Police & Courts

Just after Friday midnight, an East Hampton Town police officer arrested an alleged drunken driver whose brand-new Mercedes had been clocked at 91 miles per hour on Town Lane in East Hampton, three times the 30 m.p.h. limit there.   

East Hampton Town officials obtained a temporary restraining order last week to stop parties, photo shoots, product launches, and other commercial activities at a 10,000-square-foot house in Springs.     

Jhony Chumi-Rodas, 30, died on Sunday night when his Dodge Ram pickup truck hit a traffic light stanchion on Route 24, Southampton Town police said. 

East Hampton Town fire marshals are investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed the cottage in the early morning hours on Monday. 

The driver thought he had hit a deer, but when he got out of his car on East Lake Drive in Montauk on Saturday night he was shocked to see a man in the grass on the side of the road.

Two men driving on Springs-Fireplace Road in Springs without valid licenses were charged over the weekend with felony driving while intoxicated. Each has previously been convicted of the crime.

Arnold S. Rivas-Ovalle of Springs, 23, was caught Saturday at about 2:10 a.m. driving a 2010 Mazda on the shoulder of the road, said East Hampton Town police, who clocked his speed at 55 miles per hour in a 40 m.p.h. zone. His blood alcohol was reportedly above .18, over twice the legal limit, leading to an aggravated D.W.I. charge.

East Hampton Town announced that officials obtained a temporary restraining order to stop promoters' parties, photo shoots, product launches, and other commercial activities at a 10,000-square-foot house at 145 Neck Path in Springs.

A Montauk man was arrested in East Hampton on the evening of July 22 after allegedly disobeying an order of protection.

The family of an 11-year-old boy from Eagan, Minn., accidentally him left behind at Main Beach on the evening of July 23. The boy’s father phoned police just after 8 p.m. when he realized he had left the boy at the beach.

An accident during the morning commute on Tuesday had traffic backed up for miles. 

Police received word that “an older man” sitting in a Toyota Prius at Two Mile Hollow Beach had exposed himself to another man at about 6:30 p.m. on July 17. Police found an 89-year-old man sitting in his Prius. He denied any wrongdoing and left. The caller did not want to press charges.

Fire departments and emergency medical service agencies across the South Fork were kept busy over the weekend in less than ideal weather conditions.