Police & Courts

On Nov. 4 at about 12:30 a.m., officers assisted an East Hampton man in getting his 2017 Chevrolet Silverado off Wiborg’s Beach. The pickup truck was stuck on the beach close to the water line. After helping him, they ticketed him for driving on the beach without a permit.

Patchita Tennant's attorney says the prosecution's version of events has changed, but their position that she was the victim of abuse and not the aggressor that night will not change.

In response to community complaints, East Hampton Town police went undercover on the afternoon of Nov. 3 and arrested a woman who was selling cigarettes in the town park at Abraham’s Path in Amagansett.

An East Hampton woman crashed into the new CVS Pharmacy building on Montauk Highway Monday night and was charged afterward with driving while intoxicated, a felony due to a prior conviction.

The National Transportation Safety Board faults Ben and Bonnie Krupinski's pilot, Jon Dollard, for the plane crash that killed him, the Krupinskis, and their 22-year-old grandson off Amagansett in June of 2018.

Four men have been indicted on charges of operating as major drug traffickers, a top felony offense, in the alleged drug ring that the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said last month was responsible for distributing more than $1 million worth of heroin on or near the Shinnecock Indian Reservation. 

A homeless man contacted police with a complaint about UPS on Friday. He was advised to follow up with the company’s complaint department and said he would.

After news of John James Usma-Quintero’s death reached Colombia, many were angry that the driver had been let out on such low bail. “We don’t want any other family to go through this pain,” his brother said.

A swastika and some writing in Spanish were found spray-painted on a large rock in Springs last week, raising community concern of a hate crime, though police believe it was an isolated incident that was the work of juveniles.

Last Thursday evening in Sag Harbor, village police charged a woman with misdemeanor drunken driving after an officer saw that her older model Mercedes had no lights, either headlights or taillights.

Patchita Tennant, a well-liked manager at the CVS pharmacy on Pantigo Road in East Hampton, was indicted last week on new, upgraded charges that include the attempted murder of her boyfriend in their Flanders home in September.

A drug dealer was arrested after a teenager "ingested an unknown type of drug" in East Hampton Village on Halloween, village police said.