Police & Courts

The Sag Harbor Village treasurer told village police last Thursday that money had been stolen from a village payroll account to the tune of $10,200 via fraudulent checks.

Shane Filasky of East Hampton has been sentenced to one to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony count of third-degree attempted robbery of an East Hampton store on Jan. 26, 2022.

It took four parking tickets and a week of close monitoring by traffic control officers, but a car with Tennessee license plates, which had been left on Main Street in Sag Harbor between 4 and 6 a.m. for several days in violation of the village code, was moved over the weekend after police finally made contact with its owner.

A Bronx man was charged Sunday morning in East Hampton Village with four misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a weapon during a traffic stop on Pantigo Road at Methodist Lane.

A retired East Hampton builder is raising money to bring a mobile trailer resembling a small house — complete with kitchen, living room, and bedroom — to the community here to teach kids what to do if a fire breaks out at home.

A 39-year-old Florida man has been charged in East Hampton Town with felony criminal contempt after a domestic incident in which police said he showed up drunk at a Montauk residence and harassed a person whom he had been ordered to stay away from.

Reflecting a trend among police agencies across the country, officers of the East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor Village Police Departments will soon be outfitted with body cameras thanks to grants received from New York State's Department of Criminal Justice Services.

A confused driver reported a traffic hazard at around 7:30 a.m. on March 7. The light at the three-way intersection of Baiting Hollow Road, Toilsome Lane, and Woods Lane appeared to have been turned so that it faced the wrong direction. Police blamed the wind and called for maintenance on the light.

Legislation introduced at last week’s East Hampton Village Board to create a standalone Ambulance Department “to provide a municipal paid and volunteer general ambulance service in the village and contracted-for areas of the Town of East Hampton” so alarmed a faction of the ambulance corps that it scheduled an emergency meeting. The law will be the subject of a public hearing on March 17.

Last month he was named the East Hampton Town Police Department’s Officer of the Year, and now Bradley Hughes has been promoted to police sergeant.

A caller reported several dozen construction nails lying in the road at the North Main Street-Main Street cutoff on the morning of Feb. 27. Police and the Highway Department made quick work of the cleanup, with no damage to vehicles reported.

Police arrested three men on drunken-driving charges on East Hampton Town roads this week. One of the incidents involved a car accident.