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 Riverhead man was arrested and charged with a felony count of assault after Riverhead Town Police say he intentionally drove his vehicle into a motorcycle operated by a Sag Harbor man, who is in critical condition at Stony Brook University Hospital as a result. Police said Tyryk Lewis, 28, drove his Jeep into a Honda motorcycle driven by Michael McCann, 60, shortly before 7 p.m. on Friday night. Lewis was traveling east on Old Country Road, between Ostrander Avenue and Oliver Street in Riverhead. Police said McCann was airlifted to Stony Brook Hospital by a Suffolk County Police helicopter ...
13 Sep 2025 by Staff Writer
Sag Harbor Village Police charged a Brooklyn man, Yosef Follman, 33, with attempted assault in the second degree, using a deadly weapon, namely, a car, on Saturday evening. The victim, police said, was a Sag Harbor Village traffic control officer. Police said Follman was driving a four-door 2024 Mercedes-Benz north on Main Street in the southbound lane, then backed into a parking space facing the wrong direction from the flow of traffic. A traffic control officer approached Follman and pointed out his “wrongdoing,” the report reads, with the TCO then asking him to correct the way he was parked. But ...
3 Sep 2025 by T.E. McMorrow
A counselor working his second year at Camp Quinipet on Shelter Island was arrested the night of July 21 at JFK Airport in Queens, charged with rape in the 1st degree. Manuel Escalera Ibanez, 23, of Madrid, Spain, faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted. It appears the alleged rape happened on camp property, at a time when no children were present. The arrest was made at the airport as Escalera Ibanez was about to board a plane destined for Spain, Shelter Island Police Chief James Read said Tuesday. Given the need to protect the identity of the ...
25 Jul 2025 by T.E. McMorrow
Suffolk County Sherriff Erron Toulon and County Executive Ed Romaine warned drivers this week that the county will be rolling out a new anti-DWI campaign that will feature stepped-up enforcement of drinking and driving laws and public outreach to discourage drunk driving. The sheriff’s office said that the county will step up patrols focusing on DWI enforcement and on-road sobriety checkpoints throughout the county, starting this coming weekend and continuing throughout the summer. Toulon said his office’s STOP DWI unit is on pace to break a record number of DWI arrests this year and encouraged young adults to turn to ...
2 Jul 2025 by Staff Writer
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Stephen J. Kotz on Jan 17, 2025