A homeless man who fled after being surprised inside an East Hampton Village house on Friday night afterward broke in to a private beach cabana at the Maidstone Club, village police reported.
Detective Lt. Tony Long said a couple arrived at their Maidstone Lane house at about 9:40 p.m. to find a man inside. It appeared he had been staying there and was startled by the homeowners’ arrival. He ran off before they called 911.
Police searched the area but could not find the intruder. An officer stayed at the house overnight in case he returned, Lieutenant Long said. Police did not release the name of the homeowners.
The next morning at about 7:50 a.m., police received a call from the Maidstone Club, where a private cabana had been broken into. The owner of the cabana, who was also not named but was present, had spotted a man on the road wearing a hat that belonged to him, Lieutenant Long said. He said something to the man, who again ran away.
Multiple people saw the man run down Old Beach Lane with assorted clothing and baggage in tow, and then duck into woods. An officer found Daniel M. Feder, 56, hiding in brush near the 17th fairway on the golf course at about 8:15 a.m. He was arrested on a charge of burglary from the cabana break-in and taken to police headquarters.
Later, the Maidstone Lane homeowners identified him as the man who was inside their house the night before. He stands charged with two counts of burglary, both felonies, and two counts of misdemeanor criminal mischief in the fifth degree.
Mr. Feder, who gave an address in the Bronx but has not been living there, had been arrested on a warrant on June 10, related to charges that he stole two pairs of sunglasses from Oliver Peoples on Newtown Lane. He was arraigned on the new charges in East Hampton Town Justice Court on Saturday. Unable to post $1,000 cash or $2,000 bond, he was taken to Suffolk County jail. He is due back in court today.
A Manhattan driver was arrested on Saturday night after he allegedly ran over a temporary fence and parked his Mercedes sedan on a grassy area of a Sag
Harbor Village-owned property off Long Island Avenue. (That area will soon be turned into a park, Chief Austin J. McGuire said.) An anonymous caller phoned police about a parked car there at about 10:35 p.m. Gary J. Brody, 54, was charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief at 11:20 p.m. The grass was damaged to the tune of about $500, the chief said.
Edward Burke Jr. has been retained to handle this matter. He said on Tuesday that he was awaiting more information from the court and was “confident of a swift resolution.”
Adrian L. Rodriguez, 41, of East Hampton was charged with second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor, early last Thursday after he disobeyed a stay-away order of protection. He was released on his own recognizance following arraignment later that day.
