni of Water Mill early Tuesday morning on a felony charge of violating an order of protection.

One of the Maidstone Club's security staff told police a pickup had been parked in the lot with a note saying the owner would pick it up.

Bruce Bates, the longtime emergency preparedness coordinator for East Hampton Town, turned himself in last Thursday morning after being notified by the office of the Suffolk County District Attorney that he was about to be arrested and charged with grand larceny.

East Hampton Town police arrested Freddy Romeo Mendoza-Gutierrez early Sunday morning on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road in Springs, saying his 2008 Ford had been swerving into the oncoming lane.

An officer on patrol on the morning of June 21 noticed pieces of white porcelain on the ground at the parking lot at the end of South Lake Drive in Montauk. Going into the restroom to investigate, she found that a urinal and a mirror had been smashed, and the toilet paper, soap, and towel dispensers had all been destroyed.

All charges against the former Sag Harbor Schools official Susan E. Guinchard Kinsella were dismissed this week.

Police arrested a town resident earlier this month on charges relating to a series of contacts of a sexual nature with a 12-year-old girl back in 2011.

Two young people were arraigned Saturday morning in East Hampton Town Justice Court, each accused of battling police.

A Sag Harbor Village police detective who had been suspended last year resigned from his post on Friday.

A taxi driver in Montauk who received a parking ticket on Memorial Day weekend and wound up with additional charges will have his day in court next month.

A man was arrested early Friday morning after running his 2004 Chevrolet into the sand on the side of Cranberry Hole Road near Promised Land in Amagansett.

Amagansett

An electrical contractor, Davis Zeledon, called police on June 11 to report the theft of over 500 feet of copper wiring from a work site on Oceanview Lane, stolen sometime in May. Worse yet, the thief cut open a 400-amp meter pan to get at some more wiring, damaging it beyond repair. The wiring was valued at almost $1,700, the meter $1,200.

East Hampton

An Oakview Highway mobile home resident called police on the evening of June 8 after finding a window of her 2011 Hyundai smashed.

The Springs Fire District Board of Fire Commissioners has a new member. Jerry Sheehan was appointed on Monday night to fill the vacancy left when Chris Harmon resigned last month.

East Hampton

Jason A. Gutterman was in his office at the Dutch Motel on Pantigo Road when he heard a crash, and then another. Looking out the window, he saw a man standing by his car, a 1994 Chrysler Concord, then racing away. Mr. Gutterman ran out to the parking lot to find that the Chrysler’s rear window and front windshield had been smashed. He estimated repairs at $750.

Police were called to Long Lane last Thursday afternoon.

A Springs man who gave police two different names in recent years following arrests for drunken driving was charged again on Saturday, and this time his fingerprints betrayed him.

The justices of East Hampton and Southampton Towns will be on hand for a forum called “Judging in the Hamptons” at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton on Monday night at 7.

After a tumultuous Memorial Day weekend, with multiple daily arrests for driving while intoxicated, the roads were noticeably calmer last week.

A 2 a.m. altercation at the Stephen Talkhouse that began between two women and spread to others sent police there on May 31.

Sometime between April 26 and May 17, someone stole the registration stickers off two boat trailers stored behind the Marine Museum on Bluff Road. In addition, Raymond Hartjen told police, the license plate on one trailer was removed.

A minor traffic accident occurring midafternoon on Friday led to drunken-driving charges against a 50-year-old Southampton man whose breath test, according to East Hampton Town police, produced a reading just short of the level that would have required a trip to the hospital.

A Hampton Bays man working at a construction site on Cranberry Hole Road told police on May 12 that back in February he had lent some tools to a co-worker, but never got them back.

The indictment of Kody Knudsen of Springs was unsealed yesterday in the county courtroom of Justice Martin I. Efman in Riverside.

Terry Hoyt, a volunteer with the Bridgehampton Fire Department for 23 years, has been posthumously awarded the Southampton Town E.M.S. Advisory Committee’s Nancy Makson Award for Excellence.

A father was charged early Sunday morning with violating the Suffolk County Social Host law after hosting what police called a “post-prom gathering” for his son at his Amagansett house.

Three boxes of about 200 pieces of brass and copper plumbing fittings, worth about $5,000, were stolen from the East Hampton Y.M.C.A. RECenter on Gingerbread Lane between May 5 at 3 p.m. and May 8 at noon, according to a contractor.

Two men were arrested this past week following alleged domestic disputes, one with his wife, the other with a former acquaintance.

With just over a week in office, Steven E. Skrynecki outlined three things he will be focused on as the new Southampton Town police chief at a town board meeting on Tuesday afternoon.

East Hampton Town police charged Jo Becker, 50, of Manhattan, with misdemeanor drunken driving Saturday night in Montauk after stopping her 2014 Mercedes-Benz on South Edgemere Street.

Steven E. Skrynecki, named by the Southampton Town Board in September to take over as town police chief, was officially sworn in this week.

Amagansett

A real estate agent called police on April 22 after receiving a series of harassing text messages from a potential client. Martha Gundersen said she had contacted the person, whose name was blacked out in the report, hoping to represent the property this summer, as she had in the past. Police are trying to contact the homeowner.

East Hampton

An 83-year-old East Hampton man told police April 21 that his handicapped parking placard had been stolen from his 2012 Cadillac sometime last month.