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A Fisherman Is Charged

Thu, 05/23/2019 - 07:22



A Montauk fisherman was back in handcuffs Tuesday morning, arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court for the second time in less than a month.

Donald J. Dalbora, 44, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated the night before in Montauk. Last month, he was picked up on a warrant after repeatedly failing to answer an earlier drunken-driving charge, that one stemming from a September 2013 arrest.

On both occasions, according to East Hampton Town police, he refused to take the Breathalyzer test at headquarters. His driving privileges were revoked after the first arrest; along with the new charge, he now faces a felony count of unlicensed driving.

After his arrest on the bench warrant last month, Justice Lisa R. Rana set his bail at $500, warning him to make scheduled court appearances and stay out of trouble. But when Mr. Dalbora, who has lived here for 23 years, appeared in court on Tuesday, Adriana Mora of the county district attorney’s office told Justice Steven Tekulsky that he had an out-of-state D.W.I. conviction in 1996, as well as a history of missing his dates in court. She asked that bail be set at $20,000.

Justice Tekulsky set bail at $5,000.

Sag Harbor Village police arrested Sarah M. Coursey, 38, of Wainscott early New Year’s morning on a D.W.I. charge. She was driving a 2013 Audi south on Hampton Street with a burned-out taillight, officers said. She was released later that morning without bail, but with a future date in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court.

 

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