In Montauk last week, an East Hampton Town Police officer made the rounds of bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, inspecting the locations as well as certain records that are supposed to be readily available.
Every establishment with a State Liquor Authority retail license is expected to keep and maintain adequate records of all transactions involving the purchase of alcohol, in gallons, and the sales of alcoholic beverages. Several businesses were found to be lacking such records, which must be available for inspection by any authorized representative of the liquor authority.
On July 14, Officer Michael A. Gomez visited Liars’ Saloon on West Lake Drive. Vincent A. Carillo Jr., 53, of Montauk, an owner, was not able to produce a complete transaction history regarding alcoholic beverages at Liars’. He was also keeping alcoholic beverages in a location other than the licensed premises, according to the officer’s report. He was charged under the New York State Alcoholic Beverage Control Law with an on-premises record-keeping violation and unlicensed warehouse liquor storage, both misdemeanors.
Officer Gomez went to Shagwong Tavern on July 17, where he charged the manager, Richard Cintron, 30, of Montauk, with an on-premises record-keeping violation. The officer also found that Shagwong’s S.L.A. license was not in plain view but behind a flat-screen television. Mr. Cintron was additionally charged with improper posting of a license, also a misdemeanor under the state law.
Christopher Shanebrom, 29, of Bayville, a manager at Swallow East on West Lake Drive, was charged with unlicensed liquor storage and an on-premises record-keeping violation that same day.
Rachel E. Peters, 30, of Jeffersonville, N.Y., the manager of 668 The Gig Shack, was charged on July 17 with improper posting of a license, reportedly found in a clear sheet protector without a “suitable wood or metal frame,” and with an on-premises record-keeping violation.
On Friday, Officer Gomez found two other businesses improperly displaying their liquor licenses. The Sloppy Tuna’s license was also behind a flat-screen television, he reported, and Barbara E. Capri, 53, of East Northport, an owner, was charged. Tyler A. Aposhian of Manhattan, the 35-year-old general manager at Ruschmeyer’s, was charged after its license was found behind a frame of another permit, preventing it from being readily observed.
Cafe on East Lake Drive, and Jonathan S. Krasner, 42, an owner of the Hero Beach Club, were found to be wrongfully storing alcoholic beverages in a separate location from the licensed premises.
All those charged were released on their own recognizance and will be arraigned at later dates.
Dog Left in Hot Car
During the heat wave on Saturday, a woman from Washington, D.C., was arrested at 7:40 p.m. after her dog was found inside her car, parked on the Plaza in Montauk, in 80-degree heat. Police said Charlotte Leigh Yerkovich, 35, put the dog in imminent danger of death or serious physical injury when she left it inside her 2009 Toyota. She was charged with confinement of a companion animal, a violation under the New York State Agriculture and Markets law.