He Can’t Go Home Again

East Hampton Town police charged two men with felony criminal contempt in recent days for violating orders of protection. One, Jacob Schwartz, who turned 21 last month, spent five days in the county jail in Riverside following his arrest.

Mr. Schwartz was arrested last fall in East Hampton after allegedly stabbing a youth he had brought to his mother’s house on Hand’s Creek Road, East Hampton, from a drug treatment center in Manhattan. That case appears to have been dismissed. In December, according to police, he threatened his mother and punched holes in a wall of the house, after which East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana issued an order directing him to avoid any violent actions toward her, while allowing them to continue living together.

But on May 26, police said, his mother arrived home to find her son’s room in shambles, with the door off its hinges, a 40-inch Emerson flat-screen TV destroyed, and several holes in the wall and another through his closet door. He began screaming obscenities at her, she told police, threatening to “punch you in the face,” before running off into the woods. She reportedly added that he was addicted to heroin, and that she was afraid he might hurt her or himself.

Police picked him up on the morning of May 31. Appearing before Justice Steven Tekulsky on felony charges of criminal contempt of a court order and criminal mischief, he was unable to post $10,000 bail and was remanded to jail.

Mr. Schwartz was freed after five days, as required by state law when there has been no grand jury indictment, but he will now have to find a new place to live. Justice Tekulsky issued a stay-away order of protection mandating that he have no further contact with his mother.

A chance encounter at the Speedway service station in Wainscott led to the arrest of Orion S. Mims, 44, on Friday afternoon. Police did not have far to go to find him; he had followed William Strong from the gas station to police headquarters on Wainscott-Northwest Road.

Mr. Strong, who holds an order of protection against Mr. Mims, told police he had been fueling his Ford pickup truck when a tan Jeep pulled up opposite. The protective order is due to expire in August, and Mr. Strong stated that Mr. Mims threatened that after it did, “I’m going to find you and slap you down.”

Mr. Strong drove straight to headquarters, with Mr. Mims trailing him. Police intervened after Mr. Strong entered the lobby. Mr. Mims was eventually charged with harassment, a simple violation, and criminal contempt of a court order, a not-so-simple felony. He denied harassing or threatening the other man.

Mr. Mims, a personal fitness trainer who splits his time between East Hampton and Manhattan and a regular competitor in Ironman competitions, tried to tell Justice Rana his side of the story on Saturday morning, though she cautioned him not to, warning him that his words were being recorded. She issued a new stay-away order for Mr. Strong, and set bail at $5,000 for Mr. Mims, which was posted.