With Southampton Police Chief Robert Pearce announcing his retirement last month, the town board plans to establish a search committee to find his replacement. The chief’s retirement is effective July... more
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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