Police & Courts

A woman was arrested in Montauk Sunday evening after she punctured a tire on her husband’s vehicle and pushed another woman, East Hampton Town police said.

Fire destroyed a Jeep during the morning commute in East Hampton on Thursday morning. 

A man was arrested on Friday for allegedly forcing a woman he had just met to perform a sex act on him.

East End residents woke up to flooding, power outages, and downed trees on Thursday morning after a powerful storm blew through the region on Wednesday night.

Mark Smith was sitting in front of his restaurant, Coche Comedor on Montauk Highway, on Oct. 2 at about 1:35 a.m., when he saw a man steal a decorative rock in the driveway.

On Sunday at about 9:40 a.m., an 87-year-old man was taken to the hospital after a two-car accident by St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton Village.

The pilot who was flying the small plane that crashed off Amagansett in June of 2018, killing all four people aboard, including Bonnie and Ben Krupinski, last radioed in to air traffic control that he was at 700 feet and “coming in underneath” the thunderstorm, according to the findings of a National Transportation Safety Board investigation.

Police received word of a possibly intoxicated man standing on the sidewalk near Ocean Avenue and James Lane on the afternoon of Sept. 30. An officer spoke to a 52-year-old man who said he has arthritis, making it difficult to walk. There were no problems.

The Amagansett Fire Department celebrated its members, both the seasoned veterans and the newer volunteers, at its annual dinner at the Devon Yacht Club on Friday night.

A high-end local developer and builder was charged with misdemeanor assault Friday night after kneeing the founder of a major South Fork real estate brokerage in the thigh during an argument at the East Hampton Grill on North Main Street in the village.

A portion of Main Street/Route 27 in East Hampton Village is closed to traffic in both directions on Thursday after a large tree fell across the road.

East Hampton Town police arrested three men in recent days, two after accidents, on charges of driving without valid licenses or court-ordered ignition interlock devices, which test for the presence of alcohol on a driver’s breath before the engine will turn over.