­Halloween-Night Checkpoint

State troopers and officers of the county sheriff’s department who manned a Halloween-night sobriety checkpoint on Sunrise Highway reported the arrest of a Springs man on a charge of misdemeanor drunken driving.

Damacio U. Reyes, 37, was arrested at the rest stop east of exit 65, where police were diverting all eastbound traffic. He reportedly failed roadside sobriety tests. Back at state police headquarters in Riverside, police said, he refused to take a breath test, resulting in the automatic revocation of his license for one year. He posted bail later that morning and was released with a future date on the Southampton Town Justice Court’s criminal calendar.

A second Springs man was arrested on the same charge this past weekend after rear-ending another vehicle, then driving off. East Hampton Town police said Byran Steven Cueva Calle was eastbound on Montauk Highway when his 2015 Toyota pickup truck ran into a 2014 Dodge pickup, which had stopped at a red light at Wainscott Northwest Road. When the driver of the Dodge, Ed Reid, an off-duty officer with the Southampton Village Police Department, got out of his truck to inspect the damage, Mr. Cueva Calle allegedly drove off, still headed east.

Officer Reid, a former dispatcher with East Hampton Village police, followed, while contacting his old place of employment. According to the police, the mini-parade continued east, past Woods Lane onto Main Street, before a village officer stopped Mr. Cueva Calle at Dayton Lane. He was taken to village headquarters on Cedar Street, where police said they recorded a blood-alcohol percentage of 0.15, nearly twice the legal limit.

In addition to drunken driving, he was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, a violation. He was released the next morning after posting $300 bail.

Village police also charged Patricia P. McGrath, 71, of Manhattan, who was pulled over just after Saturday midnight. Ms. McGrath told East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana during her Sunday-morning arraignment that she has owned a house in Springs with her husband for about 30 years. Asked by the court to describe her criminal history, she answered that she had gotten a speeding ticket about 50 years ago. She was released without bail.