02.10.2024 Police Southold Blotter: Multiple scam attempts reported throughout the North Fork On Jan. 30, a Greenport woman told police that her bank detected fraudulent checks from her account totaling $15,100. The checks were attempted to be cashed at a credit...
02.07.2024 News UPDATED: Fake prop money found circulating at Mattituck High School Editor’s Note: This story was edited on Feb. 8. After previously reporting on a potential counterfeit situation at Mattituck-Cutchogue Senior High School on Wednesday, Southold Police Department Chief Martin...
02.05.2024 Government Breaking: Wrongful termination lawsuit of ex-Southold cop dismissed Editor’s Note: This story was updated on Feb. 6. A long-running wrongful termination civil lawsuit against Southold Town brought by a former Southold Town police officer has been dismissed....
01.20.2024 News Southold Blotter: Police called over incorrect restaurant order Police responded to a restaurant in Mattituck Jan. 10 after a disagreement broke out over an incorrect order. A Mattituck woman told police she ordered a hamburger but was...
01.13.2024 Police Southold Blotter: $8K scam narrowly averted A 49-year-old Mattituck woman told police on Jan. 2 that an unknown person called her home “and told her that a white van was coming to the house with...
01.06.2024 Police Southold Blotter: Southold man receives threatening texts from “cartel” A 62-year-old Southold man told police Dec. 27 that he had received “multiple threatening text messages” from random numbers, one of which stated the sender’s name as “Franco Cervantes,”...
12.16.2023 News Blotter: Compost fire reported and extinguished on Fishers Island On Dec. 4, police investigated a report of a “female in distress” on Main Street in Greenport. The report states that the woman was surrounded by three men in...
12.11.2023 News More than 100 phone scams were reported to Southold Police Department this year In the age of artificial intelligence and other technological advances, it is becoming increasingly common to hear about the victims of scam phone calls, texts or emails. Southold Police...
12.09.2023 Police Southold Blotter: Woman turns in replica samurai sword to police On Nov. 27, town police contacted Jaime Ajix Suruy, 37, of Peconic “in reference to an active bench warrant.” A report says he was placed under arrest and held...
12.08.2023 News Southold man sentenced to 50 years for child abuse A Southold man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually abusing two children he was meant to care for, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney....
