Police & Courts

On Amagansett Main Street at a little after midnight Friday, East Hampton Town police spotted a 1991 Dodge pickup truck with a burnt-out taillight hanging by wires, and wound up charging its driver, Zachary Persico of Springs, 27, with felony drunken driving.

East Hampton Town police charged two men with felony criminal contempt in recent days for violating orders of protection.

What's on the police logs this week:

East Hampton

A pair of Nike sneakers was reported stolen last month from outside a Boatheader’s Lane house after they had been delivered. Karla Briones said this was not the first time an item she ordered by mail had disappeared.

Montauk

Angela Lux called police at about midnight on Saturday to report that an American flag outside her South Etna Avenue house had been vandalized.

Chief Gerard Larsen of the East Hampton Village police introduced the newest member of the department to the village board on Friday.

 

Amagansett

Jonda Stillwell and Kim Webb, caretakers of a Barnes Hole Road residence, told police last Thursday that sometime after May 12 a glass sliding door had been shattered by a rock. The house did not appear to have been entered, and nothing was reported stolen.

East Hampton Village

A Lee Avenue woman whose neighbor was having a fence installed called police on May 17 to say that scrape marks on her gravel driveway indicated that the contractor had used her property to remove debris from a tree.

National E.M.S. Week, which began on Sunday and runs through Saturday, is a time to honor and say thank you to emergency medical service providers. The East Hampton Village Ambulance Association is using the occasion to put the call out for more volunteers to help it save lives and give back to the community.

 

Amagansett

Detectives are investigating the disappearance of a .22-caliber Marlin rifle from an Alexis Court house. Rebecca Rahn told police the stainless steel rifle belonged to her ex-husband.

East Hampton

A Cosdrew Lane woman reported on May 11 that someone had taken over her Gmail business account. Joan Holden said she was no longer able to log in.

Rita Zumba of the Oakview Highway trailer park told police that someone had asked her to deposit a check for $1,900 to her account, then mail another check to him.

James Barrett Lucas of Southampton, 52, has been in the county jail in Riverside since Saturday, charged with three felonies related to driving while intoxicated.

Two people with a history of drug use crossed paths last Thursday afternoon in a unit of the Oakview Highway trailer park in East Hampton, and both were sent to the county jail on Saturday, where they remained as of yesterday.

A man who skipped town after his sister put up $10,000 collateral through a bail bondsman was brought back to East Hampton in handcuffs last Thursday, the money probably gone and extended jail time likely ahead.

Police news this week

A Springs man was charged with drunken driving early Friday morning, almost two years to the day since his last arrest on the charge. Alex M. Naranjo, 29, now faces two felony counts.

A Manhattan man said that $8,400 was stolen from his backpack at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter on Friday even­ing.

A Rockland County man was arrested within hours of the discovery of a break-in at the Sag Harbor Variety Store at 114 Main Street in the village Saturday morning.

A pedestrian was flown to Stony Brook University Hospital with a head injury Saturday night after being hit by a car in Bridgehampton.

A 65-year-old man who spent 34 years without a driver’s license following his first arrest for drunken driving was charged with the same offense on Sunday, this time with an additional charge of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a felony.

East Hampton Village

A Dayton Lane resident was back to his old habits of calling 911 without an emergency. Police stopped at his house at about 3 a.m. on April 26, and he appeared to be intoxicated but was not a threat to himself or anyone else, police said in a report. He was advised to call 911 only in an emergency.

A man on Toilsome Lane called police on Friday at about 1:55 a.m. when he awoke from a deep sleep and thought he heard people in his driveway.

The Sag Harbor Village Police Department is without a detective after its sole detective was brought up on disciplinary charges.

East Hampton Village police stopped a driver Monday afternoon for talking on his cellphone without a hands-free device, and discovered that he was wanted in Brazil on drug-trafficking charges.

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Whitney L. Posey, 28, was arrested on Friday outside the CVS in East Hampton Village and charged with felony possession of stolen property, two credit cards, which she had reportedly tried to use inside the store.

A young Holbrook man was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court last Thursday on three felony charges in connection with the theft of thousands of dollars worth of fishing rods and reels last year from two Montauk marinas.

East Hampton

A resident of a Boatheaders Lane apartment told police on April 12 that $210 had been taken from an envelope on a nightstand the evening before. Harry Stevenson said the door was open when he came home after midnight, but he didn’t realize that the lock was broken until the morning. Police told him they themselves had pried the door open the day before, when Mary Balreich, his landlord, complained of an unwanted guest in the room. Mr.

A rollover on Abraham’s Path in East Hampton a little before midnight Saturday resulted in an eye injury to a Connecticut man, who was taken to Southampton Hospital for treatment while under arrest on a charge of drunken driving.

East Hampton Town police found Miles A. Bouckoms of Farmington, 28, on the side of the road by the upside-down 2003 Jeep Wrangler, along with a female passenger, who had an injured wrist. The accident occurred on a fairly sharp curve a little south of the intersection of Abraham’s Path with Accabonac Road.

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East Hampton

Police were called to a Route 114 cottage on March 30, where Noelle Parker told them that while she was walking her dog, $900 in cash was stolen from her purse. It is the second time this year Ms. Parker has reported a theft from the premises while she was out. There was no sign of forced entry, police said, and no physical evidence of the theft.

A vandal punctured the rear tires on a Dodge van parked outside a resident’s Windmill Village apartment the night of March 31.

East Hampton Village police investigating a reported hit-and-run incident in the Stop and Shop parking lot off Newtown Lane on Friday were led to a private house converted into an apartment building on property behind the Race Lane restaurant.

A Bayport woman who was scheduled for release on Friday from the county jail remains in custody after being charged the day before with four more offenses.

New York State troopers arrested a Southampton Town Highway Department employee on Friday following an investigation into stolen material and the use of a payloader after business hours.

East Hampton

A crew building a deck on a Spring Close Highway house ran out of the cedar planks they were using shortly after beginning work on the morning of March 17. The contractor had left about 45 planks stacked in the driveway the day before, but they vanished during the night. Oscar Cascante valued the missing lumber at $850.

East Hampton Village

Gale-force winds downed limbs and trees all over village roads on Sunday morning.