Police & Courts

There were numerous arrests last week on drunken-driving charges, including four made overnight Saturday during a county-sponsored police sweep.

An East Hampton woman who was seriously injured on Aug. 6 when she and her boyfriend were struck by a car as they stood on the side of Sunrise Highway has had eight surgical procedures since the accident.

A Gurney’s Resort security guard who allegedly put a switchblade to a guest’s throat on Saturday was arrested about 24 hours later and charged with menacing and possession of an illegal weapon.

 

Amagansett

A silver and black Apple iPhone was stolen from a patron at the Stephen Talkhouse on Aug. 10. The next morning Joseph Rose told police he’d located the phone through his Find My Phone app, in a house on Norfolk Street in Springs. The phone then went dead, he said.

East Hampton

John Whitney’s kayak was stolen sometime between Aug. 8 and last Thursday, the second time in the last few weeks.

Sag Harbor police are seeking the public’s help in finding a man who fled the scene of a motor vehicle accident on Madison Street on Monday.

East Hampton Town police said one of those arrested, Nicholas Leguillow of Hewlett, 43, was taken to the hospital after his breath test produced a dangerously high reading.

East Hampton

A black Maserati parked outside Club Leo on Three Mile Harbor Road was vandalized overnight July 16. Yura Shabetayev of Manhattan estimated the deep scratch on its doors, apparently done with a key, would cost $1,000 to repair.

At some point between May 16 and Saturday a blue Dolphin kayak and two fiberglass paddles were stolen from Sharon Gajajiva’s front yard on Oakview Highway.

New York State police arrested Steven M. Mezynieski, the owner of an eponymous Southampton excavation company.

A Montauk man is in the county jail in Riverside facing a felony charge of criminal contempt, after allegedly violating an order of protection obtained by his brother.

An East Hampton woman was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a March incident involving attempted forgery.

Joseph R. Dowling of Sag Harbor, 24, has been indicted on two felony charges citing the sale of heroin to an undercover agent.

East Hampton

An Oakview Highway homeowner realized on July 23 that one of three kayaks he had stored near a shed in late June was missing. John Whitney described the kayak as a blue Wilderness Systems Pungo model, valued at $750.

A driver’s license and Chase credit card  was stolen from a Bolton, N.Y., woman’s purse in the early morning hours of July 24 at Club Leo on Three Mile Harbor Road.

Several Indian Hill Road residents have received voice-mail messages from someone posing as an agent of the Internal Revenue Service, demanding money.

After several weeks of numerous drunken-driving arrests, many following car crashes, last week was strikingly calm. One arrest followed a crash; another resulted from a traffic infraction.

A former East Hampton High School football star who, police said, used his Sag Harbor neighbors’ mailboxes to deal heroin in that village, was charged on Friday afternoon with two felonies, possessing heroin with an intent to sell and actually selling it.

David Farshadfar, 25, of Tenafly, N.J., was arrested in downtown Montauk early Sunday morning on misdemeanor drug possession charges, after East Hampton Town police allegedly found him in possession of a quantity of hallucinogenic mushrooms

A trial in East Hampton Town Justice Court on July 12 resulted in a not-guilty verdict for Nicholas Sebastian Spoerl, a carpenter who lives in Sag Harbor. Mr. Spoerl had been accused of reckless driving and endangerment.

What police later called a road-rage confrontation ended on Route 114 in East Hampton on the morning of April 16, 2014, when Mr. Spoerl’s 2002 Subaru Forester collided head-on with a 2008 Chevrolet utility truck owned by Blue Tides Irrigation of Southampton and driven by Steven S. Setek of Wading River. Thomas J.

Amagansett

A red, white, and blue Trek mountain bike was stolen from the entrance to Indian Wells Beach around 7 a.m. on July 16. Mark Crandall told police he had left the bike along with his flip-flops in the sand while he went for a short walk. When he returned, the flip-flops remained, but the bicycle, valued at $250, was gone.

East Hampton

A driver for Home Town taxi told police that he had been dispatched to a Goodfriend Drive address June 23 to pick up eight passengers headed to the Stephen Talkhouse.

Joseph R. Dowling, 24, was found with heroin and needles when East Hampton Town police detectives arrested him Friday afternoon.

What's on the logs.

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced a major arrest sweep of East End drug dealers on Tuesday. The result, he said, is the destruction of two big operations, one dealing in cocaine; the other, heroin.

An Orange County man, Michael J. Lounsbury, 34, was jailed over the weekend in lieu of $10,000 bail following his arrest in downtown Montauk a little after midnight last Thursday.

Christian R. Fusco of Ronkonkoma, 25, put his head and shoulder through a window after yelling at people inside.

East Hampton Town and Village and Sag Harbor police chiefs, noting there are few Spanish-speaking and few African-American officers on the South Fork, said in interviews this week that they were concerned about diversity in their departments.

Montauk Highway in Southampton, between the Stony Brook Southampton campus and Peconic Avenue is closed due to a car accident.

Phone and online scams are on the rise, and many of the con artists behind them are targeting older people.

Sag Harbor police received a call on the afternoon of July 5 reporting a man sleeping under a bush in the Long Wharf area.

What's on the logs this week.

Several defendants have been brought into court on drug-related arrests.

The holiday weekend produced many arrests, some on unusual charges.

The detective declined to say whether arson had been positively identified as the cause until town police receive a complete report from the county squad, which collected evidence in the hours after the fire.