Yes, He Took the Safe

Police leveled two charges of burglary against a local man last week. Kevin T. Powell of East Hampton, 29, was said to have broken into a house on Island Road, East Hampton, on June 13.

In a statement that amounted to a confession to the felony charges, Mr. Powell told East Hampton Town detectives that he “opened the closet and saw the safe. I carried it out and put it in my car.”

Inside the safe, police said, was over $6,000 in cash.

On July 14, Mr. Powell allegedly committed a second burglary, breaking into a residence on Red Dirt Road in Amagansett by cutting through a screen, despite being aware that the house was protected by surveillance cameras. He told police he had directed the cameras away from the house.

It was not clear from the arrest report whether anything was missing in that incident. Mr. Powell was soon picked up for questioning, and was arrested on the morning of July 15.

Bail was set the next day by East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky at $2,500. Mr. Powell could not raise that amount and spent the next five days in county jail before being released on Tuesday. He will be back in Justice Court at a future date.

A Babylon man was charged with a felony, possession of a forged instrument, last Thursday. Edward R. Fawess, 65, had an East Hampton Town parking permit on his car, which was parked at one of the beaches in Ditch Plain. It just wasn’t his own permit, the police said.

A harbormaster noticed that something about the sticker wasn’t right. It turned out to have been issued for a different vehicle. Mr. Fawess was placed under arrest, then released after promising he would return to headquarters the next morning, which he did.

“I’ve been coming to Ditch since before I could walk,” he told Justice Tekulsky, who, noting the man’s flawless record, released him without bail, but with a future date in court.