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
The Westhampton Beach Police Department’s sole lieutenant has been suspended from the department indefinitely after he was arrested last month by Suffolk County Police and charged with criminal obstruction of breathing and fourth degree-criminal mischief, both misdemeanors. Ryan Lucas was arrested on March 29, the day of the alleged incident, according to court records, which indicate that the criminal mischief charge relates to preventing an emergency call and the criminal obstruction of breathing charge was for applying “pressure on the throat or neck.” “We have been advised that one of our officers was arrested for a non-work-related incident,” Westhampton Beach ...
8 Apr 2025 by Brendan J. O’Reilly
Southampton Town Police charged a local man with driving while intoxicated following a three-car crash that reportedly caused two minor injuries near North Sea Tavern on the afternoon of Saturday, March 22. After an investigation at the scene of the North Sea Road crash, officers arrested Steven Begg, 33, of Southampton and charged him with a misdemeanor count of DWI. He was arrested at the scene and transported to police headquarters, where he was held overnight for an arraignment on Sunday morning. The two minor injuries were treated at the scene, police say.
23 Mar 2025 by Jack Motz
Two purported gang members from Huntington — who prosecutors now say were the gunmen that riddled a North Sea house with more than 50 bullets fired from handguns and an AK-47 assault rifle during a party in 2021, wounding three people — were indicted in federal court last month, for the shooting and a variety of gang-related crimes, including assault, racketeering and the distribution of fentanyl. The U.S. Attorney’s office said that Joshua “Twiggy” Crowell, 31, and Bruce King, 26, drove to Southampton after midnight on March 2, 2021, to a house on Long Springs Road in the Hampton Park ...
14 Mar 2025 by Staff Writer
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