Local Police on Immigration Crackdown: No Significant Change in Policies Expected
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Southampton Town Police Chief James Kiernan. DANA SHAW
Southampton Town Police Chief James Kiernan. DANA SHAW
Stephen J. Kotz on Jan 17, 2025
In the days before a new presidential administration is expected to make detention and deportation of immigrants who are illegally in the United States a focus of its agenda, police... more
A Sag Harbor woman was defrauded out of more than $200,000 since the summer, when a fraudster first reached out to her via social media. The victim reported to Sag Harbor Village Police last Thursday afternoon that a man she knew only as David had begun communicating with her through Instagram. He encouraged her to invest money online through Coinbase and Cash App, telling her the cash would then be converted to cryptocurrency. Over several months she did so, transferring $170,500 from her checking account into Coinbase. The money would then be used to buy bitcoin, the profits from which ...
5 Feb 2025 by Staff Writer
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
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Stephen J. Kotz on Jan 17, 2025