Theft at Main Beach Pavilion

East Hampton Village police charged a Mount Sinai man with petty larceny Monday afternoon for allegedly stealing an Apple iPhone from a youth at the Main Beach pavilion.

According to the charge, a misdemeanor, Asareel Y. Yisrael, 20, picked up an iPhone 5C belonging to a 16-year-old, along with its case and a learner’s driving permit, and then took a free beach shuttle ride to the Herrick Park area, where police caught up with him.

Police told the man, according to a statement on file at East Hampton Town Justice Court, that they had a witness who saw him leave the pavilion with the phone. He initially denied the theft, the statement reads, until told that there was a warrant out of Kings County (Brooklyn) for his arrest.

“Do you know you have a warrant out of the city for fraud?” Mr. Yisrael was reportedly asked. “Have you been arrested before?”

“Yeah, for jumping the turnstile,” he reportedly answered, before admitting that “I took the phone . . . I threw it in the bushes over in the parking lot.”

He was arraigned on Tuesday before Town Justice Steven Tekulsky. “This appears to be the seventh arrest of the defendant, with at least five occasions when he failed to appear in court,” Justice Tekulsky said as he considered bail.

Brian Francese of the Legal Aid Society, Mr. Yisrael’s lawyer, questioned his client’s statement, telling the court that Mr. Yisrael was read his Miranda rights only after making the statement, which amounted to a confession. He was questioned, Mr. Francese asserted, “in a way designed to elicit an incriminating response.”

The lawyer asked for bail of $100, an amount that did not sit well with Justice Tekulsky, who set it instead at $1,500, which was not posted. Mr. Yisrael was in county jail in Riverside as of yesterday.

Sag Harbor Village police made two arrests on non-vehicular misdemeanor charges this past week.

On June 23, at the bar of the Corner Bar Restaurant on Main Street, Edward Witt, 48, an Englishman now living in New York City, ordered three bottles of Stella Artois beer, a shot of Glenlivet single-malt Scotch on the rocks, and a lambburger for dinner. When he was presented with the bill, the bartender told police, Mr. Witt said he had no money with him but would go back to his room at the American Hotel to get cash. He left his cellphone with the bartender as collateral, but never returned.

The bartender told police he wanted to press charges, which led to a 6:04 a.m. knock on Mr. Witt’s hotel room door. Charged with theft of services, he was released later that day on $200 bail.

A homeless man, Alexis C. Sanches, 34, was charged on Saturday evening with criminal trespassing. Police first encountered Mr. Sanches last Thursday morning, according to their logs, when they were called to 30 Meredith Avenue, an unoccupied house. There they found Mr. Sanches asleep on the back deck.

After an officer woke him up, it became clear that the man, who is from Honduras, spoke no English. He also had no identification. He was escorted off the property and warned not to return.

On Saturday evening, the caretaker of 20 Meredith Avenue, Joseph Graves, found Mr. Sanches sleeping in the basement of that house. Mr. Sanches fled on a silver bicycle, and Mr. Graves called police, before jumping into his car and following. Mr. Sanches was headed down Hempstead Street, he told police.

An officer stopped the man at the intersection of Hempstead and Bay Streets. Mr. Graves pulled up in his vehicle and identified Mr. Sanches, who was then placed under arrest. After spending the night in a holding cell at police headquarters, he was released on $100 bail, with a future date on the Sag Harbor Village Court criminal calendar.