CURL Error #:Failed to connect to expressnews.newzware.com port 443 after 11 ms: Couldn't connect to serverSag Harbor Village Police Chief Austin J. McGuire has taken a personal leave of absence, and Lieutenant Robert Drake is serving as acting chief in the interim. The news, which... more
A Sag Harbor man, Brent P. Becker, 59, was arraigned in the village’s Justice Court on Friday, December 20, on two felony charges of weapons possession, following a court-ordered emergency police search of his residence on December 10. Sag Harbor Village Police said Becker was in possession of an AR-15 as well as high-capacity magazines for the semi-automatic rifle, leading to two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree. Police also said Becker was in possession of six shotguns, which were seized during the search, under the terms of the court order. Becker was originally charged ...
by T.E. McMorrow
The Retreat, an East Hampton-based nonprofit agency that provides services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and offers violence prevention community education, is calling attention to sex trafficking and sexual assault on the South Fork in light of the recent indictment of the Alexander brothers. Oren and Tal Alexander, who were luxury real estate brokers in Miami, New York and the Hamptons, and their brother Alon were arrested in December on federal charges of sex trafficking. Authorities described a pattern of sexual abuse spanning more than a decade in which they allegedly lured woman through “deception, fraud and ...
20 Dec 2024 by Staff Writer
A Queens man who targeted an older Sag Harbor resident, defrauding her of $179,114, according to police, was arrested by New York State troopers on Friday afternoon on a charge of grand larceny in the second degree, a felony. Om Parkash, 31, was picked up by State Police after a combined operation involving that agency’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, along with the Sag Harbor Village Police Department, U.S. Postal Inspection Services and the Suffolk County district attorney’s office. The arrest itself took place on Rikers Island, where Parkash was being held. He had been remanded there after pleading guilty to ...
30 Oct 2024 by T.E. McMorrow
Emergency responders who were called to report of a missing swimmer in Sagaponack on October 4 found a 73-year-old Swiss man unconscious on the beach nearby. Police say the man was declared dead a short time later. Southampton Town Police say they received a 911 call at about 3:30 p.m. that afternoon reporting that a man was missing after having gone swimming in the ocean off Gibson Lane. Town Police, Marine Patrol and the Bridgehampton Fire Department mounted a search and located the unresponsive man a short time later. The man, identified by police as Robert De Vos Burchart, a ...
15 Oct 2024 by Michael Wright
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