Police & Courts

Employees at White’s Apothecary called police on Oct. 23 after confronting a woman who put a cosmetics case in her tote bag before purchasing it.

Fireplace embers fell into a small grating in front of the fireplace at an East Hampton house Saturday morning and started a fire.

In another relatively quiet week on the roads, East Hampton Town police charged just one man with drunken driving. Gregorio Tovar-Reyes, 41, of East Hampton was arrested on the misdemeanor offense on the afternoon of Oct. 21.

A massive drug ring operation that each year distributed more than $1 million worth of heroin cut with fentanyl near the Shinnecock Indian Reservation was taken down last week. According to Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini, the deadly opioid cocktail was linked to at least five fatal overdoses.

Lisa L. Rooney, a 30-year-old Montauk resident and business owner, was released on $1,000 bail on a misdemeanor D.W.I. charge Thursday morning. Charges will likely be upgraded.

A Montauk man, Gregg S. Weinstein, was charged Friday with misdemeanor criminal contempt in the second degree for allegedly sending emails he was not supposed to.

Only one drunken-driving arrest was made over the course of the last week. East Hampton Town police charged Jose R. Llivisaca-Nieves, 45, who lives in the town, on Sunday during a routine traffic stop.

Police were called to check on a man sleeping in his vehicle on Dunemere Lane on Saturday morning around 10:20. As it turned out, the 57-year-old man was just catching some shut-eye while waiting to pick up an 11 a.m. fare on Old Beach Lane.

On Thursday afternoon, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini's office announced the arrest of 24 people in connection with an alleged drug distribution ring on the Shinnecock Reservation.

A motorcyclist escaped serious injury Sunday morning after a 91-year-old driver failed to yield the right of way at an Amagansett intersection.

Thanks to neighbors who smelled smoke, a woman who fell asleep early Sunday morning with a pot on the stove was awakened by first responders before the situation got out of control.

East Hampton Village police made two drunken-driving arrests over the holiday weekend.