A head-on collision at 4 p.m. on Sunday injured at least two people and resulted in the closure of Montauk Highway between Hayground Road and Scuttlehole Road in Bridgehampton for... more
A paramedic attempting to treat a Speonk man who was highly intoxicated suffered a broken nose after the man head-butted him last week. Southampton Town Police say that the man, Manuel Lemus, 31, was being unruly and violent when they were called to a Flanders Road bus stop on February 6. Officers who responded called for medical assistance from the Flanders Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corps due to Lemus’s apparently high level of intoxication by drugs or alcohol. But when medical responders arrived, Lemus violently resisted efforts to treat him, struggling with and then head-butting one of the medical technicians, a ...
10 Feb 2025 by Staff Writer
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A woman called Village Police on January 30 to report that someone had called her demanding money and threatening to harm her mother if she did not pay. The woman called her mother, who lives in New Jersey, who told her that she was fine and had not been threatened by anyone. Police advised her that the call was a scam and that she should not send any money. SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — A Village Police officer pulled over a vehicle on East Gate Road and Hill Street on January 30 because the vehicle’s license plates matched that ...
5 Feb 2025 by Staff Writer
Mark G. Kerson, 37, of New York City was arrested by Southampton Town Police at about 9:15 p.m. on January 28 and charged with DWI after he was pulled over on David Whites Lane for speeding and an officer determined he had been drinking more than the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle.
by Staff Writer
A man was found dead last week in Westhampton Beach inside a van that did not belong to him, though authorities say the death is noncriminal in nature. On Monday, January 27, at 5:02 p.m., the owner of the van called Westhampton Beach Village Police to report a suspicious person he’d found sleeping in the front passenger seat of his van, which was parked off Main Street. The van owner reported he had noticed the passenger door was slightly ajar, and when he went to check on the van, he found the stranger inside. He told police he had tried ...
by Cailin Riley
A 2021 federal lawsuit against the Village of Southampton and its former police chief charging racial discriminatory practices in promotions was scheduled to go to trial this week, but the trial has been put off as the judge considers a motion for summary judgment. The motion on behalf of the defendants — former Chief Thomas Cummings, the Southampton Village government, and 10 unnamed co-defendants — will be decided in the coming weeks by Judge Nusrat J. Choudhury in an Eastern District of New York courtroom in Central Islip. Kareem Proctor, a Village Police officer, filed the lawsuit in October 2021 ...
by T.E. McMorrow
SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE — Police arrested 23-year-old Amar Gardner of Southampton and charged him with criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, a misdemeanor, on January 23 after he was pulled over on Somerset Avenue for a traffic violation and it was discovered that the license plates on his 2006 Chrysler 300 had been stolen from another vehicle, according to police. WESTHAMPTON BEACH — On January 27 at 10:25 a.m., Westhampton Beach Village Police responded to a complaint from an individual who had been scammed out of a large sum of money. The individual reported that he had received ...
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