Southampton Town Police

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Southampton Town Police detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the individual or people responsible for a shooting that injured a Riverside teenager earlier this month.

Southampton Police Chief Steven Skrynecki told residents at a civic association meeting in Flanders last night his department is focused in an unprecedented way on combatting crime in the area, especially drugs, gangs and prostitution.

Southampton Town Police and the NYS Liquor Authority conducted the undercover operation on Saturday, July 29.

Jayda Trent, 16, of Lewis Road, left her home by climbing out of her bedroom window, her parents told police on Wednesday, according to a police press release issued last night.

Two local men were rescued from Moriches Bay yesterday evening after their boat ran aground near Fish Cove in high winds.

A Flanders man is facing first-degree rape charges for alleged sexual assault of two little girls.

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A 24-year-old Flanders man had cocaine, marijuana, scales, packaging materials and a loaded .38 caliber hand gun in his home when police executed a search warrant there Monday, according to a police report.

The investigation of Saturday's incidents has led to the arrests of two other Riverhead residents, including a Mill Road resident who police said cut Brown's handcuffs off with a hacksaw when she stopped at the home, with police in pursuit, after she escaped from custody at Peconic Bay Medical Center and stole an occupied vehicle from the T.J. Maxx parking lot.

A prostitution sting in the area of the traffic circle in Riverside last night resulted in the arrests of seven men for patronizing a prostitute and two other men on other charges.