Riverhead Town Justice Allen Smith ordered the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office on Tuesday to release to the press copies of a police video shot from the dashboard of the... more
After assaulting another man with a machete, causing a head wound, a 35-year-old Riverside man was arrested on Friday, April 19, and charged with assault, menacing and criminal possession of weapon, according to Southampton Town Police. Detective Sergeant Lisa Costa reported that police were called to 40A Pine Street in Riverside at 3:07 p.m. after a 911 caller said a man was assaulting another man with a machete. “Upon arrival, police found a 24-year-old man covered in blood suffering from a head wound,” Costa reported. “Police tended to his wound until Flanders Ambulance arrived and transported him to Peconic Bay ...
20 Apr 2024 by Staff Writer
Former 3rd District U.S. Representative George Santos said last week that he will run for the seat currently held by 1st District U.S. Representative Nick LaLota as an independent, abandoning his earlier plan to run a primary against LaLota as an “Ultra-MAGA” alternative to the first-term Republican. According to the New York State Board of Elections, Santos will have to garner 3,500 signatures as an unaffiliated candidate to get on the ballot in November. He would have needed to gather about 1,000 signatures to run as a Republican. Santos was expelled from Congress late last year following a damning report ...
27 Mar 2024 by Tom Gogola
A Southampton Town Police welfare check on March 12 led to an hours-long standoff with a Westhampton man who, police said, “brandished what appeared to be a handgun” at officers responding to the North Quarter residence that morning. A multiagency response ensued that included New York State Police crisis negotiators along with Town Police crisis negotiators and the Southampton Town Emergency Service Unit. They were joined by officers from the Westhampton Beach Fire Department, Southampton Village Police and a Suffolk County Police K-9 unit. The standoff lasted for several hours before Jacob Bergman, 49, of Westhampton was taken into custody ...
20 Mar 2024 by Staff Writer
Following a months-long investigation, a Westhampton man was arrested on March 6 by New York State Police officers and charged with six counts of promoting and possessing child pornography. An incident report from the State Troopers unit based at Troop L in Riverside says that Kevin Walsh, 22, was charged that morning with three counts each of promoting a sexual performance of a child under the age of 17, a class D felony, and possession of materials that showed a “sexual performance by [a] child,” a class E felony. According to New York State penal code, “a person is guilty ...
13 Mar 2024 by Tom Gogola