Police Impound Yard Is Hit

A man who was a resident of Phoenix House, the drug treatment center on Industrial Road in East Hampton, was arrested last Thursday, charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors and accused by police of breaking into the East Hampton Town police car impound yard, behind headquarters on Wainscott Northwest Road and a short walk through the woods from the center.

On about Sept. 5, Jonah Arias-Brown of Sayville allegedly broke through the fence at the impound, smashed the back window of a 1996 BMW, took a tattoo kit that was in the car, and also smashed the back window of a 2010 Honda Odyssey.

 Mr. Arias-Brown’s roommates told Phoenix officials that they noticed Mr. Arias-Brown wearing new clothes. “We all asked where Jonah was getting the new clothes from,” one of the patients said in a statement. Another reported seeing Mr. Arias-Brown walk out of the woods holding a box.

According to the police, a supervisor at Phoenix House discovered a roommate of Mr. Arias-Brown giving a resident a tattoo at about 2:30 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 6. The kit was confiscated and Dan Boylan, the institution’s program director, called police.

  Mr. Arias-Brown is facing three felony charges of criminal mischief, one for damaging the fence at the yard, the other two for the car windows. He was also charged with petty larceny, criminal mischief, and criminal trespassing.

Bail was set the next morning at $10,000. Justice Steven Tekulsky explained to Mr. Arias-Brown that if he was unable to post that amount, he would be brought back to Justice Court today, where he could speak with a lawyer from Legal Aid. He also told him that if no indictment had been procured by the district attorney’s office by Friday, he would be released. He was still in custody in the county jail in Riverside yesterday.

Another man was recently arrested on a charge of criminal mischief as a misdemeanor. According to police, Alec Ian Jaslow, 29, of Manhattan was involved in an altercation outside the Harbor restaurant in Montauk early on the morning of Aug. 30, after which he got into a Lindy’s Taxi, asking to go to the Ocean Vista resort on Napeague.

The driver, Craig Williams, told police that as he headed up Flamingo Avenue, Mr. Jaslow, apparently in the front seat, began to spit blood. Mr. Williams said he also tried to rip down the posted fare sheet. “When we got to Edgemere, he grabbed the passenger-side mirror and ripped it off,” Mr. Williams said.

The cab driver pulled over at the Lindy’s Taxi base on Main Street in Montauk, ran inside, and called police. But, according to Mr. Williams, his passenger continued his unruly behavior, ripping out the two-way radio from the dash. Police said they were able to calm him down, and he was arrested. He was released later that morning after posting $250 bail. Police did not provide information about why Mr. Jaslow had been spitting blood.