Busy Holiday Weekend

For local police, the Labor Day weekend climaxed a hectic summer on and off the roads, with 14 people arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court on charges of driving while intoxicated. They included a male model, a tennis instructor at a local camp, a screenwriter, and a financier, along with a number of local workers.

Ben Bowers, a fashion model with a Beverly Hills address and a Manhattan apartment, was one of eight defendants arraigned on Sunday morning. He had been stopped on Montauk Highway in Amagansett shortly after 4 a.m., headed east in a 2014 Land Rover, for running a red light at the Abraham’s Path corner. At town police headquarters, his blood-alcohol level was recorded at 0.15, almost twice the legal limit.

After suspending his license, East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana asked the 23-year-old, “Do you understand that you can not drive?”

“Yup. Yes, ma’am,” he replied. She asked him what he was doing here. Mr. Bowers said he shares a weekend house with some friends in Amagansett. “I come out here to study. To focus,” he said.

She set bail at $250, and asked if he had called anybody. “I didn’t want anyone to know. It’s embarrassing,” he answered, although later that afternoon he posted his police mug shot on Twitter, where he has over 6,000 followers.

Susan Menu, a lawyer who was in court to represent another defendant, had agreed to stand in for the others being arraigned. She warned Mr. Bowers that if he did not post bail, “you will be taken to jail in Riverhead. You will have a lot of time to focus. You don’t want to focus there.”

“Whatever embarrassment you may feel will pale in comparison to what you will experience if you are taken to Suffolk County jail,” said Justice Rana.

Bail was soon posted.

Another Manhattan resident, Scott Ian Ross, 35, was pulled over by East Hampton Village police Saturday night at the David’s Lane corner of Main Street, after speeding and running a stop sign, police said. He refused to take the breath test, both on the road and at Cedar Street headquarters.

Mr. Ross, a financier, told Justice Rana he has rented a house in East Hampton for the last 10 years. She released him without requiring bail, but with a stern admonition not to miss any court dates, or he would be back in handcuffs.

William C. Baldwin, 46, currently of Sag Harbor, was driving a 2015 Jeep Saturday evening on Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton when he was pulled over; town police said he had been swerving across lane lines. He submitted to the breath test at Wainscott headquarters, with a resultant reading of 0.14.

Mr. Baldwin told the court he has lived in Sag Harbor for the past year. Before that, he said, “I was doing work overseas.” He is a writer, he said.

Justice Rana pressed him. Where overseas? What kind of writing? “Italy. Spain. France,” he answered. “Screenplays.” He had lived on a boat in Europe since 2012, he said. A female friend present in the courtroom posted his $250 bail.

John M. Booton, 24, an architect-in-training who told Justice Rana he rents a room in Springs, had a reported blood-alcohol level of 0.19, high enough for the D.W.I. charge to be raised to the aggravated level. He was stopped on Springs-Fireplace Road in Springs early Sunday morning after swerving across the double yellow line, town police said. He was released without bail.

Kelly M. Remkus, 33, of East Hampton, was involved in a “physical altercation,” police said, on South Emerson Street in Montauk early Sunday morning. Officers who found her seated behind the wheel of a 2005 Toyota 4Runner said she had refused the breath test.

“This is your second alcohol-related arrest,” Justice Rana told Ms. Remkus, whose bartending skills were featured in a 2014 Star article. Bail was set at $1,500, which was posted.

Nelson M. Cortes Coyago, 24, currently living in Montauk, fell asleep early Sunday morning at the wheel of a 2005 Ford pickup truck and crashed into a parked vehicle on Atlantic Street near Hand’s Creek Road, East Hampton. His bail was set at $500, and was posted.

Edwin Soto, 32, a cook at East by Northeast in Montauk, was pulled over in that hamlet early Sunday morning. Police said Mr. Soto was moving so fast that he was “screeching the tires around the turn” at Edgemere Street near the plaza, running a stop sign as he went. His blood-alcohol reading was reportedly 0.13, and he posted bail of $250.

Victor R. Sarmiento Gavilanes, 35, of Springs, was charged with felony D.W.I. Sunday morning, the only person so charged in the past week. Town police said his 2012 Chevrolet had driven off Abraham’s Path in East Hampton.

“You’ve been convicted of driving while intoxicated recently,” Justice Rana told him. “That makes this a felony.” Mr. Sarmiento Gavilanes is still on probation for that conviction, she noted. Bail was set at $10,000, which was posted.

Washington A. Duke, a 38-year-old musician who told the court he recently moved from Brooklyn to Amagansett, was pulled over on Montauk Highway in the hamlet early Saturday morning. His reading of 0.10 was one of the lowest of the week, and he was released without bail.

Mark R. Daley, who turned 50 last month, was arrested just before midnight Friday on Amagansett Main Street. His 0.18 reading triggered an elevated misdemeanor charge of aggravated drunken driving. A mortgage broker, he has a prior conviction on Shelter Island on a violation charge of driving with ability impaired by alcohol. Bail was set at $500, which was posted.

Gilberto J. Flores of Springs, 27, also had a blood-alcohol reading high enough to trigger the raised aggravated charge. He was pulled over early last Thursday on Second House Road in Montauk for allegedly swerving across lane lines. He was released without bail.

Hugo Vizhco-Minchal, 27, of Danbury, Conn., told the court he was vacationing in East Hampton with his family when his 2006 Hummer struck a curb at Main Street and Dunemere Lane in the village. He had the lowest reading of the week, at 0.09, and was released on $350 bail.

Village police also arrested Nancy J. Litman, at a little after midnight Friday, stopping her 2011 Porsche on Pantigo Road for allegedly doing 66 miles per hour in a 40 m.p.h. zone. Ms. Litman, who refused to take the breath test at headquarters, was freed the next morning without bail, but with a future date in court.

Stephanie C. Shafer-Vieira, who will be 28 on Sunday, was pulled over on Montauk Highway near Skimhampton Road in East Hampton early Monday morning. A native of Brazil, she is in this country on a student visa. “I teach tennis,” she told the court on Labor Day, “at Buckskill Tennis Club.” She is the third tennis coach working in East Hampton to be arrested on D.W.I. charges this summer. Bail was set at $500, which was posted.

Henry Cortez-Capriel of Springs, 27, driving an older-model Honda, was pulled over Sunday night in Amagansett after reportedly crossing into oncoming traffic. A landscaper working at a single East Hampton property, he refused the breath test and was released Monday after his employer posted his $350 bail amount.

Others charged with D.W.I. in recent weeks included William Andrew Baris, 24, of Manorville, arrested on Aug. 29; and Adrian E. Garces-Guillca, who presented a Maryland license, on Aug. 28.

Also, village police arrested Deborah L. Jakup of Lindenhurst, 44, a little after noon on Aug. 30, charging her with driving while under the influence of drugs. She was additionally charged with possession of alprazolam, commonly known as Xanax.