A Suffolk judge denied the Fishers Island Ferry District’s bid to force the Southold Town Police Department to vacate its temporary barracks on the remote island, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

The ferry district sued Southold in May, alleging its police department seized the property using crowbars to break the locks before ejecting people and property from the site. Southold has denied the ferry district’s allegations it forcibly cut locks and removed people and property from the house as “blatantly false.”

Acting State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Farneti ruled the ferry district “failed to carry the necessary burden required” to issue a preliminary injunction and pointed out a critical lack of evidence.

“To put it mildly, the Ferry District’s likelihood of success on

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