In Court: Stolen Pots, Felony Pot Bust

A Springs man accused of stealing decorative cast-iron lawn pots from a neighbor was arraigned Sunday morning in East Hampton Town Justice Court on charges of petty larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

Joseph A. Hawkins, 23, told East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana that one of his jobs was scalloping.

“How much do you make scalloping?” she asked. “I forget,” said Mr. Hawkins. She continued to question him and he continued to give vague answers.

“Don’t you think you might have to do something to make a living?” Justice Rana finally asked. “Besides partying, what are you doing? You’re 23. When you’re 26 or 27, this is not going to be so much fun anymore. Twenty-seven comes up really fast.”

Bail was set at $300, which has since been posted.

A local 17-year-old was arrested on a felony marijuana possession charge on Mile Hill Road in Northwest Friday evening. East Hampton Town police, who redacted the youth’s name and address from the arrest report, said he had been found with over eight ounces of marijuana, the weight that raises the charge to the felony level.

“The weed is mine, all of it,” police quoted the teen as saying. “I’m not going to let my friends get into trouble.” Bail was set at $500, which was posted by the teen’s mother.

The day before that arrest, two other teenagers, both from Sag Harbor, were picked up in the same neighborhood and charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana, a violation. Town police released them from headquarters with appearance tickets.

A woman who accused an East Hampton man in June of assaulting her at the Georgica restaurant in Wainscott has herself been charged with two counts of felony assault. Police in Westport, Conn., say Alexandra Skiffington, 25, bit an officer and a paramedic who were trying to restrain her after a domestic incident at a Westport address. Besides the two assault charges, she was charged with interfering with an officer and disturbing the peace. Her behavior was said to be “belligerent and out of control.”

Ms. Skiffington had told East Hampton Town detectives that Gabriel L. Narvaez, 25, hurled a glass at her face outside the nightclub. He denied it, and said the outdoors bar did not serve cocktails in glass tumblers but in plastic cups.

Mr. Narvaez, who was not indicted on the assault charge, is serving a one-year term in county jail on an unrelated charge of drug possession. A conference on his case is scheduled for today in East Hampton Town Justice Court, and his attorney, Colin Astarita, said he planned to speak to prosecutors about how Ms. Skiffington’s arrest might affect the assault charge against his client.