A Carpenter Is Charged

A Sag Harbor carpenter was arrested Monday in East Hampton Village on two felony counts of burglary, as well as possession of stolen property. His victim, village police said, was a client on Huntting Lane.

Raymond Arthur Card, 64, was picked up on Toilsome Lane Monday afternoon. Village police said they found a stolen Citarella gift card for $100 in his pocket.

Mr. Card admitted to police, in a signed statement on file at East Hampton Town Justice Court, that he had opened Kathryn Krone’s kitchen door with a wall board knife. “I’d done a bunch of work” at the house, he stated.

On the table, he said, was a greeting card, with the gift card inside. He pocketed it, he told police, and left the way he had come in.

He also admitted to taking a $50 bill off the same table in January. He used the same knife to gain entrance then, he said.

Besides the signed confession, he left a hand-written note: “To the home owner, I apologize, wholeheartedly. I am sorry for what I have done.”

He was arraigned Tuesday in East Hampton Justice Court in front of Justice Steven Tekulsky. His wife and daughter were in the courtroom. “These are serious charges,” Justice Tekulsky told Mr. Card, who was represented by Brian DeSessa of Edward Burke Jr. and Associates.

Justice Tekulsky set bail at $10,000, which was immediately posted at the clerk’s window. Mr. Card is due back in court on March 26.