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Sideswipe Leads to Arrest

Thu, 05/23/2019 - 06:33

Monica M. Miller of Sag Harbor, 50, was arrested Saturday night on a felony charge of drunken driving following an accident in that village. 

Police said they found Ms. Miller in the driver’s seat of a car stopped partially in the southbound lane of Hampton Street at about 11:30 p.m. The front passenger side of the car was damaged and she had hit a parked car. 

Ms. Miller told police she had fallen asleep. Police said that due to the severity of the accident, she was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for medical attention. After treatment, she was taken to Sag Harbor Village police headquarters, where she was held for a morning arraignment. She was charged at the felony level because of a prior D.W.I. conviction, from December 2008. 

In Montauk on Sept. 3, Labor Day, East Hampton Town police stopped Max J. Tierno, 28, of Manhattan for speeding. Police said they clocked a 2016 Volkswagen at 62 miles per hour in a 40 m.p.h. zone on Flamingo Avenue near Falcon Place, at 10:20 p.m. 

When officers spoke to Mr. Tierno they felt he was under the influence of alcohol. He was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated; his blood-alcohol level reportedly registered above .18. 

Justice Steven Tekulsky arraigned him in East Hampton Town Justice Court the next day and released him on $500 bail. 

Charles J. Mallo, 27, of Statesville, N.C., was also charged with misdemeanor D.W.I. Police said his 2010 Ford Fusion was going 61 m.p.h. in a 40 m.p.h. zone on Three Mile Harbor Road, East Hampton, near McElnea Street, on Friday at about 2:30 a.m. 

Justice Tekulsky released him on $250 bail after a morning arraignment. He will be back in court at a future date.

Long Days on the Fire Line In Orange County

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.

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Awards for Good Policing in Handgun Scuffle

“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.

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On the Police Logs 11.21.24

A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.

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Head-On Collision on Route 27

A 2-year-old was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on State Route 27 near Upland Road in Montauk.

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