Two More Felony Charges

East Hampton Town police made two felony arrests last week in addition to those reported on the front page of this issue.

Edwin Robles-Bravo, a marble worker headed west in a company pickup truck on Further Lane in Amagansett Saturday afternoon, lost control of the vehicle just past the Skimhampton Road intersection, police said. The truck plowed through a “No Trucks Allowed” sign before rolling over.

One of Mr. Robles-Bravo’s two passengers was taken to Southampton Hospital for treatment. Meantime, police said, Mr. Robles-Bravo failed roadside sobriety tests. At police headquarters in Wainscott, his blood-alcohol level was recorded at .15 of 1 percent, well over the legal limit. Because he has a prior conviction for driving while intoxicated, the new charge he faces is at the felony level. In addition, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has put a detainer on him.

His attorney, Tad Scharfenberg, discussed the ICE detainer the next morning with East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana during Mr. Robles-Bravo’s arraignment. Members of his family were seated in the courtroom.

“My understanding is that if they issue a detainer, there has to be an accompanying warrant,” Mr. Scharfenberg told the court. That includes detainers in felony cases, he said. Previously, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s department would hold those with immigration detainers for up to 48 hours after bail was posted, with or without a warrant. After that time, if not picked up by ICE, the prisoner would be released.

Justice Rana set bail at $5,000, which was posted, and Mr. Robles-Bravo was indeed released.

The other felony arrest was made in Montauk on Friday night. Michael J. Perrone, 48, is accused of vandalizing a 1996 BMW, parked behind the Memory Motel, the night before. The owner of the car, who is Latino, told police that Mr. Perrone had called him a racial epithet earlier that day.

Mr. Perrone, who said the man had been confrontational with him at the bar of the Memory a week earlier, told police he had spotted the car while riding by on his bike. The motel was cleaning out its rooms at season’s end, he said, and there was a pile of trash outside. He found a bottle of Red Bull barbecue sauce in the trash, he told police, and poured sauce on the hood of the car.

Next, according to the police, he picked up an empty fire extinguisher from the pile and smashed the passenger-side front window. “I threw the extinguisher at the windshield, and it broke the windshield, but it bounced off,” he told police. Police said he also poured some sauce inside the car.

The motel has surveillance cameras in place front and back.

“Mr. Perrone. Good to see you again,” Justice Rana said Saturday morning during his arraignment. “What were you here for before, I don’t remember.” Mr. Perrone had just completed a term of 90 days in county jail after pleading guilty to criminal trespassing on Aug. 28 in front of Justice Rana.

He told her he was from Oakdale. “You seem to be in Montauk a lot,” she observed. He responded that he was living over a store. “Your criminal record is too long for me to read,” she said.

Mr. Perrone is facing a felony charge of criminal mischief. Damage to the vehicle is in excess of $1,500.

Bail was set at $15,000, which the defendant said he would not be able to post. He has been held since Saturday in county jail and will be brought back to East Hampton today.