Police & Courts

Voters will go to the polls on Tuesday to elect fire district commissioners, whose job it is to oversee tax dollars spent on fire services, emergency medical care, and other duties.

Someone reported an erratic driver, possibly intoxicated, on Thanksgiving Day. The caller reported seeing two young women with a small child get into a gray Honda Pilot and speed off up Main Street to Newtown Lane at about 6:30 p.m.

A Springs man stands charged with drunken driving and reckless endangerment this week, accused of running into two people in their driveway on Sunday evening.

A fire broke out Friday night in an outbuilding at Marders, a garden shop and nursery in Bridgehampton. Smoke billowed out from the property, behind the Bridgehampton Commons, as firefighters worked to put out the blaze.

A man with two names, wanted after he failed to show up in Suffolk District Court five years ago to answer a drunken-driving charge, was arrested in East Hampton last week, charged once again with driving while intoxicated.

Responding to community complaints, Sag Harbor Village police conducted an investigation into reports of alcoholic beverages being sold to minors at the Gulf Gas Station convenience store on Hampton Street.

Several sections of picket fence at the South End Cemetery near the intersection of James Lane and Mill Road were found damaged at about 2:40 a.m. on Nov. 19.

A woman charged with drunken driving in a fatal crash in Montauk on Halloween Eve was to have appeared in East Hampton Town Justice Court last Thursday, but the case has been adjourned — leaving the victim’s family and friends disheartened — because she is in an in-patient rehab program.

A 25-year-old woman arrested early at about 1:15 a.m. on Friday on a drunken-driving charge in Sag Harbor Village kicked an officer and was taken for a mental health evaluation after she threatened to kill herself while in police custody.

A Sag Harbor school bus was involved in a head-on collision with a sport utility vehicle in Bridgehampton on Wednesday afternoon.

Another swastika, the second one found recently in East Hampton Town, has turned up, but police did not call it  a hate crime and say the two incidents do not appear to be related. This one takes aim at Democrats.

Police cited a 54-year-old village resident after a large smoky fire was reported in the area of Glover Street Saturday afternoon. The man had been burning beanbag chairs and other refuse on his front lawn.