UPDATE, 4:25 P.M.: The man was a 27-year-old resident of Ronkonkoma who had been reported missing by his family to the Suffolk County Police Department on Saturday, according to a... more
The East Hampton Village Police arrested a 24-year-old Springs man, Kevin Ricardo Montalvo, on two charges of criminal possession of narcotics in the third degree on Friday night after a traffic stop on Montauk Highway. Montalvo could face up to 25 years in state prison on each of the charges. According to East Hampton Village Detective Sergeant Jennifer Dunn, Montalvo was in possession of 53.12 grams — slightly under 2 ounces — of cocaine laced with fentanyl in the 2016 Chevrolet work van he was said to be driving. Dunn also said that there were 50 small plastic packets commonly ...
22 Feb 2025 by T. E. McMorrow
A Sag Harbor man, Shane Thomas Cavanaugh, 27, who has been incarcerated since being picked up by East Hampton Town Police on a bench warrant on January 31, remained in custody as of Tuesday morning, unable to meet the $20,000 bail set for his release by County Judge John Collins on February 13. The bench warrant was issued after Cavanaugh failed to appear for a couple of court dates. Cavanaugh, who has been arrested at least three times in the past five months, twice by East Hampton Town Police and once by Southampton Town Police, is facing a multitude of ...
19 Feb 2025 by T.E. McMorrow
A former East Hampton Village Police secretary who in 2020 filed a discrimination complaint against the Village, the Police Department and a former supervisor claiming that she was repeatedly harassed, demeaned and berated has petitioned New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division to annul and reverse a 2024 determination of the state Division of Human Rights dismissing the complaint. Layla Bennett, who has since retired, names the village, the police department and the Division of Human Rights in her petition. The Division of Human Rights had found probable cause to believe her claims of discrimination and retaliation in 2021, but ...
by Christopher Walsh
A Brooklyn man, Saba Giunashvili, 33, may have flushed himself into legal hot water after being arrested by East Hampton Village Police on December 27. Giunashvili, who has been arrested at least a dozen times across five states since July 2022, was, as of Wednesday morning, being held in the Suffolk County Jail in Yaphank, awaiting extradition to Bergen County, New Jersey. He was initially charged by East Hampton Village Police with four misdemeanors, two counts each of petit larceny and possession of stolen property, after shoplifting at the Louis Vuitton and Prada Milano stores at the intersection of Newtown ...
8 Jan 2025 by T.E. McMorrow
The body of a Riverside man reported missing in November last year was found in a wooded area off Route 114 in East Hampton on Monday, January 6. According to Southampton Town Police, a hunter in the woods located the body, and East Hampton Town Police and detectives, as well as Suffolk County homicide detectives, responded. The Suffolk County medical examiner’s office was contacted and removed the body for further investigation. The deceased was identified as Luis Vargas-Arias, 56. He had been reported missing to Southampton Town Police. According to the department’s November 3, 2024, bulletin, Vargas-Arias was last seen ...
6 Jan 2025 by Christopher Walsh
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