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
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
The victim of the beating on a public roadway in Hampton Bays on Wednesday afternoon, September 10, and the man charged with felony assault in connection with the incident, were roommates with a history of interpersonal disputes, police say. The fight apparently grew out of an argument between the two that evolved into a physical altercation on the street near their house on Periwinkle Lane. Police said that Jamall Thomas, 28, kicked the other man, whom police have not identified, in the head and face several times. Southampton Town Police had identified Thomas, who had fled on foot following the ...
10 Sep 2025 by Staff Writer
Southampton Village Police are searching for a man who stabbed an acquaintance several times following an argument at a Southampton Village restaurant. Village Police say that the two men, who knew each other, got into a heated argument at Fellingham’s restaurant shortly after 1 a.m. on August 18. The argument turned into a physical altercation and one of the men pulled out a knife and stabbed the other man several times in the stomach. The man then fled the scene. Emergency responders rushed the victim to a medevac helicopter that transported him to Stony Brook University Hospital in critical condition. ...
20 Aug 2025 by Staff Writer
A man with a rifle barricaded himself in a Hampton Bays home for several hours on the evening of Saturday, August 16, until a Southampton Town Police crisis negotiation team could convince him to give himself up. Residents of the surrounding neighborhood were asked to evacuate their homes as a large police response cordoned off the streets round the home. The man, whom police have not identified, was ultimately arrested and taken to a local hospital for evaluation. He has been charged with two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony, as well as second-degree menacing and ...
17 Aug 2025 by Staff Writer
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