Cabbie Gets Day in Court

Thu, 05/23/2019 - 06:39

By T.E. McMorrow

June 22, 2017

A taxi driver in Montauk who received a parking ticket on Memorial Day weekend and wound up with additional charges will have his day in court next month. Geni J. Berrios, 36, who is from Yonkers, had a date on one of the charges in East Hampton Town Justice Court on Monday but won an adjournment after the town prosecutor, NancyLynne Thiele, asked that all the charges be heard on the same date.

Mr. Berrios had parked his car outside Sloppy Tuna on May 28 and left it unattended. A traffic control officer wrote a ticket for the 2007 green Dodge Caravan, which is operated by Hampton Ride, but when Mr. Berrios returned to the vehicle and saw the ticket, he allegedly became enraged, tore it to pieces, and threw it to the ground. A nearby town marine officer then charged the cabbie with littering and unlawfully disposing of a summons.

East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky set July 19 as Mr. Berrios’s day in court.

Long Days on the Fire Line In Orange County

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.

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Awards for Good Policing in Handgun Scuffle

“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.

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On the Police Logs 11.21.24

A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.

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Head-On Collision on Route 27

A 2-year-old was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on State Route 27 near Upland Road in Montauk.

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