Police & Courts

An 18-year-old hit a utility pole and a sign after she swerved to avoid hitting a deer on Route 114 in East Hampton early on Friday morning.

Thomas Gilbert Jr., the Princeton graduate who was found guilty in June of murdering his father, was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in prison for the crime. The family were longtime summer residents of the Georgica Association in Wainscott.

East Hampton Town Police Sgt. Joseph Kearney has retired after 22 years with the department. His fellow officers saluted him in a ceremonial walkout, held under a canopy in the pouring rain last Thursday.

The East Hampton Fire Department’s annual Fire Prevention Open House is happening on Sunday, at the start of National Fire Prevention Week.

A woman who East Hampton Town police later said was intoxicated, driving a 2013 Toyota sedan, hit a man walking alongside Three Mile Harbor Road, East Hampton, at about 3:45 a.m. on Sunday.

Zara S. Beard filed a trespass report with police after she found two strangers taking pictures with her father, Peter Beard, the well-known photographer, on their property on Sept. 20. He did not recall their names, she said. Ms. Beard said she does not want unknown people on their property.

A man living in a motel room in Montauk hit his roommate in the head with a baseball bat there, in the early morning hours of Sunday, according to East Hampton Town police. 

Monica Morocho was driving a 2009 Toyota belonging to a Southampton company on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton last week when she rear-ended a 2011 Honda.

East Hampton Town police charged a 54-year-old man with felony assault Friday night after he reportedly shoved his 74-year-old uncle to the ground, causing a cut on the back of his head.

A new East Hampton Fire Department substation being built at Cedar Street and Old Northwest Road is expected to lower insurance costs for residents of Northwest Woods, expand resources, and help the department more efficiently respond to calls.

The Southampton Town Police Department has alerted the public to a phone scam involving graphic photos depicting an execution-style murder.

School administrators have announced two town hall-style meetings about the dangers of vaping. The first is on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at East Hampton High School, followed by a Southampton High School session next Thursday, also at 7 p.m.